On 2015-02-18 18:59:33 +0100, Akane Fan <AkaneFan@akanesoma.com> said:
> In article <2015021814470516807-antigel@synchronicitycom>,
> Danny Claude <antigel@synchronicity.com> wrote:
>
>
>>> i love these little bits of everyday japan and glimpses of the seldom-seen.
>>> thanks for posting these!
>>
>> You're most welcome, Akane Fan.
>> And, since we are to the point of comparing our tastes, of course I
>> like all of these programs I post (that's why I like to encode & keep
>> for myself or for sharing), but my main preference goes maybe to
>> Seasonig, because to me it gently pictures a moment in time, its
>> flavor, gives us a glimpse of the soul of a community, a village, of
>> slices of ordinary people's lives, etc.
>> To be more specific, as a complete atheist, I keep dumbfounded by the
>> high religiosity & many rituals depicted in some of these shows or
>> more exactly by the coexistence of these beliefs with the most
>> advanced scientific, technological & materialist ideas came from the
>> West.
>
> i used to watch "cool japan", and i was constantly amazed by the juxtaposition
> of the reverence of nature and the various gods manifesting nature's aspects,
> and blatant commerciality built to make a yen or two off the same. they were
> usually profiles of some small village or town with a unique local deity, and
> the town would build an entire tourist industry around it.
>
> that said, i remember one some years ago (possibly their 20-minute documentary
> series) about a temple where people who had lost someone would come and
> learn to
> carve statues of the buddha engaged in some activity that their loved one had
> enjoyed. the interviews with the people who were (usually clumsily) carving the
> statues were such a wonderful, quiet glimpse into the lives of everyday people.
>
> but thank you very much for posting what you do. since our local station has
> moved its transmitter, i can no longer receive NHK, and even when i did
> it was a
> very low bitrate feed, much lower in quality than what you post.
Oh yes I remember that some years ago my ISP provided only the
“standard definition” version of the channel, consisting in a much too
compressed 544*576 pixels video stream. The “HD” version came later.
But actually it's a fake HD: a genuine HD would have 1920*1080 pixels
per frame, while the streams I receive have 1440*1080 pixels (and the
image is thus stretched horizontally, with a “pixel aspect ratio” of
4:3).
I know that true HD versions of NHK World exist somewhere since I
stumbled upon some of them via binsearch.
Example: http://www.binsearch.info/?q=tokyo+eye+trollhd&max=250&adv_age=600
I suppose that NHK World comes in different qualities and that local
providers pick the one that best fits their commercial strategy.
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