RE: [backstage] Is Freesat going to be HD only?

2008-03-31 Thread Andrew Bowden
 I'll really pleased to hear that there is a good chance
 that the text and interactive services on Freesat are going to be HD.

The HD abilities of the MHEG profile on Freesat are rather nice.  But we
won't be using them yet.

 I'm wondering if they will be animated, like little vignets from the
 3D view, that would be good.  I'm guessing we can't have PROPER 3D
 weather maps that you can controll Google Earth style with the Freesat
remote...

RD did a concept demo using MHEG a couple of years ago, playing out
through a Freeview box.  It's not quite Google Earth style in that was
more scrolling between different regions (press UP on the Midlands map
to go to the North England map, and it scrolls through it).  Technically
it's not that difficult - you tile a series of mpeg stills up on the set
top box.  Even zooming in would be do-able.

Would anyone use it is the question - which is an important question in
a bandwidth contstrained enviroment.  As a member of the Weather
production team tells me, most people look at the weather for their
locale only and don't care about anywhere else.

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RE: [backstage] News 24 moves to Astra 2A...

2008-03-31 Thread Andrew Bowden
   Now, given all the talk of cross-format rights, international
rights, the 2D 
 footprint etc... How does the Beeb think that they're going to be able
to offer 
 rightsholders geographical certainty as to where footage of sporting
events, football, 
 the F1 - the Olympics also comes to mind, remembering the last
Olympics' coverage - 
 will be viewable? the 2A south footprint is Europe-wide 
 (http://www.astrosat.info/FAQs/Footprints/footprints.html)... This
doesn't mean N24 is 
 going encrypted, does it?

   FTA, on 2A... Good for the common sense movement, but I'm almost
wondering as to 
 whether the rightsholders even know about this yet! We already have
the blanking when 
 some sports stuff is shown on the live news simulcasts, surely N24
isn't just going to 
 blank the nation's screens every time sports footage is shown?
   If not, how has the Beeb wangled this? (and can they do the same
for other 
 content?)

Well I don't know why News 24 moved to 2A, but I expect the logic goes
like this:

News 24 is a news station, and therefore doesn't buy broadcast rights
for particular events.  But does relay coverage of rights related
programming (e.g. Olympics, Football) as part of its news bulletins.
The kind of footage broadcast on News 24 would also be needed for BBC
World - the BBC's global news channel.  Ergo, if the BBC is in a
position to broadcast the footage on BBC World, then there isn't going
to be an issue broadcasting it on News 24 to the whole planet (or at
least world covered by the 2A footprint!) either.

IIRC, anyone outside the UK can view online streaming of News 24 via the
website too.

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Re: [backstage] News 24 moves to Astra 2A...

2008-03-31 Thread Brian Butterworth
On 31/03/2008, Andrew Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Now, given all the talk of cross-format rights, international
 rights, the 2D
  footprint etc... How does the Beeb think that they're going to be able
 to offer
  rightsholders geographical certainty as to where footage of sporting
 events, football,
  the F1 - the Olympics also comes to mind, remembering the last
 Olympics' coverage -
  will be viewable? the 2A south footprint is Europe-wide
  (http://www.astrosat.info/FAQs/Footprints/footprints.html)... This
 doesn't mean N24 is
  going encrypted, does it?
 
FTA, on 2A... Good for the common sense movement, but I'm almost
 wondering as to
  whether the rightsholders even know about this yet! We already have
 the blanking when
  some sports stuff is shown on the live news simulcasts, surely N24
 isn't just going to
  blank the nation's screens every time sports footage is shown?
If not, how has the Beeb wangled this? (and can they do the same
 for other
  content?)

 Well I don't know why News 24 moved to 2A, but I expect the logic goes
 like this:

 News 24 is a news station, and therefore doesn't buy broadcast rights
 for particular events.  But does relay coverage of rights related
 programming (e.g. Olympics, Football) as part of its news bulletins.


In 1990, the British Satellite Broadcasting The Sports Channel, Now and
Galaxy channels broadcasts clips of the FIFA World Cup (football) during
their news programmes.

At the time, the BBC held the rights to these broadcasts and it objected to
these channels using the footage.

The BBC took BSB to court - and LOST!  The judge held that it was 'fair
usage' of the footage, even though the BSB presentation had been
'entertaining'.

BSB The Sports Channel became Sky Sports, of course, but it was Sky News
that gained the benefit of being able to show clips from any broadcaster
first.

Under the EU Television without Frontiers directive, (89/552/EEC CHAPTER
II, Article 2) News 24 can get rebroadcast anywhere in the EU - including by
satellite - as it is free-to-air in the UK.

