Ken Burns-The National Parks

[Preston Smith]

Tim, I understand what you are saying about transmission, but the archival images look fine. I know PBS is meticulous about network origination standards

[Tim Kolb]

[Preston Smith] “Tim, I understand what you are saying about transmission, but the archival images look fine. I know PBS is meticulous about network origination standards”

“Meticulous” may be the nicest way I’ve heard it expressed in some time…I certainly agree.

During the times I’ve been watching I’ve been in a hotel in the western suburbs of Chicago viewing a rather aged 25″ CRT (SD). I assume I’m watching an HD air signal, received and downconverted and retransmitted over cable, so it’s a transmission system that has additional steps after PBS…

As far as archive images go…I’m not sure I’ve seen any yet that were high fidelity images when they were originals, so I’m not sure how I’d tell whether or not they were handled well.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,