Image quality in PH articles...

Image quality in PH articles...

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RumbleOfThunder

Original Poster:

3,546 posts

202 months

Thursday 7th September 2017
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... is really poor. That's it really but it's been bugging me for a while. Blocky, blurry images of beautiful cars on a car website isn't good. I understand the constraints of bandwidth but the current solution just doesn't strike me as good enough in 2017.

Unexpected Item In The Bagging Area

7,014 posts

188 months

Thursday 7th September 2017
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Give them a chance, they've only been working on it for 2½ years https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

RumbleOfThunder

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3,546 posts

202 months

Thursday 7th September 2017
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Unexpected Item In The Bagging Area said:
Give them a chance, they've only been working on it for 2½ years https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
Hmm not convinced that's the same thing. Desktop user here, well laptop but you know what I mean. For as long as I can remember the quality of images has been crap, and I believe it to be deliberate for cost cutting purposes.

RumbleOfThunder

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3,546 posts

202 months

Friday 8th September 2017
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New TVR reveal article:



Insulting!!

RumbleOfThunder

Original Poster:

3,546 posts

202 months

Friday 13th October 2017
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From the latest McLaren article. The seats are described as beautiful. How the fk would I be able to tell with this blocky mess? laugh


RumbleOfThunder

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3,546 posts

202 months

Friday 20th October 2017
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SOTW in all its 1997 image glory.


Jack Mansfield

3,256 posts

89 months

PH TEAM

Tuesday 24th October 2017
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Hi Rumble - the images are all looking fine to me! Which operating system and browser are you using and I'll ask the dev team to see if they can replicate it?

Cheers.

PoleDriver

28,614 posts

193 months

Tuesday 24th October 2017
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Jack Mansfield said:
the images are all looking fine to me!
Cheers.
Really!?

eybic

9,212 posts

173 months

Tuesday 24th October 2017
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They look carp to me, Chrome on Windows 7.

Jack Mansfield

3,256 posts

89 months

PH TEAM

Tuesday 24th October 2017
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anonymous said:
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Yep there's no denying it can't use high res images, but the post from OP mentioning blocky photos suggests it's much worse than just the standard low res PHness.

I mean, this looks okay to me, although obviously not the best picture taken by the advert owner and not high res, but its not blurry (to me, on my screen, anyway):



Whereas this, is obviously awful and unacceptable (from that thread):


eybic

9,212 posts

173 months

Tuesday 24th October 2017
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RumbleOfThunder said:
From the latest McLaren article. The seats are described as beautiful. How the fk would I be able to tell with this blocky mess? laugh

If you open this pic Jack, the seats look very "blocky"

RumbleOfThunder

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202 months

Tuesday 24th October 2017
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Yes the image quality is just generally poor. I access from work from and home, Windows/Chrome and Mac/Safari respectively.

loudlashadjuster

5,081 posts

183 months

Wednesday 22nd November 2017
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Brought here by the frankly atrocious JPEG artifacts on the Panamera E-Hybrid article.

The images used are obviously from a press pack and undoubtedly the originals are of reasonably high resolution and good quality. Manufacturers rarely drop the ball on stuff like this, much less Porsche.

As such, the same images are used by many outlets. Here's how the expanded "high resolution" images used by PH compared to the same shot used on Autocar's site (PNG so I hopefully avoid any further image degradation, but with the "beta" image uploader who knows, eh? Might have to click to see full image on Thumbsnap).



I reckon Mr Magoo himself would be able to see the blocking round the Porsche badge.

Apart from the very obvious excessive compression, quite why PH persists with using such small photos in 2017 is another mystery.

RumbleOfThunder

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3,546 posts

202 months

Wednesday 22nd November 2017
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Apparently it's due to some inherent constraint within the bowels of the PH website, which in this day and age is not good enough frankly! A solution will need to be implemented at some point so lets cracking eh chaps? smile

MitchT

15,787 posts

208 months

Wednesday 22nd November 2017
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Looking pretty poor to me too in all my browsers ...

Firefox 57.0 Quantum
Safari 11.0.1
Chrome 62.0.3202.94

MacBook Pro (April 2017 model) running 10.13.1 High Sierra

PNGs rather than compressed JPEGs might get the job done better. This seems to be the digital standard according to my millennial techy friends.

Edited by MitchT on Wednesday 22 November 22:42

thebraketester

14,191 posts

137 months

Wednesday 22nd November 2017
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Jack Mansfield said:
Hi Rumble - the images are all looking fine to me! Which operating system and browser are you using and I'll ask the dev team to see if they can replicate it?

Cheers.

silentbrown

8,791 posts

115 months

Wednesday 22nd November 2017
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Didn't you mean...

silentbrown

8,791 posts

115 months

Wednesday 22nd November 2017
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eybic said:
If you open this pic Jack, the seats look very "blocky"
Never mind the blocky, what have you done to the colours? I *think* it was meant to look like this..



thebraketester

14,191 posts

137 months

Wednesday 22nd November 2017
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LOL....

RoverP6B

4,338 posts

127 months

Thursday 23rd November 2017
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Currently running Firefox 52 ESR here (tried 57 Quantum, found it banjaxed Tab Mix Plus, which I simply can't live without...), and yes, PH's image quality is insultingly ste in all cases. Time for a serious software update...