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CNN International & Domestic

stuartfanning posted:
james-2001 posted:
No longer has Farenheit on either. Which I guess makes sense seeing as nobody outside the US even uses it.
Speak for yourself James. In Spring/Summer I always use Fahrenheit, and I suspect there are a lot of people in the UK who do the same. Also the Tabloid newspapers do to. Very Happy


Don't know anyone under the age of 50 who does... Celsius all the way. Far more people use inches, pints and pounds than Fahrenheit in my experience.
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CNN International & Domestic

Rkolsen posted:
james-2001 posted:
Meh, it's about time the US start to phase in celsius I say and catch up with the rest of the world. Even if it's in a smaller font or in brackets like metric measurements are on product labels.

Well in the past year the BBC added Fahrenheit to their North American forecasts.

We all learn about Celsius in school, used it for the lab experiments and were told that we were going to go metric but that never occurs. The same was told to my parents over 50 years ago. I don't think it will happen in my lifetime.


Oh - I wonder when they disappeared then if they were added last year. 10-20 years ago the BBC World weather forecasts for North America were Fahrenheit based I'm sure. I thought that was always the case. Didn't know they'd switched them to Celsius. (Obviously Europe was always in Celsius)
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Yet another FremantleMedia UK reshuffle

Whataday posted:
Possibly, but I'd be surprised if the umbrella wasn't acknowledged somehow (ie Unscripted/Scripted). Perhaps they are waiting for him to join and settle in before developing some sort of identity.

If he's joining later this year, it's worth noting that the Thames brand is 50 next year, so would be fitting to give that more prominence.


Sounds to me like a reorganise of management responsibilities and internal reporting structures rather than brands?
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Kodi

London Lite posted:
noggin posted:
London Lite posted:
A shame as the PQ is better with Krypton.


Odd - no picture quality differences between Jarvis and Krypton on any of my platforms - same deinterlacing, same H264/VC-1/MPEG2 decode (it's all hardware pretty much) All my Blu-ray and DVD stuff plays pretty much identically.


I've done comparisons using Krypton, Jarvis 16.1 and SBMC, the Jarvis fork. With 720p streams, it's a lot more detailed, while SD streams are sharper. Jarvis on both the PC and Fire TV are not as sharp.


Odd - I wonder if it is using different streams - I know Krypton has added support for newer streaming standards which may allow for this.

On local content played as files from my network storage and for Live TV I've not noticed any changes on the three platforms I use : Raspberry Pi, ODroid S905 and Intel x86 - all running LibreElec. (I avoid Android like the plague as the audio passthrough for DTS HD and Dolby True HD, and refresh rate support is too hit and miss)
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Kodi

London Lite posted:
A shame as the PQ is better with Krypton.


Odd - no picture quality differences between Jarvis and Krypton on any of my platforms - same deinterlacing, same H264/VC-1/MPEG2 decode (it's all hardware pretty much) All my Blu-ray and DVD stuff plays pretty much identically.

AMLogic builds now do SD DVD .VOB hardware decode and de-interlacing properly so the software MPEG2 decode + YADIF 2x deinterlace in software workaround is now no longer required.
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Kodi

London Lite posted:

Personally for video playback, it's still buggy with the video either frozen for 5 seconds or stutters, but then playbacks fine. I've found it handles proxy streams better than Jarvis, although the latter doesn't have the freezing issue.


Think that depends on your platform and sources. I've been running LibreElec Krypton Betas on x86, Raspberry Pis and AMLogic S905 platforms, all playing either local H264, MPEG2 or VC-1, TV Headend DVB-T/T2/S/S2 streams or H264 streams from catch-up services (iPlayer, SVT Play, ZDF Mediathek etc.) and all seem pretty stable without the freezing etc.

I steer clear of the MacOS and Windows builds - LibreElec always seems better.
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Eurovision 2017

Brekkie posted:
Don't even remember it and if you write Eurovision with the intention of not offending any of the 50+ watching countries you're going to end up with a fairly dire show.


I agree - but that particular joke was pretty ill-judged.
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The Sport Thread

Hatton Cross posted:

However, It's BBC Studios crew, presumably.


Well The One Show uses an almost entirely freelance crew, but the production team are part of BBC Studios, and the crew will have been booked by them. (The One Show has no link with BBC Studioworks - the operation formerly known as BBC Studios and Post Production who run Elstree's studios, and will run TV Centre's studios when it re-opens)

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Unless BT Sport are paying for their own OB crew to man the cameras for the duration of the draw - something that the BBC chapel of the ACTT would not be to impressed with.


Ha - did the ACTT ever cover the BBC? It's all BECTU these days...

