Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2012 January 21

= January 21 =

MSTS (Microsoft Train Simulator) add-ons taken down from rusnakweb.com
What happened to all the MSTS add-ons at the RusnakWeb website? I can still access it using the WayBack Machine, but it's not online anymore. What happened to it? :(

http://rusnakweb.com/msts

68.224.119.202 (talk) 00:54, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

Conversion 4:3 → HDTV → Analogue
This is a 4:3 television screen:

ABCDEFGHIJKLM NOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklm nopqrstuvwxyz ABCDEFGHIJKLM NOPQRSTUVWXYZ

HDTV requires 16:9, so conversion to HDTV will yield this:

██ABCDEFGHIJKLM██ ██NOPQRSTUVWXYZ██ ██abcdefghijklm██ ██nopqrstuvwxyz██ ██ABCDEFGHIJKLM██ ██NOPQRSTUVWXYZ██

Analogue TV is normally 4:3, so conversion to analogue will finally yield this:

█████████████████ ██ABCDEFGHIJKLM██ ██NOPQRSTUVWXYZ██ ██abcdefghijklm██ ██nopqrstuvwxyz██ ██ABCDEFGHIJKLM██ ██NOPQRSTUVWXYZ██ █████████████████

The last screen has black borders on all four sides - VERY BAD! My question: How to avoid this? --84.61.131.15 (talk) 18:44, 21 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Recently made TV sets have several resizing and zoom options for shrinking, blowing up, stretching, and squishing the various formats to fit the screen. There's usually a "zoom" or "format" or "screen size" or similar button on the remote control.  On older TV sets, there is no such option.  -- Jayron  32  19:59, 21 January 2012 (UTC)


 * The public-service German television networks ARD and ZDF, as well as the Franco-German cultural television network ARTE, will discontinue its analogue satellite television signals on April 30, 2012, and its standard-definition satellite television signals in 2019. My questions: Will RTL, Sat.1, etc. discontinue its standard-definition satellite television signals in 2019? Will RTL, Sat.1, etc. cease the encryption of its high-definition satellite television signals in 2019? --84.61.131.15 (talk) 21:19, 21 January 2012 (UTC)


 * Shouldn't the black borders in the HDTV signal be in ultra-black? --84.61.131.15 (talk) 21:22, 21 January 2012 (UTC)


 * An example: White = 240; Black = 16; Ultra-Black = 0. --84.61.131.15 (talk) 21:23, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

Bach music in Joan of Arcadia s1e19
"Joan of Arcadia" season one, episode 19: What was the Bach piece on the record of the piano teacher?99.239.20.41 (talk) 21:59, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
 * That's a right much obscure question. Is that program on youtube so we could hear it? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 02:05, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
 * At 3:50. Clarityfiend (talk) 02:09, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Not one I recognise I'm afraid. I tried to freeze the image and read the record sleeve - I could make out Johan Sebastian Bach, but sadly not the name of the piece. Alansplodge (talk) 02:51, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
 * The sleeve looks like a mocked-up Deutsche Grammophon. Piano Concerto(?) something-or-other. I think the user Jack of Oz is a classical music lover. He might know. Suggest you pose the question on his talk page, if you he doesn't happen to wander by here soon. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 03:27, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
 * A little googling turns up this link, in which it is claimed to be "Toccata - (Fugue) from Bach Piano Partita No. 6 in E Minor". ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 03:32, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm not good at remembering stuff. Is this it? ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 03:41, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
 * That's it. Clarityfiend (talk) 04:08, 22 January 2012 (UTC)
 * I agree. --   Jack of Oz   [your turn]  04:56, 22 January 2012 (UTC)