On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Christopher Woods
chris...@infinitus.co.uk wrote:
player accompanying the Online articles about the album launch.
(Interestingly the audio was dual mono - ambient sound on L channel and
overdubbed narrator on R channel? Not sure if that was a snafu by the
Just guessing here, but perhaps because it's not been broadcast on a
BBC TV channel (and just on Red Button), therefore doesn't have a
listing in /programmes?
I realise this is a semantic difference which won't make a blind bit
of difference to the casual viewer...
I guess we'll see tomorrow
Just dug this out to have a quick look at it, and it seems that
api.welcomebackstage.com doesn't exist - any clues about where we could find
the data?
Thanks,
Martin
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 5:05 PM, Ian Forrester ian.forres...@bbc.co.ukwrote:
Ok ok,
It does exist, the delay has mainly been on
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Robert (Jamie) Munro rjmu...@arjam.net wrote:
Congratulations on not putting a DOG on BBC HD during the presidential
inauguration, even though there was one (saying LIVE Washington) on BBC
One! An unusual but welcome reversal.
It was a bit strange that at the
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Brian Butterworth
briant...@freeview.tv wrote:
If you want to have a look at Windows 7, you can download the beta now (it's
really is working) from here:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/evalcenter/dd353205.aspx
I've heard there's a caveat, though...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00704hg/upcoming ? :)
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 11:39 PM, Sam Mbale smb...@mpelembe.net wrote:
Another wish,if you may allow me. Bring back Top of the Pops.
Happy holidays
Sam Mbale
Mpelembe Network
http://www.mpelembe.net
Follow me on
Just spotted this in the newest Private Eye (dated 26th Dec)...
Andy Alcorn is a student whose hobby is computer programming. Three
years ago he designed a desktop widget for Apple Macs which allowed
users to tune in directly to the full range of BBC radio stations and
have them on in the
When Ronnie Barker died, the BBC set up a nice tribute to him in the foyer
of TV Centre - a portrait of him, with four candles in front of it.
I'd been walking past it for several days before I got the significance.
- martin
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 11:05 AM, Richard P Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Dave Simons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Don't know if anyone has seen this?
https://jobs.bbc.co.uk/fe/tpl_bbc01.asp?s=jsUrXCzMkBNsPpBkhjobid=23636,5625368752key=12595845c=867186564065pagestamp=selqlfxswflcdthils
Probably not - unfortunately the BBC Jobs site
On 6/4/08, Etienne Pollard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Brian Butterworth
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What I was saying was that the old Freeview version of BBC Parliament used
to have a quarter-screen picture and the information that is now in the
Astons was
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 - because
Have I just been rickrolled? I can't quite tell.
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Stephen Wolff [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
trry looking at the 'Astley Prank storms web' link -
I've been emailing Christopher off-list about this - I suspect it may
well be a reciever issue. Most of the services on mux 1 are coded in
London, and are the same across much of the country on DTT -- and I'm
not seeing any phase issues on our monitoring here, with a couple of
different
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/02/iplayer_choices.html
*lights blue touch paper and retires to a safe distance*
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Where are BBC correspondents around the world?
There's now a map to tell you:
http://www.stuart-pinfold.co.uk/bits/corrmap/
(via http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2008/01/bbc_reporters_mashed.html )
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On Jan 24, 2008 10:31 AM, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
*I* know I can do this, I just wanted to know why the BBC was providing
poisoned information. Why should people who have paid for Windows Vista
Ultimate Edition have a poor service on purpose?
Why should the
On Jan 24, 2008 3:31 PM, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
broadcasters - don't publish the exact start times of programmes anywhere,
which is not quite
Can I assume the word missing from the end of your sentence was true?
If you can show me a broadcast schedule for a major
On Jan 22, 2008 1:59 PM, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A small question.
There are a number of occasions where the schedule on channels is NEVER as
published!
A good example the 10pm-10:30pm slot on BBC TWO. Programmes in this slot
actually start never earlier than 10:02pm and
Ooh, very nice work, I like it! It works pretty seamlessly here on my work
PC - except the work proxy has prevented the last.fm images from loading,
because that site's blocked.
I did consider (but didn't quite get around to making) something similar for
my last office, where we were big 6 Music
It appears to be a slightly iffy redirect - bbc.co.uk/technology points to
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/default.stm - the 404 you're getting
is at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/default.stm/
On 1/9/08, Melissa Packer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
404 for me here inside the firewall.
On 1/4/08, Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just in case anyone missed it, there's a bunch of developers trying to
bring BBC iPlayer content to the Xbox1 and Wii. The main thread can be found
here - http://www.xboxmediacenter.com/forum/showthread.php?t=27063
[...]
This is possibly not
Hi folks,
The Progamme Catalogue http://open.bbc.co.uk/catalogue/infax has
been experiencing some technical difficulties and unavailable for a
couple of weeks now. Much as I'm enjoying the testcard, does anyone
know when it might be back online?
