Re: [backstage] indefinitely live BBC archive?

2010-02-28 Thread Jonathan Tweed
Hi Jonathan As more of our archive content gets migrated into /programmes, it will start to appear in various places and central indexes throughout the site, including search results. However, that's a mammoth task and one we've only just begun. Other archive content you may have already spott

Re: [backstage] indefinitely live BBC archive?

2010-02-28 Thread Tim Dobson
Jonathan Chetwynd wrote: indefinitely live BBC archive? my daughter (age 13) asks: why can't the BBC make some programmes available all the time? regards Jonathan ie there must be a large number of programmes that the BBC creates, and owns copyright permissions. why aren't at least some of

Re: [backstage] indefinitely live BBC archive?

2010-02-28 Thread Jonathan Tweed
On 28 Feb 2010, at 22:24, Ian Stirling wrote: > But the index is freely available. > Just past the tiger, down the flight of stairs (bring your own torch) all > nicely card-indexed. Heh. I wish that wasn't as accurate as it is. Much of the BBC's Archive (the documents and photos, but thankfully

[backstage] RE: BBC Flash video and deinterlacing - is this really the best we can get?

2010-02-28 Thread Christopher Woods
Watching the CA v. US icehockey final, I noticed - once again - that the BBC Sports online stream, at [1], is horribly deinterlaced. Image sample: [2]. However, TVCatchup's BBC2 stream, at [3], which sources from Freeview, looks fine. How come TVC can do a better job at progressive video than the B

Re: [backstage] indefinitely live BBC archive?

2010-02-28 Thread Jonathan Chetwynd
Jonathan, that's excellent, but there must be more... and where is the central search facility? best ~:" On 28 Feb 2010, at 20:37, Jonathan Tweed wrote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/in-our-time/archive/

Re: [backstage] indefinitely live BBC archive?

2010-02-28 Thread Jonathan Tweed
Whilst, as already mentioned, rights agreements stop us from doing this for most programmes, there are cases where we can do it. It's even part of the service licence for Radio 4. >From >http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/assets/files/pdf/regulatory_framework/service_licences/radio/2008/radio4_Apr08

Re: [backstage] New prototype

2010-02-28 Thread Tim Coysh
Hello Again, I'm not sure if reviving this mail is the right thing to do, but I am doing it anyway. I realized this prototype a few weeks ago now - and I wasn't happy with it at all, especially with the design and the lack of features. I almost immediately decided to re-design and re-code the si

RE: [backstage] indefinitely live BBC archive?

2010-02-28 Thread Christopher Woods
> > why can't the BBC make some programmes available all the time? > Rights, dear boy. And kids, in their limitless quest to just get what they want now, care not one bit for that most wonderfully complex of one-word answers. Then again, most regular people don't care either. ;) - Sent via the b

Re: [backstage] indefinitely live BBC archive?

2010-02-28 Thread Fearghas McKay
On 28 Feb 2010, at 17:53, Gordon Joly wrote: why can't the BBC make some programmes available all the time? Rights, dear boy. and Residuals in particular - Equity & MU contracts ensure that every time a drama is rescreened the performers get another set of smaller fees. UKGold when it

RE: [backstage] A quick Dolby E question

2010-02-28 Thread Christopher Woods
> -Original Message- > From: owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk > [mailto:owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk] On Behalf Of Kieran Kunhya > Sent: 27 February 2010 02:25 > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Subject: [backstage] A quick Dolby E question > > A teeny bit off-topic but I'm sure there

Re: [backstage] indefinitely live BBC archive?

2010-02-28 Thread Mo McRoberts
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 17:54, Glyn Wintle wrote: > If you want any easy start the BBC could make BBC Parliament content > available permanently. I’m actually not sure why anybody _owns_ that content in the first place. It should be that PARBUL is merely contracted to produce and broadcast it,

Re: [backstage] indefinitely live BBC archive?

2010-02-28 Thread Glyn Wintle
--- On Sun, 28/2/10, Jonathan Chetwynd wrote: > From: Jonathan Chetwynd > Subject: [backstage] indefinitely live BBC archive? > To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk > Date: Sunday, 28 February, 2010, 17:38 > indefinitely live BBC archive? > > my daughter (age 13) asks: > > why can't the BBC make so

Re: [backstage] indefinitely live BBC archive?

2010-02-28 Thread Gordon Joly
On 28/02/2010 17:38, Jonathan Chetwynd wrote: : why can't the BBC make some programmes available all the time? Rights, dear boy. Gordo - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficia

[backstage] indefinitely live BBC archive?

2010-02-28 Thread Jonathan Chetwynd
indefinitely live BBC archive? my daughter (age 13) asks: why can't the BBC make some programmes available all the time? regards Jonathan ie there must be a large number of programmes that the BBC creates, and owns copyright permissions. why aren't at least some of these available via searc

Re: [backstage] Re: BBC Experimental Website Down?

2010-02-28 Thread Gordon Joly
On 26/02/2010 18:17, Mo McRoberts wrote: I would place a wild guess that it’s probably being moved from one bit of England to another;) (Anybody feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, it really was a wild, if slightly educated, guess!) M. Ah, but you can see out of your window that the sky