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

[Ted Langdell]

I can understand SD in a live situation when facilities are scarce.  

But for a show that has almost a month from recording to "deliver for QC and Legal review" it's hard to reconcile, unless they had to use an SD truck to record the skating on Thursday, Dec. 15, last year.

I can see how that might have happened if all the HD trucks suitable for the production were tied up with football commitments Thurs. 12/14-Sun., 12/17. <shrugs shoulders>

If it was originated in HD and recorded in HD, I'm really curious about what happened in between then and air.

Ted

On Jan 17, 2012, at 9:12 AM, C. Park Seward wrote:

> Could be that they didn't have the transmission facilities or enough input to get the feed in HD. I remember three years ago with ABC, we sometimes had to feed SD football  because they didn't have enough HD lines from Bristol to NYC to air all the simultaneous games in HD. No problem this year.
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> On Jan 17, 2012, at 9:02 AM, Ted Langdell wrote:
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>> Seems odd that a segment originating from Burbank and a 1080i equipped studio would be in 16:9 SD, though.
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