Thanks,
- Martin
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watching some things on the streaming iPlayer, but
they're all unavailable. I'm presuming they're being served from a
non-bbc.co.uk domain - is it Akamai?
I can listen to streaming radio though - so could just spend the next
few hours listening to 6 Music...
- martin
On 10/16/07, Martin Deutsch [EMAIL
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I'm looking at iPlayer now and 'Strictly Come Dancing' is th
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On 11/21/07, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just as an aside, I have a collection of BBC Sound Effects records on
vinyl, can I use 30 second snippets of these on a future podcast?
For example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Sound_Effects_No._19_-_Doctor_Who_Sound_Effects
On 11/19/07, Christopher Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ha :D
Anyway, the cameras they were using had the holographic BBC HD logo
plastered along the side of them, so things are looking up - unless they're
just old skool SD cameras with a chavlike shopping list down the side of
them! I
On Nov 18, 2007 11:43 PM, Steve Jolly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Brian Butterworth wrote:
Givem the original is at 25fps, why not encode at that in fact?
50fps. ;-) (Pedantic, but important...)
Surely that just depends on whether your f stands for fields or frames?
- martin
On 11/9/07, Matthew Cashmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hitler
A rather crude invocation of Godwin's Law - but does that mean this
discussion is now closed?
- martin
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On 11/9/07, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would propose that Freesat and backstage could provide some special
services for Freesat upon the commencement of the service in Springtime of
the year ultimate.
An interesting proposition - however, extra datacasting services would
On 11/6/07, Michael Sparks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tuesday 06 November 2007 13:34, Brian Butterworth wrote:
I suspect that I would personally make them:
go.bbc.co.uk/shortcode
The shortcode could then also be embedded in any advertising as a 2D barcode
meaning someone could just snap
Let's not forget:
http://www.GiganticURL.com/
On 11/5/07, Tim Dobson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 05/11/2007, Tim Dobson wrote:
Tinyurl.com isn't even that good.
http://tiny.pl gives 4 digit ids to it's links and is shorter.
Personally I prefer this.
I once did little bit of research into
On 11/5/07, George Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 17:52 +, Tom Loosemore wrote:
Using TinyUrl is a symptom of poorly designed urls...
It is? Lots of sites use URLs to pass data, on top of pointing at files
on servers.
The more complex the data, the more use it
On 10/23/07, Andrew Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Some broadcasters pay Sky to playout their channels and they'll monitor
those I'm sure. Many broadcasters go through 3rd parties or do it
themselves. Who knows what the exact proportions are, but given how
many channels there are, there's
On 10/23/07, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And here's the problem in a nutshell. Also, BBC1 has 17 UK regions on
satellite. BBC2 has four, ITV1 has 24, C4 has six (used for advertising
only), so it would be impossible to do a matrix for these channels.
There are, I'm told,
I've never quite been able to work out the specifics of the deal (see Eyes
*passim*, as they say), but Television Centre (and several other BBC
buildings) passed back into BBC hands a few years after that deal, and the
facilities management contract with Land Securities has ended.
While it's good
If I'm abroad and watch BBC World, I see advertising next to BBC content.
I don't see this as being any different.
On 10/17/07, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 17/10/2007, Jason Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Abroad a lot BBC content (including the news) already has
I'd say that Apple have a good track record of releasing things, generally
when they say they will. The only major product I can recall not seeing the
light of day was
Coplandhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copland_%2528operating_system%2529,
over 10 years ago.
- martin
On 10/17/07, Brian
This appears to have gone live already - I've just connected to The Cloud
hotspot in the pub across the road, and it's happy to let me on to
*.bbc.co.uk and watch streaming video.
The Cloud's login page (which appears when you try to access non-free sites)
also has links to t3.co.uk and
I fear we're veering rapidly off topic here, but...
On 10/10/07, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 10/10/2007, Duncan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Unfortunately nobody as yet has come up with
a way of doing a seamless (ie no macro blocking/breaks in
transmission) switch
On 10/9/07, Brian Butterworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can't see a broadcaster wanting this kind of EPG on their system, as it
removes the channel identities.
As a viewer, do you really need to know which channel a programme is on
before you decide to watch it? I suppose there are a few
Oddly enough, someone sent me the following link the other day, wondering if
it was the BBC's cost-cutting measures going a little too far by asking the
public to send in royalty-free images...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/6993603.stm
(Is this about to open a massive can of UGC worms?)
It's probably worth mentioning that the Java versions of the Google Maps and
Google Mail apps get a fair bit of use on my phone (a Sony Ericsson k800i),
as does Opera Mini. But as Mark says, they're the kind of app which really
need a good data bundle.
(It's a bit tricky to find the right menu
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