The same doesn't apply to the net, so News 24 is currently restricted to the
UK.

The kind of footage broadcast on News 24 would also be needed for BBC
 World - the BBC's global news channel.  Ergo, if the BBC is in a
 position to broadcast the footage on BBC World, then there isn't going
 to be an issue broadcasting it on News 24 to the whole planet (or at



least world covered by the 2A footprint!) either.


BBC World has very little sport, and it's a bit embarrassing.

BBC World is kept from the Great British Public as it carries adverts, and
also so the BBC don't cannibalize their own ratings with another News
channel.

I'm in Belgium at the moment and I can keep in touch with UK News by
watching News 24, but it can be hard further away.

Seems like a good public service to me, keeping the Great British public
informed when they are away on holiday or business.


IIRC, anyone outside the UK can view online streaming of News 24 via the
 website too.

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RE: [backstage] Is Freesat going to be HD only?

2008-03-31 Thread Andrew Bowden
 



Yes, there is always a certain problem with the need to provide
local and regional data from a satellite that covers the whole of the
EU!
I would personally welcome the effort of putting a zoomable,
animated weather system on Freesat.   It would be a very BBC thing to
do, of course, a combination of a technical trial and public service.
It seems to me it might be worth giving it a go for until Xmas,
and drop it if people hate it.

Unfortunately the project plan of work is extremely big and with some
very tight deadlines.  If the team had chance to do more fun stuff like
that, we'd all be up for it because we're all very keen to push the
limits and move the technology forward as much as we can.
 
Alas it won't be for now.

As a response to the Weather production team: their locale
only isn't necessarily just one place.  Many people commute long
distances, or have family and friends around the country.  It's not, as
I am also sure they say in weather production, cut and dry.

Ah well, as some of my colleagues in Nations and Regions are very keen
on saying most activities and purchases take place within a dozen miles
from home.  The average commute is 13 miles, and that's about the
furthest people tend to go (see Average distance normally travelled for
various purposes in
http://www.newspapersoc.org.uk/documents/publications/NS-BBC-submission/
ns-bbc-submission.htm for example - it is from 2003 but I doubt has
changed much)
 
As the current BBCi weather maps cover very large areas (we split the UK
into seven) chances are, very few people are regularly needing the
option to move onto another weather map.


RE: [backstage] Is Freesat going to be HD only? // BBC 7i?

2008-03-31 Thread Andrew Bowden
 Currently the service broadcasts blocks of comedy and science fiction
(7th 
 Dimension), as well as children's (CBeebies) and drama.  It would
be nice if these 
 blocks could be rebroadcast all day in an interactive loop, so you
could come to BBC 7 
 during the CBeebies block, press RED and switch to the comedy, Scifi
or whatever...  
 probably a rights nightmare, but it would be great to just have
somewhere to get some  comedy at any time of the day.

When BBC7 first launched, they had serious rights problems - the range
of programmes they could broadcast on air was highly limited, and what
could go online was far less.  Took them about a year to sort it out
IIRC - both to get stuff online and get lots more from the archive
available.

Because they went through that serious pain then, they may well have
done it in a way that would hopefully avoid such pain in the future.
 

  


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[backstage] [Backstage] New BBC News site

2008-03-31 Thread Matt Barber
When did this go live?! The black bar at the top will have to grow on
me... are there any plans to do anything else with that, other than a
search box?

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RE: [backstage] [Backstage] New BBC News site

2008-03-31 Thread Nick Reynolds-FMT
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/03/refreshing_changes_1.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/03/bbc_ux_20.html 

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When did this go live?! The black bar at the top will have to grow on
me... are there any plans to do anything else with that, other than a
search box?

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RE: [backstage] [Backstage] New BBC News site

2008-03-31 Thread Christopher Woods
Me too..
 
I like the wider pages, good considering the increasing amount of widescreen
users (msyelf included).
 
However, the black up top is too large and an unnecessary waste of screen
real estate. The BBC logo isn't even aligned with the BBC News logo, so it
all looks off-kilter. Also, a slight, subtle columnisation would work nicely
- just a slightly darker background colour for the see also column on the
far right of the screen would be nice. Some aspects like the darker bgcolor
for image captions is gone, which is a shame as it helped separate the main
body text from the captions.
 
Not everything in the old design needed getting rid of...
 
Switchable stylesheets would be the win!


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Today!
 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2008/03/refreshing_changes.html

300 comments already!
 
On 31/03/2008, Matt Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 

When did this go live?! The black bar at the top will have to grow on
me... are there any plans to do anything else with that, other than a
search box?

