In article <slrnbkd9pi.9q7.abuse@news.pr.network>,
   Paul Ratcliffe <abuse@orac12.clara34.co56.uk78> wrote:
> >  Good grief. I'm glad I *don't* work in news if that's the attitude
> >  there.

> It's only the attitude brought on when certain people don't believe what
> they are told multiple times by several different people, and insist on
> believing what they want to believe, regardless of all the evidence to
> the contrary.

 It's because all the information given here has been from the perspective
of 'it couldn't work because our equipment is basically mono'.

> > Wonder why you ever went colour - after all it adds nothing to the
> > content either and causes all sorts of problems.

> As we have said before, colour just happens. The benefits are enormous
> and the additional operational complexity of having to do a white
> balance is really quite trivial. There are no implications in editing
> and please don't start an argument about PAL 8 field sequence and the
> like.... you will lose.

 There are no implications in editing stereo either with a system designed
for it. Of course there are if you try an cobble a mono one into stereo,
but this *should* have stopped years ago.

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*How do you tell when you run out of invisible ink? *

    Dave Plowman     dave.sound@argonet.co.uk     London SW 12
     RIP Acorn