"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote:

In article ,
Michael A. Terrell wrote:
So why the mask on the monitors if 'proper camera work made sure that
the active portion of any image was properly framed'? Cameramen not
trusted?

maybe on your planet. A cameraman has a lit of things to pay
attention to. The lines on his monitor make it easy to frame the shot.
Not that you would know.

Can you make up your mind if you're talking about what a camera has
available on the viewfinder or what you'd find on a control room monitor?

Only time I saw an electronic mask displayed on a production control
room monitor was when things were destined for 16mm telerecording only.

And why would the engineer in charge of the actual pictures care
about home overscan? That would be left to the production side.

Notice you've omitted to answer this...

No matter what answer yo got you would still pull out a ruler to
measure yor dick so there was no reason to give you the pleasure.

Seems to me you were a 'back room boy' with no experience of production.
Gawd help us if you were responsible for providing the facilities others
had to work round.


I produced & directed a live newscast for a year in '73 & 74 at Ft.
Greely, AK.

I built a 1.3 MW EIRP UHF TV station on Ch. 58 in Destin Fl.,
starting with an empty building.

I've run studio cameras, loaded 16 mm film and 35 mm slides for
actualities between switching camera shots in master control.

I've climbed TV broadcast towers and built a remote tower light
monitor that I designed. It met FCC and FAA requirements. I had 14
hours to design, build and install the equipment in two cities to
monitor the tower lights at a STL relay point.

I've built mobile production vans, and installed the first emergency
alert system on any CATV system on any US military base.

I repaired any and everything that needed it at three different
stations.

I installed PBX and telethon phone systems.

I installed and repaired C-band microwave equipment, along with 7 &
11 GHz STL equipment

A good Broadcast Engineer can do any job that's required. What have
you done, other than post bull****? What was the equivalent of the FCC
First Phone license that was required to be a broadcast Engineer and did
you have it?


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You can't fix stupid. You can't even put a band-aid on it, because it's
Teflon coated.