> The only option then was really to use the NTL
> analogue feed they put down the coax. Friendly engineer gave
> us some F type ends and cable and we could at least get 1 to
> 4. And Sky one audio on the FM.
The old NYNEX FM hook up - that takes me back. It seemed amazing at the
time, to get s
o if the latter was the case!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Woods
Sent: 20 May 2008 02:20
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: RE: [backstage] Zattoo - live streaming BBC channels
> You'd think... But then my
Christopher Woods wrote:
Personally I'd rather have naff analogue with continuous audio where I can
gist the few words I miss, rather than have a lossy (moreso than analogue,
arguably) digital signal with squelchy audio and dropouts every so often. I
put up with it on my PC's freeview receiver, b
> You'd think... But then my first flat in London barely
> managed to get analogue... I actually got a digital box in
> the first place because it offered a better picture! A clear
> picture that broke up once every 90 seconds was preferable to
> watching fuzz and snow.
Interesting you shou
> You'd think... But then my first flat in London barely managed to get
> analogue... I actually got a digital box in the first place because it
> offered a better picture! A clear picture that broke up once every 90
> seconds was preferable to watching fuzz and snow.
Often is the case though t
> Surely in London I should be getting more than BBC One
> (sometimes), BBC Two (sometimes), Sky Three and Dave. I find
> it funny that I can get better broadcast television from a
> internet startup of untested legality than I do from actual
> broadcasting.
You'd think... But then my first f
Perhaps someone should tell them about BDA and the WinTV-Nova-T500 cards?
Much better to source direct from digital than encode from a STB, surely?
2008/5/17 Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 08:02:24PM +0100, Richard Compston wrote:
> >I don't know if Zattoo are using
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 08:02:24PM +0100, Richard Compston wrote:
>I don't know if Zattoo are using Freeview or Sky boxes, but I'm guessing
>Freeview - the blocking I've been seeing is very similar to what I get on
>my telly when a 747 flies overhead ;)
>
I often see dialogs on the sc
On 13 May 2008, at 14:02, Brian Butterworth wrote:
http://zattoo.com/
Thanks for that Brian, what a fantastic service.
It would be real shame if this was closed down. I can now watch
channels I haven't been able to watch since I moved flat last October!
Surely in London I should be gettin
On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 19:42 +0200, Brian Butterworth wrote:
> I presume that this isn't used on BBC Radio 3, where it is 'normal'
> for music to have a large range of different volumes and is used on
> 1Xtra to ruin drum and bass tracks?
Sadly we've had to put up with three-band compression on R
Also (off-topic slightly) does anybody know what kit the radio studios use
for the automatic level ducking when a DJ's speaking over the intro / tail
of a track? I've seen what looks like a sidechaining compressor in the
background of some shots on programmes like Timelapse or suchlike (where a
2008/5/15 Simon Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> The biggest part of the story though is the final processing of the R1
> output before transmission. This is done with an broadcast-grade audio
> processor. There are a few around, but the industry standard is called an
> Orban Optimod. Again, they es
Also (off-topic slightly) does anybody know what kit the radio studios use
for the automatic level ducking when a DJ's speaking over the intro / tail
of a track? I've seen what looks like a sidechaining compressor in the
background of some shots on programmes like Timelapse or suchlike (where a
DJ'
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Gareth Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> As others have already said BHX is the extension to London Broadcasting
> House, apologies for the lapse into BBC TLAs. No idea what the site code is
> for the Mailbox, if any does know then feel free to email me it - bec
What kit did the Beeb use, and what do they use now? (fascinated by the
choices in tech)
No idea about the rest of the BBC, but we do the TV Encoding with Osprey
540 cards in hp DL360G5 servers at Bush running Windows. Windows media
audio encoding is also done here at Bush house using Osprey 230
>>
>>
>>
> What kit did the Beeb use, and what do they use now? (fascinated by the
> choices in tech)
>
> Also (off-topic slightly) does anybody know what kit the radio studios use for
> the automatic level ducking when a DJ's speaking over the intro / tail of a
> track? I've seen what looks
Good point Gareth
'News 24' is streamed from a SDI source.
We moved from analogue to digital capture cards about four/five years ago &
the difference in quality was immediately noticable - bitrate & frame size
for Flash has been upped of course, so looks even better (the current
encoders are a
Global
> News Division
> 8 http://www.bbcworldservice.com/ + 702NE Bush House, Strand, London, WC2B
> 4PH
>
>
> --
> *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Richard Compston
> *Sent:* 13 May 2008 19:05
>
> *To:* backst
Most people just call it Egton...
