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Saturday Night, 22:10. Why?? (May 2004)

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Pootle5
Neil Green posted:

I still tend to watch 1-4 on analogue, even though I've got Freeview (not 5 though, the reception is a bit odd here), and I imagine there are plenty more like me (heaven forbid! Laughing ), so maybe that point isn't so valid, Dan.


I watch 1-5 on analogue too as it is better quality and I can easily flick to teletext which is far, far better than the digital version of teletext. I was watching in the dining room which isn't connected to digital, and neither is the tv in the kitchen so only 1/3 of the tv sets in my house are digital (I haven't counted the old b&w in the bedroom as that really is too luddite!).
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marksi
Quote:
I watch 1-5 on analogue too as it is better quality


Not if you are distorting a 4:3 picture to fill a widescreen TV, which lots of people like to do...
DA
Dan Founding member
Neil Green posted:
I still tend to watch 1-4 on analogue, even though I've got Freeview (not 5 though, the reception is a bit odd here), and I imagine there are plenty more like me (heaven forbid! Laughing ), so maybe that point isn't so valid, Dan.


Agreed Neil, although there are no accurate figures on this issue which makes it even more of a difficult call. Rest assured though Pootle that sometimes, although nothing appears to you to be happening, it's not necessarily because no one's noticed the problem - and it may be that they're trying to juggle the contradictory demands of several groups of viewers. Tv ain't as simple as it used to be..!
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Bail Moderator
Dan posted:
Pootle5 posted:
Did you have a frozen picture for at least 5 minutes before then too? I can't believe no one noticed and put an apology caption on.


Yes the picture did freeze on analogue, but not on digital. Not sure whether whether it would be right to put up an apology caption given that most people now have digital tv, and therefore wouldn't have seen the fault, but I don't think it was an option in this case anyway. I believe the announcer apologised at the end of the programme?


Was probably the announcers fault anyway, pressing random buttons due to bored-ness.
DA
Dan Founding member
Bail posted:
Was probably the announcers fault anyway, pressing random buttons due to bored-ness.


They don't give the announcers in London buttons to press!!
FU
fusionlad Founding member
BBC Four having technical woes right now. On-air continuity rehearsals and a lovely green screen. Rolling Eyes
DA
Dan Founding member
fusionlad posted:
BBC Four having technical woes right now. On-air continuity rehearsals and a lovely green screen. Rolling Eyes


The minidisc is rehearsing?!
FU
fusionlad Founding member
Dunno, thought it was live at this time of night. Will see if she apologises at the end of the programme.
FU
fusionlad Founding member
No apology from the mini-disc. Confused
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marksi
BBC FOUR does not have live continuity.
:-(
A former member
Flashing on and off is a new one, I remember one night working on 2 when the dog started changing colour and moving diagonally across the screen.

....or was I tripping? Shocked
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Dan Founding member
Larry Scutta posted:
....or was I tripping? Shocked


Too many night shifts Smile

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