They're costing 'several million'??? Some more great use of the licence fee...
Well, if they're going to lead to improved weather presentation on the BBC then surely it is a good use of the licence fee.
I like the graphics they use at the moment though - simple and clear. I hope they don't switch to a system like ITV's with stupid flying symbols which make snow look the same as rain. They're so unclear it's unreal.
Why does the BBC like ocassionally using a 3D pan of the UK with '3D' temperatures suspended over it.
1)I can't see where the temperatures are supposed to be.
2)It takes longer to pan across the country than just looking at a standard flat map.
I don't think a change is needed - the symbols tell you the weather, unlike many other channel's wishy washy weirdness - I believe it might be Sky News's weather I just can't understand because of the rain that appears to sorta splosh everywhere, without being able to tell you where.
Anyone got any caps of what Network Nine (as referred to as being a channel using the system already) does with it? I know the graphics can/will be different but whether they make use of 3D maps, animations etc..?
For what it's worth, I think the current presentation is perfectly fine.
Well, if they're going to lead to improved weather presentation on the BBC then surely it is a good use of the licence fee.
How can you improve weather presentation? I mean, it's the weather! Nothing more, nothing less!
You can improve on anything. The current weather graphics have been in virtually uninterrupted use (save for the slight change of font and the text moving from top to bottom of the screen) for nearly twenty years. That is a long time in a modern world. Things have to move on. People want to see the weather reports at more convenient times now than they did in the seventies and eighties, so a more sophisticated system is, in my opinion, most welcome. Whether they get the forecast right mind you is another matter!
Why does the BBC like ocassionally using a 3D pan of the UK with '3D' temperatures suspended over it.
1)I can't see where the temperatures are supposed to be.
2)It takes longer to pan across the country than just looking at a standard flat map.
I don't think a change is needed - the symbols tell you the weather, unlike many other channel's wishy washy weirdness - I believe it might be Sky News's weather I just can't understand because of the rain that appears to sorta splosh everywhere, without being able to tell you where.
I think the 3-D pan temperature map is only used on the 6:00 News when they're presenting the weather from the big screen in the studio. I think they reckon the usual temperature blobs are too small to be seen when the weather is done in this way.
But couldn't they just do it with the usual chart and use bigger blobs?