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GS
Gavin Scott Founding member
Stuart posted:
Gavin Scott posted:
"Full Height Anamorphic".

Many thanks, Gav.

However, that leads me to ask why a picture is transmitted as a 720x576 image and then stretched to a 16:9 aspect ratio later on?


16:9 pictures and 4:3 pictures are both 720x576.

Wiki posted:
Anamorphic widescreen is recorded using a horizontal-squeezing technique. If they are played on standard 4:3 television without adjustment, the anamorphic image will look horizontally squeezed; the actors will look thin and tall and a circle will be squashed to appear as a vertical oval. Changing the playback equipment to use the "fill" or "4:3 letterbox" setting will stretch the image horizontally to exactly reverse the squeezing used during recording. This allows the movie to be viewed in its original widescreen format. If the playback screen has a 4:3 physical format, typically black letterbox bars will be inserted above and below the image to fill the empty space. If the screen has a 16:9 physical format, stretching the image back to its original rectangle shape will typically fill the screen
PT
Put The Telly On
littlesmegger posted:
Si-Co posted:
littlesmegger posted:

Part of me hopes he wins now! Laughing


Please God, NO!! Shocked


Well other than yesterday he's been favourite to win, and all housemates dip and rise, so there's a very very good chance he will win. Cool


Josie to Win.
RD
RDJ
Seems like the house has been evacuated tonight after a freak storm has caused the house to flood. Not much detail yet other than the live feed has been taken off air.

Must be pretty serious.

EDIT: A picture has just been released of the flooded house. It does look pretty bad. It's certainly not going to be an overnight job to fix it.
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Last edited by RDJ on 18 August 2010 12:15am - 2 times in total
AN
Ant
My god you would have thought they'd have made the house waterproof.

I've not been watching this series but I may do now, if it even continues.

EDIT: Davina has just tweeted that they're all back in the house. Musn't have been THAT bad then.
Last edited by Ant on 18 August 2010 12:28am
LI
littlesmegger
This will take days to fix on a health and safety standpoint. The Friday eviction will probably be canceled as a result. Can't see them doing it from the BB studio as it's too out in the open.
GO
gottago
What on earth are they actually going to do?! The producers have certainly got one hell of a long night coming up!

I was in Berlin two weeks ago and adverts there seemed to suggest that their series would end the following week (so last week now) so that could be an option for Ultimate BB at least. Don't know if it'd be worth it for just a week's worth of this series.
PT
Put The Telly On
littlesmegger posted:
This will take days to fix on a health and safety standpoint. The Friday eviction will probably be canceled as a result. Can't see them doing it from the BB studio as it's too out in the open.


There's a rumour going round on twitter that they're back huddled in the task room. Can't see them imprisoned in there for the next week and Ultimate BB. Elstree is quite big so I reckon they'll clobber together a makeshift with props in another studio area or something.

Certainly by that state, I can see 'Elf and Safety writing the house off for good.
LI
littlesmegger
nok32uk posted:
littlesmegger posted:
This will take days to fix on a health and safety standpoint. The Friday eviction will probably be canceled as a result. Can't see them doing it from the BB studio as it's too out in the open.


There's a rumour going round on twitter that they're back huddled in the task room. Can't see them imprisoned in there for the next week and Ultimate BB. Elstree is quite big so I reckon they'll clobber together a makeshift with props in another studio area or something.


That's what I've read, so at the very least electrics are waterproofed for cameras to be active to return live feeds.
RD
RDJ
The official Big Brother Facebook page seems very bleak as to what's going to happen about the house and series. One comment stating it's certain they won't be back in the rest of the house tonight and doubts if they'll be able to go back in at all.

Realistically the show only has weeks left then the house will be completely unused afterwards anyway. It's not like previous series where if they repaired it, it'll be fixed for the next series too. I think the producers have a very long and tough night ahead deliberating on what the future for this series can be.
GO
gottago
Yes Davina's Twitter account confirms that they're in the task room. Someone on DS who claims to be in the know says that the task room is on a raised platform or something so it's higher than the rest of the house. Don't know if they mean the garden task room or the diary room task room. I'd take a guess that it's the garden one as that's much bigger.
FE
Felek
Announcer on E4 has said they have 'run out of programmes' and are now switching to the feed until 6am. Currently displaying the 'Due to adverse weather...' graphic, although he said there's a possibility of live action returning.

Its difficult to tell the extent of the problem as they're keeping the details pretty quiet, although considering they've let the HMs back in the compound & started the cameras rolling (screenshots on the BB site), it could just be a local, water damage issue...I can't see it affecting the Final.
Last edited by Felek on 18 August 2010 3:31am - 2 times in total
PL
tellyboxPLUS
I have a flood update the kitchen is open for them to use the nest is the diray room and the task room will be open for the housemates the task will still be on

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