Brilliant concept from NRK 24 hr coverage for five days on NRK2 of a cruiseliner voyage up the coast of Norway ... taking advantage of the 'midnight sun'. Showing video of the coast as it passes. International live Streaming too.
I saw this yesterday and couldn't figure out why anyone would be interested in it. The English language pages said that previous similar events rated exceptionally well.
And it's hardly 24/7 if it's only on for 5 days is it?!
I saw this yesterday and couldn't figure out why anyone would be interested in it. The English language pages said that previous similar events rated exceptionally well.
And it's hardly 24/7 if it's only on for 5 days is it?!
I saw this yesterday and couldn't figure out why anyone would be interested in it. The English language pages said that previous similar events rated exceptionally well.
And it's hardly 24/7 if it's only on for 5 days is it?!
The previous examples have been hugely popular both within Norway and outside with fans of Scandinavia. They have released the recordings of previous experiments under Creative Commons licensing, as they are doing with the full HD recordings of the front facing camera. (There has been one of a long train journey, and one of the tube/metro from central Oslo to Frognerseteren, which is the end of one of the tube lines at the top of a mountain used for skiing with amazing views of Oslo Fjord)
The last couple have had great video and data integration with Google Maps etc.
It's not something you'd sit and watch in total - but I found it fascinating to watch last night. It was half past midnight in the UK, and the live stream still had the midnight sun, people standing on the shore waving lanterns, boats skudding past etc. I think it is airing live on NRK2 at some times of the day instead of close-down - and it appears to be a bit of an event for those on the Hurtigruten route up the Norwegian coast.
The quality is excellent too.
My basic Swedish means I can read basic Norwegian a bit - and it seems that they aim to be live as much as possible, but have recordings running in sync back in Oslo for when they know there will be a bit of the route with terrain that blocks the line-of-sight to the satellite (which is presumably very low on the southern horizon as you move further north). For one stretch of spectacular scenery they are using two digital microwave terrestrial circuits to replace the on-board satellite uplink.
They're shooting 1920x1080 on-board, but the satellite back-haul is 576i SD, and NRK2 are broadcasting this upscaled back to 720p terrestrially (there are no NRK SD transmissions of their main channels on terrestrial now - they launched their DTT system recently and mandated all receivers had to be HD compatible).
They're shooting 1920x1080 on-board, but the satellite back-haul is 576i SD, and NRK2 are broadcasting this upscaled back to 720p terrestrially (there are no NRK SD transmissions of their main channels on terrestrial now - they launched their DTT system recently and mandated all receivers had to be HD compatible).
Yes you can this feed at 0.8w but it requires a DVB-S2 receiver.
Quite a welcoming party tonight at Rorvik where the Vessel arrived at 2050 CEST ... It's preparing to leave now, but is rather hemmed in by pleasure craft. Ut should have left at 2130.
Last edited by DVB Cornwall on 18 June 2011 8:52pm
The Hurgtigruten is popular cruise-route (in reality it's mail ship for the Norwegian coast, with accomodation!) with toursits from all over the world-- it's certainly heavily advertised in all my local travel-agents. I suppose it's Norway's answer to the Orient Express (or something like that!)
Maybe I'm the only one who didn't know this, but I'll risk looking stupid in case others haven't spotted it either. You can actually rewind the website live stream PVR style to any previous time or day. Fantastic.