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Brekkie
TopCat posted:
lobster posted:
benriggers posted:
lobster posted:
Who is the announcer?

It's Peter Offer. He's been an announcer at the BBC for years.


i thought it was peter offer, but wasn't sure - because i'm pretty sure i recall him leaving and saying good bye over a christmas ident.

anyway, glad he's back - he has to be one of the best announcers around. i'm not quite sure what everybody is getting upset about, it perhaps seemed a little chirpy but certainly not inappropriate.


How would you feel if a chirpy announcer was reporting on the death of your mother/father/brother/sister... etc?

He wasn't chirpy and wasn't reporting a death. Some people really need to get over it.
DB
dbl
Back to more 'present' matters, BBC1 has lost coverage of Ride London, assuming due to Bertha... Breakdown caption present.
TI
tightrope78
How exciting! A breakdown slide on BBC One during the cycling.
GE
Gareth E
Could have predicted that one today . . .
LL
Larry the Loafer
Does anybody know what actually prompts all the green and pink patterns, or is it just garbled signals producing a colourful mess?
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thegeek Founding member
Green usually indicates a loss of signal somewhere. The magenta and grey test pattern which popped up during this breakdown was known as pathological test (officially known in the spec as checkfield), and is specifically designed to be hard to transmit - so is often used to stress-test new circuits.
bilky asko and Larry the Loafer gave kudos
MA
Markymark
Larry the Loafer posted:
Does anybody know what actually prompts all the green and pink patterns, or is it just garbled signals producing a colourful mess?


Oversimplifying: In digital coding, all '1s' relate to fully saturated magenta, and all 'zeros' relate to fully saturated green, they represent the two ends of the colour gamut in YUV (component coding)
See diagram here, maximum (top right corner, and minima bottom left):-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YUV

So you often get those two colours when there's total corruption of data. Green very often appears rather than black if you lose a digitally coded signal
LL
Larry the Loafer
Well I learnt something today. Cheers guys!
BA
bilky asko
The tone of the announcement seemed a bit off when separated from the context and highlighted like that. However, I think the only part of the announcement that makes it sound "cheery" is the inflexion at the end of "Pistorius", which suggests to me less of a misjudgement of tone, and more of an involuntary vocal slip-up.
TM
tmorgan96
TopCat posted:
tmorgan96 posted:
I don't see a problem with that voiceover. Not cheerful at all, he's just reading a script.


Come on mate, open your ears and listen again!

I have. There's nothing wrong with it. This all seems to be a huge drama over nothing.
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A former member
Crikey at this rate, it will be in the Daily Mail as another bash-fest of the BBC.
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A former member
There really isnt anything wrong with the clip, The man not been found guilty yet.

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