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BBC News Rebrand - This Monday

New look BBC News output from Monday (January 2008)

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GI
gilsta
Was any of the work done on N6 to give it HD capability?
MD
mdtauk
I can't see BBC News going HD anytime soon, even come the move to Broadcasting House in 4/5 years time...

Its not just studios, its editing equipment, satellite bandwidth, Bureaux equipment, worldwide studios, etc.
BC
Blake Connolly Founding member
gilsta posted:
Was any of the work done on N6 to give it HD capability?


I'd very much doubt that. News didn't figure in the proposed schedules for BBC HD for late 2008. Also, it'd probably undo all the hard work done to make those Barco screens look better!

I'd expect it to be something they'd have in mind for Broadcasting House.
SN
SN2005
Blake Connolly posted:
Also, it'd probably undo all the hard work done to make those Barco screens look better!


Exactly. Not quite the same, but the Sky News Centre is HD ready, but if they think they're gonna be able to broadcast that newswall in HD, they've got another think coming - especially on the close ups. Mind you, that will serve them right for using a backdrop at such low resolution that you have to shoot it from a way away.
EY
the eye
SN2005 posted:
Blake Connolly posted:
Also, it'd probably undo all the hard work done to make those Barco screens look better!


Exactly. Not quite the same, but the Sky News Centre is HD ready, but if they think they're gonna be able to broadcast that newswall in HD, they've got another think coming - especially on the close ups. Mind you, that will serve them right for using a backdrop at such low resolution that you have to shoot it from a way away.


Then technically speaking, its not HD ready? Those screens on Sky are poor quality at any distance.
MO
Moz
Everyone here was moaning about News 24 moving out of a real newsroom into a studio with a fake newsroom backdrop, but just looking at Sky News now they're not far off themselves.

Yes they are in a real newsroom which is large, but most of the shots only show the fake newsroom backdrop. You very rarely see a real person in the background. At least in N8 you saw real people quite often.

Sky News staff seem to prefer working in the newsroom round the corner which is out of shot most of the time.
GI
gilsta
martinDTanderson posted:
I can't see BBC News going HD anytime soon, even come the move to Broadcasting House in 4/5 years time...

Its not just studios, its editing equipment, satellite bandwidth, Bureaux equipment, worldwide studios, etc.


I was just wondering if they would take this chance to upgrade the studio itself to make it future-proof.
JO
Joe
gilsta posted:
martinDTanderson posted:
I can't see BBC News going HD anytime soon, even come the move to Broadcasting House in 4/5 years time...

Its not just studios, its editing equipment, satellite bandwidth, Bureaux equipment, worldwide studios, etc.


I was just wondering if they would take this chance to upgrade the studio itself to make it future-proof.

By the time it will be needed in HD, they will be in Broadcasting House. Maybe. So a pointless change really.
PC
Philip Cobbold
Just looking at the East Midlands Today webcam, and it shows a different sofa in the studio at the moment. Possibly a sign of a much needed tweak on Monday...
http://www.rp-network.com/tvforum/uploads/emt.jpg
JA
Jamesypoo
Philip Cobbold posted:
Just looking at the East Midlands Today webcam, and it shows a different sofa in the studio at the moment. Possibly a sign of a much needed tweak on Monday...
http://www.rp-network.com/tvforum/uploads/emt.jpg


Also, the two panels two the right of the "window" are to change to white and look out for things we haven't seen on the network news since 2002...
PC
Philip Cobbold
dragonhhjh posted:
Philip Cobbold posted:
Just looking at the East Midlands Today webcam, and it shows a different sofa in the studio at the moment. Possibly a sign of a much needed tweak on Monday...
http://www.rp-network.com/tvforum/uploads/emt.jpg


Also, the two panels two the right of the "window" are to change to white and look out for things we haven't seen on the network news since 2002...

What, inset graphics?
MD
mdtauk
The return of the sidebar window graphic I presume.

I wonder if it relates to the England Region Endboard, the curve with the location VT inside it...

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