Government Finally Reveals When It Wants Freeview Gone

[EEPhil]

I don't understand why you need to see all the Loose Women's wrinkles.

I don't want to see the Loose Women's anything in 4K, HD, or even SD for that matter. You could lose the audio as well.

 

[Owen Smith]

I don't understand why you need to see all the Loose Women's wrinkles.

The point is people expect 4K and people with 65" TVs (the new normal size) can see the difference between HD and 4K. If Freeview does not provide 4K then those people will use a different transport mechanism so they get 4K. This reduces viewer numbers for Freeview and furthers the arguments in favour of switching it off. Adding Atmos sound to go with the 4K picture would be good too, that's becoming the expectation for people with sound bars (the most popular way of listening to surround sound now, alas).

 

[aekostas]

Also the expectation of people with Atmos set-up of any kind. But only if the Hummy can play it! (Only joking about the last sentence, I expect I will need to move on.)

 

[Wildebeest]

people with 65" TVs (the new normal size)

Has anyone else noticed that it's getting increasingly common for dramas to include as part of the plot things images of paper notes, newspapers etc that are actually too small to make out on older smaller TVs? They assume everyone has a 65" behemoth. (I know, I should have gone to specsavers... )

 

[EEPhil]

Has anyone else noticed that it's getting increasingly common for dramas to include as part of the plot things images of paper notes, newspapers etc that are actually too small to make out on older smaller TVs? They assume everyone has a 65" behemoth. (I know, I should have gone to specsavers... )

That, and some hard-coded subtitles on, for example, Sky News are so bloody small I can't see them on my 19" & 22" screens. Whereas some subtitles on French films on TPTV are so big that they take up ~20% of the screen. (So I exaggerated a bit!)
The addition of SMS or some other comms app text on the screen, either on a device or randomly placed, can be another one of those things that is too small and often too fleeting to be able to register. Who considers those of us who are older, decrepit and don't have massive screens when producing TV?

 

[prpr]

Who considers those of us who are older, decrepit and don't have massive screens when producing TV?

Nobody. You're not important in their eyes. They're all chasing the youth.

 

[Black Hole]

No point. Youth are watching TikTok (or, at best, YouTube).