What is the best Ident of all time?

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For me it's not one particular ident but a toss up between two network identity schemes. this is how it should be done.

Sky Televsion '93 - Network Identity.
http://thetvroom.com/area-c/sky/images-past/images-1993-1994/sk-id-movie-ch-1k.jpghttp://thetvroom.com/area-c/sky/images-past/images-1993-1994/sk-id-moviews-gold-1j.jpghttp://thetvroom.com/area-c/sky/images-past/images-1993-1994/id-sky-soap-1k.jpg

http://thetvroom.com/area-c/sky/images-past/images-1993-1994/id-sky-one-1h.jpghttp://thetvroom.com/area-c/sky/images-past/images-1993-1994/id-sky-movies-1j.jpghttp://thetvroom.com/area-c/sky/images-past/images-1993-1994/id-sky-news-1i.jpg

http://thetvroom.com/area-c/sky/images-past/images-1993-1994/id-sky-sports-2h.jpghttp://thetvroom.com/area-c/sky/images-past/images-1993-1994/id-sky-sports2-1h.jpghttp://thetvroom.com/area-c/sky/images-past/images-1993-1994/id-sky-travel-1h.jpg

BSB network Identity
http://thetvroom.com/images-bsb/galaxy-1f.jpghttp://thetvroom.com/images-bsb/club-1f.jpghttp://thetvroom.com/images-bsb/movie-1i.jpg

http://thetvroom.com/images-bsb/powerstation-1j.jpghttp://thetvroom.com/images-bsb/sports-1h.jpghttp://thetvroom.com/images-bsb/now-1h.jpg

http://thetvroom.com/images-bsb/news-1c.jpg

and for some reason i quite like BSB's Testcards.
http://thetvroom.com/images-bsb/testcards-galaxy2.jpghttp://thetvroom.com/images-bsb/testcards-movie.jpghttp://thetvroom.com/images-bsb/testcards-now.jpg

http://thetvroom.com/images-bsb/testcards-power.jpghttp://thetvroom.com/images-bsb/testcards-sports.jpg

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I like the LWT blinds & BBC2 1991-2001 idents

But for me Thames perhpas had the most imaginative & complex logo of all time. A skyline of London's most famous buildings at the time.

Obviously if they were still part of ITV they would update the skyline to include the London Eye & Guerkin

These two in particualr are my favourite

http://www.tv-ark.org.uk/itvlondon/thames/idents/thames1989xxi.jpg
http://www.tv-ark.org.uk/itvlondon/thames/idents/ident1992.jpg


Shame the skyline has now gone:
http://www.tv-ark.org.uk/itvlondon/thames/idents/end-thames2003-pidol.jpg

gotta be the original '2' bbc two idents from 1991 for me

How could I forget??!! Has to be them definately!

Ah fantastic idents, my first experience of satellite tv, these idents were just awesome and the premium channels really felt like premium channels, makes today Sly's ident look piiss poor IMHO.

I just love the lighting, the way the idents formed on screen and the music that went into it, these idents would look fantastic in widescreen!

Yup as I said in my first post, i think those 1993 idents are most definitely the best ones. It's amazing how they haven't aged a bit. Except perhaps the Sky Sports one.

We hate the idea of Corporate branding on ITV yet I think it works well on Sky and it was amazing how those idents were totally different with different music and different graphics, yet were also at the same time exactly the same. It was basically the same music just performed differently and the graphics were altered to suit the channel, but the SKY part was always the same.

Pure brilliance. Much better than the crap that Sky show now IMHO.

best ident would have to be 1970 HTV 'tv antenna/waterfall' simple, effective, stylish.... aaah those were the days

i like cake

BBC2 1991-2001
BBC1 1997-2002
News24 1997-1999
Sky 1995-1996

Design classics, all of them.

how can you think anything was better than the central cake!?

The best of all time. Simple, a rainbow, but also very imaginative.

Well Allan100, there's a perfectly obvious reason why the 1970's HTV antenna ident is better than the Central cake idents... an antenna is slightly more reflective of the medium of television than a cake... now if we were talking about Bakery idents then obviously the Central cake would win hands down, and up again, and down... that's it bitch... kneed that dough!

is it just me, or is getting back into work after the christmas break really, really difficult

http://625.uk.com/tv_logos/flash/htv_west.asp