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- From: jemenake@zeus.calpoly.edu (Joe Emenaker)
- Subject: Re: Compression artifacts in NBC Olympic coverage
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.035759.153188@zeus.calpoly.edu>
- Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
- References: <MONTA.92Jul26181344@image.mit.edu>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 03:57:59 GMT
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- monta@image.mit.edu (Peter Monta) writes:
- >While I was watching the US-Angola basketball game and the coverage
- >of the early gymnastics compulsories, I thought I saw several image
- >artifacts. Finally I taped a segment of the gymnastics and waited for
- >a particularly bad example, then went through it frame by frame.
- >
- >There's no question about it: there are block artifacts in the
- >regions where a fast-moving object occludes or reveals the background.
-
- Well, bravo. I'm happy for you that you're smart enough to notice such
- things. I'm sure you must be a very bright little boy. To quote Monty
- Python: "Gee, we're all really impressed down here, I can tell you.".
- However, I'm sad for you that knowing that NBC is compressing the signal is
- ruining your experience of the Olymics so much.
-
- >How
- >might NBC be convinced to stop doing this, or at least use a better
- >coder?
-
- Is it REALLY that unbearable? For heaven's sake, just sit a few feet futher
- from the screen or take your glasses off or something.
-
- Granted, it is a subtle thing and I AM truly impressed that you caught it.
- And I acknowledge your attempt to use it to cash in on your 15 minutes of
- fame that Andy Warhol says each of us will have. But, I think that you're
- going overboard by expecting NBC to fork over more money to make the
- transmission absolutely perfect when so few people are even going to
- nitice... and fewer are even going to care.
-
- --
- Joe Emenaker - Sexual Engineer | "After thinking a lot about the design of the
- jemenake@nike.calpoly.edu | human body, I figure it's a good thing that
- Pro-woman, anti-feminist | God is self-employed, because no company on
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