Didn't BFBS used to run their own channels until a few years back, when they switched to similcasts or time delayed versions of the UK terrestria channels?
I believe so. I think this was because they carried content from all the main channels, but didn't have enough capacity/funds to carry them all?
It's a very nice promo, but I'm not sure how 'pinning your colours' to one set of presenters, who don't even present every weekday, is ever going to be a long-term success.
I'm not sure they have much else to pin them to do they? Piers and Susanna are their USP - even if they aren't there every day.
BBC Two from BFBS is a special version of the channel, with children's programmes until around 18:00 UK time, after which the main BBC Two schedule is simulcast.
Is that every day regardless of the BBC Two schedule, or if there are live events such as sport on BBC Two in the daytime do they show them? What happens if there isn't a junction at 18:00 as is often the case at weekends? Are the childrens programmes specially put together for the channel or are they a simulcast of another channel eg CBBC? Does the BBC put this special version of BBC Two for BFBS or do BFBS do it themselves?
Could it be as simple as a simulcast of CBBC until 1800 with a switch to BBC Two - or does the schedule include content from CBeebies and CBBC?
The reason for the two cables is that satellite channels are transmitted in two polarisations, and in two bands - so four different sets of channels, effecitvely, and you can only get one set down a cable. With two cables, you can guarantee that you can watch one channel and record another (and, if the other channels you want to record at the same time are in either of the two currently selected sets, you can record them, too, which is why you can sometimes, but not always, record more than one other channel). The Sky box sends signals up the cables to the LNB on the dish to tell it which set of channels it wants on which cable at any particular time.
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send one cable to the new TV and leave the Sky box with just one cable, but then you'll only be able to record while watching another channel if the recorded channel is in the same band and polarisation as the one you're watching.
Yes - some platforms in other countries have limited their transponders so that they are all in just one of the 4 bands - meaning you can split the LNB feeds and feed multiple tuners from a single LNB feed. This only works if you have a small platform, but if you do this makes a lot of sense.
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Some satellite dishes have a quad LNB (four connectors) with which you could "fully" (as in watch and record one other channel) serve two TVs/boxes or a distribution box (which has its own switching hardware to act like a satellite's LNB).
Though worth pointing out that Sky Q doesn't work like this in either of the two ways it can be installed.
Sky Q regular installs use a Wideband solution - so rather than the two LNB cables each carrying a feed for a single tuner (and each feed being switched between one of the 4 bands - HiH, LoH, HiV, LoV) - the two feeds carry either the Wideband horizontal LNB output or the Wideband Vertical LNB output (Hi and Lo bands carried together). This means that you can feed as many tuners as you like from the two cables - unlike the previous solution which would have required 4 cables from the LNB to feed unlimited tuners.
Sky Q also supports a Unicable II solution - which is far more complex (and requires the LNB to do a lot more processing).
I don’t understand how the John McCain memorial service is of interest to anybody in the UK. It’s currently being shown live on both Sky and BBC News. It would be like the US networks covering Ed Miliband’s funeral.
Would Ed Miliband's funeral get the same coverage in the UK as McCain's has in the US? I think that may help explain it. It's a huge US state occasion and merits coverage here.
My nephew doesn't even believe me when I say that when I was born there were only 4 national channels (although only just, C5 was just about to launch a few months later).
Well some would quibble about C5 being a 'national' channel given how patchy the original coverage was pre-DTT...
I am old enough to remember C4 launching mind...
Some could quibble the same with BBC Television in 1954!
Aren't Barco screens quite bulky? Would they have room for those in the limited space behind that frame within the fire lane?
Beware using Barco like Hoover... Barco make a large number of different screen solutions. The word 'Barco' was used round here to describe DLP rear-projection cube-based screens when BBC News used that technology - but they have a number of solutions (For years their CRT direct-view monitors were used as high quality preview monitors in control rooms)
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Is it more likely to be bevel-less LCD or LED screens (or whatever they are using on Sky News)
I think it's far more likely to be an LED matrix solution (not to be confused with LED-backlit LCD, or OLED) - as used at Look North in Leeds, in areas of Studio B at NBH etc.
Bezel-less LCDs are less likely to be used in a studio with 90-degree walls - as you will have horrible 'off axis' issues - even with IPS displays.
I'm sure I heard a Ken Bruce listener had told their kids that "when I was your age, all TV was black and white, and when your Gran was your age there was no television." After a pause the kid asks "Did she have to watch it on the internet?"!
I may be one generation out here......
My nephew doesn't even believe me when I say that when I was born there were only 4 national channels (although only just, C5 was just about to launch a few months later).
Well some would quibble about C5 being a 'national' channel given how patchy the original coverage was pre- DTT...
Great promo, shame about the content of the show. Nice dig at BBC Breakfast about not being boring, however BBC Breakfast maybe dull at times, very news driven, but somehow they still beat ITV in the ratings at breakfast. Why?
Same reasons as ever. Breakfast fits the morning brief better than GMB. BBC One gives you what you need (National and local news, travel and weather), when you need it, without GMB's insulting competitions, frequent ad breaks and having to listen to Piers bore-off about stuff, and watch Susanna eye-roll.
