On 31/03/2008, Andrew Bowden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'll really pleased to hear that there is a good chance > > that the text and interactive services on Freesat are going to be HD. > > The HD abilities of the MHEG profile on Freesat are rather nice. But we > won't be using them yet. > > > I'm wondering if they will be animated, like little vignets from the > > 3D view, that would be good. I'm guessing we can't have PROPER 3D > > weather maps that you can controll Google Earth style with the Freesat > remote... > > R&D did a concept demo using MHEG a couple of years ago, playing out > through a Freeview box. It's not quite Google Earth style in that was > more scrolling between different regions (press UP on the Midlands map > to go to the North England map, and it scrolls through it). Technically > it's not that difficult - you tile a series of mpeg stills up on the set > top box. Even zooming in would be do-able. > > Would anyone use it is the question - which is an important question in > a bandwidth contstrained enviroment. As a member of the Weather > production team tells me, most people look at the weather for their > locale only and don't care about anywhere else.
Yes, there is always a certain problem with the need to provide local and regional data from a satellite that covers the whole of the EU! I would personally welcome the effort of putting a zoomable, animated weather system on Freesat. It would be a very BBC thing to do, of course, a combination of a technical trial and public service. It seems to me it might be worth giving it a go for until Xmas, and drop it if people hate it. As a response to the Weather production team: "their locale only" isn't necessarily just one place. Many people commute long distances, or have family and friends around the country. It's not, as I am also sure they say in weather production, "cut and dry". - > 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/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > -- Please email me back if you need any more help. Brian Butterworth http://www.ukfree.tv
