On BBC One via satellite there seems to be occasional breakups of the
sound from Westminster Abbey this morning. Picture not affected.
On BBC One via satellite there seems to be occasional breakups of the sound from Westminster Abbey this morning. Picture not affected.
On Sat, 06 May 2023 09:09:40 +0000, Tweed wrote:
On BBC One via satellite there seems to be occasional breakups of the
sound from Westminster Abbey this morning. Picture not affected.
Yes, noticed that as well.
On 06/05/2023 10:09, Tweed wrote:
On BBC One via satellite there seems to be occasional breakups of the
sound
from Westminster Abbey this morning. Picture not affected.
I was going to ask also - I am watching Freeview.
Seems to on louder bits of sound?
On 06/05/2023 10:09, Tweed wrote:
On BBC One via satellite there seems to be occasional breakups of the sound >> from Westminster Abbey this morning. Picture not affected.
I was going to ask also - I am watching Freeview.
Seems to on louder bits of sound?
On BBC One via satellite there seems to be occasional breakups of the sound from Westminster Abbey this morning. Picture not affected.
On 06/05/2023 10:09, Tweed wrote:
On BBC One via satellite there seems to be occasional breakups of the sound from Westminster Abbey this morning. Picture not affected.
On noticing this I switched from satellite to terrestrial where it was
just the same.
MB <MB@nospam.net> wrote:I noticed the same (not just from the abbey - also during the procession
On 06/05/2023 10:09, Tweed wrote:
On BBC One via satellite there seems to be occasional breakups of the sound >>> from Westminster Abbey this morning. Picture not affected.
I was going to ask also - I am watching Freeview.
Seems to on louder bits of sound?
Yes, loud peaks seem to cause a cut. Still going on. I thought everything
was supposed to have a backup for things like this.
John Williamson <johnwilliamson@btinternet.com> wrote:
On 09/05/2023 14:44, Mary Wolstenholme wrote:
On Tue, 9 May 2023 09:02:57 +0100, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalidThe same as it was until digital arrived. The system in use for the 1937
(Liz Tuddenham) wrote:
I think that was during the 1937 coronation. It occurred a few minutes >> >> before the OB was due to go live and I think it was caused by a loose
valveholder connection in the synch pulse generator.
What was a synch pulse generator used for in 1937 ?
coronation was the Marconi-EMI 405 line system, the Baird 240 line
system having been discontinued in February of that year.
The parameters were finally decided upon in Mrs. Blumlein's front room
over cups of tea. She invited the EMI team, including A.D. Blumlein's
boss, Isaac Schoenberg, around for Sunday lunch; while they were waiting
for the meal to be cooked, they thrashed out the final details of the >405-line television system.
On 08/05/2023 20:30, Dickie mint wrote:
All depends on someone hearing the problem and knowing how to solve it!
Didn't it used to be the rule that there was an ordinary TV set
somewhere as a check, it is after all the ultimate test.
People have far too much faith in the digital systems indicating no
faults, not just in the broadcast world but also with telecom systems.
On top of that any faults cane be muted and so making it look as if all OK.
I watched, at home, from Crystal Palace. and didn't notice anything amiss.
In article <5aa148fc1abob@sick-of-spam.invalid>,
Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> wrote:
In article <9D$V9OCV7LWkFwMu@255soft.uk>,
J. P. Gilliver <G6JPG@255soft.uk> wrote:
In message <5aa13dc7e6bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> at Mon, 8 May 2023
09:12:52, Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> writes
In article <kbpdk2Flf4dU1@mid.individual.net>,
Mark Carver <mark.carver@invalid.invalid> wrote:
Which probably suggests the fault was downstream of the BBC's
domestic pres truck, but upstream of the code and mux stage. My
guess, the link between the on site BBC pres truck (and not the
one producing the 'World Feed') and the playout centre in W12
I'm really disappointed by this. They had months to prepare and
test. Months to get redundancy and monitoring in place and yet
they failed miserably to sort it on the day. Unbelievably, the
shambles continued into last night's concert.
Inexcusable, heads should roll.
As I said earlier, I suspect it's a matter of monitoring being
either in the wrong place, or not done; the test design thus being
at fault. If the fault was downstream from where any monitoring,
they wouldn't know there _was_ a fault (monitoring in wrong place);
if nobody was monitoring the audio at all, only the pictures,
that's bad too.
Forgive my naivety and ignorance of how it all was supposed to work.
I find it impossible to believe that in all the BBC buildings in the
UK no one was actually watching (with sound on) the broadcast the
nation was lumbered with.
I watched, at home, from Crystal Palace. and didn't notice anything amiss.
On 08/05/2023 11:36, charles wrote:
I watched, at home, from Crystal Palace. and didn't notice anything amiss.
It so happened that my wife and I were on a cruise on Coronation Day, so
we watched the events (from the BBC feed) in appalling picture quality
(*) on the TV in our cabin, as the ship made its merry way between
Germany and Finland.
I wasn't aware of any sound or picture dropouts - and I was expecting
them if the ship happened to roll and its satellite dish servo couldn't
track the geostationary satellite perfectly.
(*) Probably due to the ship's dire analogue cable feed to the cabins - >multipath ghosting, random fluttering, nasty clipping of highlights...
on locally-generated signals as well as those received by satellite.
In article <yfecnRSPF_C_Vfv5nZ2dnZfqnPednZ2d@brightview.co.uk>, NY <me@privacy.net> scribeth thus
On 08/05/2023 11:36, charles wrote:
I watched, at home, from Crystal Palace. and didn't notice anything amiss. >>
It so happened that my wife and I were on a cruise on Coronation Day, so
we watched the events (from the BBC feed) in appalling picture quality
(*) on the TV in our cabin, as the ship made its merry way between
Germany and Finland.
I wasn't aware of any sound or picture dropouts - and I was expecting
them if the ship happened to roll and its satellite dish servo couldn't
track the geostationary satellite perfectly.
(*) Probably due to the ship's dire analogue cable feed to the cabins -
multipath ghosting, random fluttering, nasty clipping of highlights...
on locally-generated signals as well as those received by satellite.
Very authentic, Probably a bit like what the viewers saw at Queen Liz's crowning!!
I saw a documentary from about 10 years ago about Liz's coronation, and
the head of OB (now a very old man) was describing the restrictions that
had been placed on him by the "man from the Palace" who sounded a right pompous killjoy. The BBC were ordered only to use wide shots. "Bugger
that for a game of soldiers", the BBC OB man thought, and he sneaked in
a few long lenses and surreptitiously fitted them to the turrets of some
of the cameras - and so were able to show close-ups that the Palace man
had banned him from doing. By the time it was broadcast, it was too
late, wasn't it?
I was surprised that even in 2023, we were not allowed to know what the annointing ceremony involves. Apparently at the time of Liz's
coronation, the BBC were intending to show actors portraying what the Archbishop was doing to the Queen (oooo Matronnnnnnnn) to fill in the
dead air while the privacy screens were drawn, but even *that* was
forbidden.
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