• slowly-moving novelty backgrounds - not when marginalised

    From J. P. Gilliver@21:1/5 to All on Fri Sep 22 13:53:33 2023
    There's the fashion for coloured abstract backgrounds that gradually
    move; fairly calming, I suppose.

    However, when something is shown almost full screen, but little strips
    of these backgrounds remains round the edge, their movement can be
    distracting, as it's not immediately obvious what they are - there's one (orange, IIRR - can't remember which prog.) that, when only a narrow
    strip is shown, sometimes looks like a progress bar, until you realise
    it isn't.

    The latest is the new Breakfast one, with the big blue circle. I quite
    like it in some places. But this morning for the weather forecasts, at
    least 6:45 and 7:15, for some reason the weather map was shown only
    partly filling the screen (maybe they want to show off their nice studio
    with the big screen with a platform in front of it that the forecaster
    is standing on); this meant that the sides of the map had the new
    background, and the big blue circle hove into and out of view at times,
    which was rather distracting to the actual forecast.
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    J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

    The first banjo solo I played was actually just a series of mistakes. In fact it was all the mistakes I knew at the time. - Tim Dowling, RT2015/6/20-26

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  • From Brian Gaff@21:1/5 to J. P. Gilliver on Sat Sep 23 10:11:11 2023
    When I could see, I found such effects almost made me feel sick, just like
    when you are on a ship.
    Now its just the presenters banal wibbling that does it.
    Brian

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    There's the fashion for coloured abstract backgrounds that gradually move; fairly calming, I suppose.

    However, when something is shown almost full screen, but little strips of these backgrounds remains round the edge, their movement can be
    distracting, as it's not immediately obvious what they are - there's one (orange, IIRR - can't remember which prog.) that, when only a narrow strip
    is shown, sometimes looks like a progress bar, until you realise it isn't.

    The latest is the new Breakfast one, with the big blue circle. I quite
    like it in some places. But this morning for the weather forecasts, at
    least 6:45 and 7:15, for some reason the weather map was shown only partly filling the screen (maybe they want to show off their nice studio with the big screen with a platform in front of it that the forecaster is standing on); this meant that the sides of the map had the new background, and the
    big blue circle hove into and out of view at times, which was rather distracting to the actual forecast.
    --
    J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

    The first banjo solo I played was actually just a series of mistakes. In
    fact
    it was all the mistakes I knew at the time. - Tim Dowling, RT2015/6/20-26

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