Mark Longhurst on with tonights Press Preview, Interesting to see the iPad has been replaced with the sunrise laptop and now we are back to having the delay and no zooming in on stories on the giant screen
Also from yesterday the aimation showing the paper front pages has changed and now crawls in from the right and then zooms out and gets smaller as its replaced by the next paper
Does anyone know how they rotate the giant tv screen? Is it on something automatic or do people have to take it off its stand and rotate it manually?
Mark Longhurst on with tonights Press Preview, Interesting to see the iPad has been replaced with the sunrise laptop and now we are back to having the delay and no zooming in on stories on the giant screen
Also from yesterday the aimation showing the paper front pages has changed and now crawls in from the right and then zooms out and gets smaller as its replaced by the next paper
Does anyone know how they rotate the giant tv screen? Is it on something automatic or do people have to take it off its stand and rotate it manually?
If it's manual (as I suspect), they won't have to 'take it off its stand' - it'll just be a stand that is able to be swivelled by hand, like one you often get for computer monitors.
Mark Longhurst on with tonights Press Preview, Interesting to see the iPad has been replaced with the sunrise laptop and now we are back to having the delay and no zooming in on stories on the giant screen
Also from yesterday the aimation showing the paper front pages has changed and now crawls in from the right and then zooms out and gets smaller as its replaced by the next paper
Does anyone know how they rotate the giant tv screen? Is it on something automatic or do people have to take it off its stand and rotate it manually?
If it's manual (as I suspect), they won't have to 'take it off its stand' - it'll just be a stand that is able to be swivelled by hand, like one you often get for computer monitors.
If it's like the one I've seen Panasonic 103" plasmas mounted on the rotation is a heavy duty manual operation with a locking pin. However the stand itself probably has an electric, motorised rise and fall mechanism, because you'll want the plasma to be at different heights in portrait and landscape. The mounting point, around which it rotates, will need to be lower in landscape and higher in portrait (because often the plasma will be too close to the ground to rotate fully to portrait when at it's natural landscape height)
Mark Longhurst on with tonights Press Preview, Interesting to see the iPad has been replaced with the sunrise laptop and now we are back to having the delay and no zooming in on stories on the giant screen
Also from yesterday the aimation showing the paper front pages has changed and now crawls in from the right and then zooms out and gets smaller as its replaced by the next paper
Does anyone know how they rotate the giant tv screen? Is it on something automatic or do people have to take it off its stand and rotate it manually?
If it's manual (as I suspect), they won't have to 'take it off its stand' - it'll just be a stand that is able to be swivelled by hand, like one you often get for computer monitors.
If it's like the one I've seen Panasonic 103" plasmas mounted on the rotation is a heavy duty manual operation with a locking pin. However the stand itself probably has an electric, motorised rise and fall mechanism, because you'll want the plasma to be at different heights in portrait and landscape. The mounting point, around which it rotates, will need to be lower in landscape and higher in portrait (because often the plasma will be too close to the ground to rotate fully to portrait when at it's natural landscape height)
Mark Longhurst on with tonights Press Preview, Interesting to see the iPad has been replaced with the sunrise laptop and now we are back to having the delay and no zooming in on stories on the giant screen
Also from yesterday the aimation showing the paper front pages has changed and now crawls in from the right and then zooms out and gets smaller as its replaced by the next paper
Does anyone know how they rotate the giant tv screen? Is it on something automatic or do people have to take it off its stand and rotate it manually?
If it's manual (as I suspect), they won't have to 'take it off its stand' - it'll just be a stand that is able to be swivelled by hand, like one you often get for computer monitors.
If it's like the one I've seen Panasonic 103" plasmas mounted on the rotation is a heavy duty manual operation with a locking pin. However the stand itself probably has an electric, motorised rise and fall mechanism, because you'll want the plasma to be at different heights in portrait and landscape. The mounting point, around which it rotates, will need to be lower in landscape and higher in portrait (because often the plasma will be too close to the ground to rotate fully to portrait when at it's natural landscape height)
Mark Longhurst on with tonights Press Preview, Interesting to see the iPad has been replaced with the sunrise laptop and now we are back to having the delay and no zooming in on stories on the giant screen
Also from yesterday the aimation showing the paper front pages has changed and now crawls in from the right and then zooms out and gets smaller as its replaced by the next paper
Does anyone know how they rotate the giant tv screen? Is it on something automatic or do people have to take it off its stand and rotate it manually?
If it's manual (as I suspect), they won't have to 'take it off its stand' - it'll just be a stand that is able to be swivelled by hand, like one you often get for computer monitors.
If it's like the one I've seen Panasonic 103" plasmas mounted on the rotation is a heavy duty manual operation with a locking pin. However the stand itself probably has an electric, motorised rise and fall mechanism, because you'll want the plasma to be at different heights in portrait and landscape. The mounting point, around which it rotates, will need to be lower in landscape and higher in portrait (because often the plasma will be too close to the ground to rotate fully to portrait when at it's natural landscape height)
Mark Longhurst on with tonights Press Preview, Interesting to see the iPad has been replaced with the sunrise laptop and now we are back to having the delay and no zooming in on stories on the giant screen
It seems to be a presenter decision. Stephen Dixon always uses the iPad now, but Gillian Joseph and Mark Longhurst (from when I've seen them), don't.
Mark Longhurst on with tonights Press Preview, Interesting to see the iPad has been replaced with the sunrise laptop and now we are back to having the delay and no zooming in on stories on the giant screen
It seems to be a presenter decision. Stephen Dixon always uses the iPad now, but Gillian Joseph and Mark Longhurst (from when I've seen them), don't.
And it's back again this evening. Lorna Dunkley presenting.
might be quite watchable but I still find the idea of an immediate medium like TV spending so much time discussing papers. cheaper than actually producing your own news I suppose
Interesting to see all the job vacancies available at Sky News Arabia. A 'Cairo Bureau Presenter' is one of the positions advertised and interestingly the description of this post says that the channel will have a studio in Cairo in addition to Abu Dhabi.
Quote:
Job Description:
The Cairo presenter's duty is to present both specific programming from the Sky News Arabia Cairo studio as well as in conjunction with the Abu Dhabi studio presenting team. You will be part of a large bureau covering Egypt but also the Middle East and North Africa on a wide variety of news and current affairs stories.
It sounds as though one of the key requirements is that applicants can speak fluent English and Arabic, so in theory this should greatly enhance Sky News UK's coverage of the Middle East as presumably they would have access to correspondents based in Riyadh, Damascus, Gaza, Islamabad and Baghdad to name a few.
NB. Although obviously the BSkyB takeover and subsequent 'hiving off' of Sky News UK may complicate matters somewhat when it gets the go ahead.
Last edited by fodg09 on 24 June 2011 3:34pm - 2 times in total
