CH
Louise did the 1 yesterday
I could be wrong about Fiona doing the 1 o'clock news. Just seems she's been croaking along all day. 
Louise did the 1 yesterday
AP
aprilj
Kate Silverton is back on the 1 O'Clock today...does anyone know if she is going back to present this every monday? I hope not...I really like louise!
She probably just reliefing because Louise did breakfast yesterday and she doesn't have anything to do!
NG
I think that they may have reduced the amount of transponders capacity leased by BBC News - and I hear rumours of a switch in modulation and codec. Wonder if the transponder reduction has hit before the new kit is commissioned - and thus stuff has had to drop bitrate without more efficient codecs being used?
noggin
Founding member
Just watched Nick Robinson's report from Bournemouth on the 10pm News.
What sort of low bandwidth link and/or editing kit were they using. Is this some bold new idea to send even reports from week long UK events via low bandwidth links ? Pictures were awful, I've almost seen better on You Tube.
What sort of low bandwidth link and/or editing kit were they using. Is this some bold new idea to send even reports from week long UK events via low bandwidth links ? Pictures were awful, I've almost seen better on You Tube.
I think that they may have reduced the amount of transponders capacity leased by BBC News - and I hear rumours of a switch in modulation and codec. Wonder if the transponder reduction has hit before the new kit is commissioned - and thus stuff has had to drop bitrate without more efficient codecs being used?
NG
AIUI they have both a broadcast circuit - which uses fibre/satellite capacity and costs real money to use - and a more broadband/webcam style system that is much cheaper to use. This is only really an issue for live contributions - as these days edited reports can be sent in quality over decent broadband, just not quite in real time. (In fact I don't know if the bureau has a full quality direct to the bureau or if they have to use a local facilities operation. Pac TV or Channel 9 were both common LA inject positions ISTR a few years ago)
I think that the mainstream BBC One weekday bulletins usually use the higher quality circuits for their lives (with the higher cost), whereas the News channel (and possibly weekend bulletins?) use the lower cost circuits (which may even be essentially zero cost)
Rather than look at it as a downgrading of the picture - think instead of it as being better than a still. On many occasions, lives from LA would have been ISDN sound-only accompanied by a phone graphic. These days you get increasingly better-quality video (and audio) - though not yet to the quality of a good fibre/satellite broadcast circuit.
Be interesting to see how things change when HD becomes an issue - if it does.
noggin
Founding member
What's happened to the Los Angeles link, as that seems to have downgraded to one notch up from satelite phone quality recently?
AIUI they have both a broadcast circuit - which uses fibre/satellite capacity and costs real money to use - and a more broadband/webcam style system that is much cheaper to use. This is only really an issue for live contributions - as these days edited reports can be sent in quality over decent broadband, just not quite in real time. (In fact I don't know if the bureau has a full quality direct to the bureau or if they have to use a local facilities operation. Pac TV or Channel 9 were both common LA inject positions ISTR a few years ago)
I think that the mainstream BBC One weekday bulletins usually use the higher quality circuits for their lives (with the higher cost), whereas the News channel (and possibly weekend bulletins?) use the lower cost circuits (which may even be essentially zero cost)
Rather than look at it as a downgrading of the picture - think instead of it as being better than a still. On many occasions, lives from LA would have been ISDN sound-only accompanied by a phone graphic. These days you get increasingly better-quality video (and audio) - though not yet to the quality of a good fibre/satellite broadcast circuit.
Be interesting to see how things change when HD becomes an issue - if it does.
CH
Great use of the studio there. It's just a shame the desk can't change colour, but then if it was able, I don't think we'd get such a vibrant red (more of a pinky colour like we get in TC7 on the desk).
Interesting use of lighting for an item about the planet Saturn on today's 1 o'clock news.
Great use of the studio there. It's just a shame the desk can't change colour, but then if it was able, I don't think we'd get such a vibrant red (more of a pinky colour like we get in TC7 on the desk).