Slightly off-topic: filming permissions
Sun, 18 May 2008 08:40:01 GMT
Sorry this isn't as technical as perhaps is appropriate, but the
interminable debate about the c**pness of DAB and DTT is getting a bit
wearing (ultimately it's political anyway).
For the rest of this document substitute 'broadcasting' or 'recording'
for 'filming' as appropriate (life's too short for that deb ...
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Indiana Jones aspect ratio
Fri, 16 May 2008 16:23:10 +0100
I complained to the BBC and they have today replied (in part):
I appreciate you were disappointed the Indiana Jones films were shown
4:3 aspect ratio.
Ideally the BBC would have shown all three Indiana Jones films in 16:9
widescreen, which is our standard ratio for showing films. We were
unable to do this becau ...
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Bleedin iPLayer...
Fri, 16 May 2008 19:25:16 +0100
... I've been sitting on a couple of concerts for a couple of weeks.
Just got around to watching them - when I tried they lost a week of the
2 weeks left to run, and wouldn't play anyway.
GRRR!
Andy ...
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Points West: another drop-out
Mon, 12 May 2008 14:04:47 +0100
Hi:
Another small dose of London local news this afternoon. The little
snippit (?preview, ?summary) immediately after the main News starts at
1300 was London's, not Bristol's. That makes three this month so far.
I was accused of going OTT and was challenged to produce evidence of
drop-outs instead of "vague g ...
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A DAB question
Fri, 09 May 2008 13:04:38 +0100
Over the last few days I've been getting the 'bubbling mud' syndrome on R4
from CP. Although not a continuous boiling - more like a mic being tapped
occasionally. I have two different make tuners fed off the same aerial -
via a DA - and it's more or less the same on both. Signal strength showing
is 13 thingies out ...
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I hate to say "I told you so" ...
Fri, 09 May 2008 07:42:51 +0100
... but Points West are at it again. London news at 0625 and 0655.
That's twice this month, and we're only at the 9th.
Seriously though, does it take more than flipping a switch at the right
time? I would truly like to know what exactly the problem is.
BTW, Dorset is supposed to get its signal from Southern, b ...
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Poor picture on BT Vision Freeview box but good picture on TV's Freeview decoder
Wed, 7 May 2008 19:50:11 +0100
Is there any known problem with the Freeview decoder in a BT Vision box that
makes it need a stronger aerial signal than other Freeview decoders?
I was installing a BT Vision box for a customer last night and I noticed
that most channels had very pixellated, blocky pictures with lots of JPEG
artifacts around ...
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Mark Thompson DG BBC - Hail to the Chief
Tue, 6 May 2008 23:19:19 -0700 (PDT)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmdlUrzSXx8
A heartfelt tribute to the great Director General of the BBC - a
forthright,confident and often daring leader at the helm of the
world's greatest and oldest broadcasting organisation steering it
confidently and with great vision and deep insight into the multi-
platfor ...
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And so it begins...
Tue, 6 May 2008 11:30:48 +0100
More 4, E4 and their +1 equivalents went FTA some time around 10.30am.
There's a FTA version of Channel 4 (London) on SID "8350", too, but
that's been around for about two weeks.
--
Paul Martin <pm@zetnet.net> ...
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Strange Channel 4 fault caption
Sun, 4 May 2008 16:51:08 -0700 (PDT)
Does anyone know the source of this 80s-style blue screen caption?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMuyqfJxFCM
It appears to have been generated at the transmitter site when its
network feed was lost.
I've seen similar captions on old off-air ITV recordings; they
appeared on-screen after the channel had closed ...
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