[Tig] living in PAL

[Rob Lingelbach]

On Oct 3, 2006, at 4:35 , Adrian Seery wrote:
>  I reckon what might cause this is a broadcasting system full of  
> badly maintained, multi-sourced (ntsc and pal), cheap and nasty,  
> and probably over-priced equipment, broadcasting to a totally un- 
> sophisticated market. Have you ever seen the amount of really low  
> quality NTSC material that floods through Third World countries' TV  
> stations?
> You must have, you've lived in Turkey, haven't you?  I lost a guy  
> to Turkey last year, in terms of quality, it's probably as far as  
> we Western 'colorists' would want to go, but, let's face it, you  
> can't blame PAL for the terrible state of Indian television.
>
> Adria Seery.
Didn't Dick Cheney almost lose a guy to a turkey?

Yes I've lived in Turkey and actually found DigiTurk, one of their  
satellite services, fed
to a 21" Philips monitor, to be pretty good.   But some channels were  
much better than
others, in terms of image quality, and rather than define what I mean  
by that, I'll just say
that I see the same thing in the US, in fact some of the compressed  
video and time-shortened
films just look horrible.  Then if you really want to get into it,  
let's talk about TMC and
colorization... I had somehow shielded myself from this for years I  
guess and then in Brazil
was using a system on which that was the only channel with decent  
films.   Absolutely extremely
painful  to watch some old Cagney films.

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