09-04-2024, 02:24 PM
(08-04-2024, 08:36 PM)Critique Wrote: It’s fallen out of favour now, but back in the day a couple of the streaming services showed a quick blast of an ident from whatever linear channel the programme you’d chosen to watch was originally broadcast on. iPlayer did it for a long time, but 4oD did it for a while too, and even used a continuity announcer to do a generic ‘You’re watching 4oD’ announcement.
IIRC, the announcement was different depending on where you were watching - I certainly recall hearing ‘you’re watching 4oD on Xbox’. I’m not sure why they felt the need to tell you what platform you were watching on, but strangely I still quite liked that they went to some extra effort.
I don't know why we're not seeing more of this to be honest. With more and more content being watched via iPlayer it would be good to have some short idents at the beginning, helps give the service a bit of personality.