NG
Yep.
One thing that interests me is how the phone voting is audited - both for Eurovision and Melodifestivalen. In light of the discoveries of how inaccurate SMS voting is (which is why it has totally disappeared in the UK - some SMS votes could take 10s of minutes to reach the counting system AIUI) and how long it takes to properly collate phone votes (at least 10 minutes from vote lines closing in the UK I believe)
Ah, so this must be why they always used to close the text and interactive lines a good while before the phone lines on shows like The X Factor, Big Brother etc.
I believe it was an attempt to make them work properly - but AIUI they were never that accurate (sometimes texts arrived hours later I believe). This is because text votes are not handled as normal SMS texts - and instead are stored up for bulk forwarding by the phone companies - to avoid saturating the network and blocking real texts. That is my fuzzy understanding of it.
I think most shows in the UK have totally ditched SMS voting since "Phonegate" - as there is no solution that would work within the timscales required for live shows (or in the case of Strictly, a results show recorded shortly after the live show)
noggin
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gottago posted:
noggin posted:
DVB Cornwall posted:
The voting order has technical relevance to the Semis too,
Digame have to programme their equipment to provide the scoring of each semi final so that it gets passed to Moscow on time and in order so that the results are available more or less instantly after the voting ends.
The relevant countries are extracted for each semi and the equipment programmed accordingly. Physical equipment and software channel allocation has to be decided by this draw and not randomly on the relevant nights for security and integrity.
Digame have to programme their equipment to provide the scoring of each semi final so that it gets passed to Moscow on time and in order so that the results are available more or less instantly after the voting ends.
The relevant countries are extracted for each semi and the equipment programmed accordingly. Physical equipment and software channel allocation has to be decided by this draw and not randomly on the relevant nights for security and integrity.
Yep.
One thing that interests me is how the phone voting is audited - both for Eurovision and Melodifestivalen. In light of the discoveries of how inaccurate SMS voting is (which is why it has totally disappeared in the UK - some SMS votes could take 10s of minutes to reach the counting system AIUI) and how long it takes to properly collate phone votes (at least 10 minutes from vote lines closing in the UK I believe)
I believe it was an attempt to make them work properly - but AIUI they were never that accurate (sometimes texts arrived hours later I believe). This is because text votes are not handled as normal SMS texts - and instead are stored up for bulk forwarding by the phone companies - to avoid saturating the network and blocking real texts. That is my fuzzy understanding of it.
I think most shows in the UK have totally ditched SMS voting since "Phonegate" - as there is no solution that would work within the timscales required for live shows (or in the case of Strictly, a results show recorded shortly after the live show)