PE
Pete
Founding member
PE
Virgin in Scotland (and I believe NI and Wales) have simply ditched put BBC1 Scotland HD on 101 and STV HD on 103. Channel 4 remains an outlier with the SD version still on 104.
That said I was also informed this was perhaps more due to lucky accident / Virgin's incompetence than design. See also their mock designs gallery of channel logos
Pete
Founding member
Freeview: changes ahead!
The biggest usability improvement to the EPGs on all platforms would be to implement switching between HD and SD versions by a toggle (one of the coloured buttons perhaps) on the same LCN rather than cluttering up the EPG with duplicates.
The Virgin EPG is particularly awful but Freeview and Sky aren't great
The Virgin EPG is particularly awful but Freeview and Sky aren't great
Virgin in Scotland (and I believe NI and Wales) have simply ditched put BBC1 Scotland HD on 101 and STV HD on 103. Channel 4 remains an outlier with the SD version still on 104.
That said I was also informed this was perhaps more due to lucky accident / Virgin's incompetence than design. See also their mock designs gallery of channel logos
PE
The uploader has changed the file from listed in their library to unlisted. When they do this it breaks the vanity link and therefore needs the embed to be edited. As I do not know why the user did this I'm not going to fix it for them.
Pete
Founding member
The BBC World News Thread
Video doesn’t seem to work, what happened?
The uploader has changed the file from listed in their library to unlisted. When they do this it breaks the vanity link and therefore needs the embed to be edited. As I do not know why the user did this I'm not going to fix it for them.
PE
I don’t know if it’s rose tinted specs but I’m sure Twitter was more fun in the earlier days, now it just seems to be people endlessly sounding off. Complaining about everyone and everything.
I don’t know what Laura gets from Twitter as she just receives endless abuse every time she tweets
There is far too much politics on the Internet in general these days, you can watching an old clip of a comedy show on YouTube and in the comments there will be an argument because someone said that ‘Captain Mainwearing would probably have voted for Brexit’ or something similar.
Pete
Founding member
New BBC social media guidelines
I think Twitter has cheapened BBC News somewhat. I get that there is a huge audience there, but I don’t think it should be used as a channel for the delivery of news by the BBC, either directly or indirectly through individual reporters’ tweets. It’s poisonous, and I think it would be better if the BBC focussed on its own app, channels and shows rather than trying to be everywhere.
I don’t know if it’s rose tinted specs but I’m sure Twitter was more fun in the earlier days, now it just seems to be people endlessly sounding off. Complaining about everyone and everything.
I don’t know what Laura gets from Twitter as she just receives endless abuse every time she tweets
There is far too much politics on the Internet in general these days, you can watching an old clip of a comedy show on YouTube and in the comments there will be an argument because someone said that ‘Captain Mainwearing would probably have voted for Brexit’ or something similar.
PE
I've said for years the issue with Laura K (aside from the fact she's a woman and therefore will inevitably get criticised more) is that she isn't as good "at twitter" as she thinks she is. There are a lot more journos who are much more "very online" can can navigate the nonsense better than her.
Pete
Founding member
New BBC social media guidelines
A big part of the problem is that people take a single tweet from somebody like Laura K which simply reports, accurately, what somebody has said and use that to launch a pile on about supposed bias while ignoring the other tweets from her reporting what others with opposing views have said.
I've said for years the issue with Laura K (aside from the fact she's a woman and therefore will inevitably get criticised more) is that she isn't as good "at twitter" as she thinks she is. There are a lot more journos who are much more "very online" can can navigate the nonsense better than her.
PE
Wonder whether we'll get dates for some of the streaming services / bundles at the same time.
Pete
Founding member
AppleTV 4K and Apple Video Services.
Going by the current thinking, macOS 11 is probably going to be released on, or a week after, the next Apple Event on November 17.Wonder whether we'll get dates for some of the streaming services / bundles at the same time.
PE
I got that email too. The Fitness app (which was a key part of the bundle) is now saying "late 2020" which I assume is code for December. Is there anything on Apple TV yet? I wonder if its partly being extended bc there's not that much content...
Pete
Founding member
AppleTV 4K and Apple Video Services.
