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Amazon Fire TV and Stick

bilky asko posted:
Am I right in saying those brands are far from premium? The US equivalent of Linsar, perhaps?


They aren't high-end. AIUI Seiki is a Chinese manufacturer, and Westinghouse is a licensed brand (i.e. the TVs aren't made by the actual Westinghouse company that generated the original brand loyalty). (Philips is similar these days when it comes to TVs I believe)
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Eurosport - Home Of The Olympics

james-2001 posted:
I presume they could have put it on any free-to-air channel, and they already have Quest on Freeview I presume they could have used.


Quest is on a COM mux, not sure that would be acceptable. Think it probably needs to be a PSB mux service to guarantee reception. (Think the Crown Jewels legislation includes some minimum population coverage stuff)

I may, of course, be wrong.

** EDIT - just checked. Current 'Crown Jewels' definition of FTA includes 'available without payment to at least 95% of the population.' http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN00802/SN00802.pdf

According to this document, the COM muxes weren't expected to hit this in the UK post-DSO, so any Crown Jewel FTA broadcast would need to be be on PSB1 (BBC SD) or PSB2 (ITV/C4/C5 SD) and PSB3 (BBC/ITV/C4/C5 HD) muxes. https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0016/27340/no3factsheet.pdf (*) without a change in legislation, or improvement in coverage of the SD COM muxes. (HD COM are very unlikely to hit that target)

(*) Not all BBC, ITV, C4 and C5 SD and/or HD services are carried on these three muxes, but the core, former analogue terrestrial services, are.
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BBC1 to drop Saturday night Lottery draws

Brekkie posted:

And with talk in other threads about how BBC1 can't afford a dozen or so decent 30-second idents financially it still makes little sense to me. As much as I'd rather have something like Taboo on a Saturday night than another Nick Knowles quiz I don't see how the cost difference can be justified - it's got to be adding hundreds of thousands of pounds to the Saturday night budget.


Wasn't the closure - sorry moving online - of BBC Three announced as a way of shunting significant amounts in to BBC One drama?
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The Sport Thread

harshy posted:
DVB Cornwall posted:
DVB Cornwall posted:
SS1HD - Some 4K recompiling errors on the BURvARS match this afternoon. Quadrants misaligned.

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Less obtrusive but re-occurance of this issue in the last ten mins of the Watford - Tottenham fixture this afternoon.


I don't understand, why they do that can't they just feed it as h265 video and downscale it to the HD channel, this method has a very small chance of the above issue.


H265 UHD 4:2:2 encoders are still a bit crashy/buggy AIUI - there's still a preference for H264 in the broadcast arena AIUI - as they are more reliable (stitching issues notwithstanding)

Also - even if you use a single 2160p50 H265 link - the inputs and outputs are still almost certainly going to be Quad HD-SDI 1080p50 (it MAY be IP one side or the other - but not everywhere) - so you still have 4 separate 1080p feeds knocking around either side of the link coder/decoder.
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London Live





Unfortunately London Live have only been able to join the last hour of the parade due to 'technical difficulties'. They have now joined it - but it looks like a PC streaming the YouTube feed, juddery and nasty picture tearing...
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Eurosport - Home Of The Olympics

Whataday posted:
Is it not a bit odd to have a channel called Eurosport using an American v/o in a promo?


Not really - loads of pan-European commercials use a neutral US/Canadian accent. Arguably it's more neutral than a British accent or French/German/Swedish etc. accented English.
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Teletext Recoveries

The BBC still use 'Teletext' format subtitles internally - and Sky still uses World Systems Teletext format subtitles on their platform, albeit carried over DVB.

Internally the BBC insert subtitles in WST (aka Teletext format) into the SDI/HD-SDI signals that carry them around playout areas, with them being rendered as DVB bit map subtitles for Freesat/Freeview and WST subtitles for Sky. So the format of subtitles created in the 80s are still compatible (though the physical media and file format they are stored in may have changed)
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The Grand Tour

Whataday posted:

The word 'offence' is thrown about a lot in these circumstances, but it is possible to complain about certain language without taking personal offence. I'm more concerned about the impact such flippant comments would have on others. That doesn't mean it's none of my business.


Totally agree. You don't have to take offence personally to realise, and be concerned about, the effect some things could have on others.
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International News Presentation: Past and Present

remlap posted:
globaltraffic24 posted:
I think there was one. Some programmes used to be produced and broadcast by the Swiss, German and Austrian broadcasters altogether, such as Aktenzeichen XY Ungelöst, a TV programme about solving crimes (example from 1996: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPiSFOefypI )

Sounds like the Crystal Maze theme.


And looks a bit more like Police 5 than Crimewatch, with it's PhotoMe booth set...
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International News Presentation: Past and Present

deejay posted:
There is (was?) a German language game show where Austria, Germany and Switzerland competed against one another in a studio based quiz (I think). I can't find a clip now, not least because I can't remember what it is called, but I'm sure someone will remember and provide it! That was also a Eurovision thing I think.

The German (and original) version of 'You Bet!' - "Wetten, dass?" - was produced across all three countries and shown by ZDF, ORF and SRG I think. It ran for a couple of decades I think.

It had a very nasty accident paralysing a member of the public in a stunt ISTR.
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Film credits on TV

Credit speed-ups are normally pretty easy to spot on TV, as the 25p motion goes to 50i.
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The Grand Tour

VMPhil posted:
Bit odd how this has just now caused an uproar considering the show was out three days ago. Reminds me of Sachsgate when people only started complaining days after the actual broadcast


Difference is really that Sachsgate was on a live or as-live radio show that was broadcast once. TGT is delivered purely via an on-demand platform, and is designed to be watched when you want, not 'live'.

Oh - and... Err... Christmas.