Great episode tonight-I think the top or near it for epps sp far...

But, in true FOX form: It was time compressed slightly, (The rythmic jumping every 3/4 second gave it away) 320x240 screen captures really show this on nearly horizontal lines! But I noticed the new ep of King of the Hill was compressed too, so fox is just greedy... The HUGE ad over bender on fire was just SO annoying....it took up goddamn 1/3 of the screen!!!

But to the ep- Great animation,the furthering of Leela and Frys relationship, neat references, and animation sequences...

I can only hope for more episodes and/or a wrap-up movie?

Viper

"Vector Viper" wrote in news:[email]:

I'm glad someone else noticed this. Fox are still bastards. I captured this episode in higher quality (720x480) and stepped through it to examine the effects of the time compression. Essentially, it removes an encoder's ability to properly apply inverse telecine since every once in a while a non-duplicate frame is removed.

The only way to prevent skipping on the final product is to capture it in higher resolution and apply a blended deinterlace filter (and not try to reduce the frame rate). This will keep around field information that would otherwise be removed when the frame rate is reduced. It won't be perfect (you'll have duplicate frames), but the skipping should be ameliorated.

This is the first time I've seen time compression used on a first run episode of any sort on Fox. I guess the figured it's officially summer and any new shows can get the shaft.

I noticed this too! It is particurarly bad with animation, since it has a weird effect on the lines in the drawings.

FOX MUST DIE!!

Count your blessings. On FX they're not content to throw up a huge banner promoting some other show, they have to put in cheesy sound effects that overwhelm whatever might be going on in the actual show you're trying to watch (slot machine sounds for Lucky, shooting sounds for 44 minutes, etc.)

In alt.tv.futurama, on the "Great episode tonight-I think the top or near it for epps sp far..." thread, Vector Viper wrote:

Those ads are called "bottom thirds," and you are not the only one who think they are beyond annoying. The producers of one Fox series (I think it was "24") kicked up such a fuss, they were able to extract a promise that the network would never do such a thing again while their show aired. Meanwhile, on "The Simpsons," the animators threw in a joke satirizing the "bottom third" ad -- Homer just plucked it off the screen and ate it. I guess the folks running MG's other show still have some clout with Fox, because I don't remember seeing another "bottom third" ad on "The Simpsons."