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Just a quick question (September 2005)

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GD
g.dyke
ok thanks for your help - and actually as a professional theatre lighting technician let me tell you that it is not DUCK tape, we never refer to it as DUCT tape, and it's NOT GAFFER tape - it is actually GAFFA tape.

thanks for the help again.
GS
Gavin Scott Founding member
g.dyke posted:
ok thanks for your help - and actually as a professional theatre lighting technician let me tell you that it is not DUCK tape, we never refer to it as DUCT tape, and it's NOT GAFFER tape - it is actually GAFFA tape.

thanks for the help again.


"Gaffa" is the trademark name of Advance Tapes Limited, who make *mostly* industrial tapes and a small selection dedicated to the entertainment industry.

Their AT200 tape is the low-tack, pressure sensitive, matt black tape most people know as "Gaffa"; but if it's not made by Advance it is "GAFFER" tape.

Calling other brands "Gaffa" tape is like calling a vaccuum cleaner a "Hoover".

But as a (sometime) fellow theatre technician, I'll agree to differ.
NG
noggin Founding member
gregmc posted:
On BBC News programmes I have seen dell laptoms mainly, and a few apples with the apple covered up with duck tape...


Very unlikely to be Apple laptops on normal BBC News sets - as the BBC-wide newsroom computer system ENPS only runs on Windows PCs. Certainly I don't know of any BBC news show made in London that uses Apple laptops for general production use. Apples were used for the previous weather graphics system - now replaced by a PC based system - but these weren't seen in-vision.
EQ
Equidem
The laptops look stupid anyway.

Why can't they hide the monitor inside the desk like they used to?
EY
the eye
The laptop at the London Stock Exchange is an HP
JA
jamesmd
bbcworld2005 posted:
The laptop at the London Stock Exchange is an HP


Is it just me or is Aaron Heslehurst a bit too hyper today?
EY
the eye
James Hall posted:
bbcworld2005 posted:
The laptop at the London Stock Exchange is an HP


Is it just me or is Aaron Heslehurst a bit too hyper today?


a bit to hyper i think! I saw him during twt, too much coffee.
JA
jamesmd
*waits for Jamez to come up with a libellous comment*
MO
Moz
noggin posted:
gregmc posted:
On BBC News programmes I have seen dell laptoms mainly, and a few apples with the apple covered up with duck tape...


Very unlikely to be Apple laptops on normal BBC News sets - as the BBC-wide newsroom computer system ENPS only runs on Windows PCs. Certainly I don't know of any BBC news show made in London that uses Apple laptops for general production use. Apples were used for the previous weather graphics system - now replaced by a PC based system - but these weren't seen in-vision.

They have Apples all over the place on Spooks!

Anyway you couldn't cover up the Apple logo on a laptop with duck/duct/gaffer/gaffa tape as it glows and it'd shine through!
GS
Gavin Scott Founding member
Moz posted:
Anyway you couldn't cover up the Apple logo on a laptop with duck/duct/gaffer/gaffa tape as it glows and it'd shine through!


Not with a *quality* gaffer tape.

Ok, I'll stop now.
PE
Pete Founding member
Gavin Scott posted:
Not with a *quality* gaffer tape.


like duck tape?

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