> > I was watching BBC News 24 this week and there was a feature about > > sudden snow on Bodmin Moor, Cornwall. One woman said "there was > > nothing on the news about it", and it occurred to me that > if she was > > watching News 24, she was probably right. > > > > News 24 has a variety of Astons (graphics), but I was > thinking about > > the scrolling bar at the bottom of the screen. I don't know how > > integrated News 24 and BBC Online are I don't know if the > "scroller" > > is driven from one of the backstage RSS feeds, but it should be! > > Presumably not the Weather feed then... *ducks* > It's a great idea... Thinking completely off the top of my > head...is it something that could be mocked up at home if > your PC's got a Freeview TV card? (I don't have one, so I > don't know anything about this kind of thing.) TV with > home-brewed news ticker over the top?
It shouldn't be that difficult to do, either in DirectX as graphics ontop of the video overlay - I have a USB DTT box. It's probably easier to do in JavaScript and DHTML though, I can do the font using the Microsoft font embedding. I'll have a go at it this evening... > As I said - great idea, and one that could only have been > thought up by someone who shaved their hair off while at > school... In, say, the third or fourth year... That's only > a guess, mind... :-) I think it was "fourth uppers"... That was quite a white ago! Spot on guess! Brian - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
