on 6/19/01 11:56 PM, Dan Honemann at danh@selectsa.com wrote:
>> I seem to remember watching American Football for the first time in the UK
>> some time back and thinking how fantastic the image quality was. I then
>> found out that its shot on film. Is this still the case?
>
> It's funny, that. The games themselves are shot on videotape, but the shows
> that highlight the games are shot on high quality film. It's so much better
> to watch those highlights than it is the games!
You guys are WAY off. No sports or studio shows have been shot on film for
(a lot) more than a decade in the UK. I last shot a TV show in film in 1995,
and that was a documentary.
What you are seeing is probably the difference between PAL and NTSC video
encoding, plus the transmission setup (satellite v. cable compression, v.
RF), plus the lighting style, plus the quality of the originating equipment
and the tape format it was shot on. You may also be drawing comparisons with
footage which has been through a standards converter and stuff that hasn't.
If you want to see the difference between film and video, just watch the
commercials in between most any primetime studio show like MILLIONAIRE or
whatever.
--
John Brownlow
