Doctor Who

[Aractus]

Right, so when I point out that you were clearly WRONG with your statement on the "restoration process" of a 16mm T/R, you try claiming that it's based on what somebody else somewhere "involved in the process" said? LOL.

This is what you said:

• The Restoration Team log in detail the whole process they go through, including the techniques and specialist equipment/software they use, on their site. They can pull a 625 line broadcast quality PAL image from practically any resolution film recording by de-interlacing and other arcane witchery. In fact, if you've watched any DVD release of the past decade or so, you've already seen their work.

It doesn't work that way. The de-interlacing has already been done when the T/R is made. The T/R has already thrown away 50% of the temporal resolution. Not only that, but it doesn't have 100% of the video field in frame either, so it's also been cropped.

If you had have been talking about the process of transferring videotape - ie from say the Tom Baker years or something - you may have had a point to make, but even then de-interlacing destroys either temporal or spatial resolution.

Here's a screenshot from the last episode that aired:



Notice anything? I sure did when I watched that episode. Somebody FORGOT to de-interlace the Tom Baker footage before incorporating it into the episode! And dear or dear, it's as obvious as sin and sticks out like dog's balls.

Carry on.