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noggin Founding member 26 April 2020 4:01pm

Virgin Media - V6 Recordings Query

When a channel closes on Sky you can still play back recordings that were from that channel. However if you downgrade your subscription you won't be able to play back recordings that you've previously made.

Yes - that may be a function of either different encryption schemes (Sky uses Videoguard, Virgin uses something else) or the way the OS/firmware/application running on the two platforms handles playback of recordings.

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noggin Founding member 26 April 2020 12:34pm

The BBC World News Thread

News 24 certainly came from TC10 at one point around 2003 - with locked off cameras and chroma-key/CSO backgrounds. TC11 next door was producing BBC Three News output at the time - so both of the old N1 and N2 were back in use for news shows at the time.

(Incidentally - TC11 housed Working Lunch, Newsnight and Newsround a few years later on physical sets (Newsnight managed to squeeze their hard set in, Working Lunch re-dressed this with clipped on PBUs, and Newsround was rigged inside it) as the Barco sets were installed in TC7 and N6. The Newsnight Review set was based around the three projectors left over from BBC Three's 7 O'Clock News, which by then had finished.)

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noggin Founding member 26 April 2020 8:26am

Virgin Media - V6 Recordings Query

Normally PVR recordings remain encrypted, in the same way as they are broadcast, on your drive.

In most cases you therefore need to have an active subscription for that channel at the point of playback (in exactly the same way as if you were watching the channel live at the time you are replaying), not just the point of recording, to decrypt and replay the content.

Whether a channel still needs to be 'current' for this to happen will depend on the decryption platform I suspect.

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noggin Founding member 26 April 2020 7:46am

Educational Broadcasting 2020

Brekkie posted:

As it doesn't even move for Wimbledon I guess there is some obligation for it to be aired live.

I don't believe there is a legal requirement, it could just be that the BBC believe it's the right thing to do. Most of the legal PSB requirements date back to a time before there was TV in Parliament after all.

The BBC's 'Westminster Live' programme on BBC Two started when TV started in the House of Commons in 1989, and was the first regular live TV coverage of PMQs I think.

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noggin Founding member 25 April 2020 10:28am

BBC Breakfast - 16th July onwards

Custard56 posted:

It's finally happened. BBC Breakfast is now number 2 breakfast show. Good Morning Britain is now number one, with 30% share yesterday, according to Piers Morgan.

Nope.

23rd April
0600-0900
Breakfast 1.4m / 40%
GMB 800k / 22.7%

0900-1000
BBC News 1.6m / 28.6%
GMB with Lorraine 1.0m / 18.5%

I'm guessing that GMB had a 30% share in one 5 or 15 minute period...

Believe me - if GMB overtook Breakfast - it would be making headlines in the media press and on 'Media Twitter'. It hasn't...

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noggin Founding member 25 April 2020 10:13am

Coronavirus | Television News Coverage

AlexS posted:

The questions from journalists are at the daily conference are getting worse. Dan Hewitt from ITV has just asked how key workers are meant to be able to book tests on the website if they need to do so at 8am as they will be at work, despite the tests being meant for those with symptoms and their families and therefore anyone eligible shouldn't be at work in any case.

There are a lot of people assuming, incorrectly, that these are antibody (i.e. have you had it) rather than antigen (i.e. do you currently have it) tests...

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noggin Founding member 25 April 2020 10:12am

Educational Broadcasting 2020

remlap posted:

VMPhil posted:

I don't know if this is its first appearance on UK TV since Real Time closed?.

He was on PBS America for a bit.

Having nostalgic flashbacks and missing my dad watching TLC with Bob Ross, Norm Abrams, This Old House and The Furniture Guys on TLC with him.

This Old House and Furniture Guys were both great. Not always to my taste - but amazing to see craftspeople at work, and interesting to see just how different US and UK house construction is.

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noggin Founding member 23 April 2020 10:56pm

The Big Night In: Comic Relief and Children in Need together

davidhorman posted:

It's a shame Christopher Eccleston was the notable exception. We all know he's not on great terms with the BBC, but I'd have hoped this could have brought him back for a few words. But who knows, could be any number of reasons why he couldn't appear at this time.

He's been in a couple of series of 'The A Word' for the BBC since then - but I think his recent discussions of his severe depression and anorexia may mean it's better for his health to draw a line under his Doctor Who stint?

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noggin Founding member 23 April 2020 1:12pm

Good Morning Britain in 2020

Steve Williams posted:

You never got that with Michael Underwood!

Though Michael Underwood is now a teacher (as I think he may have been, or planning to be, before he got into TV?). He's a Form Teacher and Drama Teacher at an Indepdent school and has been for a while now I think.

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noggin Founding member 23 April 2020 8:17am

TV Home - Automated recordings of BBC idents

Inspector Sands posted:

Redux used to have a lot of archive material digitised from VHS viewing copies. That's now gone (well it's been delisted from search, it's still physically there). Internally there's an online archive search engine which integrates Redux content, so there's the best of both worlds, everything from 2006 and thousands of hours of archive too.

Archive on Redux, like some other useful content (*), is not available to most users - but is available to those with specific rights. It was removed from regular users a while ago.

(*) If you know, you know...

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noggin Founding member 22 April 2020 10:43pm