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BUGS (not DOGS)

(July 2001)

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BU
bugboy
FYI

Unless you are talking about the Beeb, EVERYONE else refers to those little on screen idents as BUGS. If you go to ITV or any Satellite company and talk about dogs they will send you to the zoo to find one!!! as this is just not the lingo used. Even the kit used to do them is called a bug-gen!!

If you want to post in this forum please get it right.

The ' DOG' word origniated from Digital On Screen GFX when the bbc started using non analogue ways of generating their gobles in the 80's.

bugboy
KI
kingrikk
I thought DOG stood for Digitally Originated Graphics?

Bugs are only the things that sit in the top corner and this is a slang word anyway AFAIK.
AS
Asa Admin
BUGBOY posted:
If you want to post in this forum please get it right.
Unfortunately, its got nothing to do with you what people can and can't post in this forum! Smile DOGs and BUGS mean the same thing and are perfectly acceptable to me and everyone else on this forum AFAIK.

Cheers, Asa
MG
MikeG
I don't want to sound dumb, but what is AFAIK?
AS
Asa Admin
Sorry Mike!
As Far As I Know.

Cheers, Asa
CB
CBC News Edmonton
i thought DOGs and BUGs were used depending on where you are...

Cuz in North America, it's called bugs, and here it's called DOGs...

i get it now Very Happy
MG
MikeG
Cheers for that! Duh! I bet you can guess now who was not very good at IT at school!! Lol!
KI
kingrikk
Quote:
DOGs and BUGS mean the same thing and are perfectly acceptable to me and everyone else on this forum AFAIK.

Sorry if it sounded funny the way I said about it. I just meant that that was how I had heard in reply to the previous post.
AL
alekf
cbc news edmonton posted:
i thought DOGs and BUGs were used depending on where you are...

Cuz in North America, it's called bugs, and here it's called DOGs...

i get it now Very Happy


Yeah -- here in the states they call them 'bugs'
AL
alekf
Something that I'm sure all of you ' DOG-crazy' people will love (I'm being sarcastic):

Fox News Channel has just introduced a slow-rotating cubical dog for it's logo -- I have to admit, this ones annoying!
BU
bugboy
My point was if anyone is takling about an Non BBC channel than they should call it a bug and for BBC channels a Dog (althgough i suspect most people in the beeb call them bug as well from my dealings with them)

Just best to be right I thought

Now we could go down the Astons, Supers, Chyron, route...but lets not go there.

You may be right about the digital originated gfx , Sorry.
SE
Square Eyes Founding member
BUGBOY posted:
FYI

Unless you are talking about the Beeb, EVERYONE else refers to those little on screen idents as BUGS. If you go to ITV or any Satellite company and talk about dogs they will send you to the zoo to find one!!! as this is just not the lingo used.  Even the kit used to do them is called a bug-gen!!

If you want to post in this forum please get it right.

The 'DOG' word origniated from Digital On Screen GFX when the bbc started using non analogue ways of generating their gobles in the 80's.

bugboy


What a rude person Shocked and only his first post. You'll have to do better than this. Poor, very poor.

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