27-07-2021, 04:45 PM
commseng post_id=30446 time= user_id=1125 Wrote:I've just found an old email that says we were doing the Proms in HD back in the summer of 2006, and there had been a few issues (mainly sound related) with the new equipment. Chances are that was one of the first live OBs that went out on the BBC HD channel?harshy post_id=30430 time= user_id=970 Wrote:I think it’s gone too far, bbc hd channels in the uk looks soft. When did bbc launch their hd services, Apparahtly everyone loved it at the time, but won’t it have been 1440x1080 MPEG-2 hd at a higher bitrate?Just checking back through old planning sheets I had on this laptop, I was heavily involved with the 6 Nations rugby back around that time.
In 2006 it was all SD, but in 2007 we had HD coverage from Twickenham, Cardiff and Murrayfield.
To check what other HD OBs we did before then (I remember some from the Royal Albert Hall and Wimbledon, but cannot remember the dates), I would have to head up to the loft.
As for the encoding, I really cannot remember, the radio cameras only had MPEG 2 available, but what was used on DTT didn't require ones that were small, lightweight, not power hungry and were waterproof the same way that we did!
I thought that HD to home had been H264 from the start, but the mists of time set in.....