BBC 1 & 2 Engineering Closedowns

SD

sda| 23 January 2006 4:14am

Yes, interesting to see that the card has it's own teletext service!

Belmont's pretty clear, hardly any ghosting etc.

The Wrekin used to go really bad on these tests

SD

sda| 23 January 2006 4:18am

tvmercia posted:

perhaps the engineers are alarmed that RBS test stalwarts such as sda and simon l uxton do not appear to be online. i mean it'd be awful if they missed it wouldn't it - its but once a year!

I totally forgot about it, I was watching Two Pints of Lager on BBC3 like some sort of teenager.

*quickly turns tv over and shoves blank tape in*

JV

James Vertigan Founding member 23 January 2006 4:19am

LOL @ the space where the time stamp should be.... "t. fugit"

Well done those BBC engineers - good to see there's still some humour about, albeit somewhat hidden! A bit of fun on the test card wouldn't go amiss now!

Test Card Fax, eh?... I don't think the test card would look very good in teletext graphic style though!

DE

denton 23 January 2006 4:24am

Xilla posted:

Page 777 on BBC1 Scotland Ceefax....looks like the engineers have been having a little bit of fun!

http://www.rp-networkservices.com/tvforum/uploads/rbsceefax.gif

As captured in NI.

JV

James Vertigan Founding member 23 January 2006 4:27am

There's also a bit on page 778 - and if you type in 779 onwards, the page counter goes a bit crazy!

XI

Xilla 23 January 2006 4:32am

^ Fantastic!

We're onto the animated colour bars which popped up last year now, up here.

And normal Ceefax has been resumed.

EDIT: Back to TCJ again, looking a bit stretched. Ceefax is still there.

JV

James Vertigan Founding member 23 January 2006 4:44am

I've got some excellent quality digital camera captures of pages 777 and 778 just now, will post them to the MHP Private Parts later today for posterity!

JV

James Vertigan Founding member 23 January 2006 4:57am

Nasty cut back to News 24 just then... and the tests weren't even a whole hour on BBC1!

Ah well... not too bad I guess! That's it for another year or so then!

LF

lfbarfe 23 January 2006 3:12pm

Xilla posted:

^ Fantastic!

We're onto the animated colour bars which popped up last year now, up here.

Lucky so and so. Were you recording it? Any chance of seeing it?

MA

Markymark 23 January 2006 3:34pm

lfbarfe posted:

Xilla posted:

^ Fantastic!

We're onto the animated colour bars which popped up last year now, up here.

Lucky so and so. Were you recording it? Any chance of seeing it?

This ?

http://www.vistek.co.uk/products/viewProduct.jsp?code=7508b8b1d5ef2eb40134555059acb26b

XI

Xilla 23 January 2006 5:12pm

I did record a few seconds, but I don't have any ways of getting it onto computer or anything. But yeah, it's that one. ^ "BBC GLASGOW CTA" was keyed on.

SP

Steve in Pudsey 23 January 2006 6:51pm

That's interesting - were they testing the ability for Glasgow to be able to opt out of the transmitters when they are in RBS state?

(December 2005)