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Post by Rob Moss on Jan 1, 2013 21:00:26 GMT
Get what, though..? A pile of bricks strewn over a load of charred film cans..? Seriously, what's the point..?
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Post by Rob Moss on Jan 1, 2013 17:21:53 GMT
If the archive was blown up in 1999 then it's likely that the've rebuilt it since then. So if anyone was to actually go they would proably just find a new building built upon the ruins of the old one and the film prints that went with it. Although this doesn't explain the comment that only the entrance was damaged. Personally, I'd take this with a massive handful of sodium chloride...
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Post by Rob Moss on Jan 1, 2013 2:15:33 GMT
Can I urge people to exercise restraint here, please... It's worth remembering that we're talking about a site for people with a professional interest in the material on the site - researchers, journalists and programme makers, it isn't a glorified YouTube for the general public to look up programmes for entertainment reasons (at least, not yet..!). If you register, there is a very good chance that your account will be verified and if you can't prove your credentials, it will be deleted. I'd therefore advise strongly against doing this.
Oh, and apparently some moron has uploaded a Motion Gallery watermarked programme to YouTube, which is a stupidly counterproductive thing to do. If we want to be trusted with a resource like the BBC Motion Gallery, irresponsible pirating of the content really is just about the worst thing to do...
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Post by Rob Moss on Dec 31, 2012 12:32:42 GMT
Please use your real name, as per forum rules.
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Post by Rob Moss on Dec 28, 2012 11:12:08 GMT
The buzz could in theory possibly, POSSIBLY be interpreted to give a greyscale value, but the best it's going to give you would be an overall average value for the entire picture. The is no way of taking an average grey value for a whole screen image and working out the distribution for each pixel.
Imagine:
I have 2000 jugs of water. I can tell you that the average amount of water in each jug is 326ml. Can you use that information to extrapolate how much is in each of the 2000 jugs..? No, of course you can't.
Alternatively, go into Photoshop and create a new image, filled with 41% grey. The task you're faced with is developing software that can take your block of flat grey and know how to convert that into a picture.
With the chroma dots, the information was there, in the right place to be assigned to a particular part of the picture. It was just a case of interpreting it. This is totally different.
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Post by Rob Moss on Dec 22, 2012 2:10:00 GMT
No it isn't, Laurence, it should read Levine, not Levene.
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Post by Rob Moss on Dec 21, 2012 13:34:37 GMT
Thanks, Ray - see you in 90 years!
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Post by Rob Moss on Dec 21, 2012 7:24:18 GMT
I wonder if in a few decades we'll be able to peel back the layers on video tape and be able to recover something we taped over. We can already recover material from a formatted hard drive. Here is my fist. Please run towards it very fast.
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Post by Rob Moss on Dec 20, 2012 22:41:59 GMT
Actually, I'd say that most of the replies were perfectly reasonable, especially as the OP himself described the idea as "mad". I sense a bit of an overreaction here.
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Post by Rob Moss on Dec 20, 2012 15:33:07 GMT
Agreed, Philip, although to be fair, if you told me 15 years ago that you'd be able to get a colour picture from a black and white film print, I'd have laughed in your face.
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Post by Rob Moss on Dec 20, 2012 11:19:00 GMT
He's already done it and it's been rejected by BBC Worldwide. There's no real reason why discussion about Ian's projects shouldn't be talked about and no reason why the subject has to degenerate into an argument. Points can be reasonably made and debated and it's within everyone's capability to keep things under control. You're quite right, Richard, everyone should be able to keep the conversation civil and above the level of personal insults - let's try and do that please, eh, folks..?
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Post by Rob Moss on Dec 20, 2012 9:15:09 GMT
And I never bash Ian Levine as a person; what the guy has done for missing episodes leaves every other fan in the dust. Absolutely. Although, doing a good deed in one area doesn't automatically grant you immunity from criticism in others. But I have seen threads on other forums get really quite revolting, and I don't want that to happen here.
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Post by Rob Moss on Dec 20, 2012 9:11:40 GMT
@ jackw28 - Ian was a member of this forum once before and was banned after a discussion became particularly heated. It's not inconceivable that Ian could return to this forum, should he choose to take the steps necessary to allow this to happen.
All before my time, so I don't want to go into too much detail.
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Post by Rob Moss on Dec 20, 2012 0:43:34 GMT
I'm aware the animation succeeded, Sorry, that comment was aimed more at Mike, actually..!
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Post by Rob Moss on Dec 19, 2012 22:45:33 GMT
I think you'll find that the attempt to animate Shada succeeded. The attempt to get it released failed.
Let's not turn this into a Levine bashing thread, please.
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