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Gareth Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Christopher Woods wrote:
>
> By BHX you mean Birmingham, right? (just doublechecking) And is everything
> moving for News (studios AND live broadcast coordination, all that stuff,
> and n
Christopher Woods wrote:
By BHX you mean Birmingham, right? (just doublechecking) And is
everything moving for News (studios AND live broadcast coordination, all
that stuff, and not just any one element of it?) Sorry if it's a stupid
question, but I've been fol
Gareth Davis wrote:
> Why would it be? SDI is the usual way we send SD digital audio and video
> round the studios. The bitrate may be high, but it is still interlaced
> SD resolution video. I can't remember the various different bandwidth
> figures for HD SDI, and I can't be bothered digging throu
2008/5/14 Gareth Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>
> Brian Butterworth wrote:
> Does that mean a BBC News HD channel would be possible?
> Why would it be? SDI is the usual way we send SD digital audio and video
> round the studios. The bitrate may be high, but it is still interlaced SD
> resolution
2008/5/14 Christopher Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>
> News have just done a technical refresh of their studios and AFAIK they
> have not put any HD kit in. I've no idea if any will go in before we
> all move into new studios in the new BHX in 2012.
>
>
> By BHX you mean Birmingham, right? (just
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christopher Woods
News have just done a technical refresh of their studios
and AFAIK they have not put any HD kit in. I've no idea if any will go
in before we all move into new studios in
News have just done a technical refresh of their studios and AFAIK they have
not put any HD kit in. I've no idea if any will go in before we all move
into new studios in the new BHX in 2012.
By BHX you mean Birmingham, right? (just doublechecking) And is everything
moving for News (studios
Brian Butterworth wrote:
If it were the MPEG2 feed and was digitally processed, it would be quite
simple to use the encoded frames and reduced the resolution and/or
bitrate. At least in theory. It looks like a
MPEG2->analogue->re-encode.
Digital transcoding from the transport stream i
> think
> > > that it will be the rights owners that will have the biggest say in
> > > whether
> > > Zattoo should continue in their current model, rather than the
> > > broadcasters
> > > pushing for change.
> > >
> > > ___
r change.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Barber
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 13 May 2008 14:35
Given that N24 has been pulled from Livestation, I can only imagine that the
BBC's lawyers have done something here. How long does Zattoo get?
Apparently it's nothing quite as sinister - N24 was streamed as part of the
technical trial, which has now come to an end, and they're looking to g
ven the Amy
Winehouse answer everytime.
Given that N24 has been pulled from Livestation, I can only imagine that the
BBC's lawyers have done something here. How long does Zattoo get?
>
> --
> *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On
rom: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Butterworth
Sent: 13 May 2008 19:57
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: Re: [backstage] Zattoo - live streaming BBC channels
I agree, the picture on Livestation is much better too.
2008/5/13 Richard Compston <[EMAIL PROTECTE
gt; > > that it will be the rights owners that will have the biggest say in
> > > whether
> > > Zattoo should continue in their current model, rather than the
> > > broadcasters
> > > pushing for change.
> > >
> > > ___
rsonally think
> > that it will be the rights owners that will have the biggest say in whether
> > Zattoo should continue in their current model, rather than the broadcasters
> > pushing for change.
> >
> > ____________
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > On Behalf Of
CTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of Matt Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 13 May 2008 14:35
> To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
> Subject: Re: [backstage] Zattoo - live streaming BBC channels
>
> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Brian Butterworth
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
&
er than the broadcasters pushing for change.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matt Barber [EMAIL
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Sent: 13 May 2008 14:35
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: Re: [backstage] Zattoo - live streaming BBC channels
On Tue,
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Brian Butterworth
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> http://zattoo.com/
>
> http://informitv.com/articles/2008/05/09/zattooclaimscopyright/
>
> "Zattoo, which is now offering live online streams of the leading British
> terrestrial television channels, is claiming it has
http://zattoo.com/
http://informitv.com/articles/2008/05/09/zattooclaimscopyright/
"Zattoo, which is now offering live online streams of the leading British
terrestrial television channels, is claiming it has the right to do so under
the United Kingdom Copyright Act. Zattoo says it "operates stri
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