Not paid much attention to the ITV4 repeats of Euro 96 matches, though I have seen a few seconds while channel hopping. I notice tonight's showing of the England vs Germany game has the scoreboard (including clock) and ITV Sport logo, which the other ones I've caught haven't, they've just had a modern recreated scoreboard without clock.
Have these repeats included the original studio coverage too, or is it just the match? I had this match on video one time until my mum decided to record over it with something else (something which happened far too often which led to me eventually keeping my tapes hidden in my room out of her way, she learned how to sellotape the record protect hole when you snapped the tab off so doing that was futile, I had to physically hide the tapes to stop her).
Edit: I notice now they've got to extra time, we're back to the recreated scoreboard- and the picture quality is much higher than it was before. Flipping to ITV4+1, the original graphics are there but the picture's a lot muddier. I'm wondering if this is like the BBC Parliament showings of the 1997 and 2001 elections, where it seems the "dirty" versions were recorded in a lower quality and not always kept? Seemingly they have the main match in the original dirty version, but only a clean version of extra time, or maybe they lost the clean version of the main match and had to use the muddier dirty version, depending on which versions ITV4 would rather be using.
Last edited by james-2001 on 28 May 2020 9:34pm - 6 times in total