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ITV 1 Sound- Glitches Still

(April 2008)

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philMID
Hi all, I have noticed for the past 2 months or so, the sound on ITV 1 has been really strange, you can hear good examples on the news and weather stings and ITV Idents. It's like a high and low pitch glitch. It was really bad late February but seems to be occaisional now.

I noticed the thing happen again on ITV Central Weather last night.

Anyone else noticing this and wondering why? (thought this was better in a different post)
RD
RDJ
I've been hearing this since at least the end of last year. It does it on most of the ITV programmes I watch. A slight but noticable glitch every few minutes changing the pitch of the audio.

Something tells me it's a Central problem but how I don't know. Confused
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philMID
RDJ posted:
I've been hearing this since at least the end of last year. It does it on most of the ITV programmes I watch. A slight but noticable glitch every few minutes changing the pitch of the audio.

Something tells me it's a Central problem but how I don't know. Confused


That's it yes, could be a bit of a regional thing. We'll see on the comments. They need to fix it as it makes a bad impression lol sometimes.
IT
itsrobert Founding member
I'm in the Granada region and haven't noticed anything. Must be a Central problem.
DB
dbl
Fine here in London
TP
Techy Peep Founding member
Techy whispers "embedders, embedders i tell ya... but dont tell anyone... shhhhh, they'll not notice"
PR
Primetime
I noticed this in January I think, I posted about it in one of the threads - which one I cannot remember though.

I noticed the sound glitches during the titles of my regional programme North East News at the weekend and then in the weather sting it sounded like aliens had invaded in the transmission room.
ES
Ebeneezer Scrooge
Techy Peep posted:
Techy whispers "embedders, embedders i tell ya... but dont tell anyone... shhhhh, they'll not notice"

Close, but no cigar.
NG
noggin Founding member
What platforms - analogue, DTT or DSat?

Pitch changes suggests embedders/de-embedders or a compressed circuit losing it...
TP
Techy Peep Founding member
Ebeneezer Scrooge posted:
Techy Peep posted:
Techy whispers "embedders, embedders i tell ya... but dont tell anyone... shhhhh, they'll not notice"

Close, but no cigar.

Damn! Maybe today is the day I give up smoking Wink
But it does sound like an embedder problem. Who invented SDI? Someone shoot them! hehe
MA
Markymark
noggin posted:
What platforms - analogue, DTT or DSat?

Pitch changes suggests embedders/de-embedders or a compressed circuit losing it...


There's refurb work going on at the Northern Playout Centre in Leeds. As a result odd things have been happening on some of its regions in recent weeks. For instance teletext packet 8/30 went missing for a few days last month on YTV regional transmitters, which meant auto tune on analogue TV sets put ITV on the first spare preset., not its usual position of Ch 3.
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philMID
Ah right well thanks for information. lol it does sound like aliens hehe .should be done soon then. It's been all transmissions i think ( Digital, Analogue etc)

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