NE
If anyone is interested, pic of first floor here www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-13275770,00.html
CA
Probably massively unfair to judge it on what we've seen already... but from the picture on the Sky website and the shot on the news updates, it's very nice but it's hardly anything compared to the sort of thing that Jack Morton did with the likes of the National Geographic studio, the NBC Dateline studio, the ESPN studio.
It's nice, and I like it, but from what I have seen - and again would say that that's not much - it is not startlingly better than any UK news studio we've seen before.
It does, as the Sunday Times article says, look a little like an apartment rather than a news studio.
Very brief word of note related to all things News Corp, whilst we're down this Sky/Sunday Times/Five line: Fox News have refreshed their straps. As ugly as ever, sadly, but worthy of note.
It's nice, and I like it, but from what I have seen - and again would say that that's not much - it is not startlingly better than any UK news studio we've seen before.
It does, as the Sunday Times article says, look a little like an apartment rather than a news studio.
Very brief word of note related to all things News Corp, whilst we're down this Sky/Sunday Times/Five line: Fox News have refreshed their straps. As ugly as ever, sadly, but worthy of note.
FE
just throwing in a thought here about the 'clever glass';
Sky used it a few years ago on Sky News at 10. Remember the 'different' background behind the presenters? That was a clever glass install.
I think the basic concept of it is a current is carried through the glass, which can carry an image or moving background. Presumably there are various settings to set up the desired effect.
http://www.rp-networkservices.com/tvforum/uploads/sky1.jpg
Sky used it a few years ago on Sky News at 10. Remember the 'different' background behind the presenters? That was a clever glass install.
I think the basic concept of it is a current is carried through the glass, which can carry an image or moving background. Presumably there are various settings to set up the desired effect.
http://www.rp-networkservices.com/tvforum/uploads/sky1.jpg
GE
I seem to remember seeing something about it when Live and Kicking did a tour around the Grandstand set in TV centre - demonstrating the clever glass they had. Putting a current through the glass turns it opaque, so an image can then be projected onto it.
Clever.
thegeek
Founding member
fernando posted:
I think the basic concept of it is a current is carried through the glass, which can carry an image or moving background. Presumably there are various settings to set up the desired effect.
I seem to remember seeing something about it when Live and Kicking did a tour around the Grandstand set in TV centre - demonstrating the clever glass they had. Putting a current through the glass turns it opaque, so an image can then be projected onto it.
Clever.
GS
I seem to remember seeing something about it when Live and Kicking did a tour around the Grandstand set in TV centre - demonstrating the clever glass they had. Putting a current through the glass turns it opaque, so an image can then be projected onto it.
Clever.
Its liquid crystal tecnology. Not new at all (you can see it used in the 1994 film True Lies as a door which becomes transparent), but I think the improvement in projector technology has given it a new use.
Its in use in some luxury apartments as an alternative to blinds/curtains on windows.
http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/smart-window-pdlc.gif
It would just be too much for me to admit to having it in mine. Ahem.
Gavin Scott
Founding member
thegeek posted:
fernando posted:
I think the basic concept of it is a current is carried through the glass, which can carry an image or moving background. Presumably there are various settings to set up the desired effect.
I seem to remember seeing something about it when Live and Kicking did a tour around the Grandstand set in TV centre - demonstrating the clever glass they had. Putting a current through the glass turns it opaque, so an image can then be projected onto it.
Clever.
Its liquid crystal tecnology. Not new at all (you can see it used in the 1994 film True Lies as a door which becomes transparent), but I think the improvement in projector technology has given it a new use.
Its in use in some luxury apartments as an alternative to blinds/curtains on windows.
http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/smart-window-pdlc.gif
It would just be too much for me to admit to having it in mine. Ahem.