Re: UKNM: Easynet Advert

[Jay]

On Sun, 11 Oct 1998 08:01:37, Sajid Mohammed said:


>I was on the Heathrow Express the other day (as you do) and they have

>these way-cool flat-screen TV's on the train that show

>horrible-looking compressed digital videos*.


ditto. Just now in fact (oh, snowboards are *so* cheap in Canada...)


>*For those that care (multimedia types): the reason (I think) it

>looked so bad was that it used a fixed 256 colour palette. The end

>result being that flat areas of colour looked fine, but people's faces

>looked terrible - the video codec itself wasn't bad at all. Having

>said that, there was a whopping 15 minutes of FMV and the sound was

>crystal-clear, so I guess the trade-off was poor colour.


Crap MPEG-ing seems to be the culprit - what's interesting is the

BBC-Worldwide news, we got it on the plane too, but as a video. The stuff

the Heathrow Express is mpeged, I wonder who does it & how it gets to the

train? Seems to me the Beeb has a whole bunch of assets waiting in the wings

via BBC-W & if they are able to deliver them digitised even better...


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