20-04-2023, 10:22 AM
I can upload it so people can see what it looked like... I'll do that later.
If the original master tape has gone missing, I guess it could technically be rebuilt from the studio tape that's out there, though there are a few issues there- most notably the lack of captions (though they are shown against a black screen before the studio recording starts, so could be keyed back on), the Enigma video and Let Loose satellite performances being spooled back before they finish, so are incomplete (though the latter is on the studio tape in full at the start), the Wet Wet Wet performance missing the middle (though as it's a repeat from an earlier edition that could technically be rectified), no animated transitions and several seconds missing from the inserts around each transition and no end credits montage. Even trying to do so would probably be more effort than BBC4 would be prepared to put in and would still be messy unless the original insert tapes still exist too to patch in most of the bits that are missing from the studio tape.
If the original master tape has gone missing, I guess it could technically be rebuilt from the studio tape that's out there, though there are a few issues there- most notably the lack of captions (though they are shown against a black screen before the studio recording starts, so could be keyed back on), the Enigma video and Let Loose satellite performances being spooled back before they finish, so are incomplete (though the latter is on the studio tape in full at the start), the Wet Wet Wet performance missing the middle (though as it's a repeat from an earlier edition that could technically be rectified), no animated transitions and several seconds missing from the inserts around each transition and no end credits montage. Even trying to do so would probably be more effort than BBC4 would be prepared to put in and would still be messy unless the original insert tapes still exist too to patch in most of the bits that are missing from the studio tape.