Again, relocating playout does not affect presentation, especially in this day and age.
Rank incompetence is no respecter of time (and that was the problem with the Leeds takeover of TTTV's playout, not any clash of presentation style).
Over and over again through the years, the Leeds centre has descended into chaos when new things are brought on-board. It would not surprise me one bit if it happened yet again.
Give an example of the last time it descended into chaos, as you put it.
When they brought Central on-board, around 2003-4. They went through a period where commercial breaks were not firing on time, with black screens and VT clocks aplenty. This was, I believe the last major wholesale change to their remit, and they failed that time.
I'll grant you that this does not even begin to compare with the fiasco that was 1993 and 1994, with episodes such as showing the first half of The Bill in place of the second half of a regional programme, and not putting it right for more than two minutes -- problems so bad that announcers were forced by the ITC to read out a statement apologising for the mess (the only time I'm aware of that a TV company has been made to apologise for poor technical quality of playout -- it really was that bad), but still.
There'll always be a few teething troubles when something new starts or a service moves, but as dbl says 13 years is a long time both in terms of technology and experience at using it.
Adding one extra output to a playout system that's already doing virtually the same thing for another 5 or so shouldn't be an issue
It was 13 years ago, playout technology has advanced since then. None issue.
You say that; but Morpheus... which is used to play out ITV, UTV, and C4... is essentially Compass (with a few bits added on). The BBC were using Compass in the late 1990s.
It was 13 years ago, playout technology has advanced since then. None issue.
You say that; but Morpheus... which is used to play out ITV, UTV, and C4... is essentially Compass (with a few bits added on). The BBC were using Compass in the late 1990s.
How do you guys know the technologies used?
I have a really geeky interest now!
Also, does anyone notice the leaves are beginning to fall from the trees?
I hope the new look comes soon enough, whatever it is. The current UTV look is dire and even if we keep the name and have ITV's on screen look but with a UTV logo instead that will do me for now until they fully brand it as ITV. The UTV logo they revealed looked weird though, and it all being in one colour (garish light blue/teal) instead of the multicoloured version for ITV will not help them ease in the transition to ITV completely. If viewers saw a colour changing UTV logo that looked almost identical to the ITV one then the change to ITV would likely go unnoticed by many when it happens. If they are giving UTV a separate bright logo and a separate on air look it will just make the change more noticeable, and more likely to annoy the stauncher viewers.
Rip the plaster off and just go full ITV. Viewers will have forgotten about it / got used to it in a matter of weeks and the fuss will die down, if there even is going to be that much of a fuss. It was publicised that ITV have bought UTV and viewers have been treated to presenters saying ITV on air for a while now. Seeing the channel change to ITV shouldn't be a shock really. Doing a half and half approach will only drag this on longer than it has to.
You say that; but Morpheus... which is used to play out ITV, UTV, and C4... is essentially Compass (with a few bits added on). The BBC were using Compass in the late 1990s.
Mind you, the software used to playout the BBC's channels is Collusus, which is essentially Omnibus, which was essentially an Archimedes... which I used in the early 90s to do my GCSEs on
The UTV logo they revealed looked weird though, and it all being in one colour (garish light blue/teal) instead of the multicoloured version for ITV will not help them ease in the transition to ITV completely. If viewers saw a colour changing UTV logo that looked almost identical to the ITV one then the change to ITV would likely go unnoticed by many when it happens.
I suppose that one problem is that the new UTV logo only has two physical pieces - a single large "U", and a single medium dot (with a "tv"-shaped hole cut out of it). And the singular colour of the entire logo (according to the only version publicised so far) implies that it won't be divided into "sections" that can each be a different colour like the "itv" logo is/can.
The whole "colour picking" thing is fine with the "itv" logo, as it is six colours at any one moment (one of the six pieces being the dot on the "i" of course). "Colour picking" with only a grand total of two colours (one for the whole "U", and one for the whole dot around the "tv") would look a bit rubbish methinks.
The closest equivalent technique that might work instead would perhaps be for it to look like an inversion of the original Westcountry Television idents - i.e. the parts of the background footage where the "U" and the dot's surface area are looking magnified and/or blurred, basically as though the logo itself were made out of frosted glass.
