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Tomorrow's World Christmas 1982

(June 2011)

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MU
mulder
I've had a good search and I haven't found anybody posting this, so here goes...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/tomorrowsworld/8024.shtml

There are a few more full TW's online too, but this one is of particular interest as it plays around with the globe.
IS
Inspector Sands
Nice find, It's got a channel hopping Shaw Taylor too... quite unusual for ITV and BBC faces to appear on the other back then.
MD
Mr D'Arcy
Great programme. BBC West blew up their globe like that in 1985 when the new COW was introduced!
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Stuart
Great find, mulder.

It's amazing to think that such things they envisaged as revoluntionary only 30 years ago, are now commonplace, and able to do at home with a basic graphics card and 'simple' software.

It makes those of us who were alive back then seem like neanderthals, mesmerised by the technology of aliens.... Laughing

The BBC 1 globe looks as though it would fit into the NODDY unit that displayed network captions/idents (with its curved surrounds), but isn't similar to any of the pictures I've seen of the national globe from that era, or of regional globes.

Perhaps 'noggin' could confirm whether it was a spare NODDY unit (I know NODDY wasn't the official term), or whether it was just a mock-up for TW which would give the same result on screen for the purposes of their demonstration.

I always thought the 'BBC 1' logo was backlit, and everything was in black & white until 'tinkered with' (technical term) .
Last edited by Stuart on 10 June 2011 8:26pm - 2 times in total
NG
noggin Founding member

Perhaps 'noggin' could confirm whether it was a spare NODDY unit (I know NODDY wasn't the official term), or whether it was just a mock-up for TW which would give the same result on screen for the purposes of their demonstration.


Dear God - how old do you think I am?!

Absolutely no idea - though I did work with the people who created Mirage - and the never released Max (demoed but I suspect Charisma Cleo killed it)...

And how many people here know that 1xCypher = 0.25xMirage?
GO
gottago
Look Around You got it so right!
SP
Steve in Pudsey
Perhaps 'noggin' could confirm whether it was a spare NODDY unit (I know NODDY wasn't the official term), or whether it was just a mock-up for TW which would give the same result on screen for the purposes of their demonstration.

I always thought the 'BBC 1' logo was backlit, and everything was in black & white until 'tinkered with' (technical term) .


Definitely a mock up, possibly the same one as here

This is the real thing that sat in Noddy
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Stuart
Dear God - how old do you think I am?!

Sorry Very Happy

You seem to be an almost eternal depth of techy info: so I never considered that there was a start point to your knowledge. Very Happy
TT
Tumble Tower
Perhaps 'noggin' could confirm whether it was a spare NODDY unit (I know NODDY wasn't the official term), or whether it was just a mock-up for TW which would give the same result on screen for the purposes of their demonstration.

The system was called NODD. Although pronounced Noddy, the abbreviation NODD actually stood for Nexus Orthicon Display Device . More information is available here.

I always thought the 'BBC 1' logo was backlit, and everything was in black & white until 'tinkered with' (technical term) .

The globe model was black and white, with colour added electronically.
JO
Joe
Perhaps 'noggin' could confirm whether it was a spare NODDY unit (I know NODDY wasn't the official term), or whether it was just a mock-up for TW which would give the same result on screen for the purposes of their demonstration.

The system was called NODD. Although pronounced Noddy, the abbreviation NODD actually stood for Nexus Orthicon Display Device . More information is available here.


Yes, but that is clearly a backronym.
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Steve in Pudsey
Indeed, and the BBC's own Engineering Inf publication refers to it as Noddy here http://www.bbceng.info/Eng_Inf/EngInf_20.pdf
PC
Paul Clark
I've had a good search and I haven't found anybody posting this, so here goes...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/tomorrowsworld/8024.shtml

There are a few more full TW's online too, but this one is of particular interest as it plays around with the globe.


Ah great stuff, cheers for the link Mulder Very Happy

I've always found it amusing - the very 80s warping and morphing of an image to extremes - a bevvy of options; who cares if it serves no functional purpose, buttons are there to be pressed!

One example that sticks in my mind is a Thames lineup promo from the late 80s: in addition to a slightly trippy and un-Thames scheme of bright colours to compliment the RP voiceover, the final programme clip showing a man's face was folded and squashed in every direction, before moving off to the side and being 'inserted' into the boxed Thames logo at the bottom of the screen like a piece of card into an envelope. Probably the only promo design that has ever made me burst out in laughter!

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