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I'll be interested to see what happens on RTÉ for a France home game, usually they take the French feed, which means all the graphics and scoreboard are in French, Used to annoy me, also for a while the french feed was in 4:3 so RTE had to put blue strips either side while somehow BBC were able to use their own graphics as usual and get a 16:9 picture. Why RTÉ never piggy backed them I'll never know.
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I wonder, Does the total HD coverage of this year's RBS6N have any impact on the Irish, French and Italian hosted fixtures?
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I'll be interested to see what happens on RTÉ for a France home game, usually they take the French feed, which means all the graphics and scoreboard are in French, Used to annoy me, also for a while the french feed was in 4:3 so RTE had to put blue strips either side while somehow BBC were able to use their own graphics as usual and get a 16:9 picture. Why RTÉ never piggy backed them I'll never know.
Well, we'll get to see on Saturday, go on the boys in green!
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I wonder, Does the total HD coverage of this year's RBS6N have any impact on the Irish, French and Italian hosted fixtures?
Shouldn't do so in the case of the Irish and Italian hosted fixtures are which normally produced by the BBC in any case (RTÉ doesn't do HD anyway, at least not officially), they should get the same HD coverage as if they were in London, Endinburgh, or Cardiff. Not sure what France Televisions' position on HD is though.
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looks like EBU have setup encrypted feeds for the Olympics. with the multilaterals on 10e, possibly the Beeb will use this.
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Fascinating FATV intro to Chelsea v Cardiff, Jim Rosenthal doing the intros, First high profile invision introduction to a free FATV game.
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The BBC would almost always use SISLive as their preferred sport OB provider (formerly BBC OBs), and I suspect SISLive would do any sub-contracting if required, though now SISLive also own 021 (which had a number of recent HD OB trucks) this is less likely.
AIUI when the BBC sold their OB division to SISLive, it came with a headline-agreement that guaranteed a certain amount of work (otherwise the division would have had far less value and been raised less cash). If you want to use non-SISLive OB facilities I think you have to get approval from the team monitoring this deal.
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looks like EBU have setup encrypted feeds for the Olympics. with the multilaterals on 10e, possibly the Beeb will use this.
Suspect those are bookable (SD?) unis for smaller EBU members, or backups. Most large broadcasters will be using capacity on the EBU fibre bundles - just as they did in Beijing.
The EBU put in a large amount of fibre capacity to the Olympic IBCs each year, and then their members can purchase capacity on it to backhaul their stuff to Europe. Much more cost effective to share this provision than set-up your own, particularly for broadcasters who need lines 24/7 for things like Press Red/web streaming, News live positions etc., or those who are backhauling event multis and unis and co-ordinating back at base (rather than doing everything on-site) and thus need more than a couple of circuits.
(The BBC usually produce their Winter Olympics coverage from London - with lots of multis and unis backhauled to TV Centre, but in recent years have produced their Summer Games stuff on-site, with just a couple of backhauls with the final product on it. Fibre is now probably a lot cheaper than satellite for 14 days 24/7 - and is also probably cheaper than the amount spent on hotels and flights and more extensive on-site facilities if you did it all on-site)
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Really impressed by FATV today, I suspect that they are ramping up this service looking ahead to charging in the future on a regular basis. Today's fixture was well covered and was 'programmed' rather than a simple Match coverage and voice over at the start, half-time and full time. Was as good as a traditional broadcaster albeit without a formal studio using the gantry for links. Rosenthal was a real bonus. Pending any potential replay coverage of this round, that's the end of it's use for the FACup this season. ITV will cover the remaining seven fixtures from the QFs onwards.
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France Televisions feed used by RTÉ as expected today. It really is a pity RTÉ do not take a dirty BBC feed on those occassions, the BBC logo can be easily covered over and it would have the advantage of the graphics being in English! Its not like RTÉ have never done it before...
France Televisions have new graphics this year incidently, though they still use the same rainbow transition effect.
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Re the FATV show. S4C was broadcasting the same game live, hence the more programmy feel.
