[Tig] living in PAL

[Rob Lingelbach]

>
> "you can't blame PAL for the terrible state of Indian television."
>
> I don't think he was, but out of interest is Indian TV in a  
> terrible state?

depends what state.   (hehe) seriously, I suppose it depends what  
sector we're
talking about.   The commercials are surprising me with their
sophistication and the labs and post work seem first-rate, it's just  
the broadcasters
or cable/sat operators, and maybe programming heads, that might be  
responsible
for a slightly cynical perspective I sense from some industry-wise  
professionals; it
must be said though that things are improving rapidly according to  
these same people,
and that HDTV is coming, I'm not sure what format, if any, had been  
selected yet.

The DoP's have quite a difficult time with the changing light  
conditions on location shoots,
but the exposure and lighting seem excellent.   In other words  
production and post seem
to be every bit as good as what comes out of any other chosen  
country; I am just trying to
understand how the transmission quality can be so widely different  
and unstable between
channels, for which now I have some good answers from this dialog.

I did some work recently on some 16mm Photo-Sonics film to be  
intercut with 35mm, and I
was waiting for what used to be the inevitable exposure problems.    
There were none, and
I saw very little difference between the 16 and the 35.   Spirit 4k/ 
Scream/daVinci 2k+  made
up the transfer configuration.  I really was stunned, like what have  
they done at Photo-Sonics,
or is it the stocks that are that much better than say a couple of  
years ago?

> Oh and it was interesting to learn that  BBC, the last bastion of non
> commercial broadcasting, show coke commercials in Asia- I never  
> knew that.
> Is it all large corporates who advertise?

If I'm not mistaken it was the BBC Asian International News channel  
that showed the "ad" which
is more like a short infomercial with a very famous cricket star  
(sorry don't know him or his name)
doing a walk-through of a Coca-Cola plant showing how carefully the  
processing of the beverage is done.
Quite a difficult grade with a lot of industrial fluorescent light  
but a great client and otherwise high production
values.

Rob Lingelbach
http://www.colorist.org/robhome.html
Colorist, Pixion, Mumbai India