Reality is that BBC Sport and BT Sport (many of whom are ex-BBC Sport) staff seem to work in a sensible and grown-up manner in general. (And many of the same freelance crew work for both)

My understanding is that BT Sport provided Jake Humphrey, and BBC Sport did pretty much everything else in co-operation with The One Show. (Jake has been a stand-in presenter on The One Show in the past too...)
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What's this port on a Virgin remote?

elmarko posted:
I googled so much and couldn't find anything specific on it. It did look more like jumpers at first but I thought it'd be odd to have those accessible like that.

Right. Maybe time to get the multimeter out and borrow a logic analyser. And learn how to use it...


As dosxuk says - sensible thing is to work out what the chip it is connected to inside is and then have a look around for a datasheet or others who have reverse engineered.

Logic analyser probably only useful if you have actual data being passed through the port (i.e. something plugged into it)
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Sky TV to go satellite dish-free in 2018

mapperuo posted:
Be interesting to hear about the technogoly behind this,I assume they must send all the popular channels, BBC 1 etc, to local 'nodes' rather than every single customer watching BBC 1 streaming from a central encoder otherwise you're dealing with terabytes of traffic..


Yes and no.

The connections aren't to the 'encoder' that is a bit of software that sits there (on Amazon-hosted servers these days I think - at least for pre-recorded content) and takes in a high quality feed and encodes it to the various 720/50p, 720/25p, 540/50p etc. variants at various bitrates.

These files are then distributed via content delivery network operators, who store copies of all the content and deliver it individually to each Laptop, Tablet, Phone, Smart TV etc. as it is requested. There IS a server connection for every single user.

Live streaming, as I'm sure people have noticed, isn't quite 'live'. AIUI the way this is handled on some platforms (and how pre-recorded shows are now also handled) is that the video stream is broken down into small chunks (order of a couple of seconds long) and these files are accessed in order to create a seamless stream, also allowing you to switch on-the-fly to chunks at lower or higher bitrates. This is how iPlayer works and is described as unicast - as each 'cast' or stream is to one person (hence the uni)

Of course this has a downside. Many content delivery networks will charge you 'per bit delivered'. The more people who watch, the more you pay. (So popular shows cost more to distribute over IP than shows nobody watches...) If you have a lot of people watching you need massive server and connection bandwiths - which cost more money (and why the BBC outsource this I believe).

This is totally different to broadcast, where the costs are the same whether 60 million watch or nobody does...

Multicast delivery leverages an aspect of networking that allows the same packets to be received by multiple people on the same network. This allows a single network stream to be received by multiple users - with only one server connection providing it (and only taking the bandwith of a single stream). These multicast streams need to be handled at a much more local level than unicast - so ISPs need to be involved in their provision.

This is why BT are able to offer high-quality (satelilte, cable and terrestrial quality) streams over their multicast BT TV system, but only lower quality streams over their OTT service (which is unicast)

I would expect Sky will offer multicast IPTV over their broadband network in a similar manner. This is also how IPTV is offered in other parts of Europe (though often these are areas with fibre-to-home connectivity that can offer 100Mbs or 1Gbs connections)
thegeek, UKnews and London Lite gave kudos
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Sky TV to go satellite dish-free in 2018

Stuart posted:
noggin posted:
Also - if Sky can migrate more content to IP, they can reduce their pretty hefty satellite transponder bill.

Surely the number of transponders required for the DSat service wouldn't change unless they actually made more services IP only?

That was my point. If the new DSat Q boxes are also IPTV compatible, they could start migrating some channels to be IP only, and cease to uplink them on transponders.

It will depend how Q sells, but there will be a point where the cost of transponder vs subscription/advertising revenue will tip it I suspect. Not instantly - but I can see it in the future.

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Movies can use progressive downloading with only a relatively weak broadband connection. Streaming a live 4K football match would require a very good connection, and the hope that nobody else in the house is watching something via IP with a similar demand.


This will only be feasible for FTTC or FTTP households with 40+Mbs connections. Basically if you can get BT Infinity you are likely tbe able to get Sky's equivalent fibre broadband.
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BT Sport - Launch of BT Sport Ultimate

mapperuo posted:
Geez just give it a wipe... How hard can it be.


Very in some situations. If you're using a large box lens on certain mountings in certain positions you won't be able to safely reach the front of your lens, and in others certainly not quickly.

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EDIT: Surprised to find out its a Telegenic OB.. Thought they were quite good!


They are. Though they won't neccessarily be providing the camera operators. These days most OB providers (CTV, Arena, Timeline, Telegenic, NEP Vision etc.) will provide a single guarantee operator or assistant (who may or may not be staff) and then either the OB provider OR the production team will book operators for the other positions.

The industry now is VERY freelance. You can do OBs with crews of 50 or more and often find only five or fewer are staff. (And they are usually guarantees)