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ITV Hub: Trapped in an infinite loop of ads !

Markymark posted:
Stuart posted:
If you watch ITV Hub through Sky there are no ads. I think you get any programme sponsorship at the start, but you can fast-forward through that.


Have had Sky Q since the weekend. Just a 30 second ad at the front (no big deal) and then the whole programme uninterrupted (apart from the break bumpers back-back), and in HD(ish) quality. It's going to be my default method of watching all non live ITV programming from now on !


Yes - Sky's version of ITV Hub via their progressive download system also lets you spool through the ads (unlike the streaming version)

Sky's download system is based on 8Mbs h.264 1080i25 for HD shows (and will carry AC3 5.1 for Sky shows - though other broadcasters may only deliver 5.1 shows with 2.0 audio to Sky for Sky to distribute via their CDN). The Sky SD format is also h.264 and often outperforms linear DVB-S/T IMO...

Another bonus is that Sky Q UHD subscribers will often be able to watch Sky shows linearly broadcast in HD, in UHD if they download them. (A large chunk of US shows on Sky channels are available in UHD via this route). Now Sky also provide some in HLG HDR - it's a great platform.
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The BBC World News Thread

Markymark posted:
News96 posted:
Possible reason-Lewis Vaughan Jones appears to be double Shifting!


BTW, what was he wearing on his head last night. Looked like something gamers wear ?


Lewis suffered from profound and sudden hearing loss a while back. I think that is part of his hearing-aid system. The BBC have been pretty exemplary in how they have handled this - I hope other broadcasters would be doing the same.
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ITV stations that lost their franchise

Markymark posted:
noggin posted:
Inspector Sands posted:
Yes, good point. So is BBC News and BBC Parliament (although the latter wasn't at one point)


Well, to be fair, BBC News doesn't really have a playout operation - it's just the on-air news gallery playing out promos as if they were news items, and a network router allowing switches between studios to happen. (A bit like Five Live handles radio playout I think?)


Like just about any radio station, (with two or more studios !)


Apart from the main BBC Radio networks - who all have presentation operations with the exception of Five Live?
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Morning Live

Should add that Morning Live is very close in ratings terms to Rip Off Britain Live that was broadcast the previous week (from the same studio). I think BBC Breakfast leading into a live consumer/current affairs/light factual show works well for the channel.
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Morning Live

Charlie Wells posted:

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I'm not sure if it's been tweaked for the programme but there is genuinely a door to the outside there. Having stood outside the studio in the past for the One Show I've seen them use it during the programme for a feature that was happening on the plaza.


It's been dressed for the show - previously it was visually just a functional double fire-exit door with frosted glass.
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Morning Live

Ratings for Tuesday :

BBC One
0600-0915 Breakfast 1.4m/39.2%
0915-1000 Morning Live 1.4m/26.3%
1000-1100 Homes Under The Hammer 1.2m/22.4%

ITV
0600-0900 GMB 0.7m/21.1%
0900-1000 Lorraine 1.1m/21.7%
1000-1230 This Morning 1.3m/23.9%
Alfie Mulcahy and bilky asko gave kudos
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ITV stations that lost their franchise

Inspector Sands posted:
noggin posted:
Inspector Sands posted:

These days of course, outside of Sky, all playout is done out of house so its not such an odd idea.


<Ahem> BBC Nations playout is still in-house.

Yes, good point. So is BBC News and BBC Parliament (although the latter wasn't at one point)


Well, to be fair, BBC News doesn't really have a playout operation - it's just the on-air news gallery playing out promos as if they were news items, and a network router allowing switches between studios to happen. (A bit like Five Live handles radio playout I think?)
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AppleTV 4K and Apple Video Services.

DVB Cornwall posted:
VP9 is being used, with limitations, no HDR at the moment.


If Apple have implemented VP9 software decode on their ARM SoC that shows just how good the Apple silicon is. It's the only ARM-based platform that I've found that can properly software decode 4:2:2 h.264 1080i stuff and deinterlace it in Kodi - sorry - MrMC...
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Reporting Scotland Refresh

Universal_r posted:
Reporting Scotland just captioned another 2 people as headlines in the late bulletin. How is that even possible?


Enter the wrong style code in your script? Have a headline macro or similar in your playout automation that hasn't reset at the end of a headline sequence?

What makes you think it's so impossible? With heavy automation (could well be just one person running the late bulletin) and captions that animate in and out with no preview - it's entirely possible.
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Coronavirus | Television News Coverage

Universal_r posted:
I find the comment completely unnecessary in the first place, even if she was planning on breaking the rules why did she need to tell us all?
Maybe trying to raise her profile for i’m a celebrity.


That was my first reaction to the story. A large chunk of ITV's primetime audience will have had no idea who she is until this.
AndrewPSSP, Universal_r and Meridian AM gave kudos
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ITV stations that lost their franchise

Inspector Sands posted:

These days of course, outside of Sky, all playout is done out of house so its not such an odd idea.


<Ahem> BBC Nations playout is still in-house.
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Morning Live

Parker posted:
noggin posted:
JAS84 posted:
ybe they're waiting for Oneness to be disposed of? The ONE in the One Show logo is always the same as the BBC One logo. That's why it changed after the initial pilot run (the circles idents had launched in the meantime) and hasn't changed since.


Yes - The One Show logo is a version of the BBC One logo (the ONE in the title refers to the channel). The One Show also uses BBC One's channel typeface for most of its on-screen graphics.

The studio design changed significantly in 2014 when the studio moved from White City to New Broadcasting House - but the trademark green sofa and skeletal coffee table designs were retained (though physically replaced) The White City studio had a lot of fabric, wood and initially fake breeze-block elements, whereas the move to New Broadcasting House introduced the current light box and sliding perspex panel window treatments.

The current sofa design is a variant of the sofa introduced during the Summer 2008 studio refresh. When the show launched it had a very different set of sofas (one green corduroy, one blue velvet ISTR)

Here is the original London studio design https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li-8UEYhZdo

It must be a big job to reset everything for the evening performance?


Less so than turning around a regular studio from one show to another, as The One Show elements remain in place behind the Morning Live set by the look of it.