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No thread of this type is complete without mentioning the 1994-1997 RTE News “Green Machine” virtual set. I don’t like to use the word “plagiarism” in this context but I think it would be fair to say that it certainly took more than a bit of inspiration from the BBC News virtual set launched not a year or so previously, as did most of the graphics (not the opening titles, which featured a strange sun clock type device, although they then cut to a wide shot with virtual glass virtually the same as the end of the BBC titles, though the bulletin name was where the BBC coat of arms would have been).