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Despite living in Manchester city centre on the 8th floor with good reception I've never been able to get Channel M. So this will be welcome.

Any idea how much they paid for it?
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ITV4 bitrates - an answer | About UK Free TV
Saturday 20 February 2010 1:56PM
Does it make a difference that ITV4 transmits a 544x576 image rather than 720x576? That must give an increase in aliasing (if that's the correct term) on curved and diagonal lines in addition to any low bitrate issues?
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The BBC used 35mm and 16mm in the days of black and white. I don't think many colour series were ever made on 35mm due to the enormous cost?

Today it would be easy to shoot on film, transfer the negative to video, and edit on video. But until the 1990's video editing was difficult and involved costly equipment so programmes that were mainly shot on film, were edited on film, the negative was cut and a print was made.

By the mid-1980's the preferred format was Super 16mm - which was the same width strip of film but with smaller sprocket holes, which gave a larger image area and therefore better picture quality.

Although the Super 16mm format gave good quality, film grain was visible and this isn't particularly compatible with the compression used by digital technology (DVDs and digital TV) today, which works better with a smooth, grain free picture.

That is why DVDs of old series can sometimes be disappointing.
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