• The soaps have taken over

    No, not General Hospital, The Bold and the Beautiful, As the World (Stomach) Turns, Dallas, or Dynasty…but the prevalence of the motion smoothing “feature” on all new TVs, the so-called dreaded “soap opera” effect. Instead of getting better, it has become almost a visual pandemic, as far as I can tell! It seems that whenever…

  • A different aspect

    In the start of a 3-part blog series dealing with video/film topics, I’ve decided to start off with a fairly basic subject, and that is dealing with film and video aspect ratios, that is the ratios between the width and height of various forms of film and TV. Originally film was in 4:3 (or 1.3:1)…