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TV Breakdown Appreciation Thread
Looking at that video, it does look like after Yorkshire stopped sending their material, Granada started sending theirs- in addition to the Granada colour bars, you get a VERY brief flash of a Granada VT clock just as channel 4 cuts away.
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I'd forgotten how horribly dated those YTV slides from that era are, they look like something from a decade earlier.
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Help with recording video over HDMI
I remember reading about one Doctor Who episode that only existed as a black & white telerecording (may well be the Planet of the Daleks episode mentioned), and they got it colourised by one of the companies that specialises in colourising old movies (who apparently struggled because they were used to working with proper filmed material, not telerecordings with the low resolution and other issues they have), but not long after the colour recovery process was developed, and I read about the people who had done the colourisation making the sets and costumes to be quite colourful, but then when they did colour recovery on it, the actual colours were actually quite dull and muted. I seem to remember the version that got released on DVD was a mixture of both the artificial colourisation and the colour recovered version.
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Top of the Pops
I've noticed on the iPlayer, on most recent episodes, the preview picture has changed from a high quality scan of a photo taken on set to a screenshot from the episode itself- with the obvious muddy picture quality. I wonder, did they stop taking photos of the acts on set around this time, which is why the iPlayer now has to use blurry screen captures instead?
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Comic Relief 2021
Are we going to get a final return from Tumble Tower to give us one of his running commentaries and complaning they don't book people like Jimmy Cricket?
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One of the rare things to survive on videotape from the time rather than a telerecording (in the UK at least, the US and Germany certainly have a large surviving amount of 60s VT), that's why it looks so good compared to most surviving material from that era.
Twitter (and other social media) Gold Thread
I was convinced it was a recreation at first. The quality of that clip is incredible for its age.
One of the rare things to survive on videotape from the time rather than a telerecording (in the UK at least, the US and Germany certainly have a large surviving amount of 60s VT), that's why it looks so good compared to most surviving material from that era.
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Only on satellite (with the exception of Channel)
Cable too, as that's how we get it. ITV HD moved from 113 to 103 once Central East HD launched.
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Only on satellite (with the exception of Channel)
Cable too, as that's how we get it. ITV HD moved from 113 to 103 once Central East HD launched.
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Yep, that's how it was recovered, I belive whoever was announcing for ABC Midlands got a tape of their closedown too which was recovered at around the same time as David's I seem to remember reading.
David was good for holding on to his stuff, as we know several otherwised wiped TOTPs he presented were recovered because he recorded and kept them (and BBC4 showed one of them).
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Very good clip. I'd read it does exist as it was given on a video reel to David as a souvenir and presumably made it to the bods at Kaleidoscope but never seen it until now!
Yep, that's how it was recovered, I belive whoever was announcing for ABC Midlands got a tape of their closedown too which was recovered at around the same time as David's I seem to remember reading.
David was good for holding on to his stuff, as we know several otherwised wiped TOTPs he presented were recovered because he recorded and kept them (and BBC4 showed one of them).
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But for now, from all of us here, maybe it your clooks
Maybe it YOU clooks, at least get one of the most immortal quotes in TV Forum history right
…and finally
But for now, from all of us here, maybe it your clooks
Maybe it YOU clooks, at least get one of the most immortal quotes in TV Forum history right
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