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Channel Breakdowns: Faults during Programmes etc.

(November 2006)

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PR
Primetime
Does anyone know whats happening to ITV2. All the time their is frozen pictures etc.
Is this because of the new ITV2+1 service?
PE
Pete Founding member
Andrew Tyne Tees posted:
Does anyone know why this is happening, I mean it happens WHEN I watch the channel.

probably your fault then, you're causing these problems networkwide.

Maybe if you turn off your television, and your computer, and sit in a very dark room for a few weeks it'll help.
CD
cdukjunkie
Hymagumba posted:
Andrew Tyne Tees posted:
Does anyone know why this is happening, I mean it happens WHEN I watch the channel.

probably your fault then, you're causing these problems networkwide.

Maybe if you turn off your television, and your computer, and sit in a very dark room for a few weeks it'll help.


How helpful.
PR
Primetime
Thanks.
FA
fanoftv
I have noticed that ITV2 +1 have been displaying the wrong aspect for the dog, i.e. stretching the 4:3 dog into a 16:9 frame, ala E4+1, why is it only the +1 channels though? Don't people check them?
OV
Orry Verducci
With the normal channels, the playout servers would be telling the dog gen to switch aspect ratio depending on the programme it's showing. With +1 channels, they are just recorded live onto a server and then played 1 hour later (in exactly the same way Sky+ works), meaning it's not giving aspect ratio data to the dog gen as it just sees it as 1 long recording.

I think they would be best rebroadcasting the dog from ITV2 and then just overlaying the +1, but in a similar wway as now used by Nat Geo, where the +1 is at the end of the dog on 4:3 shows, but at the front on 16:9 shows.
OV
Orry Verducci
Well, we just enjoyed a lovely round of music on ITV1 when This Morning went awol. ITV at it's finest eh Laughing
FA
fadetoblack
Orry Verducci posted:
Well, we just enjoyed a lovely round of music on ITV1 when This Morning went awol. ITV at it's finest eh Laughing


I know you meant this as irony, but I think it once again showed how professional ITV can be when things go wrong. We had an announcement in a matter of seconds, and even got a menu for tonight's programmes. What more can you ask?
OV
Orry Verducci
No doubt they did an excellent job of handling the unexpected (unlike other networks). It would have been nice if it never happened in the first place, but we all know what technology is like when the slightest thing is not as it should.
ST
stevek
The best break on this morning was years ago when they had a fire alarm at the London Studios and Richard and Judy et al had to evacuate mid comercial break

if ITV are so good at technical faults why are they pretty dire at everything else

like producing a tv schedule which does not contain celebrity something, or something from hell propped up with a double decker dose of coronation street

sooner or later we'll have celebrity Coronation Street From Hell Twisted Evil
AN
Andrew Founding member
stevek posted:
The best break on this morning was years ago when they had a fire alarm at the London Studios and Richard and Judy et al had to evacuate mid comercial break

if ITV are so good at technical faults why are they pretty dire at everything else

like producing a tv schedule which does not contain celebrity something, or something from hell propped up with a double decker dose of coronation street

sooner or later we'll have celebrity Coronation Street From Hell Twisted Evil

Dear god, slagging off ITV by saying they show too many 'From Hell' programmes. What year is it? 2001?
BE
Ben Founding member
I'm sure he wasn't the only one who stopped watching ITV at that point.

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