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You can avoid both those issues by watching all BBC programmes on iPlayer. No Press Red Button clutter, no voice over on the closing credits. Presumably all part of "educating" the viewing masses that streaming is the future and broadcast TV (Freeview/DTT and satellite etc) will be turned off and the radio spectrum handed over to the mobile phone companies.
 
gomezz said:
You can avoid both those issues by watching all BBC programmes on iPlayer. No Press Red Button clutter, no voice over on the closing credits. Presumably all part of "educating" the viewing masses that streaming is the future and broadcast TV (Freeview/DTT and satellite etc) will be turned off and the radio spectrum handed over to the mobile phone companies.
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...but not universally available.

(I admit not even broadcast TV is universally available, but...)
 
gomezz said:
You can avoid both those issues by watching all BBC programmes on iPlayer. No Press Red Button clutter, no voice over on the closing credits. Presumably all part of "educating" the viewing masses that streaming is the future and broadcast TV (Freeview/DTT and satellite etc) will be turned off and the radio spectrum handed over to the mobile phone companies.
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I'm sure this is part of the BBCs rational. Unfortunately, you can't always get a clean copy. "Cardiac Arrest" when available just after a recent(ish) showing on BBC4 - the iPlayer had the BBC4 version telling you that all episodes were available on the iPlayer plus the large BBC FOUR logo rather than the smaller BBC logo. Double :mad: ! The same was true for some episodes of "Montalbano", although these have been replaced. For the moment BBC programmes can be obtained with get_iplayer or ytd. Did I see that some ITV programmes are going on YouTube? Are these going to be blocked somehow? Oh well, back to the thin gruel that is the STV player. Now if only I could get hold of some of the "Walter Presents" programmes off C4...

Black Hole said:
Voice-overs during end credits are particularly annoying.
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Yes, why employ composers to write end music if you're going to trample all over it?
Rewind TVs large "next" means I can't read the cast list. At least they don't squash and talk over them.
 
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Just seen a clip from the Call The Midwife xmas special, set in the (judging by the looks) early '60s. A woman turns the TV on and the picture & sound appear immediately...
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When the Martin Shaw series 'Inspector George Gently' from 2017 was being publicised one of the articles mentioned how they had gone to great lengths to get all the props correct, giving the lighter in Shaw's pocket as an example even though it was never shown. The first episodes were set in the 1964 but in exterior scenes all the houses had modern Band VI/V UHF aerials with not a single Band I or Band III one to be seen.
 
everthewatcher said:
The first episodes were set in the 1964 but in exterior scenes all the houses had modern Band VI/V UHF aerials with not a single Band I or Band III one to be seen.
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Unless the houses were on the back lot of a film studio, not something they seem to do much of these days, I imagine it would be difficult to swap everyone's aerial. Probable would have been quite expensive to doctor the film/video in post-production. Should have made the effort though.
 
EEPhil said:
I imagine it would be difficult to swap everyone's aerial. Probable would have been quite expensive to doctor the film/video in post-production. Should have made the effort though.
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They blot out yellow lines and other road markings, and obscure modern street furniture, but probably they don't 'see' things like TV aerials.

Spotting anachronisms like this has been a pet thing of mine for years. There was a recent TV series that that spanned the 70s to the current day and it looked like the set dresser had picked up on brown and orange being key colours in the late 70s and went overboard with them. Plus a very obvious anachronism in not only having a microwave in the kitchen but one from the 2000s.
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I guess the same kind of technology used to inject "painted ads" onto sports fields that aren't physically there.
 
It was the "amps of power," that annoyed me. Current isn't power! It didn't occur to me that 1500 amps was large. (Doh!)
 
Yes, the public/media are very loose about that sort of thing, but should we really expect them to understand the difference? What's worse is the persistent use of "per year". Eg "this wind farm will power 15,000 homes per year". No, it will power 15,000 homes!
 
Black Hole said:
but should we really expect them to understand the difference?
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Maybe not the public, but the media and advertisers should.
I wouldn't trust the device in question because of the questionable description. It my work perfectly well.
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Eg "this wind farm will power 15,000 homes per year". No, it will power 15,000 homes!
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But only when the wind speed is between certain values. Outside that it will power nothing. Will it totally power the homes? Surely that's also dependent on the wind speed.
 
West news bulletin in Breakfast this morning: apparently Bristol Rovers have to make an 8-hour trip to play their 3rd round FA Cup tie with Ipswich Town.

8-hour round trip, not 8-hour trip to.
 
It depends how bad the M25 is. I did roughly that route (to somewhere else in Suffolk about the same distance) several times 15 years ago and it was over 4 hours, and that was avoiding the peak times. Presumably that's a coach too, which'll make it even slower.
 
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