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..
These days it would surely just be easier to program a basic gfx box to do that automatically (or if you had to it would be a relatively simple Frame Memory + DME effect to design)?
Well they should as it is their job to make sure that the programme that they are showing is in the best place in the schedule for the audience that will watch it.
Songs of Praise was on at 3pm today which is in no mans land when it should be on at 5pm in a prominent slot.
Says who? There are lots of niche programmes in non-prime time slots that would do better if moved. You can’t move them all.
With only 6% of people in the UK being practising Christians according to a survey last year, 3pm on a Sunday on the BBC’s flagship channel seems a pretty good deal.
Well I do, as I said it. As for the religious/ethic programme broadcasting at 11:30am on BBC one is really bad scheduling as most people interested in those programmes will be in church or other forms of worship.
Historically 'The God Slot' on Sunday mornings contained an act of worship, and was designed (partially at least) for those who couldn't attend a church service. (This is the Day was a long running strand, and there were often televised worship services from churches for the Sundays running up to Easter and Christmas)
Those days are long gone. Sunday Morning Live and The Big Questions are not worship shows, and are more discussion shows with a slightly more ethical and spiritual slant. I'm not sure they are designed for churchgoers specifically.
Who fancies a 146" TV? Or an 85" 8k TV? According to this video Samsung say you can tell the difference between 4k and 8k if the TV's big enough:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imIrem-9hEc
8K is stunningly good on large projection screens. I saw the 2012 Aquatics 8K (4320/60p) live demos - and people watching the 8K were recognising friends in wideshots and ringing them!
One of the reasons why I invested in a Nvidia Shield is that they continue to support the older devices, they now run Android Oreo and I won't be surprised if they upgrade the devices to Pie eventually.
I still also use the Now TV Smart Box, which is coming up for two years old. That supports the iPlayer live rewind functionality.
Yes - though the current nVidia Shield TV and the original nVidia Shield are all but identical internally in hardware terms - they just differ in form factor and a few external I/O terms.
Both the Shield TV and Apple TV 4K are very good, and at a lower price the Roku Streaming Stick, whilst a bit more basic, is also very effective (and was the only one of the three to support UHD iPlayer)
They’re clearly just trying to avoid multiple BBC logos - common in branding guidelines. I suppose it’s more important that a viewer of the ad remembers the network, than specifically how to watch, particularly in these days of search engines and catch-up services.
I think it's less to do with avoiding multiple logos, more that the BBC blocks would be scaled so small that in SD, and even in HD, they'd be seriously compromised.
Smart TV's aren't very smart for long. I have a nearly 5 year old LG set and is largely unusable for the Smart functions. Add a streaming box which is more likely to update the apps for longer (depending on the OS) compared to a Smart TV.
Yes - with a possible exception being TVs that run Android TV (Some Sony sets do) - though IMO external boxes are still better. When All4 arrives on tvOS the Apple TV 4 and Apple TV 4K (if you need UHD) are gong to be a very good answer.
Amazon have also just added frame rate switching support to the Fire TV OS and the Fire TV 3 (4K model) supports it - but third party apps need to be rewritten to take advantage of it.
I'd never buy a TV based on its smart TV app support. The life of a TV is significantly longer than the life of some platforms. We've already seen iPlayer support disappear on a large number of older Smart TVs and DVD/Blu-ray players when the BBC retired older iPlayer back-ends as the platform develops and modernises. Similarly Skype support on some TVs disappeared when MS decided to deprecate it.
Broadcasting House holds far more than it was originally intended to when development started. They couldn't not use all of the space available in the building, whenever I've been there there's barely been a spare desk
Yes - compared to lots of other BBC buildings (PQ and Salford in particular) NBH, Peel Wing and OBH seem to be far more densely populated (OBH maybe slightly better).
In many areas the original desk layouts have been squeezed to fit more people into the same amount of space, and it's common to see people working in communal breakout areas when they can't find a desk. Even with the bulk of BBC Studios moving back to W12 (they are now based in the Broadcast Centre mainly) the building is still very full (as other parts of the BBC have moved in or expanded)
If you're lucky you might be able just to remux it without re-encoding, setting the right aspect ratio (whatever that is).
You can use an MPEG2 patcher to alter the aspect ratio of 720x576 16:9 video that has been captured as 4:3 flagged 720x576, but I don't know if it will fix 544x576 16:9.
BBC One 19.76%
BBC Two 5.65%
ITV SD +1 and HD added 13.76%
C4 and C4+1 5.6%
C5 4.5%
This means the 5 main terrestrials account for pretty much 50% of all UK TV viewing across the week. They are still dominant players. Compare the BBC One and ITV shares in double figures with the next highest rated non-Big 5 channel - ITV3...
The next highest share of any other channel were the terrestrial operated, universally (or nearly) available ITV3 2.23%, ITV2 1.72% and Cbeebies 1.44%.
The most popular non-'terrestrial operated' service was next, and was Drama at 1.35%, beating E4 at 1.33%
In ratings terms, maybe, but every channel you've mentioned is a Freeview channel, and therefore available across the country.
Sorry - we're drifting way away from the Doctor Who topic here.
Ratings are generally the metric that is used to judge a TV channel's popularity. The major channels are still the main, formerly-analogue terrestrial services. They are still, most definitely, the major channels.
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Most of the most viewed channels, with the exception of Sky Sports Main Event and Sky 1, are all Freeview channels. As a general rule of thumb, those channels that are on Freeview, rate better than those that aren't.
Yes - that's because they are in more homes, so have a larger potential audience. However that doesn't change the fact that the big 5 - and BBC One and Two in particular - are still the major channels.
Look at shows like GBBO or The Bodyguard - they are getting good overnights and consolidating hugely. Channels that reach 8-9m people with a single show are definitely still 'major'.
Even if you were to remove Freeview figures and just look at the ratings across Pay TV platforms, I'm sure you'd find BBC One and ITV still significantly ahead of the others.
I don't have time to drill down to see if that data is around (I'm sure it is) - but this is of interest :
Household platform figures :
Freeview only 11.4m (no Sky or Cable)
Freeview total 18.31m (inc Sky and Cable households)
Sky 8.6m
Cable 4.17m
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I get the impression that the major channels concept has been seriously diluted since Freeview came into being, and if it isn't dead already, it soon will be.
The death of the big 5 channels, mixed-genre channels, linear TV, broadcasting vs narrowcasting in general, etc. have all been predicted, but the reality is that there is still a place for them.
There is a worry that the average age is increasing, and multichannel is now taking 50% of the audience - but 50% of the audience is still taken by 5 channels, the other 50% by the remaining hundreds of channels...
I suspect BBC One and ITV may well outlast Freeview. (Switzerland, Belgium and the Netherlands are all looking at shutting their Freeview-equivalent services) - and I don't think many think we'll replace DVB-T2 (though we are likely to migrate fully to it) with a third generation system before we go fully IP.
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As for the religious/ethic programme broadcasting at 11:30am on BBC one is really bad scheduling as most people interested in those programmes will be in church or other forms of worship.