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RTE picture format of last nights match
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11-09-2008 6:04pm#1
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yeah But RTE stated nothing they could do with it!!!! Setanta coped after a few minutes of the 1st half!
by cutting off a big part of the picture? that is not what most people would call 'coping' with it. You saw less of the picture on setanta but think that was much better?
edit: Just to be a bit clearer:
RTÉ gave us pillarbox, Setanta gave us tilt and scan. Pillarbox you get to see the whole picture, with tilt and scan it can seem like you have more of a picture than pillarbox; but you don't, you have less.
If you are supporting a broader base like RTÉ you have to think about people with 4:3 TVs also. If you sent them a tilt and scan picture, they only get the 4:3 cropped area of the already cropped picture. So they end up much worse off, i.e just the centre circle in above example.0 -
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I think its funny that someone is slagging RTE for doing the right thing here
If they had done what Setanta did, there would have been a lynch mob out for them - there is very strong feeling amoung TV purists about how 4:3 should be presented. Granted the coloured bars were a tad distracting but they made the point that they were RTE-added and emphasised that the feed was 4:3.
As for Setanta, I can't imagine they actually tilted and scanned it, I can't imagine thats even possible on a live pic (assuming tilt and scan is the vertical equivalent of pan and scan which apparently it is, i.e. it involves a person *choosing* which bits of top or bottom to loose, scene by scene). I imagine they just zoomed it until it fit the 16:9 screen and left it at that. I much prefer what RTE did, I get the full picture as broadcast locally and if I choose I can zoom it myself on my TV (and, as has been pointed out, people watching the Setanta broadcast on an old 4:3 telly wouldn't have seeen half the game, literally ).
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I think its funny that someone is slagging RTE for doing the right thing here If they had done what Setanta did, there would have been a lynch mob out for them - there is very strong feeling amoung TV purists about how 4:3 should be presented. Granted the coloured bars were a tad distracting but they made the point that they were RTE-added and emphasised that the feed was 4:3.
As for Setanta, I can't imagine they actually tilted and scanned it, I can't imagine thats even possible on a live pic (assuming tilt and scan is the vertical equivalent of pan and scan which apparently it is, i.e. it involves a person *choosing* which bits of top or bottom to loose, scene by scene). I imagine they just zoomed it until it fit the 16:9 screen and left it at that. I much prefer what RTE did, I get the full picture as broadcast locally and if I choose I can zoom it myself on my TV (and, as has been pointed out, people watching the Setanta broadcast on an old 4:3 telly wouldn't have seeen half the game, literally ).
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No one is slagging, its a disscussion mate. The bars at the edge of the screen drive me potty. I cannot recieve RTE with a decent picture (Via digital) only via aeriel which at times is not a great picture. The Setanta picture was much better for me than watching it on a grainy RTE picture.
Apparenty im watching RTE of an Illegal "Deflector" type transmiiter from MAyo which is soon going to be shut off, So after that I will have no access to Irish TV, Unless i subscribe to Sky (Which no way I am going to do for channels I pay my licence for). So I will put up with Setantas coverage of any Irish match I can.0 -
yeah But RTE stated nothing they could do with it!!!! Setanta coped after a few minutes of the 1st half!
Ah you were definitely slagging Nothing in your original post about poor reception or grainy RTE pic, just assuming that RTE had done something wrong and Setanta had somehow "copped" it and sorted it out 
Assuming a decent picture on both channels, RTE did the correct thing - anyone who had a 16:9 telly would be able to zoom their picture if they wished, anyone with a 4:3 would get the best possible pic.
Its a complicated area that is much misunderstood (a lot of times I misunderstand it myself ) and the implications of what Setanta did aren't obvious until you switch between a proper feed and its zoomed one.
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