Discovery HD Yogyakarta Earthquake special: Panic in the Ring of Fire

by Richard Lawler posted May 31st 2006 at 8:36PM

During last weeks devastating earthquake in Indonesia, Discovery HD was actually on the ground filming a television special about the (still) ready-to-erupt volcano Mount Merapi. The morning of the quake they got to the affected area, Yogyakarta, within minutes and recorded the destruction all in HD. The one hour special airs Sunday at 7 p.m. on Discovery HD.

[For more information on how you can help the victims of the earthquake, you can check out the Red Cross' website]

Filed under: Discovery-HD

Tags: disaster, earthquake, hdtv, high definition, HighDefinition, ring of fire, RingOfFire, television, tv, volcano, yogyakarta

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Jay @ Jun 1st 2006 11:42AM

I see nothing about this on the guide or on the Discovery HD website. Do you have anymore info on this Richard?

Thanks

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NNTPgrip @ Jun 1st 2006 1:40PM

Hope they put their encoders to churn on the video for hours rather than on-the-flyed it down to broadcast distribution bitrate levels for MPEG-2. Otherwise all that shaking of the entire landscape will get caught in macroblocking hell.

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Erin @ Jun 2nd 2006 8:27PM

Hey there,
I work at EPI, the in house production co for Discovery Canada. The show isn't in the guide because of the quick turnaround nature of it. Elliott, the producer, happened to be in Jogjakarta when the earthquake happened last Friday/ Saturday. Fortunately, he was safe. He returned to Toronto with his tapes on Monday night. Since then, our team has been working our butts off to get it finished. They're still in the edit suite as I write this, and the sound mix has yet to be done. Despite the frenzied pace of production, it's an amazing show. I'm awfully proud of it, and of my team. Please tune in on Sunday, and tell your friends that it's going to be on (there's only so much promo we can do on short notice. it would be unfortunate to have worked so hard only to have no one see the amazing production. It will be simulcast on the regular Discovery Channel in Canada as well, and repeated at 11pm)
thanks,

Erin Mackie
Production Manager
EPI/ Discovery Channel Canada: Specials Unit

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Erin @ Jun 2nd 2006 8:28PM

http://discoverychannel.ca/on_tv/releases/earthquake/

It's being simulcast on the SD Discovery Channel

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