IndigoTucker's posts, page 9

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I thought it was too - imagine my disappointment when I went last year to find almost all of the Film and Television galleries removed! Now theres the remnants of an old phootgprahy exhibition, a bit on kids TV and animation and a smidgen of TV including the old 2 logo. Everythings gone!

Coronavirus - Impact on live/recorded shows

The recap looked like all the cast were wearing hazmat suits and face masks, the car park had a tent in it, the department was cordoned off with tape, and Marty’s dad was on a gurney on his side in pain. Probably for the best in that case.

Coronavirus - Impact on live/recorded shows

The soaps are definitely still multi-camera. They have multiple studios each, so can be filming several scenes at once, plus those on the outside set.

What was your favorite regional ITV station growing up?

There’s a fair few Stoke homes with Winter Hill aerials. Especially on higher ground, and bizarrely, even within spitting distance of the Fenton mast.

Minecraft Studio Builds

I recall ONDigital ended up with Chelsea Bridge/Marco Polo as BSkyB were part of the original consortium for British Digital Broadcasting, before they were kicked out due to competition regulations.

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Which was bizarrely the governments fault. BT was just about to cable the entire country with fibre in the 1980s - they had the production plants ready, but were banned by Thatcher's government from proceeding, leaving it to private companies to do so piece-meal over the next 15 years. Up until the mid 2000's BT were banned from operating video services over their network as a result.

Last Carlton Midlands and Westcountry Announcements

Carlton Midlands was the announcer Ted May IIRC, and he name checked himself.

The Simpsons in the UK

They have't even colour-corrected the green characters in the early series either in the 'HD' versions , which gets my goat. If you're going to remaster and mess with the colours, at least fix the obvious faults that should be improved on.

The new versions also lose the ' VT' look of some scenes - like the 'Eye on Springfield' titles which were covered in NTSC video effects and transitions originally, to mimic local TV news.

Digital TV

I remember the special interactive contract you had to sign to get Sky Digital box and install at a reasonable price in the early days - meaning that you consented to your box being permanently connected to a telephone line. This meant that we didn't end up with Sky Digital until 2000 I think - as we physically couldn't install a phone line near to the Sky box without wrecking the decoration of the house. Those early boxes from different manufacturers were startlingly different - my Auntie's Panasonic was lightning fast and responded to key presses instantly, and loaded Open in a second, whereas our Pace was slow as treacle.

You also had the confusing listing problem, of the analogue transponder sharing channels like Cartoon Network/TCM, Discovery H&L/ Discovery each getting their own channel number and continuous programming throughout the day.

I got the Grundig breadbox for DTT as soon it launched, just after the crash of ITV Digital - and was amazed to get the extra channels and widescreen (on a 14 inch portable)... And the constant stream of software updates that followed over the air as extra features were added when Freeview launched a few months later.

EastEnders

To get a computer back in 1993 to have a scan of the aerial photo at a high enough resolution for the initial shot, then zoom out of it, would have required a massive spec - something along the lines of Disneys CAPS. Not sure The BBC would have had the resources, when a big print out and a rostrum would suffice, with some video effects keyed on the top.

Coronation Street

There’s so many adverts that are totally unsuitable atm.

ITV's Relationship with the BBC

Will they be wearing nappies?