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All in one streaming solution

MY83 posted:
And they dont have HDCP protection on their HDMI connections?


Windows 10 will use HDCP if the display supports it (and Intel CPU+GPUs do), and some streaming providers won't allow streaming without it. I think that's the basic lie of the land?
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Broadcasting House, Salford Quays & TVC

Markymark posted:
deejay posted:
That's very good to hear - I was under the impression it was only going to contain one news studio.


It will have two news studios, one about 160 m^2 with nominally 6 cameras, the other 40ish m^2 with nominally 3 cams


I guess they are amping up their current News facilities that have a main studio and a smaller presentation studio for short bulletins? The added requirement to deliver Newyddion (and Ffeil?) mean two studios definitely make sense?

AIUI the new location is so close to the Principality (was Millennium?) stadium means there is a lot of dark fibre between the two. AIUI the plan is also to have some multipurpose spaces (a bit like the BBC have in Salford that have been used for Commonwealth/Winter Olympic game coverage)?
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All in one streaming solution

Yes - there are a number of either Compute Sticks (the Intel m3 model is well regarded, the Atom-based Celeron models less-so)

You can also get some Apollo Lake or Gemini Lake Mini PCs for a relatively low cost - but they are slightly underpowered. (They have hardware H264 and H265 decode though)
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ITV abandons the South Bank

Inspector Sands posted:
trivialmatters posted:

And yet YouTube does have TV studios - and several of them - at its temporary HQ in King's Cross and planned for its permanent HQ too.

But are they multipurpose multicamera production studios, or ones for simple interviews or 'vloggers'?


Some of them are definitely capable of decent live music production in sound terms (64 channel SSL desk), and broadcast crews are employed to drive them.

I think they are doing some music stuff.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/08/google-opens-youtube-space-for-popular-creators-new-london-office/
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ITV abandons the South Bank

Inspector Sands posted:

The likes of Netflix and YouTube don't need TV studios. Their productions use film techniques, so use 4 wallers and sound stages


Spot on about Netflix - they only have interesting in 'long tail' content - like drama and docs, which don't use traditional TV studios. (Though they do use multicamera OBs for capturing stand-up comedy)

YouTube? They have studios in their buildings - and are doing some multicamera stuff (including live streaming). They aren't 'traditional' studios - but they have control rooms with decent sound desks etc., and broadcast crews are employed to work in them.
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This Morning

adamiow posted:
So the same company that represents both Fern and Phil (and presumably will know if there is a rift or not) assumed Fern wouldn't be able to attend so didn't pass on the invite....


Philip and Holly are represented by James Grant, but I thought Fern was represented by Troika...
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20 Years of Digital TV

deejay posted:
Interesting to see the DTA again after all these years. You’ll notice that, despite being a widescreen digital transmission area, most of the screens are 4:3 glass tube CRTs. The 16:9 screens in virtually all the monitor stacks were actually domestic (albeit very good) Sony Trinitron televisions. Istr being told at the time that buying 16:9 Grade 1’s in the number required for the DTA was totally prohibitive. I think at the time it was built there weren’t even really any on the market.


Yes - though there was only a brief period when 16;9 domestic CRTs small enough to make most stacks were available on the consumer market. Sony made some 16-20" sized sets ISTR - launched around the same time as the original PlayStation.

I remember the TVC news galleries had 4:3 CRTs that scan-crushed to letterbox 16:9 for source monitors, with Sony 24" domestic CRTs used for PGM and PVW monitoring. The Sony domestic CRTs didn't last as well as the 4:3 monitors and were replaced by LCDs.

Inspector Sands posted:
The only professional 16:9 CRT monitors I ever used were at my first HD place. Odd as we were using HD CRTs to quality check material that would never be seen by the public in HD on a CRT


Native interlaced CRTs were still definitely more capable of exposing some interlace faults than the deinterlacers feeding progressive LCDs and plasmas - as different deinterlacers (or in some cases different modes of deinterlacing) would behave differently and could mask them. Some deinterlacers also introduced quite nasty artefacts (Vutrix - I'm looking at you...)

For a long time glass CRTs were definitely better high quality monitoring solutions for lighting, grading and judging absolute picture quality than even relatively high-end LCDs.
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Peston on Sunday to move to Wednesdays

London Lite posted:
noggin posted:
London Lite posted:
Outside of Question Time and the main news bulletins, political shows are really only watched by the Westminster bubble and politicos.


I'd add Marr into that list too. Regularly getting more than a million on a Sunday morning isn't to be sniffed at. That's a pretty mainstream audience at that time of day.


I thought there was one that I missed out. Has it actually added numbers since it moved to 10?


Too early to tell for sure - but it looks a little down at 1000 compared to 0900 - but is getting significantly better figures than Sunday Morning Live or The Big Questions did in the same slot.
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E4, More4, Film4 and 4Music Rebrand:

PFMC84 posted:
I believe the DVD set of ELR is available with all episodes from Season 4 onwards in 16:9 so I'm surprised Channel 4 haven't updated their prints to get the HD versions of the show at least for the latter 6 seasons. It would probably mean having to heavily sanitise the show for the early morning broadcast they give it so they probably can't be bothered doing all that again!


If C4 have already got SD 4:3 masters under a current rights agreement, it would be unlikely they'd be replaced. The trigger for that would be renegotiating a new agreement I suspect.
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20 Years of Digital TV

Didn't ONDigital boxes stop working before DSO, and not because of 2k vs 8k support? ISTR that there was another change that caused them issues and no firmware updates to mitigate it were offered as the boxes were, by then, unsupported?

All the ONDigital-era IDTVs I saw were based on the same UI - and looked like they were effectively built by putting a STB in a TV?

I had a Pace DTVA. They ran VERY hot (it melted the top of my Sony 28" Wega CRT...) but nicely supported Line 23 WSS.
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Time-shifted channels

Inspector Sands posted:
For me it's the far of having two or more separate players. I'd much rather have everything I watch on a single PVR hard drive than have to remember what it is I missed last night and hunt it out on an on demand service which might not work or still be on there anyway.

Though I often use the directory of my PVR as a list of things I need to watch and then if I'm travelling or bored at work I'll watch them on iplayer etc instead


Yep - and with Sky you get that Smile iPlayer, ITV Hub, All4 and Sky content all sits in the same planner as your off-air recordings, and search is global if you want to find stuff too. It's not perfect - but it's better than any other TV platform I've seen so far, though Sky doesn't offer 'watch from start' on BBC shows AFAIK (or any live shows) unlike the new Freeview option.
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NOW TV

JamesM0984 posted:
Isn't Virgin Media effectively multicast IPTV, albeit using their own cables and infrastructure?


No - Virgin Cable is DVB-C RF over Coax to the home, with broadband delivered by DOCSIS over Coax I believe. It may well be that the RF, as well as IP, services are distributed to nodes via fibre, as RF-over-Fibre is a popular technology.

DOCSIS used to use DVB-C muxes to carry the IP data from Virgin to consumers, with a different system used for the reverse connection, but the newer DOCSIS may use its own data standard now - rather than DVB-C QAM muxes. The 'lumps' you bought Virgin broadband speed in were effectively how many DVB-C muxes from the node to your home you had reserved AIUI.