BBC World News from New Broadcasting House

The previous generation of remote cameras used by BBC News (Radamec) used to have red-light interlocks, that would only allow "on shot" moves (fades) to be triggered when the camera was on-air, and only allowed the fast repositioning moves (cuts) to be done when the camera in question didn't have a tally (and was thus off-air). Famously this didn't initially work on the weather CSO (as that didn't raise the red light for the camera in use to begin with) This was with effectively no automation (actually there was a brief period with a top of the hour sequence with an automated camera move - but it didn't last ong)

However I suspect the whole methodology of Mosart is different.

One issue appears to be that the Furios don't appear to smoothly stop on-shot in some situations. (When they are used conventionally they are more used as fast tracking rail-cams which you cut to and from whilst they are moving - rather than seeing the move start and stop)

Personally I'm quite impressed they do as well as they do, considering the small wheel base and the height of the cameras on the tracks. Even some of the "proper" tracking systems I've used with low mounted cameras and big bases struggle at the start and stop if you try to (de)accelerate at a speed outside their sweet spot, even to the point of being noticeable despite the gyro-stabilisation on the P/T/R heads.

Oh ffs why won't they launch it in Europe I can only get the SD version on Badr

I guess they are waiting for a platform or advertisers who are willing to fund it? No reason to launch in HD if it costs you money after all.

I am surprised Telenor have shown no interest they are usually the first to HD channels but they havent bothered with either CNN or BBC, shame really as I get 243 channels off Badr but not BBC World News HD.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/worldnews/arab-sat.html

... and it seems BBC World News HD feeds for Asia (on Intelsat 19) and North America is not a test feed... why is it nobody's bothering to carry it?

Europe seems to be behind the times recently cnn and bbc have hd services on other continents but not here in Europe

Recently? The US launched HD services in 1998, we didn't launch ours until 2006. Being behind them in HD isn't anything new. (Though we did switch to full widescreen a lot earlier - some US shows are still 4:3 SD - or were until very recently)

The reality is that platforms will only spend money to broadcast the same channel twice (and the HD version needs more bandwith than the SD version and so costs more than the SD version to distribute) if having it in HD will pay for itself. For some channels, particularly sport and movies, the benefit of HD is such that it will act as a draw to the platform (and in some cases justify an extra payment for HD)

Not sure that getting BBC World in HD rather than SD is going to be a huge reason for Jonas Svensson to go with C-More rather than Viasat in the Nordics is it?

Sometimes the discussions here seem to ignore the financial realities of broadcasting. Transponder capacity isn't cheap.

So why have Arabsat gone for BBC World News HD if it isnt a big attraction? they must be loaded if they can afford to distribute BBC World News in HD.

All bets are off when it comes to what Middle Eastern broadcasters do...

Is Lesley Curwen a new face? She's presenting the Business Edition, don't think I've ever seen here before...

This was posted by adonis1 on satellites.co.uk so credit to them.