NeuralMap or maybe Rantville ?

Allot of TV programs produced nowadays seem determined to compensate, for the failing of CCD’s to find tonality within bright skys, by doing a form of artificial sky contrast and tonality enhancement, a kind of psuedo HDR effect without any extra information combined in.

This would be ok except whoever is operating this effect seems to get carried away with its intensity to the extent of darkening horizon buildings and making the shot in general look artifical. If you want a wider tonailty than CCD’s are currently offering either buy better cameras.

One solution would be to film at a double frame rate, with each alternate frame exposed differently to capture a wider tonal range and then combine the frames.

Or alternately just be a liitle more sparing with the intensity of the effect.

This program opens with a bus full of Highland 50’s jumpered kids on a bus, pretty good so far :) at least unlike … “Doctor Who”, the progenator of this abortwood foetus, it didn’t attempt to paint multi ethnicity back further than is realistic, into our history, for the sake of not offending viewers with a bus full of white children … heaven forbid. From this high point the show gets worse by turns, its definately aimed at pre-pubescant idiots, these staring modern overweight podgy unexcercised child actors trying to do a poor “Midwich Cuckoos” impression, really puts me off my tea, but then on the other hand the adult acting is barely beyond pubescant, because most adults today have been groomed to be overconsuming oversize monetarist children, with about as much depth as a puddle, so no wonder the acting is so artificial, that anglo american theme of plastic acting and bloated amplified plot seems to run throughout. This is more “Torcherouswood” or “Abortwood” than entertaining. Why is the TV license tax paying for this forced multi-cultural paint by numbers actors benefits club ? The plot is so obscene, all children in the world stop and do a excorcist impression, and it’s not in the mainstream media ?!!? wtf

Even the Midwich Cuckoos didn’t try and push the concept of the all the children in the world being affected. I mean at least try and put some believe-able elements in the story, its the over-inflated distended nature of everything they do, its so childish and american, And the main actor bringing his sexuality into the show, promoting man couples to the youth of today, really makes you want to vomit. The Rupesh recruitment scene is vomit worthy, the welsh loud gwen totty reinforcing the idea of a big paycheck, being such a laudable quality in a “childrens show” ? well I guess people who work in the media wouldn’t be able to filter that one, from a moral perspective.
Continue reading »

My god if any program highlights what a total **** Laurence Llewellyn bowen is, surely this is it, the guys a poor designer, who can barely draw, and he’s banging on as if he protecting the holy grail for us via his super self righteous nimby-ism, his viewpoint’s struck me as so childish and ill thought out and so mentally uncoordinated as to be almost farcical. Oh well … amusing he wasn’t intending on being, but he is so farcical. Banging about his move to the country as if he discovered something, what ? you did what any ordinary media Continue reading »

see ians blog here

Couldnt agree with you more ian , the quality of the picture of some of these releases is appalling. especially the older films, Continue reading »

I got a reply if a little corporate generic rather than personal from Peter Madry to my original email here:

Dear Sir/Madam

Thank you for your email, which I have been asked to respond to. I am very sorry for the excessive delay in doing so. Continue reading »

It seems to me that the job of OFCOM is generally to work in the publics interest in making sure the communications industry, provide a high quality service to the general public, whos spectrum they pay a licence to use, but to some extent ofcom’s role should also be to make sure that we are being offered the best quality of services those providers can offer ? Continue reading »

I thought i’d dish out some sensible advice, since so many people seem to balls up buying hi-def screens. Here is some real advice if your looking for a hi-def capable computer monitor >…
Continue reading »