The Newsroom

Sky News presentation - New studio onwards

(October 2016)

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JK
John Koenig
sky must have changed something, like they did with Sky Movies.
DS
DarthSidious
It seems a shame that the new studio for Ian King only is on air for half an hour a day in most cases. Could Sky not make more use of the space, especially as it's the base for NewsCorp? I'm thinking of more for guests and possible resources?

On a seperate note, when I search for Al Jazeera on YouTube, I get a long list of videos for Al Jazeera, but for some reason, Sky News live always shows up within the results. Have Sky been sneeky and tagged their video under Al Jazeera too? No other news organisations or any other videos show up within the results.
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IrelandIsle
When going from the old studio to Sky Sports News studio the difference is really apparent.

Honestly from the old studio I can switch from Sky News HD to normal Sky News and there is VERY little difference if you ignore the graphics (which are overlaid anyway)
HB
HarryB
An edition of Swipe was shown at 4:30 to allow Gillian Joseph to move from the glass box to the evening studio.
RO
rob Founding member
Reliably informed that there are technical problems with the glass box.
TVViewer256 and London Lite gave kudos
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IrelandIsle
I have just watched Sky News HD stream and SD stream side by side on two screens.

Graphics aside the studio based coverage I cannot tell the difference between either version even on a 48 inch TV. However the coming up sequence and the outside broadcasts and video footage the difference is very noticeable and clearly is far superior on the HD channel.

To me it looks like the old studio is shooting in 480p SD only that is being upscaled.
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IrelandIsle
Gillian hands over from a blurry studio to a razor sharp Sky Sports News Bulletin, really shows up the poor PQ at the Sky News Centre.
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IrelandIsle
It was better after the break, at least on the close up shot of Gillian.
DO
dosxuk
To me it looks like the old studio is shooting in 480p SD only that is being upscaled.


Regardless of what's going on, I can say with certainty it's not working in 480p.
II
IrelandIsle
To me it looks like the old studio is shooting in 480p SD only that is being upscaled.


Regardless of what's going on, I can say with certainty it's not working in 480p.


It's certainly not working in full 1080p at the standard it used to be either for a number of months now There is such a huge difference between that studio and the other studios that there has to be something different since previously they all had good picture quality.
JK
John Koenig
If it was in 1080p, would it make any difference, as the signal we see in 1080i?
SK
Skygeek
If it was in 1080p, would it make any difference, as the signal we see in 1080i?

Nope.

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