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Oops. MasterChef secret recipe revealed

A hiccup last night during TEN's MasterChef gives away a few trade secrets....

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A hiccup last night during TEN’s MasterChef last night saw Jonathan serving up his dish to the judges, followed by an ad break at around 7:40pm.

But after the ads viewers they were hit with a graphic of the show’s Production slate, a 10 second countdown and then the episode starting all over again.

The snapshot indicated Shine is delivering the episodes in HD (aired in SD) and a 70 minute episode includes 51 minutes of content.

TEN’s guide still had it scheduled for 60 minutes.

Why?

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  1. @tvaddict – Yes, I would much prefer a cable Internet service. Telstra still can’t provide one here in my area of Shellharbour, a suburb of Wollongong NSW. We have to rely on wirless plugged into a wireless router. Hopefully we may see the NBN before the election, as, if No-No-Nony has his way we’ll be on wireless forever. Now, will this post upload before lunch, and before it drops out.
    HD in the USA is a bit different. Seems most stations show their primary channel in HD, nothing much else on other channels, then, most viewers get their signals via cable rather than by over-the-air tx. Oh, did I mention the NBN?

  2. thanks for the info Secret Squirrel & Kenny, i guess i should not have assumed we are behind, maybe its because we certainly are when it comes to technologies like broadband internet, as far as pricing goes at least, & up until fairly recent yrs, in capability too. The govt should pull their finger out & let the main channels be in HD, its not like people need a hd tv to display it, only the stb which are dirt cheap or free for pensioners, but like you said, not going to happen no matter how much we want it to.

  3. @tvaddict – The networks were allocated unused channels for digital TV; eg in the major capitals Seven was give the old channel 6, Nine – 8, Ten – 11 and ABC – 12. (These are completely different things from logical channel numbers – LCNs – like 73, 99, and “Eleven”).

    These channels are 7MHz wide and there is only so much data (bit-rate) that you can transmit within them. It’s enough for two barely ok-quality HD streams or one HD + 2 SD. If you add a 3rd SD LCN as ABC, Seven, and Nine have done, something has to give, usually the HD channel. So it’s either 1080 with crappy bit-rate and compression artifacts or cut back to 720 still with some artifacts.

    The main channels have to be SD because the govt didn’t want to upset people without HD TVs or STBs. This isn’t likely to change before the analogue switchoff despite the much higher penetration rates.

  4. @tvaddict – “As for restrictions on HD content, i know its kinda off topic & may have been explained before but why is it so restrictive? is it just a matter of Oz being behind the rest of the world…”
    Why do you assume Oz is “behind the rest of the world” with one HD channel per network?
    Re UK -“At the moment BBC HD broadcasts for nine hours a day between 4pm and 1am.
    BBC1 and other BBC channels are SD” (bbc.co.uk) BBCHD is a simulcast of BBC1.

  6. From memory this happened on the play back on Sunday’s catch up on Ch 11 too. Running slate then a 10 second ticker and then the episode started again and this was at the end of a Ad break. I’m not surprised that the episode length is not for public consumption, then we could plan to watch other stations (!) and have some real choice. They really think with irrational start and finish times we’ll give up and stay tuned like zombies and watch whatever they flop at us.

  7. LOL @ Secret Squirrel, thanks i needed a good laugh. As for restrictions on HD content, i know its kinda off topic & may have been explained before but why is it so restrictive? is it just a matter of Oz being behind the rest of the world with not enough bandwidth or is it more to do with not imposing HD onto the poor souls that are too poor to afford a hd stb (which would be almost no one as pensioners get one for free).
    If someone could summarize i would appreciate it.

  8. Yes only ONE, 7MATE and GEM can show programs in 1080 HD (ABC24 & SBS are 720 HD) but any program can be shown on any channel regardless of quality. So MC on TEN is reduced down to SD for showing on their main channel.

  9. I have this fantasy where someone important at Ten says “It’s a fair cop. Alright, we’ll advertise the actual program start times now.”, and then the other two follow suit. In this fantasy I’m wearing a rather fetching hat, the purpose of which is to protect my head and shoulders from the droppings of all those flying pigs.

    @DrA – the networks only have a certain amount of bandwidth allocated to them. Whilst you could bump one of the other SD channel up to HD, the bitrate would have to be lowered on all of the channels by so much that they would, like The Shire, be almost unwatchable.

  12. Material for the website maybe?

    Not knowing any of the technical details, it seems as though networks only have one channel that can show HD and SD (i.e. 7mate, GEM and ONE) while the rest can only show SD. Is this correct or can Ten show HD programs too?

  15. It shouldn’t be a surprise that Master Chef along with just about every other show on TV now is shot/taped in HD for future use. As a producer you’d have to be an absolute idiot not to shoot in 1080 HD.

    As for the length, as we really surprised it ran long and they already knew it, each Sunday they say the F1/MotoGP will start at 9:30 but it never does, it’s always 9:45 or later!

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