Is it me....................?

[fayeanddavid]

So, new TV, suitably run in, picture settings tweaked and played with for hours, excellent with DVD, exceptional with Sky HD movies, HD sport is amazing, SD transmissions by and large not bad, so....................

Why oh why when I watch Sky news and BBC news is the studio transmission so appalling, their OB reviews all seem pretty good for colour and contract balance balance but the studio is.............well just rubbish?

Sky seems much worse than the BBC, with somehow garish background colours, presenters seeming somewhat over made up and washed out..................all this and the promiise of Sky News HD next year.....................oh dear!

Yet on the sports HD channels when studio interviewing is on the picture appears a lot more balanced and natural, similarly for the Strictly show in HD, all seems good, so why the news channels and why in particular Sky??

Is it me??

 

[Andrew Everard]

No, it's them. Really.

See also The One Show for this combination of lurid make-up and even more garish set-colours...

 

[fayeanddavid]

Whew.................that's a relief I guess, thanks Andrew

The next question has to be.....................but why would they want to do that??

 

[Andrew Everard]

I think it's meant to convey vibrancy, immediacy and lots of other things people like Joel Sim understand but the rest of us can only guess at

 

[hammill]

Andrew Everard:

No, it's them. Really.

See also The One Show for this combination of lurid make-up and even more garish set-colours...

Surely it is an act of cruelty to suggest that anyone see the One Show?

 

[Andrew Everard]

hammill:Surely it is an act of cruelty to suggest that anyone see the One Show?

See it, yes; actually making anyone watch it is, I think, outlawed by the Geneva Convention

 

[JoelSim]

Andrew Everard:I think it's meant to convey vibrancy, immediacy and lots of other things people like Joel Sim understand but the rest of us can only guess at

Eh?

 

[JoelSim]

I'm colour blind anyway

 

[Andrew Everard]

JoelSim:Eh?

I merely meant those involved in the visual media...

 

[JoelSim]

Andrew Everard:

JoelSim:Eh?

I merely meant those involved in the visual media...

Aha, not I'm not so well versed on TV transmissions as all advertising is shot in HD as a matter of course. Or film occasionally, even now. I do very little TV these days anyway and as a humble 'suit' I don't know, nor have much interest in the production stages, I let the experts do all that.

 

[mjs]

I`ve always found the sound on `Question of Sport` to be terrible.
Or `Is it me`?