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This Morning

Andrew posted:
Off topic, but what a ridiculous Granada News set, looks like a reception desk.


Well Granada owned hotels at the time didn't they? Maybe they had one spare... It really does look as if the presenter is going to check your mini bar consumption before printing your bill.
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BBC World News | 30th October 2017 Onwards

SuperSajuuk posted:
Seems the BBC is short staffed, as they’ve asked Martin Stanford to present a world news bulletin. Don’t think i have ever seen him present for the BBC before and he’s listed as a freelance presenter on his twitter feed. Confused

EXIT; Crosspost from the rota thread to avoid too much unnecessary discussion over on that thread.


Martin has hosted BBC Local Radio shows (Radio Berkshire for example) in the last couple of years, and prior to joining BSB then Sky was a regular on BBC Local Radio and South Today on TV (in the 80s!)
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Loose Women

London Lite posted:
noggin posted:
Whataday posted:
Although to be fair, every attempt to take the show more upmarket has resulted in lower viewing figures.


ITV's most successful show in the morning is usually Jeremy Kyle... That may tell you quite a bit about the ITV audience at that time of day.


And yet is still beaten by the BBC One opposition.


Not always. Kyle is one of the only ITV Daytime shows that regularly (but not always) beats the BBC competition. Occasional 15 minute chunks of This Morning sometimes do too.
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International Sports Coverage

Ste posted:
Hatton Cross posted:
That looks like someone in the gallery is manually fading that up and changing the position on screen dynamically with what is on the screen..


I have thought that but I'm not sure, sometimes it does fade out when something is happening on a a certain part of the screen but it might just be coincidence. The video below from one of the matches shown tonight, doesn't seem like its being done manually to move away from any action.

They also have 18 channels which could be showing live sport, so it would be alot of work to do manually, then again its is Qatar so I'm sure they could find someone to do it!

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The device burning in the channel DOG could easily be programmed to do that as well if it's sophisticated enough.
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Playing TV on Fire TV from network server

djh posted:
noggin posted:
You can customise the file names and folder structure that TV Headend uses quite extensively in the web interface. But playing from within TV Headend's add-on is usually preferable to playing them directly from the folder (as it tracks watched status better)

https://tvheadend.org/projects/tvheadend/wiki/Digital_Video_Recorder_configuration

Thanks, yes I usually do use Kodi's addon for tvheadend. Playing them direct from the folder is simply a way to check that the basic underlying data is there and correct. But I think MrMC doesn't allow addons, so that doesn't help?


it doesn't allow Python add-ons, but binary add-ons such as the PVR ones are fine.
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Playing TV on Fire TV from network server

djh posted:
noggin posted:
There's a Kodi fork, without Add Ons (but with PVR support) that may perform better on Fire TV. It's called MrMC and they do develop for the FireTV (including support for the AFTV 3 4K frame-rate switching AIUI.


Thanks, I wasn't aware of that. It seems to require files to have particular names in a particular directory structure, though, which I think will be awkward to do (especially as tvheadend doesn't seem to extract any episode numbers at all). Plus the disincentive of costing money means I don't think I'll try. I see there's a 'lite' version, but that's got very poor reviews.


You can customise the file names and folder structure that TV Headend uses quite extensively in the web interface. But playing from within TV Headend's add-on is usually preferable to playing them directly from the folder (as it tracks watched status better)

https://tvheadend.org/projects/tvheadend/wiki/Digital_Video_Recorder_configuration

TV Headend only - by default - uses the broadcast metadata sent via DVB-T/T2 - so if the broadcaster doesn't add episodes numbers, they aren't there (or are just part of the synopsis) Similarly programmes with "NEW :" added to their title can be an issue.
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Loose Women

Whataday posted:
Although to be fair, every attempt to take the show more upmarket has resulted in lower viewing figures.


ITV's most successful show in the morning is usually Jeremy Kyle... That may tell you quite a bit about the ITV audience at that time of day.
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Playing TV on Fire TV from network server

The Kodi developers are close-to ignoring Fire TV since Amazon took the decision not to allow Kodi to be provided in their App Store. AIUI the Fire TV isn't a great platform for Kodi. I used to use a Raspberry Pi as my main Kodi platform for a long time and it works well with TV Headend, though I've never used WiFi for connectivity, always cabled ethernet.

There's a Kodi fork, without Add Ons (but with PVR support) that may perform better on Fire TV. It's called MrMC and they do develop for the FireTV (including support for the AFTV 3 4K frame-rate switching AIUI. I don't use Fire TV as my Kodi platform though so can't comment.
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BBC News Channel Presentation - 21/03/16 onwards

The original News 24 on-screen clock was in 12-hour format. There were so many complaints it was switched pretty quickly to 24-hour...
Stuart and bilky asko gave kudos
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Is the Sky Q box worth it?

Neil Jones posted:

You don't "buy" Sky Q boxes and you don't own them. They are rented from Sky. The Sky+HD boxes were given away and yours as soon as the engineer opened the box.


Yes - this is the main reason we haven't switched yet. Don't like the rental model at all.

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Note that Ultra HD is only available on the main 2tb box, not the Mini boxes and not the 1Tb either. Also note you lose all your recordings on Sky+ when you switch as the boxes won't play the content with no active subscription.


Also if you record UHD content, you can't play this remotely on other HD Sky Q boxes (a big selling point of the Mini is that you can watch recordings made on your main Sky Q box), so have to make two recordings or downloads.
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Is the Sky Q box worth it?

harshy posted:

They do something to the LNBs as well so you can’t hook it up to a FTA tuner.


Yes - Sky Q uses (as a default) Wideband LNBs to allow them to send what used to require 4 cables down 2. If you retained the old style LNB you'd only be able to support 2 tuners down 2 cables, whereas the Sky Q approach supports an unlimited number of tuners (I think the biggest Sky box has 12?)

Sky Q does also support Unicable II, which is also supported by some FTA tuners, and this may be an option with some installs (but the Unicable LNBs are likely to be more expensive I think) Note that Unicable II isn't supported by earlier Sky devices (they used a different Unicable-like standard called SCR to support two tuners down one cable)

As others have state - you can get hybrid LNBs that support both Sky Q and normal Sky boxes (and FTA boxes without using Unicable II)
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ITV'S HD Channels

james-2001 posted:
Does that mean watching SD content on the SD channels has been upscaled to HD then downscaled again?


By the sound of it, yes. Just as has been the case for BBC channels for many years. (BBC One HD was - for a short period - and HD opt-out of BBC One SD, but that stopped a long time a go)