Imagine the grief coming our way if we don't beat you on the 18th. Part of me hopes that happens just to see.
Well it won’t be from me. I have very little interest in the Scotland team. They have disappointed me for the past 30 years. I might force a grin of quiet satisfaction should it happen but I doubt it will. It’s the media and pundits who I will have most pleasure watching should we do an Iceland on you. Absolute meltdown from Lineker, Wright and Shearer. Oh how wonderful
I’m pretty sure digital SD is a worse picture than the old analogue signal. Also, not all SD signals are the same. For example, Match of the Day in SD is much better than Quest highlights in SD.
TBH mate. Should we pull off the unexpected and actually beat you lot then expect huge flooding as we piss ourselves laughing.
I still remember the day we got BBC2 for the first time. Black and white and fuzzy as hell. I also remember the days when a tv station, an ITV one I think, didn't start up until about 5 or 6 o'clock. Going back to the 60s. You may be able to help me on this ... it was black and white and the introduction to the start up of the channel played music and showed the interior of a tv studio, with lights, gantries etc, quite dramatic and could have been on around tea time. It may have been Redifusion. Remember that ????
Wasn’t bbc2 the first channel to be broadcast in colour? I think maybe mid 60s. We never got a colour tv until 74 for the World Cup
Have you noticed that the picture qualify of TV shows from the 90s and 00s can be terrible. Some of the older ones look ok, but on clips shows you see a lot that have badly degraded since then.
I remember us watching the 1978 Scotland vs Holland game in my Mum & Dad's camper on their 8 inch portable, (B&W), at the top of a hill overlooking Ilkley. (Beamsley Beacon to be precise). We had to be at the top of a hill to get reception in that neck of the woods back in the day.
I think this is part of the reason the ITV broadcast shocked me so much. I often watch older (late 80s/early 90s mainly) TV shows on this very TV while working. None of them look close to as bad as the England Match in terms of pure quality. Just in the last 2 or 3 weeks I’ve watched Blackadder, Father Ted, Red Dwarf and Only Fools and Horses on this TV and not been put off by the quality. I bet the cameras they use now and the graphics (transitions, score banner etc) all being geared towards HD and beyond doesn’t help with this either.
Other than the obvious size difference, there’s the fact that SD was designed to be shown on an analogue display. So unless the digital grid on your LCD screen maps perfectly, then edges will be less well defined. I used to bang my head against the desk when older users insisted on making their hi res monitors display at 800x600 and then complain when it went ‘fuzzy’. 525 lines (SD AFAIK) can be doubled up to 1050, but a tv is likely to be 1080 (or higher) so the lines don’t match reducing the perceived sharpness.
I can remember the mast going down at Emley...dark days indeed... I think my old man had to get on the roof in the middle of winter to turn the ariel round
When I worked in Dixons in town, deliveries weren't too bad cos they used to come in under the multi story car park and we had a lift to get them up to shop floor level on Cheapside. When I worked at Dixons in York, it was on Coney Street and we had to hand ball the deliveries up 3 flights of rickety wooden stairs. Still blame that for my premature glass back.
Actually, in some ways the old TV s were better for watching football than the newer LCD/ OLED TVs because CRT TVs handled motion better. The problem was the size of the tubes, to make a 50" CRT TV the back of it would be absolutely huge, that's why they died out.
The first thing that dates any ‘futuristic’ movie made in the 80’s, they predicted flying cars but not LCD TV’s.
had a B&W portable late 80's bought from upstairs indoor market in tarn, can remember dangling the aerial out of my bedroom window to get highlights of us at middlesboro on tyne tees, seemed like they played in a blizzard to me ;-)