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(May 2010)

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DA
David
I noticed yesterday morning that a report on the problems with NatWest showed a woman using a iPad or similar to enter her user name in to the NatWest app or website. I think if you watched it back slowly, you probably would have seen her enter the first letter of her password too. By yesterday evening the user name was blurred out and the report cut away before she starting entering her password.

I'm not sure why a Sky cameraman would ask to record her logging in to her account and I'm even more puzzled why she would agree to it. If she ever looses money due to someone else using her account in the future, NatWest would be well within their rights not to refund her as they have evidence that she doesn't keep her account details secure.
RH
richard h
David posted:
I noticed yesterday morning that a report on the problems with NatWest showed a woman using a iPad or similar to enter her user name in to the NatWest app or website. I think if you watched it back slowly, you probably would have seen her enter the first letter of her password too. By yesterday evening the user name was blurred out and the report cut away before she starting entering her password.

I'm not sure why a Sky cameraman would ask to record her logging in to her account and I'm even more puzzled why she would agree to it. If she ever looses money due to someone else using her account in the future, NatWest would be well within their rights not to refund her as they have evidence that she doesn't keep her account details secure.


I noticed that too

The guy doing the translation today on the Egypt election has been awful
SK
Sky786
I don't think it's right saying that, seeing as though he speaks fluently in 2 languages. Although you could say he didn't do amazing, how would you know it wasn't the judge who was making the mistakes or was talking too slowly?
RH
richard h
I don't think it's right saying that, seeing as though he speaks fluently in 2 languages. Although you could say he didn't do amazing, how would you know it wasn't the judge who was making the mistakes or was talking too slowly?


I don't but he would say 3 words then stop and say them again followed by a few more, often would start a sentence then stop and continue with something else that didn't follow on, When it came to the actual results he must have said about 3 different numbers before getting it right

I thought he was just as bad during the speech tonight in the end I had to mute it as he was giving me a headache but that's just me, Usually they are better than he was
SK
Sky786
I don't think it's right saying that, seeing as though he speaks fluently in 2 languages. Although you could say he didn't do amazing, how would you know it wasn't the judge who was making the mistakes or was talking too slowly?


I don't but he would say 3 words then stop and say them again followed by a few more, often would start a sentence then stop and continue with something else that didn't follow on, When it came to the actual results he must have said about 3 different numbers before getting it right

I thought he was just as bad during the speech tonight in the end I had to mute it as he was giving me a headache but that's just me, Usually they are better than he was


I'd probably agree that he was bad, but he wasn't awful.
BK
bkman1990
Why is the Sky News Arabia Web feed quicker than the Sky News TV feed?

Why is there no skynews live feed for people outside the UK and Ireland?


Which feed are talking about phil94? Is it the RSS feed or the live broadcast feed?

The broadcast feed is working fine for me in Ireland, but not the RSS feed?
SK
skyviewer
Why is the Sky News Arabia Web feed quicker than the Sky News TV feed?

Why is there no skynews live feed for people outside the UK and Ireland?


Which feed are talking about phil94? Is it the RSS feed or the live broadcast feed?

The broadcast feed is working fine for me in Ireland, but not the RSS feed?


My point is that there is no skynews live stream available online. Only for viewers inside the UK and Ireland. This is a step backward from skynews after they had an international live stream for a few weeks. Hopefully it'll change when the new website arrives. But it's not looking good.
DK
DanielK
Sky New HD circling logo was displayed on the videowall at the 1:00 TOTH, not sure what the usual is but it was noticeable.
SK
skyviewer
Sky New HD circling logo was displayed on the videowall at the 1:00 TOTH, not sure what the usual is but it was noticeable.


usually the top story is shown, if there is no image for the top story available, then they use this.
RH
richard h
Just saw a new toth at 1pm, It featured the new site, an iphone, ipad and we still had the fly around but its quite different to the last version, I like the new little swoosh into the studio too

Edit: Beaten to it whilst I was watching it back
Last edited by richard h on 26 June 2012 1:09pm - 3 times in total
EM
EastMediaWatcher
Brand new TOTH which shows off Website, Ipad App, and Smartphone Apps, personally I think it tries to show too much in those 20 seconds now but it's much more modern graphics wise. Coming up is totally gone.

Also seemed to be a very small change to the tune, and it seemed to fail at the end when after a swish sound it went to a black screen for a fraction of a second rather than the studio.
OV
Orry Verducci
Just saw a new toth at 1pm, It featured an iphone

Also saw it, showed the new website and the Sky News apps on an iPad and iPhone, along with a new animation to the studio. It took a few secs to get going though, and the animation didn't work, so I can't help wonder if it wasn't supposed to go out yet. We shall see at 2.

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