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tvarksouthwest
noggin posted:
Servers are only used to hold material for short-to-medium lengths of time.

An uncompressed broadcast quality recording will take approx 75Gigabytes per hour at 720x576 4:2:2 quality. Storing every programme recording made over the last 40 years or so on servers at high quality would still be impractical.

The current BBC archiving system is based around uncompressed data transfer to a system that can be stored on a mixture of server and data tapes, in parallel with transfer to current broadcast digital VT format Digital Betacam (which uses around 2:1 compression) for use in current editing areas.

When Look And Read was first shown on the CBBC Channel, some of those programmes hadn't been broadcast in any format since as long ago as 1977. The much-missed Look And Read site stated the original 2" tapes needed to be electronically "washed" before transfer to the playout server. The Boy From Space might have existed on 1" transfers since this series remained in use originally until 1986, but King's Dragon had not been broadcast since 1981 and Joe And The Sheep Rustlers not since 1977.

Presumably all these have remained on the server since their first rebroadcasts in 2003/2004, though I suspect that with the savage cuts to Class TV they will now have been deleted...
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Manxy
Just seen Anne Foy presenting continuity on the CBBC. By the looks of it, it was pre-recorded and she was in London, with a loud hailer.
JO
Joe
Manxy posted:
Just seen Anne Foy presenting continuity on the CBBC. By the looks of it, it was pre-recorded and she was in London, with a loud hailer.


Yeah, they did that last week. Very annoying.
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tvme
Anyone seen the new CBBC promo? has Sarah Jane Adventures, Roar, Chute and something else called Trapped

Plus i heard that the new years day episode of SJA was going to be repeated on the CBBC Channel next Sunday Very Happy - but when i checked it on Sky+ it was SJA and it was on for one hour but the info said it was named Revenge of the Slitheen (Part1) Confused and the new years day episode wasn't named that . It must be wrong Rolling Eyes
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fanoftv
Jugalug posted:
Manxy posted:
Just seen Anne Foy presenting continuity on the CBBC. By the looks of it, it was pre-recorded and she was in London, with a loud hailer.


Yeah, they did that last week. Very annoying.


Yeah they seem to be recording pieces in London and have recorded bits in the Blue Peter garden.

Presumebly they don't want to overuse Ed and the office set, and/or they don't want anybody else to use that set (another presenter).

Couldn't they create a similar set on the other side of the studio for Anne, and pre record some proper links for the weekend? Or have her live?
GR
gregmc
Manxy posted:
Just seen Anne Foy presenting continuity on the CBBC. By the looks of it, it was pre-recorded and she was in London, with a loud hailer.


She doesnt need one does shes loud enough! Laughing
DI
Digiboy
fanoftv posted:
Jugalug posted:
Manxy posted:
Just seen Anne Foy presenting continuity on the CBBC. By the looks of it, it was pre-recorded and she was in London, with a loud hailer.


Yeah, they did that last week. Very annoying.


Yeah they seem to be recording pieces in London and have recorded bits in the Blue Peter garden.

Presumebly they don't want to overuse Ed and the office set, and/or they don't want anybody else to use that set (another presenter).

Couldn't they create a similar set on the other side of the studio for Anne, and pre record some proper links for the weekend? Or have her live?


Well, there isn't another side of the studio, nor spare studio time for pre-recording. That's all there is. And being live at the weekend would cost money . . . which doesn't exist, unfortunately. Sad Crying or Very sad
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fanoftv
Digiboy posted:
fanoftv posted:
Jugalug posted:
Manxy posted:
Just seen Anne Foy presenting continuity on the CBBC. By the looks of it, it was pre-recorded and she was in London, with a loud hailer.


Yeah, they did that last week. Very annoying.


Yeah they seem to be recording pieces in London and have recorded bits in the Blue Peter garden.

Presumebly they don't want to overuse Ed and the office set, and/or they don't want anybody else to use that set (another presenter).

Couldn't they create a similar set on the other side of the studio for Anne, and pre record some proper links for the weekend? Or have her live?


Well, there isn't another side of the studio, nor spare studio time for pre-recording. That's all there is. And being live at the weekend would cost money . . . which doesn't exist, unfortunately. Sad Crying or Very sad


Why is there no spare studio time? Couldn't they pre record something whilst the programmes are on? I know it could get very confusing though.
AS
Asa Admin
Now I don't want to be accused of watching too much CBBC lately...however...I really think Ed's working well on the channel. It's a real shame BBC One doesn't have it - surely they're still getting significantly more viewers than the channel gets at the same time?

From some of the junctions, it seems more slapstick than I remember (or YouTube shows) the Broom Cupboard but I guess there is an younger demographic these days.

But all the classic elements are there - the big logo in the background, the puppet, the desk, the big chair(!), the mini TV (ok, so it's a monitor of the website rather than a countdown to the next show). There also seems to be a decent level of flexibility, still huge amounts of plugging CBBC and the website but times when they can just talk random nonsense. Bring back viewers singing over theme tunes and it'll be exactly like the old days.

The clip below is great because aside from the Neighbours/C5 reference there's no desire to constantly be shouting at the screen or full of fake energy. Just them two wrapping up the final junction of the day.

http://tvfi.co.uk/CBBC%20Ed%20Continuity%2010-09-07.flv
LO
LONDON
Asa posted:
Now I don't want to be accused of watching too much CBBC lately...however...I really think Ed's working well on the channel. It's a real shame BBC One doesn't have it - surely they're still getting significantly more viewers than the channel gets at the same time?

From some of the junctions, it seems more slapstick than I remember (or YouTube shows) the Broom Cupboard but I guess there is an younger demographic these days.

But all the classic elements are there - the big logo in the background, the puppet, the desk, the big chair(!), the mini TV (ok, so it's a monitor of the website rather than a countdown to the next show). There also seems to be a decent level of flexibility, still huge amounts of plugging CBBC and the website but times when they can just talk random nonsense. Bring back viewers singing over theme tunes and it'll be exactly like the old days.

The clip below is great because aside from the Neighbours/C5 reference there's no desire to constantly be shouting at the screen or full of fake energy. Just them two wrapping up the final junction of the day.

http://tvfi.co.uk/CBBC%20Ed%20Continuity%2010-09-07.flv


What a classic clip, real refrence to years gone by.
CW
Charlie Wells Moderator
BBC considers end of children's shows on flagship channel
MediaGuardian Extract posted:
The BBC is considering a plan to break with 61 years of tradition and axe weekday afternoon children's programmes from its main channel, BBC1. Children's shows would instead be shown on BBC2 under the plan being considered by executives.

...full article at http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,,2175518,00.html (free registration required).
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AxG
Charlie Wells posted:
BBC considers end of children's shows on flagship channel
MediaGuardian Extract posted:
The BBC is considering a plan to break with 61 years of tradition and axe weekday afternoon children's programmes from its main channel, BBC1. Children's shows would instead be shown on BBC2 under the plan being considered by executives.

...full article at http://media.guardian.co.uk/broadcast/story/0,,2175518,00.html (free registration required).

But BBC Two was going to be used for BBC Switch, and know they want to put them both on BBC Two, seems odd. I say leave CBBC on BBC One.

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