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,
was the case!
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You'd think... But then my first flat in London barely
managed
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
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 flat
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 should
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
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
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 like a
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
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Gareth Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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
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
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
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
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://www.bbcworldservice.com/ + 702NE Bush House, Strand, London, WC2B
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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
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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
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
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 video. I
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 through
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
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 not just
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Moving away from the legal wrangles for a moment, I must say I'm not too
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Brian Butterworth
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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
for change.
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On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Brian
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On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Brian Butterworth
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http://zattoo.com/
http://informitv.com/articles/2008/05/09/zattooclaimscopyright/
Zattoo, which is now offering live online streams of the leading
British
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On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Brian Butterworth
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http://zattoo.com/
http://informitv.com/articles
- live streaming BBC channels
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
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I agree, the picture on Livestation is much better too.
2008/5/13 Richard Compston [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Moving away from the legal
done something here. How long does Zattoo get?
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