Jesus, tonight's edition of Hard Talk on BBC News with Nick Broomfield had 
more dropouts than I would find acceptable on a 25 year old chewed up 
Betamax tape, I find it hard to believe, but do the BBC really still use 
analogue tapes?

Ivan wrote:
> Jesus, tonight's edition of Hard Talk on BBC News with Nick Broomfield 
> had more dropouts than I would find acceptable on a 25 year old chewed 
> up Betamax tape, I find it hard to believe, but do the BBC really still 
> use analogue tapes?

News is a healthy mix of Betacam SP and DVCam.

I wonder if Hard Talk is now being shot in N9, recently vacated by World 
News, on knackered decade-old decks.

faderstart@live.co.uk wrote:
|| Ivan wrote:
||| Jesus, tonight's edition of Hard Talk on BBC News with Nick
||| Broomfield had more dropouts than I would find acceptable on a 25
||| year old chewed up Betamax tape, I find it hard to believe, but do
||| the BBC really still use analogue tapes?
||
|| News is a healthy mix of Betacam SP and DVCam.
||
|| I wonder if Hard Talk is now being shot in N9, recently vacated by
|| World News, on knackered decade-old decks.

I wonder if it will be repeated, especially if it's the only copy they have, 
I think it was around 54 to 56 minutes in and lasted for what seemed to be 
about a minute.
The symptoms had the look of a tape which had been chewed up in a machine 
with the dropout compensation working in vain to try and fill in the lines 
of missing picture information.

On 05/07/2008 10:21, Ivan wrote:

> I wonder if it will be repeated,

The EPG doest't give episode details, but ...

Title:HARDtalk  	
Category:News  	
Description:Stephen Sackur talks to newsmakers and personalities from 
across the globe.  	
Duration:30 mins
Channel:80 - BBC NEWS  	
Showings:
Mon Jul 7, 2008, 04:30 AM
Mon Jul 7, 2008, 11:30 PM
Tue Jul 8, 2008, 04:30 AM
Tue Jul 8, 2008, 11:30 PM
Wed Jul 9, 2008, 04:30 AM
Wed Jul 9, 2008, 11:30 PM

Andy Burns wrote:
> On 05/07/2008 10:21, Ivan wrote:
> 
>> I wonder if it will be repeated,
> 
> The EPG doest't give episode details, but ...
> 
> Title:HARDtalk     
> Category:News     
> Description:Stephen Sackur talks to newsmakers and personalities from 
> across the globe.     
> Duration:30 mins
> Channel:80 - BBC NEWS     
> Showings:
> Mon Jul 7, 2008, 04:30 AM
> Mon Jul 7, 2008, 11:30 PM
> Tue Jul 8, 2008, 04:30 AM
> Tue Jul 8, 2008, 11:30 PM
> Wed Jul 9, 2008, 04:30 AM
> Wed Jul 9, 2008, 11:30 PM    

They seen to time HardTalk on BBC World, so that no matter wherever I am in 
the world, when I switch on in the morning it's on, when I return to the hotel 
in the evening it's on again, and when I come in pissed at midnight is on yet 
again !

Thank goodness for hotel WiFi these days :-)

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On Sat, 05 Jul 2008 11:13:24 +0100, Mark Carver
<mark.carver@invalid.invalid> wrote:

>They seen to time HardTalk on BBC World, so that no matter wherever I am in 
>the world, when I switch on in the morning it's on, when I return to the hotel 
>in the evening it's on again, and when I come in pissed at midnight is on yet 
>again !

That's not special timing, that's just because HardTalk is always on.
:-) 
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