Re: Screen shots from JAG

[Steve Mullen] "Ron, my post showed the actual differences between HDV and HDCAM. Many (most) here had no opportunity to see this. The stills matched what I saw on HDTV and did not match what Jody said they looked like. Many others -- an an other site -- have commented on the exactly same thing. Moreover, the color fringing is a serious problem since it matches what I see from 1080i. "


Steve,

As I said elsewhere and will reiterate here, I herald back to the days of satellite TVRO and actually helped pencil out the original marketing plan for what became DirecTV sipping Jack Daniels Lemonade in the bar at the Opryland Hotel with the founder of DirecTV (who was then the head of the National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (NRTC)) and one of the key future investors. I also have been to dinner on numerous occasions with Charlie Eregen, founder of EchoStar and Dish Network.

My point in saying this, is that I have a L-O-N-G history in satellite broadcasting and know full well how radically different what is broadcast is from what was first generation...

I am not surprised at all at how things degrade when uplinked to the satellites.

But the fact remains that Jody is the first DP that I know of to grab a shot using HDV that was "good enough" for the directors and producers of a *very* major network show.

To disparage that and try to make Jody look like a clown indicates to me that you either do not really understand what the process is of getting things recompressed and up onto one of the birds for terrestrial distribution, or you do not care and merely wish to discredit a man.

That's how I see it from here and I feel like you owe the man an apology -- not for the work, you are entitled to think whatsoever you wish about that -- but for the way that you have impugned his reputation and good name and have tried to disparage both his work and his professional judgment.

But that is just my opinion.

Ron Lindeboom
creativecow.net