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RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - James2001 - 15-09-2023

I remember ordering Dominos pizzas through the remote on NTL, that was even more of a faff! So was sending emails, which they had as an option for a while. It's not hard to see why it never took off.

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RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - nwtv2003 - 15-09-2023

(15-09-2023, 10:33 PM)James2001 Wrote:  I remember ordering Dominos pizzas through the remote on NTL, that was even more of a faff! So was sending emails, which they had as an option for a while. It's not hard to see why it never took off.

I once sent an email by typing it using the NTL remote, it was such a faff I never did it again. The concept of interactive TV wasn’t a bad one on paper, the execution was so poor. I know you could buy keyboards from Sky/Open, NTL, On Digital etc but that didn’t add much to the experience.

NTL used TwoWay TV which in fairness did have some semi decent games. When they got around to updating their software properly to CR3/Liberate 1.2 we were given interactive Fifteen to One, which worked very well, but it was a case of too little too late.

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RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - Steve in Pudsey - 16-09-2023

I think it was also hamstrung by misuse of the word interactive for things which weren't, such as switching to extra streams. The thing that was always available and reasonably interactive was the digital text service that was slower and less extensive than classic Teletext that everyone was familiar with.

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RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - Stooky Bill - 16-09-2023

(15-09-2023, 10:56 PM)nwtv2003 Wrote:  NTL used TwoWay TV which in fairness did have some semi decent games. When they got around to updating their software properly to CR3/Liberate 1.2 we were given interactive Fifteen to One, which worked very well, but it was a case of too little too late.

TwoWayTV was another company I went for a job at, and thankfully didn't get. They were just doing interactive stuff on cable at that time, but as virtually no one had cable I suspect no one was using it. 

They opened something on DTT at one point but I don't remember what of anything that did with it. 

There is a company now called TwoWayMedia, I don't know if that's the same company

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RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - Milkshake - 17-09-2023

(13-09-2023, 10:00 AM)robertclark125 Wrote:  BBC Scotland had, for a short while, a trailer sting for kids programmes, which was a scene looking on a pavement, with a skateboard going past, and the camera then focusing on the manhole cover, with the BBC Scotland logo on it.

20 sec in has the skateboard sting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSzhQDIQtgc 

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RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - nwtv2003 - 17-09-2023

A little oddity here from January 1983, Channel 4 as we know at that time didn’t have the best start when filling the ad breaks. In this case here, LWT play out a few adverts before returning to a slide and what I presume is a locally generated caption. What’s interesting is that it’s not the default slide that would be a transmitted from Charlotte Street for those regions that didn’t have any adverts.

https://youtu.be/q3TxM9NGQrE?si=CpvLR-GpucCf4L-D 

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RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - BrandonHTVYT - 17-09-2023

Thought I'd post the launch of BBC Choice here as in a few days it'll mark 25 years since the channel launched.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJbIpi4l-Rg 

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RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - lookoutwales - 17-09-2023

(17-09-2023, 01:48 PM)nwtv2003 Wrote:  A little oddity here from January 1983, Channel 4 as we know at that time didn’t have the best start when filling the ad breaks. In this case here, LWT play out a few adverts before returning to a slide and what I presume is a locally generated caption.

Definitely looks like they kept an ident slide in the scanner at their own accord.

Fairly telling they had to fill the second break in the Brookside omnibus with their own advertising promo - but interesting there was no such trouble selling airtime surrounding Password.

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RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - Neil Jones - 17-09-2023

(17-09-2023, 01:53 PM)BrandonHTVYT Wrote:  Thought I'd post the launch of BBC Choice here as in a few days it'll mark 25 years since the channel launched.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJbIpi4l-Rg 

Hmm, for that skit with Clive Anderson I'm reminded of this series of skits...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEi4Os3NNpM 

Though I dare say M&W probably took that to its logical conclusion.

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RE: TV Social Media Pres Gold - Stooky Bill - 18-09-2023

A clip of TV coverage of 9/11 that I haven't seen before, this is the opening of Live with Regis and Kelly which started at 9am New York time.

Very odd the way it went from cheering crowd to teroor attack in 5 minutes. Interesting that the audience had been in the studio for a while and didn't know anything about it until Regis mentioned it on air. I wonder if they even came back after the break

https://youtu.be/o6Jl73KQZeo?si=mz6OPYyNdQTFEBnq 

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