Ed's View - Are We Being Ripped Off? Episode 2

[Ed Milbourn]

Obviously, if the production qualities are unsatisfactory at the point of origination, they will not improve throughout the chain. There are multiple reasons production qualities may not be optimum. These include: camera quality, lighting, audio quality, set design, editing quality, post production elements, encoding factors, etc. When programming is produced in HDTV, even small compromises in these factors can result in a large degradation of picture quality. SDTV productions, being lower resolution, can "hide" a greater degree of production error. HDTV, on the other hand, is not near as forgiving as SDTV relative to production values. This means we can expect a much wider variation of HDTV quality from program to program.


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