I’ve had my AppleTV+ sub unilaterally extended to Feb 2021, I presume this is to count for the delay in launching the bundled product subscription offer that’s incoming from Apple, which was due to launch ‘in Autumn 2020’.
I got that email too. The Fitness app (which was a key part of the bundle) is now saying "late 2020" which I assume is code for December. Is there anything on Apple TV yet? I wonder if its partly being extended bc there's not that much content...
PE
Oh god I forgot about those. I mean not that it took that much effort to convince my aunt to stump up the £49 for a replacement but her Manhattan SD Freesat box would likely have kept chugging along if I'd not given her a prod.
Pete
Founding member
ITV HD Regions on Freeview
SD-only sat households must be dwindling fast though, and even those cheap SD-only Freesat boxes given to viewers in some regions at digital switchover must be about dead now.
Oh god I forgot about those. I mean not that it took that much effort to convince my aunt to stump up the £49 for a replacement but her Manhattan SD Freesat box would likely have kept chugging along if I'd not given her a prod.
PE
Is this 1990s Britain or the deep south of America in the 40s? Christ...
I believe the memo came from, or at least blame was pointed toward, the Dutch HQ.
I'm not sure that makes it any better. Were the Dutch that racist back in the 90s?
doesn't make it any better, just you said "it is A or B" and apparently it was C
Pete
Founding member
Integrated sponsorship in titles
Is this 1990s Britain or the deep south of America in the 40s? Christ...
I believe the memo came from, or at least blame was pointed toward, the Dutch HQ.
I'm not sure that makes it any better. Were the Dutch that racist back in the 90s?
doesn't make it any better, just you said "it is A or B" and apparently it was C
PE
Is this 1990s Britain or the deep south of America in the 40s? Christ...
I believe the memo came from, or at least blame was pointed toward, the Dutch HQ.
Pete
Founding member
Integrated sponsorship in titles
But most shocking of all was Heineken's insistence that there was "too high a proportion of negroes in the audience."
Is this 1990s Britain or the deep south of America in the 40s? Christ...
I believe the memo came from, or at least blame was pointed toward, the Dutch HQ.
PE
Weren't all the Sun sponsorships like that though? I'm not so sure it was necessarily created to match the show.
They always had those annoying cards with The Sun logo on them, even if the game being advertised didn't include a card.
Although not as obvious as some of the earlier examples I suppose the 1996 North East Tonight titles were the last of these? With the announcer continuing after the fade to the studio.
Obviously this is now a North East Tonight 1996 appreciation thread. I don't make the rules.
Pete
Founding member
Integrated sponsorship in titles
Notice how tacky The Sun sponsorship ads are, clearly created when Millionaire was going to be more brash in style.
Weren't all the Sun sponsorships like that though? I'm not so sure it was necessarily created to match the show.
They always had those annoying cards with The Sun logo on them, even if the game being advertised didn't include a card.
Although not as obvious as some of the earlier examples I suppose the 1996 North East Tonight titles were the last of these? With the announcer continuing after the fade to the studio.
Obviously this is now a North East Tonight 1996 appreciation thread. I don't make the rules.
PE
So on Virgin Media we've already got rid of BBC One Scotland SD and 101 is now the HD version. I suppose Virgin are a bit more forceful than Sky in terms of replacing non-HD equipment (think they killed of the last SD only boxes a while ago?). What proportion of Sky's boxes are likely to be SD only still? Do their HD boxes downscale for SD displays?
Pete
Founding member
BBC Regional SD/HD Transmissions
Distribution of every regional BBC One feed on satellite in HD will either need a lot of additional transponder capacity (and that costs a lot more money) or the BBC might have to do what ITV has started to do, which is reduce the number of SD regions on satellite to free up capacity for more HD services (though the BBC may feel it can't do that in the way ITV can because of their licence fee funding)
So on Virgin Media we've already got rid of BBC One Scotland SD and 101 is now the HD version. I suppose Virgin are a bit more forceful than Sky in terms of replacing non-HD equipment (think they killed of the last SD only boxes a while ago?). What proportion of Sky's boxes are likely to be SD only still? Do their HD boxes downscale for SD displays?