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(10-01-2024, 02:39 PM)XIII Wrote: I think anyone who doesn't want to embrace streaming is stuck in the past.
Personally, I DO embrace it very well.
It's just that at times the promotions appear to be excessive
But, I don't understand those who can tolerate so much advertising and a fixed schedule all the time.
I mean, I do that too at times, but in general, I think linear should work more like a showcase than something where to watch things
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(11-01-2024, 12:27 PM)Kunst Wrote: Personally, I DO embrace it very well.
It's just that at times the promotions appear to be excessive
But, I don't understand those who can tolerate so much advertising and a fixed schedule all the time.
I mean, I do that too at times, but in general, I think linear should work more like a showcase than something where to watch things
I think that linear is indeed a showcase for top shows. Last year the BBC took the welcome decision of promoting Happy Valley on BBC1 and waited until the end of eacch episode before putting it on iPlayer. The result was good ratings. When TV companies make an effort, people turn to traditional telly to watch. Much of the reasoning behind falling ratings is the de ja vu type of programming. The same programmes on at the same time every day. People are bored with the exact same thing day in day out. Gavin and Stacey on Christmas day 2019 got huge ratings because it was something different and people looked forward to it. When TV no longer has nothing that people look forward to, then people will inevitably stop watching. TV execs are partly right, habits are changing, but they are also wrong. They use on demand apps as a disguise for their laziness in failing to be creative. Then use "changing habits" as a defacto reason for not caring anymore.
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Congratulations on Duncan Newmarch on 20 years in the BBC continuity booth. Here is a nice video that he is published featuring some of the idents and programme introductions over the years.
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The death has been announced of Sir Paul Fox at the age of 98.
A titan of TV management - including five years as Controller of BBC1 and fifteen years as MD of Yorkshire Television.
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Doctor Who ident with a few throwbacks:
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A very rare static caption promoting tomorrow’s Election Debate after this evenings Question Time.
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I like that it is very clean and simple, but the main text may appear massive depending on the size of the viewer’s TV. At least it calls attention to the programme!
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(06-06-2024, 09:29 PM)interestednovice Wrote: I like that it is very clean and simple, but the main text may appear massive depending on the size of the viewer’s TV. At least it calls attention to the programme!
When you've got a range of screens to deal with - from a 5" mobile phone display, to Lord Sugar's 90" Sharp TV - you can't cater for everyone.
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Yes, but I saw the caption on my phone screen (as that was where I was browsing the forum) and it still appeared huge! Once can only imagine how large it must have seemed on a massive TV.
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(Yesterday, 02:08 AM)bilky asko Wrote: When you've got a range of screens to deal with - from a 5" mobile phone display, to Lord Sugar's 90" Sharp TV - you can't cater for everyone.
The trouble is news presenation especially seems more concerned with 5" mobile screens rather than peoples TV screens - even though the ticker is usually perfectly legible on a mobile so no need to supersize everything.
Also presumably the QR codes are useless if reading on mobiles unless your QR reader can identify it in video content.