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Top of the Pops

TIGHazard posted:
What decides if the iPlayer upload gets the BBC logo in the corner or the BBC Four DOG?

It's just something I've noticed with my collection of episodes.


I suspect the BBC Four dog is present when the iPlayer version is sourced from the channel live stream (which will have the DOG). This will be the case if the show hasn't been pre-encoded for iPlayer prior to transmission.

AIUI now we're in the world of chunk-based MPEG DASH/HLS/HDS streaming the live stream can be clipped up for later viewing if need be, just by setting an in-chunk and an out-chunk (which isn't frame accurate, hence you sometimes get slightly wobbly ins and outs). The pre-encoded stuff may be better quality - hence the preference to use it, and pre-encodes will have a BBC dog burned in rather than the channel logo.
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Broadcasting House, Salford Quays & TVC

Asa posted:
A nice mention from Greg for “Television Centre”.

And aren’t there half some whinging people on Twitter, desperate for TOTP to return?! I may be stereotyping a bit but they do seem to be an older generation, looking through their rose-tinted glasses who probably wouldn’t like most of the tracks in the current chart anyway!

SLFN is a decent attempt for live prime time music and definitely got better through the series. This first show was very slick and watchable.


Looks definitely like a change to the music policy this series - heading far more mainstream. Not sure a show like that will ever really find a huge audience - but then music shows on UK TV don't rate.
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Commonwealth Games 2018 on BBC

Yes- New Zealand is relatively unusual in no longer really having any public service broadcaster isn't it? TVNZ is fully commercial.

(I don't mean that it runs commercials, more that it has no real public service commitments now)
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ITV abandons the South Bank

JKDerry posted:
In terms of presentation, Graham has decided "if it aint broke don't fix it" approach for his show moving to Television Centre for the first time. The presentation style has remained largely unchanged. No big new look for his show moving to Television Centre.


I think the studio location is effectively irrelevant. No need to change the look or feel of the show if that is the show they want to make, and the new home allows for it, which it does largely.
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ITV abandons the South Bank

Whataday posted:
See, I think it looks quite a bit different. The picture seems... maybe sharper and the colours less vivid. Might just be the TV I'm watching it on though.


TC1 has Sony 4300 UHD cameras (i.e. 4K) and these may well look cleaner and sharper when they are downscaled to HD than the TLS HD cameras would have. I wouldn't be surprised if it were the same vision supervisor matching the show as at TLS - though that might not be the case.
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ITV abandons the South Bank

JKDerry posted:
The Graham Norton Show now airing its first edition from Television Centre's Studio TC1. No big changes, you wouldn't know any change at all. Graham has now moved into a much larger studio than TLS Studio 1.


The audience look different. Feels very different to the TLS audience configuration.
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ITV abandons the South Bank

Andrew posted:
Imagine if the set for all the ITV daytime shows were as different as Graham Norton's set at TVC is compared to his set at TLS!


Indeed...
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Top of the Pops

Skytower posted:
Rich Tea posted:
Someone should have told Peter Powell and other TOTP presenters that their microphones were not ice creams hovering near their lips awaiting a lick. Always holding them in or near their mouths so needlessly.


The right thing to do, though, because if you start waving a microphone around needlessly, you’ll invariably cause feedback.


Precisely. When you are in a noisy studio with a very loud PA (with your mic on it), proximity is key.
sbahnhof 7 and UKnews gave kudos
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The Moment with Maxine Mawhinney

UBox posted:
Could do with some more wide shots and that window in the wall between them is a bit awkward but content wise I can't really fault it. I'd get rid of the lengthy opening sequence, your YouTube audience will either skip it or tune out.


Definitely needs frontal two-shots, matched singles between Kathy and Maxine, and less use of the over the shoulder two-shot.

I watched bits of it and it seemed to be just Kathy's single and an over the shoulder two-shot for the bulk of it (They were the only shots I saw)


Content was fine and cameras matched OK in colour balance and exposure terms.
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The Moment with Maxine Mawhinney

Rkolsen posted:
Maybe it’s online only. Maybe the board at Celebro thought they could explore making programs and putting them on YouTube with ads and make money off of that? Use a known respected journalist to set up a short interview program.


Maxine is Chairperson of Celebro's board I think.
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Retrieving recording from a Sky + box

If the recordings are from FTA channels and you're technically inclined it's perfectly possible to remove the hard drive and extract the content to a PC as a bunch of transport stream files. Recordings from encrypted channels will remain encrypted (they are decrypted on replay)

exPVR is worth a google. I think it copes with the old SD Sky+ drive format, if not then Copy+ might also be worth a look.
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Good Morning Britain

bluecortina posted:
noggin posted:
030293 posted:


Wow. I'd manage to forget how badly lit and conceived the Daybreak studio was. (And that was after some improvements wasn't it?)


When you say ‘was’ which studio do you mean?


The original Adrian and Christine - followed by Kate and Dan Lobb? - when it came from a studio with real windows.