I wonder when this buffering issue is going to be fixed for the HQ clips? I've tried watching some videos today and it's excruciating. Like being back on dial-up in 1997.
Is anyone else having these buffering issues on HQ clips again today, or is it just me? I was playing some clips around midnight last night and they were absolutely fine - then from this morning onward the HQ clips have been stopping and starting for me today. I don't think it's my broadband connection as everything else seems fine.
I thought it was just me, but I've had some lagging happening again with the HQ clips. Pauses briefly every few seconds, which isn't as bad as the dial-up speeds it was suffering a while back.
One thing that's confusing me, TV Ark's latest updates have clips from the first 2 series of Not Going Out, but they're filmised. Normally I'd think this would just be because the videos had been encoded at 25p, but the scrolling end credits on both videos are still 50Hz (and on series 1 they scroll across the bottom of the closing scene, so they've clearly filmised the video, then added the credits on top of it), which means there must be versions of the show which have been filmised but with 50i scrolling end credits over them. The show's alwas been 50i wherever I've seen it (the original BBC1 showings, the late 00s Comedy Central Extra showings and the more recent Gold and Dave repeats), so I'm wondering where on earth these filmised versions come from, or why they were even made. Doubly so seeing as it was made in HD right from the start where they don't usually filmise 50i content because of the loss of resolution. Are the DVDs like this? Would seem a strange decision if they are.
Last edited by james-2001 on 6 October 2020 8:25pm
Seems a bit strange, especially as it's not a US sitcom, so I can't see why they'd want to make it feel like one.
Interestingly My Family is the other way round, the first series was filmised (and always has been whenever I've seen it on TV), but the DVD isn't.
There were plenty of US sitcoms that were done on video from the 70s until the mid-90s, then it all seemed to stop in the second half of the 90s for some reason (with the exception of some low budget kids & teen sitcoms, and even then I think several of them were filmised in the US, but not here). I wonder what made them decide to stop videotaped sitcoms, when over here most studio sitcoms are still video look even when few other programmes are.
Looking at some of the recent TV Ark uploads myself, I've only just noticed that the 1980s Catchphrase titles were played out on film, as I noticed film dirt and the slightly wobbly picture (particularly at the end with the logo).