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itsrobert Founding member
Jugalug posted:
itsrobert posted:
Jugalug posted:
I hope you're not talking to me. I was using those quote marks for a reason. Smile

Yes, I was talking to you. Sarcasm doesn't work in written communication. I thought you were asking a genuine question Wink

Laughing Suppose not, I could have made it a lot clearer!

No worries Smile
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Chie
The other day when they were showing the 'New Multiscreen' red button stuff, the top left hand screen was showing BBC1. EastEnders, to be exact, which was showing on BBC1 at the time. I flicked over and it turns out the multiscreen was simulcasting BBC1 live. How is that possible, and why did it happen?
JR
jrothwell97
They really need to fix that Barco cube; it looked awful, especially on the Jimmy Mitzen story. The colour saturation was horribly out of alignment, and it looked like the image of Jimmy Mitzen was a photo-fit.
ST
Stitch08
jrothwell97 posted:
They really need to fix that Barco cube; it looked awful, especially on the Jimmy Mitzen story. The colour saturation was horribly out of alignment, and it looked like the image of Jimmy Mitzen was a photo-fit.


Yes. What I don't understand though is why it looks alright when some images are shown and not on others, such as the Mitzen photo. Does it depend o the colours and brightness of the image?
BA
bilky asko
Stitch08 posted:
jrothwell97 posted:
They really need to fix that Barco cube; it looked awful, especially on the Jimmy Mitzen story. The colour saturation was horribly out of alignment, and it looked like the image of Jimmy Mitzen was a photo-fit.


Yes. What I don't understand though is why it looks alright when some images are shown and not on others, such as the Mitzen photo. Does it depend o the colours and brightness of the image?


Probably - as an example, if one cube could only display blue, and not red and green, and a blue image was on the background, you wouldn't notice. If a green image was shown, you would. It could be one of the constituent colours being out of kilter, or on darker images it is just less noticable.
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harshy Founding member
Yes it looks particularly noticeable particularly on bright images, whites are ending up looking green, it looks pretty bad now, although not as bad when BBC World's plasma had the BBC News logo permanently burned on.
RE
Reboot
Chie posted:
The other day when they were showing the 'New Multiscreen' red button stuff, the top left hand screen was showing BBC1. EastEnders, to be exact, which was showing on BBC1 at the time. I flicked over and it turns out the multiscreen was simulcasting BBC1 live. How is that possible, and why did it happen?

I take it you're on Sky, and the top-left screen was meant to be simulcasting fka. News 24?

I can only guess someone messed up during the switch to or from TC7 for the Six O'Clock News, and took BBC One Network when they should have taken fka News 24, then didn't switch back afterward.
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the eye
harshy posted:
Yes it looks particularly noticeable particularly on bright images, whites are ending up looking green, it looks pretty bad now, although not as bad when BBC World's plasma had the BBC News logo permanently burned on.


Sorry but I think this is is worse.. the BBC News graphic was pretty much the only thing shown on the plasma apart form interviews, which even then it was unnoticeable!
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harshy Founding member
the eye posted:
harshy posted:
Yes it looks particularly noticeable particularly on bright images, whites are ending up looking green, it looks pretty bad now, although not as bad when BBC World's plasma had the BBC News logo permanently burned on.


Sorry but I think this is is worse.. the BBC News graphic was pretty much the only thing shown on the plasma apart form interviews, which even then it was unnoticeable!


Having looked at the channel on telly, I've got to agree, it does look bad, I wonder when the Beeb will get around to fixing it, they must cost a bomb to replace.
AC
aconnell
At least N8 was quite low maintenance, compared to N6, with all those screens, which will need to be fixed/repaired every once in a while.

Very ironic when the Beeb want to be cost-cutting.
MD
mdtauk
N8 cost them alot, because of health and safety, air con maintanence, etc but now they only have to pay for one studio, one that is a proper studio and one that had to be maintained anyway because of the national news...
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benjy
Apologies if I've missed something, but on the BOTH headlines just then the BBC NC used images from Sky News - it had the Sky "Inside Burma" bug at the top right. You would expect them to use their own pictures, really. Especially since the BBC have been criticising Sky's coverage! See http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/may/20/tvnews.television

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