The Sky Presentation Thread

Hairspray Musical Site is now using the new Sky1 branding.

http://mdta.thetvroom.com/sky-logos-lower.jpg

EDIT: THESE ARE MOCKS

Wow. 10 out of 10 from me, you've just turned me into a beliver of the lowercase logo. An easy adaption for movies, News looks nice, and I love the sky sports logo, mainly for the facts that it remains me of an older sky news design, and I don't know why, and fact that it is totally different to the sky sports branding that has been on air in some form for many years.

The only logos that I don't like there are the ones that you haven't created, Sky Arts, Sky Real Lives, and the new Sky 1, 2, & 3, though these work better than the first two.

I think the problem with Sky now isn't the branding, but that they're spreading themselves too thin.

If I were in charge, I'd scrap Real Lives, all the Sky Games channels and Sky Travel Shop (and any other shopping channels they've got), possibly try to bring Sky Arts further up the EPG and unite them all with a strong, common branding scheme.

At the moment the channels are a mess, and channels like Real Lives only go to cheapen the Sky brand.

Are these mocks? Guesses about what you think the rest will look like?

Why don't you just say when you post them?

of course they are mocks, can't you tell?

Last night the new IPPs including DOGs for Sky's 1, 2 and 3 made an accidental appearance on Sky One HD coming out of the ad breaks in Road Wars. Assuming they will be positioned the same on the SD channels, the new DOGs will be outside the safe areas for both 4:3 and 14:9, the same position as the E4 DOG. They have two lines of text, which displayed as only "Text Line 1/2" on this occasion. I would post the pictures, but I'm on holiday at the moment and stuck with dial up

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http://img384.imageshack.us/img384/3590/sky1smallqr9.jpg

And here's an off screen cap (credit to Orry)

That DOG doesn't look too bad. I hope it's in the same position on the SD channels. E4's is so much less obtrusive by being placed correctly in the corner; it's about time all broadcasters realised that most people are watching on 16:9 screens.

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Thank god it isn't solid colour.

Still, my old digibox(not sky) defaults to letter boxing, so really, i presume sky boxes also default to that on a 4:3 set.

In Stuart's defence, this seems like a pretty fair assumption. I can't think of anyone I know these days who doesn't have a widescreen TV, at least for their main telly.

Whether they're set up correctly is a different matter though.