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Olympics 2012: Live Coverage

(July 2012)

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whoiam989
harshy posted:
It's a spanish company OBS isnt it? their graphics have been disappointing I only like their titles.


The Spanish has showed nice and superb graphics in recent years. It's just OBS - based in Spain - that picked a weird font choice.

If they were going to use grotesque sans, I would understand if they picked either Univers or Helvetica. But Arial? Well, I never.
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Ronant
DVB Cornwall posted:
Didn't see that, are you sure that was a BBC Sport interview and not one for BBC News?


Yes, he had a BBC Sport mike and he's working for BBC Sport. Why wouldn't they be allowed?
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Brekkie
So Clare Balding making her studio debut. though these shifts are rather stupid. Matt Baker did little more than cross to John for the rowing and to Jonathan for the athletics, and then introudced Clare Balding who introduces the tennis - then later Sue will just throw to cycling and interview any passing royals. Indeed of all the studio presenters it's Mishal who does the most work in the morning.
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Markymark
Jon posted:
Steve in Pudsey posted:
the graphics do have a very American look to them, the small capital letters particular look very strange.

That's what we said on day one and we wouldn't be surprised if NBC get a strong input, if that's the case I'd rather they just had their own feed with Americanised graphics on them. If the BBC can do it for World Cups there is no reason why OBS can't do it.


All broadcasters should have the choice of a gfx free clean feed from OBS, and the gfx data supplied 'raw', so it can be injected into their own caption generators, and therefore displayed in their own house style ?

Jon posted:

The inclusion of the sound on the replay wipe hasn't been half as annoying as I thought it would be, this os done to the fact usually you don't notice the sound if the crowd noise is up to high enough levels.


It permeates through my house, thanks to my sub woofer ! Confused
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DVB Cornwall
Graphics ... Disagree the Olympics should be seen Globally in the same style, regardless of it's appearance on screen.
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Jon
DVB Cornwall posted:
Graphics ... Disagree the Olympics should be seen Globally in the same style, regardless of it's appearance on screen.

I'd like that too, but if America for example demand something awful or intrusive then OBS/IOC say OK, because they're afraid to upset them for a billion reasons, should we have to put up with that too?

The thing is NBC put a lot of their own graphics mixed in with the official graphics anyway, as well as their own replay wipes for some things.

As I've said I'm not a massive fan of these graphics, I don't think they're as bad as many of the big international athletic/swimming/cycling events we see on TV though.

I'd rather they used graphics like dosxuk's or similar to those in the game, as they actually fit in with the brand, compliment it and look way better than those currently being used.
Last edited by Jon on 4 August 2012 2:19pm - 2 times in total
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Brekkie
I think it's more a case of familarity breeding contempt - the graphics have been evolving since Sydney and probably could have done with more of a revolution - but they work just fine IMO, though I'm not a fan of the line by line reveal of the results.
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dosxuk
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thegeek Founding member
dosxuk posted:
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At the risk of going too far into mocks territory, how would that look in a slightly condensed Futura, which is the font LOCOG use for display text?

(and also the accreditation passes - your signature is very slightly wrong Smile)
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dosxuk
thegeek posted:
At the risk of going too far into mocks territory, how would that look in a slightly condensed Futura, which is the font LOCOG use for display text?


http://home.vis-is.co.uk/data/mocks/obs-idea9-futura.jpg

thegeek posted:
(and also the accreditation passes - your signature is very slightly wrong Smile)


Only very slightly...
http://home.vis-is.co.uk/data/infinity-pass.jpg
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Orry Verducci
From a technical point of view, the issue with providing 'clean' feeds without graphics is it requires double the capacity, which is OK for the likes of the football which usually at most has 2 matches on at the same time, but is a major issue for the Olympics which has at least 30 odd.
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dosxuk
Orry Verducci posted:
From a technical point of view, the issue with providing 'clean' feeds without graphics is it requires double the capacity, which is OK for the likes of the football which usually at most has 2 matches on at the same time, but is a major issue for the Olympics which has at least 30 odd.


Plus you have to distribute all the data & timing feeds in a reliable and timely manner too.

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