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TV Forum: New for (the middle of) 2020

Neil Jones posted:
I seem to have spontaneously recalled from somewhere that there used to be a (minor cosmetic) option on this board that you could specify your own timestamp format (so instead of being forced to have 23 July 2020 8:34 pm you could have specified it 23rd July 2020 20:40, or whatever you wanted, you could have the board follow the (silly IMO) American format of MM/DD/YY just by changing an option in your settings).

Or is this something I've dreamt?


That's a default option in phpBB as you can set it to reflect the regional settings for the audience of your board. I don't remember it ever being part of the custom software as that's aimed only at a UK audience.
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Best and Worst Regional Titles and Themes

bilky asko posted:
The best regional theme is, of course, North East Tonight from 1996 onwards:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8kPJ4UZQc4
(2:09)


Correct.

One thing that always confuses me about that clip though, given what an over the top and needlessly extra relaunch the C3NE debacle was, is that they use the short version of the ident into NET.

What a set and what a theme though. I've never managed to get a clean copy of that package and it's actually higher on my list than Blockbusters.
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A Collection of Ideas

Bail posted:
J. Lyric posted:
The one thing I forgot to do was a comparison. Very Happy

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Personally, I think their logo could use a fresh coat of paint.

I'll have you know I spent at least 60 seconds working on that metropol logo!


I think you'll find you did the pink version

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The red one was designed to go with the desk theme... which actually may also have been you. The version with the scrunchy texture however was definitely a Norwich Designer move as part of the luxurious 70s room theme.
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TV Home - Automated recordings of BBC idents

noggin posted:
E Burns posted:
Pete posted:

There's a website called Box of Broadcasts which is basically iPlayer for Further/Higher Education. It lets you "record" TV shows so you can cite them in your work. However all BBC content going back to 2007 is already there, which I suspect means its just sucking it from redux.

BoB has a nicer interface than Redux which, certainly until recently, was very rough and ready. Plus BoB lets you search using the subtitles which can be very helpful. It did miss the first few days of BBC Scotland though which was annoying. Which begs the question if its built off of redux why it can't be fixed retrospectively. Might email them.


Can you download from BoB? Or is it viewing only? On Redux I can download high quality raw mpeg-ts feeds of BBC programmes (there are options for smaller .mp4 files too).

My archive content is also missing from Redux except for the Shakespeare stuff.


Mention of subtitles search makes me think this may be related to Snippets (which is a child of BBC Redux that allows for searching via subtitles and sub-clipped export). Snippets only uses h.264 mp4 transcodes from the MPEG2 or h.264 video in the transport streams - and I suspect BoB might be similar as 'off air' quality isn't needed for most higher/further education citation?

(Snippets and Redux are both due to be retired within the BBC soon, with BBC Archive Search absorbing their front-end functionality)


yeah BoB doesn't give you the variety of options that Redux gives re: file types. It's a streaming player, with one resolution (1080x607) but, as noggin says, that's good enough for the job it does.

I don't think it has the HD versions of channels up either, only the SD ones although it does have regions... Oddly it currently only has ITV London, but has all the ITV regions in the "inactive channels" and the archive there goes back to 2003. In fact there's no rhyme nor reason to the dates things go back to, but after 2007ish is pretty solidly everything.

It doesn't have a download function, likely a licencing restriction. It used to be surprisingly simple to get around that although its since been tightened up.
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BBC News nostalgia, including BBC World

Storyfix?
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BBC NEWS CUTS

Newsroom posted:
If Newsnight and Marr remain in E indefinitely then they really do need to do something with the red panelling in the studio as purple and red for Newsnight do not go together at all.


Yeah they said they were originally going to sack an extra 69 people but had to go for 70 as they needed the extra cash to replace that red panel bc it's so urgent.
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TV Forum: New for (the middle of) 2020

Josh posted:
For some reason it won't let me mark my request thread as answered, it just underlines the button.


No this hasn't worked since the update
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Digital TV

Why did you used to need to connect your Sky Digital box to the phone line? That was also a thing iirc?
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Metropol

gottago posted:
I don't seem to be able to post at the moment. Pressing the submit button on a reply brings up a HTTP ERROR 500 page.


ah yes I remember why I turned off that opengraph extension now. It was because it kept causing error 500s.
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BBC Breakfast - 16th July onwards

You wonder if the current Wales Today set will be recycled into an English region.
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BBC Breakfast - 16th July onwards

AlexS posted:
Murphster86 posted:
Willz posted:
https://twitter.com/bbcscotnewspr/status/1275730865142759435?s=21 Are all Breakfast bulletins coming back?



English regional bulletins in Breakfast are currently scheduled to return on Monday 7 September. Until then, it’ll just be Scotland, NI and Wales from July 13

Complete joke. Let again people in England are being expected to pay just as much as those in the nations to receive a poorer service. Until the nations pay a supplemental licence fee to pay for the additional local content the amount of content in the nations need to be reduced to the level for the regions of England.


Or, alternatively, until England gets its pandemic under control to the levels seen in the other nations you don't refill offices.

Scotland gets one bulletin for a whole country as opposed to England's local news setup due to the lack of devolved main bulletins. If The Nine was on at 6 we could have separate local news for Edinburgh and Lothian, Glasgow and Renfrewshire, Tayside, Aberdeenshire, Highlands and Islands, Border...

England does not have a superior or inferior setup overall. You have a different setup. It has its pros and cons.
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TV Forum: New for (the middle of) 2020

Asa posted:
Yep, and it's funny because it's always been like that, did everyone used to just click the ribbon?


Fun fact: I'm now so enamoured with this feature it's been implemented over the road