Milwaukee BIG Bang - 6/29

[viva-vegas]

This was a great start for Milwaukee HD. A couple of notes:

- Switching between OTA and TWC-HD was drastic, even the wife noticed the diff.

- They showed a piece on the technical aspects during the 10 news, I will have to rerun the DVR tonight a reread the credits as there were several companies mentioned who helped (RF Microwave, etc). Maybe I am took geeky!  :hug:

- I only noticed one freeze.

- Fact of the night "The Hoan bridge was lit up with 8,000 watts of light" - Oh Boy, another trip or two to home depot you might be able to lite up the whole arch instead of just the under girders.

- Caroline likes Frank Sinatra

- Patrick is balding.

- The Denis Sullivan has radar and Satellite TV.

- I was waiting for them to trot out the Matt Seleme Robinson Helo with the webcam strapped to the front, thankfully someone came to their senses.

- Caroline likes Simon & Garfunkel

- Patrick heart pounds for fireworks

- Why can't they pan to see the tops of the fireworks?

- Did WISN win the MPTV raffle for the mustang and trade it for the MPTV production truck for the night?

- Camera operators were WISN.

- Caroline is excited, Patrick is more excited!


Shame we have 962 Days before we see a local news cast in HD.

Craig
MKE
Smarta**

[StarvingForHDTV]

Here are my thoughts.  The picture and sound quality were great.  Excellent production job by 10/36.

Things I would like to see in the future:

1.  Turn up the audio feed of the fireworks sounds.  Let us feel the booms.  Likewise, lower the audio levels of the music and commentators.....

2.  Fire the DJ.  Go all classical, or all rock, or all something.  Don't mix it up like that.

3.  Enough artistic camera shots.  I consider what we saw as the equivalent of watching the fireworks with a bad view.  Who wants to look through a ship to catch a glimpse of the show?  People camp out to get an Unobstructed View.  Hey, that's what TV viewers want too.  We want to see the fireworks!

[gopheralex]

Here are my thoughts.  The picture and sound quality were great.  Excellent production job by 10/36.

Things I would like to see in the future:

1.  Turn up the audio feed of the fireworks sounds.  Let us feel the booms.  Likewise, lower the audio levels of the music and commentators.....

2.  Fire the DJ.  Go all classical, or all rock, or all something.  Don't mix it up like that.

3.  Enough artistic camera shots.  I consider what we saw as the equivalent of watching the fireworks with a bad view.  Who wants to look through a ship to catch a glimpse of the show?  People camp out to get an Unobstructed View.  Hey, that's what TV viewers want too.  We want to see the fireworks!

I agree with your first two points. About the third, though, respectfully, my personal opinion is...

Go see the fireworks if you want to see the fireworks!

HD is not for watching a fireworks show, HD is for pretty pictures. I can go down to the lakefront and watch the fireworks with picture and sound quality that HD will never be able to match, for free. I want to see pretty pictures damnit! Pretty, artistic pictures that soothe my conscience over spending $X thousand on a HDTV set when people are dying by the millions around the world of preventable diseases and the world is going to hell in a handbasket. Tell me I'm not a monster, WISN!

[bradsmainsite]

Like it or hate it at least it woke everybody up again been kind of dead around here lately! :p

It also was a great plug for all the sleeping people out there that HD IS REALLY HERE

[Matt Heebner]

My .02 worth
Technically the PQ was flawless. Honestly some of the best HD PQ-wise I have seen in a long time. Colors looked fantastically saturated. The night sky looked inky and black but with a sky "texture" if you will. I really hope you LCD and DLP people could see that. Everything looked very nicely detailed and razor sharp BUT........

the commentary was extremely annoying and goofy. The different angles didnt bother as much as those insanely bright and lame "info" commercial boxes that  kept popping up at the bottom of the screen....that to me wrecked the whole thing. I also have to add that the 12 bug logo, and the commercial info box bugs were way too bright. It really took away from the absolutely spectacular fireworks colors.

And a side note...whoever picked out the music for the fireworks display should be strapped to a big soon to be banned 12" shell, and sent sky-high !!! I mean seriously....from Outkast to Wagner ?  :rolleyes:


Matt

[JohnRacine]

I'm with Matt on this one.  I saw a potential great leap forward in technology turned into a mere babystep due to: 1) The totally unnecessary, bright graphics against the dark sky, 2) Awful soundtrack (why not just let us listen to the fireworks?), 3) I think we missed over half the show when the cameras weren't focused on the subject, 4) The commentary was just not good, and 5) How does channel 12 explain the need for the completely annoying blue 12 in the lower corner?  Those 5 points ruined it for me.  This was a good reminder for me to continue to watch my ABC programing on 7.1 out of Chicago.

Once in awhile I watch the "Greatest Fireworks Show on Earth" on Discovery HD Theater.  The folks at channel 12 should watch that program and learn how to correctly produce a good fireworks show.  I won't watch the Big Bang replay on Saturday night...what a shame that they chose to blow a great chance to showcase HD technology.

[techguy1975]

I dont have a HDTV, so I was stuck watching in on regular old TV..  For the most part, I thought it was very well done, except the shots with the damn Dennis Sullivan, it blocked out most of the fireworks, and didnt really add anything to the show.  They used that shot so much, it would of been to stick to the wide shots they had of the skyline.  Also, when switching between shots of the island launching fireworks, and the fireworks themselves, they were a little late on occasion and missed the actual firework.

As for the fireworks show themselves, it was awsome.... The soundtrack, I dont think it was determined by ch.12, I think that was part of the show and determined by the Bartalottas.

Yes, things could of been better, it was nice to see MPTV and a commercial station team up to bring this together, it would be nice to see other stations do it for other events.

[HDNewBee]

I really was impressed with the quality of the picture. However, when I go to see a Firework's show I want to see just that, FIREWORKS. Not the Dennis Sullivan nor the folk's watching the show. and if I would have seen one more shot of those wonderful folks holding the Flares I would have Screamed.  The audio was ok. would have been better without the voices,  but my sub was humming on those 12 inch motar shell's
Woo Hoo.  Good going channel 10/12.

[tekdredger]

Lame.  Just lame.  This was embarrasing to watch.  Channel 12 takes a great opportunity, hypes the hell out of it and then lays an egg.  The quality of the video was fine but the direction and scripting just SUCKED.  Sure this is the first time it was in HD but this was not the first time they did a live broadcast of a fireworks show.  No excuses. :rolleyes:

Oh, and HDNewBee, if your subwoofer was humming you probably have a ground loop in your system because it sure wasn't program material.  I thought the audio sucked too.

Here's a hint to the WISN production staff, if anyone is listening:  Those atrocious back of the head shots might not have been nearly so bad if they weren't lit up, do them in silhouete and placed down in the corner like Mystery Science Theater.  We might actually be able to see the friggin fireworks then. :bang:

[gopheralex]

Did anyone who took issue with the job WISN/MPTV did with this fireworks show watch the lakefront fireworks on the 3rd on Fox 6? What did you think?

:eek: :eek: :bang:

Just curious.

 

[Tom Snyder]

Did anyone who took issue with the job WISN/MPTV did with this fireworks show watch the lakefront fireworks on the 3rd on Fox 6? What did you think?

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