Image quality in PH articles...

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https://www.pistonheads.com/news/general-pistonhea...

Honda provided a beautiful 1.6MB press release image and this is what PH mangle did to it:




Whereas on MCN:

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Ok this might be the worst yet. Maybe these images would pass 10 years ago but its 2018!!

https://www.pistonheads.com/news/general-pistonhea...





Also the gist of this article is "hey doesn't the Senna look good in dark green??" Erm dunno pal.

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Phwoar get that on your bedroom wall kids!

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This is the the same crop of the image McLaren provided to press, in the lowest of 3 available resolutions:

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Where are you techies?

You showed some interest on page 1 when you thought it was a browser problem.

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https://www.pistonheads.com/regulars/ph-potw/nsx-o...

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https://www.pistonheads.com/features/ph-mydreamdri...

Too many to link here. Clearly there's potential of some cracking shots amongst all the degradation.

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I know! Yet they've clearly commissioned a great snapper to go out there with Prior. Why go to that effort and expense, just to piss it all up the wall?

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This shambles is overdue a bump and one of the most anticipated sports cars in years is the catalyst!

https://www.pistonheads.com/news/ph-japanesecars/b...







And now the damning comparison with other Car sites.

PH



Evo



Top Gear

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cidered77 said:

you're right, considering the subscription fee i pay for PH, I demand better and higher quality images regardless of the hosting costs!

oh wait...

Crap argument. PH is monetising your usage on the site, like everyone else's. If it intends on driving clicks to the main page for revenue, it's in their interest to not have images infected with aids. Also similarly "free" sites don't have this abomination of an image solution. I hope the new owners notice this situation.

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cidered77 said:

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cidered77 said:

you're right, considering the subscription fee i pay for PH, I demand better and higher quality images regardless of the hosting costs!

oh wait...

Crap argument. PH is monetising your usage on the site, like everyone else's. If it intends on driving clicks to the main page for revenue, it's in their interest to not have images infected with aids. Also similarly "free" sites don't have this abomination of an image solution. I hope the new owners notice this situation.

I know they are- but it's my choice as to whether i click on an add, accept the cookie, or browse the classifieds.

Otherwise, it's free - it's good content, properly written, i don't get why people get so wound up about something so insignificant as image resolutions. Maybe i'm too old to get this entitlement thing...

I can do without your condescension of my elleged entitlement, thanks. If this was still run by Petrol Ted then yeah, I would happily let this go. However PH has been run a big media corps ever since and the presentation of the editorial site has been embarrassing. I made this thread because I care. This is one of my most frequently visitied sites and has been for years. I'm not being a dick. I just want PH to be better.

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cidered77 said:

RumbleOfThunder said:

cidered77 said:

you're right, considering the subscription fee i pay for PH, I demand better and higher quality images regardless of the hosting costs!

oh wait...

Crap argument. PH is monetising your usage on the site, like everyone else's. If it intends on driving clicks to the main page for revenue, it's in their interest to not have images infected with aids. Also similarly "free" sites don't have this abomination of an image solution. I hope the new owners notice this situation.

I know they are- but it's my choice as to whether i click on an add, accept the cookie, or browse the classifieds.

Otherwise, it's free - it's good content, properly written, i don't get why people get so wound up about something so insignificant as image resolutions. Maybe i'm too old to get this entitlement thing...

I can do without your condescension of my elleged entitlement, thanks. If this was still run by Petrol Ted then yeah, I would happily let this go. However PH has been run a big media corps ever since and the presentation of the editorial site has been embarrassing. I made this thread because I care. This is one of my most frequently visitied sites and has been for years. I'm not being a dick. I just want PH to be better.

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B'stard Child said:

it's a red car - I honestly could not give a st about the resolution of the images on my phone or tablet it's impossible to see the differences unless you zoom in to a point where you are focusing on a small detail.

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it's a red car

Maybe that's good enough for you but not me. Phone or tablet? Quality is horrific across ALL platforms, not just mobile. I'm not misrepresenting these imagines, compare them yourself with those from other sites and you can see the problem.

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Glasgowrob said:

It's the same level of delusion tbh.

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Both above are PH hosted. The vile top one is from this weeks Spotted and the nice one is from the PH classified itself.

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Well, what say you techies? You were quite responsive at the beginning when you thought it was a browser issue.

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Literally the main image in the article.



https://www.pistonheads.com/news/ph-driven/princes...

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I thought the same the other day! Not brilliant but much better! Would be interesting to hear from a tech to confirm what change has been applied.

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Thanks for acknowledging the issue anyway Matt. The initial response was to question the OS and browser we we're using.

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https://www.pistonheads.com/news/general-pistonhea...