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That's a new one. Fancy PM'ing a picture of error?

What you're talking about is upscaling VHS. If the original is sittin at good 'ol PAL 50i and you upscale (enhance 'quality' per se as per your original postings) - it can look worse; with artifacts and image noise.

It depends on the quality of the original recording and on what you're then actually viewing the upscale on - as well as the quality of equipment used to convert. For instance, another outcome is scanning lines etc. may well be reduced making for the appearance of a better quality visual representation.

So many factors and technology combinations involved ....so .... there's no black/white scenario.

Some of the hybrid VHS/DVD combo systems that used to be on sale - and probably still are - can copy from VHS onto DVD and can upscale as part of that process.

PM me with any issues and we'll see what can be done. Especially give any error messages you describe with the run up in detail to when you received that error.

Be aware that there is an upload limit of 5mb total for images. You will receive an error if you're trying to upload some crazed 10Mb HD quality image.

^^ Twatt 

  hehe

[meant with the upmost tongue in cheek humour!!]

Yes, I thought it was a really well produced alternative to the usual Shetland advertising. Thumbs up to all involved.

^^ Nah. Probably not. We'll leave such meanderings to the minds of Up Helly Aa skit creation.

Moving on swiftly.

Would you wonder if wearing a Gollywog suit would be considered wrong too? Perhaps it'd just be seen as something harmless? Wonder if anyone would like to debate and discuss that as a topic? Hmm? 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su5weSQH1DY

There was something funky that went on with the emails. They should be coming through now, no?

The other aside is that there is a raft of options in your notifications section that could have changed?

http://www.shetlink.com/index.php?app=core&module=usercp&tab=core&area=notifications

Remember what 'discussion' implies? Snideness does't become.

Latest from Greenpeace:
 

BRITISH activists being held by Russian authorities who boarded a Greenpeace protest ship in the Arctic face the prospect of jail terms of up to 15 years after reports that they could be charged with piracy.

Lawyers for Greenpeace International have demanded immediate access to its members on board the ship, which has been towed close to the north-west port of Murmansk after armed Russian personnel took control of it last Thursday.

Sue Turner said she had yet to hear from her engineer son Iain Rogers, 37, one of six Britons on board the Arctic Sunrise. Speaking from her home in Exeter, Mrs Turner, 62, said she was worried.
 

“If they charge them with piracy, there is a 15-year jail sentence and a £10,000 fine,” she said. “I’m not so concerned by the fine, we can get around that. But Russian prisons are not the nicest places to be.

“They might deport them straightaway, they might charge them and then imprison them a while, I don’t know. We have to wait and see.”

Mr Rogers, who lives on a boat in Portugal, has been working as an engineer on the Arctic Sunrise since it headed to the region in the summer, she said. Mrs Turner praised Greenpeace, saying it was working hard to get news of the people held. The 30 activists on the ship are from 18 countries.

Russian investigators have told reporters that they will file piracy charges against an unspecified number of activists who tried to climb on to an offshore drilling platform owned by state-controlled gas company Gazprom.

Two activists tried to board the Prirazlomnaya platform on Thursday, while others assisted from small inflatable boats.

Greenpeace said yesterday that Russian officials had merely opened a criminal investigation, which did not necessarily mean they would bring charges. The environmental group reiterated its call for the release of the activists, who it says have been held for four days without legal or consular assistance since the ship was boarded in the Arctic’s Pechora Sea.

The charity’s executive director, Kumi Naidoo, defended its activities, designed to highlight damage to the Arctic environment.

“Peaceful activism is crucial when governments around the world have failed to respond to dire scientific warnings about the consequences of climate change in the Arctic and elsewhere,”

he said.

“Any charge of piracy against peaceful activists has no merit in international law. We will not be intimidated or silenced by these absurd accusations and demand the immediate release of our activists.”

Greenpeace is campaigning against attempts by companies to extract oil from Arctic waters, warning that a spill would be environmentally damaging and extraction of more fossil fuels would add to climate change.

Gazprom’s plans to start drilling from the Prirazlomnaya platform in the first quarter of 2014 raise the risk of an oil spill in an area that contains three 
nature reserves protected by Russian law, campaigners said.

Greenpeace said independent legal experts had backed its claim that boarding the Arctic Sunrise was illegal, and the green group has rejected Russian allegations that the vessel was involved in piracy.

 

Other Shetlink's:
Stena Carron protest in Shetland - Greenpeace Esperanza

Know exactly what you mean
 
If you see this post hereabouts that there is the way of the force. . .

I'll let Angus come back to you on that but, for anyone's interest in days gone by there's a thread on Shetlink entitled Dogs against drugs from Mar 02 2006 that carried on into Dec 2009. Quite a bit of extensive reading there - some utter *&fga&*^* - but, some good nuggets of intellect shining too.

Anyone fancy adding to or moving this thread forward? I'd tend to agree with those raising points of having turned stale. I would go so far to say into a trutellation. Prove me wrong.

Try it again. Should be fixed. If not reply here again.

Aha .. I think I know what you're seeing. We'd split out the Accommodation category into separate For Sale, For Rent, Exchange, and Wanted. These are then showing up on the front All Classifieds page without the full breadcrumb trail .. hmm ...

You do not always receive an email when you have a new Private Message is this a technical issue or is it one that needs to be adjusted in your own settings?

We adjusted the emailer. See if that works any better. Do come back with any issues.

I'm of the opinion that's human error 0_o

Welcome to Shetlink Angus. I trust Shetlink can provide further reach through Shetland's online community than at first may be obtained through what is considered more traditional means. Here's to this interweb thing!

[birses Shetlink's community "self moderation" button]

^^ Yes, I know what you mean I can empathise exactly why expressing "dislike" in the way detailed would be advantageous. The ability is there but, it hasn't been set live.

Let me explain. The reasoning behind this is it takes more to write well written, reasoned, and logical posts (receiving "likes" ideally) than it is to just "dislike" someone's post; as you may be in a heated exchange with them for instance. There are many variations of this same theme.

Over time, "good", well written posts will give Shetlink members "good" reputation. Wirking utter sharn and being no good to the community will get you nothing - much like real life 

Now there's a skit for Up Helly Aa!!

Squad in Fair-Isle KKK suits chasing a man sized gollywog golly with a man-sized magpie fluttering about before setting loww to golly in the magpies nest as the ending turn. Might even have a Lemn Sissay character overseeing the proceedings.

You heard it here first

I think we'll leave name calling and the like to less educated electronic mediums and those that frequent such don't you all think? Even if such contains the fruits of everyone's current bile. Let's rise above.

[birses even harder on the community self moderation button]

Check out http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tammie_norrie

 Scot's they say, ay?

[edit] lol ... MuckleJoannie beat me to it [/edit]

^^ I was a little perturbed in how some people were representing themselves. Several of the blog comments are distasteful. For the sake of being a little edgy / parochial I note one commenter has a Scottish name and uses the term "wee"   

I'd push further that any salient point the author was trying to potentially make is superseded by the modus operandi of how the 'story' was engineered and delivered.