Mistakes - General - any programme

Ahh, i know it always was like that but assumed that they'd com up with a better solution by now



Yes, double ARced as in ARCed needlessly.

Yep - very possible it was a switching error on the way into the BBC - and I suspect that was a BT switched feed.

Nope - if only someone would produce a low cost device that took an RGB SCART with pin 8 signalling output, dynamically ARC it based on the pin 8 signal AND embed the audio and serialise the result, it would be a really neat solution for recording from Digiboxes...


Ah - yep - so not really double-ARCed at all, just incorrectly ARCed.

Not long now till they need to find a solution - presumably it's not that much of a problem now that so much of ITV is in 16:9 anyway



In this case yes, but it's a catch-all phrase for brevity. Everything where I work has to be 16:9 so if it's the wrong shape it's either 'not ARCd' or 'Double ARCd'

Yep - though with the advent of Jupiter editing - where journalists can't easily change the aspect ratio of recordings after they have made them - ensuring a recording is a consistent aspect ratio is even more important than it used to be. There are also issues with sporting events shot in 4:3 but broadcast in pillarboxed 12P16 - which will be postage stamp on analogue...

Still not easy to get right.



Yep - doesn't make it right! I think I remember the phrase being coined around 1997 when News 24 was the first real 16:9 outlet in the BBC, and the only one which had to worry about aspect ratio. In those days News 24 had control of their own aspect ratio converters on all their incoming outside sources - as the rest of News was still entirely 4:3 - so anything routed from outside was almost universally 4:3 - and only News 24 needed to ARC it.

Double ARCing usually happened when someone assumed that a VT or Profile recording was 4:3 and ARCed it, when in fact the material had already been ARCed once and was already in the 16:9 domain. (This was often the case when material was recorded via an ARCed OS or had been taken off the studio loop)

Almost instantly the phrase became sloppy shorthand for "tall thin pictures" - so was used to describe 16:9 full-width full-height material that had been ARCed as if it were 4:3. It had only been through one ARC process - not two - but the appearance was similar to 4:3 material that had been ARCed twice - though the pillarbox bars were smaller than a double 14P16 pass.

Someone should have a word with DB Broadcast. Their Hawkeye range comes close, and could be enhanced to provide an integral ARC and (HD)SDI output.

http://www.dbbroadcast.co.uk/

Poor Phil.

http://vid160.photobucket.com/albums/t176/zukeylukey/Phil_Avery_BBC_weather.flv

Looks as if he was told he had some extra time, then all changed at the last minute.

granada reports lost their webcam view tonight and started with the same view we were seeing, of the presenters with the screen behind them, dissapearing into infinity, followed by a count down clock, the Granada Sports logo then the web view

so now we all know it's not a window

Bless, did you think it was? Anyway, it's a shame they weren't a bit closer to the screen, the 'infinity effect' would have looked quite stunning:

http://www.rp-network.com/tvforum/uploads/gran1a.jpg
http://www.rp-network.com/tvforum/uploads/gran1b.jpg
http://www.rp-network.com/tvforum/uploads/gran1c.jpg
Pictures from ITV Local

Looks like something off The Day Today

Sarcasm?

No. How could it be, you can see the studio they're in in the background

you can see that view on the ITV.com website amongst others.
(any ideas where the webcam is though)