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Can you share with us that are not able to watch it.The BBC will be repeating "Carpenters at the BBC" this year. (Last showing was in 2015) It's on BBC2, Christmas Eve at 12.30am (or to be more precise, very early in the morning on Christmas Day!) So hopefully, after broadcast, it will be available in glorious HD.
Yes, absolutely!Can you share with us that are not able to watch it.
From YT - contains their best ever Bacharach Medley (short version) and Karen's best ever live renditions of "Superstar" and "For All We Know" - also the best camera angles of her singing behind the drum kit...someone planned those shots very well...Can you share with us that are not able to watch it.
The 74 one may no longer exist, hence the reason for its last airing being 50 years ago.Shame they're not showing the 1976 concert too, as that hasn't been repeated since 2008. (And the 1974 one hasn't been on since, well... 1974!)
I don’t see how you expect it to be in “glorious HD” as it was shot on 1970’s videotape, not film. The best you can expect is a PAL 576i image (which does look a little better than a NTSC 480i image)The BBC will be repeating "Carpenters at the BBC" this year. (Last showing was in 2015) It's on BBC2, Christmas Eve at 12.30am (or to be more precise, very early in the morning on Christmas Day!) So hopefully, after broadcast, it will be available in glorious HD.
I don’t see how you expect it to be in “glorious HD” as it was shot on 1970’s videotape, not film. The best you can expect is a PAL 576i image (which does look a little better than a NTSC 480i image)
It still exists in the archives, they've just not digitalised it like some of the other older shows that are uploaded to iPlayer...The 74 one may no longer exist, hence the reason for its last airing being 50 years ago.
Well that’s still not HD. I can see them doing that to help with compression issues, especially onYoutube, so that the video doesn’t get as compressed as it would in 576p or 480p. But otherwise it’s still standard definition. Also there’s the question of how they de-interlaced the original tapes. If they just did a software de-interlace (fastest and cheapest) then the videos have lost half their horizontal resolution due to doubling one interlace field and throwing out the other.Some programmes the BBC upload to iPlayer are digititalised to 720p with 50 frames per second, which does give a better picture quality... They've done it with some old episodes of Top of the Pops, for example.
I've no idea what process they use, but some pre-HD shows like Fawlty Towers, Dr Who and Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy (to name a few) have all been upgraded and released on Bluray... You're right, it's probably not true HD, but there is a significant quality in the picture that's better than the DVDs.Well that’s still not HD. I can see them doing that to help with compression issues, especially onYoutube, so that the video doesn’t get as compressed as it would in 576p or 480p. But otherwise it’s still standard definition. Also there’s the question of how they de-interlaced the original tapes. If they just did a software de-interlace (fastest and cheapest) then the videos have lost half their horizontal resolution due to doubling one interlace field and throwing out the other.
With BBC shows from that era, most everything shot in the studio was shot on standard-definition videotape. Upscaling to 720p does allow for the video to be presented with the least amount of compression (due to Blu-Ray’s high bit rates in HD, where you can get into the 20 and 30 Mbps, comparable to Mini-DV or DVCPRO25 or closer to DVCPRO50 broadcast tapes), and the maximum resolution that 1970’s era PAL. Video can offer, but otherwise, there’s no additional detail to be realized. (Also PAL has also looked better than it’s NTSC counterparts in terms of color due to the nature of PAL, whereas NTSC acquired the nickname’Never The Same Color’.)I've no idea what process they use, but some pre-HD shows like Fawlty Towers, Dr Who and Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy (to name a few) have all been upgraded and released on Bluray... You're right, it's probably not true HD, but there is a significant quality in the picture that's better than the DVDs.
From YT - contains their best ever Bacharach Medley (short version) and Karen's best ever live renditions of "Superstar" and "For All We Know" - also the best camera angles of her singing behind the drum kit...someone planned those shots very well...