[QuadList] OT: "Improv Ice" on NBC--16:9 SD uprezzed to 1080i? Hard to watch!

[Ted Langdell]

Dennis,

Thanks for the verification.  Too bad it was done that way.  Made a very artistic and musically interesting show hard to watch. I'm surprised the network let the show's packager do that, since it had NBC Sports branding, if I recall correctly.

In the David Sarnoff era there would have been no black and white content with color interstitials. : )

News segments have wiggle room, since there may be a time crunch to arrange HD origination and backhaul transmission facilities and/or the material may not be available in HD. 

Seems odd that a segment originating from Burbank and a 1080i equipped studio would be in 16:9 SD, though.

Such is life today.

Ted

On Jan 16, 2012, at 1:58 PM, Dennis Degan wrote:

> 	Ted, a lot of programming originates in 16x9 SD and is uprezzed to 1080i HD.  Just this morning, the live segments of the Today Show from NBC Burbank (shot on the
> "Access Hollywood" set in Studio 1) were done in 16x9 SD.  I don't know why this was done.  Access Hollywood appears on the air (in syndication) in real honest-to-goodness 1080i HD.  Whatever the reason, I believe the thinking is that it's better to fill the frame with 16x9 pictures in SD than to add side panels to 4x3 SD pictures.  Of course, the best solution is to originate in 1080 HD, but that's not possible, the next best thing to do is to AT LEAST fill the frame.  So that's what they did.
> 
> 			Dennis Degan, Video Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank
> 					     NBC Today Show, New York

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