Thanks to the discovery of the better u-tube short of the episode, it got me thinking there must be a good full version of the episode circulating around, since the clearer clip exists. Well, I found it. Unfortunately the so-called "DVD quality" version, like most old TV episodes, looks like a 320-360p version burned onto a 480p DVD. So although the DVD it came from is 480p, it's really probably only about 330-360p quality.
This is common of copies of almost all older USA produced TV shows. Although old USA analog TV has always had the capability of transmitting & receiving a 550p picture, most TV stations, networks, & cable TV companies commonly transmit their analog video in only 300-330p. This is to save on space & bandwidth through the cables, & satellites, & to prevent channels from interfering with a weaker adjacent channel.
So when producers of the old analog TV shows are done editing down & mixing their show into it's final form, all to often the finished product on tape, ready for transmission was only 320-360P. So if you find an older TV show that appears to be 300-360p quality (even if the DVD says 480p) it's probably the original version & resolution. Still, even 300p is a lot better than the 240p copies of VHS tapes... which can be quite blurry & bad if they were recorded on the tape on the slower speeds, or due to generational loss, by it being a taped copy of another tape.
Anywho, as usual, I had to process every picture through several stages, manually tweaking them, to get the best possible vid caps out of the video. I'm posting about half of what I got captured now, then finish the other half after a break, & post them later.
So here's the Silver Spoons Gallery... much better & clearer than the gallery I posted in 1996. Those old caps I made then & posted are still circulating around. So if they liked them so much, I guess the one who originally posted them should be the one to post new better ones.
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Topic: Silver Spoons (Gallery added) (Read 26200 times)