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RE: [backstage] [Backstage] New BBC News site

2008-03-31 Thread zen16083
The double mastheads (black then red) take up too much space and push the
main chunk of the site too far down the page. Apart from that, a very nice
design. Centred and wider.. at last. /applause/


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Me too..

I like the wider pages, good considering the increasing amount of widescreen
users (msyelf included).

However, the black up top is too large and an unnecessary waste of screen
real estate. The BBC logo isn't even aligned with the BBC News logo, so it
all looks off-kilter. Also, a slight, subtle columnisation would work
nicely - just a slightly darker background colour for the see also column
on the far right of the screen would be nice. Some aspects like the darker
bgcolor for image captions is gone, which is a shame as it helped separate
the main body text from the captions.

Not everything in the old design needed getting rid of...

Switchable stylesheets would be the win!

  _

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Sent: 31 March 2008 15:19
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Today!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2008/03/refreshing_changes.html

300 comments already!

On 31/03/2008, Matt Barber  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]  wrote:
When did this go live?! The black bar at the top will have to grow on
me... are there any plans to do anything else with that, other than a
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Re: [backstage] [Backstage] New BBC News site

2008-03-31 Thread Paul Waring
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 02:50:53PM +0100, Matt Barber wrote:
 When did this go live?! The black bar at the top will have to grow on
 me... are there any plans to do anything else with that, other than a
 search box?

Launched today, at least for me. 427 validation errors as well, which is
quite impressive.

Paul

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RE: [backstage] Is Freesat going to be HD only?

2008-03-31 Thread Andrew Bowden
 





Ah well, as some of my colleagues in Nations and Regions
are very keen on saying most activities and purchases take place within
a dozen miles from home.  The average commute is 13 miles, and that's
about the furthest people tend to go (see Average distance normally
travelled for various purposes in
http://www.newspapersoc.org.uk/documents/publications/NS-BBC-submission/
ns-bbc-submission.htm for example - it is from 2003 but I doubt has
changed much)

Ah, that wonderful word most is, and what a mass of sins the
word average covers.  I'm wondering if this is a mean, normal or
2-standard-deviation average already...

I should hope it's mean average, as many years of studying maths
(including some statistics at degree level), it was always, if it don't
say, it be mean.
 
But who knows.  This article claims that the average commute is just
8.7miles (which is 14km...)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7009776.stm
 
Ah, old BBC News website.  How I will miss you and your nice narrower
pages... (and only 74 validation errors ;)


RE: [backstage] [Backstage] New BBC News site

2008-03-31 Thread Robin Cramp
The header and footers are being pulled in on all new designs within bbc.co.uk 
to keep the standard throughout the site.
I must agree that it doesn't quite work in this instance; if all new pages are 
to follow this format then it might be worth looking at how the news banner is 
incorporated better into this design format.

Robin


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Sent: 31 March 2008 16:00
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
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The double mastheads (black then red) take up too much space and push the main 
chunk of the site too far down the page. Apart from that, a very nice design. 
Centred and wider at last. /applause/


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Sent: 31 March 2008 15:47
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: RE: [backstage] [Backstage] New BBC News site

Me too..

I like the wider pages, good considering the increasing amount of widescreen 
users (msyelf included).

However, the black up top is too large and an unnecessary waste of screen real 
estate. The BBC logo isn't even aligned with the BBC News logo, so it all looks 
off-kilter. Also, a slight, subtle columnisation would work nicely - just a 
slightly darker background colour for the see also column on the far right of 
the screen would be nice. Some aspects like the darker bgcolor for image 
captions is gone, which is a shame as it helped separate the main body text 
from the captions.

Not everything in the old design needed getting rid of...

Switchable stylesheets would be the win!


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Sent: 31 March 2008 15:19
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
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Today!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2008/03/refreshing_changes.html

300 comments already!

On 31/03/2008, Matt Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When did this go live?! The black bar at the top will have to grow on
me... are there any plans to do anything else with that, other than a
search box?

./Matt
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Re: [backstage] [Backstage] New BBC News site

2008-03-31 Thread Brian Butterworth
On 31/03/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  The double mastheads (black then red) take up too much space and push the
 main chunk of the site too far down the page. Apart from that, a very nice
 design. Centred and wider…. at last. /applause/


Try accessing it from outside the UK.  The black banner is three times
bigger to make way for an advert.

Just a question ... how are you supposed to tell what it is you are
searching from the input box on the black bar?  Is the BBC site, the BBC
News site or t'Internet?






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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of *Christopher Woods
 *Sent:* 31 March 2008 15:47
 *To:* backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
 *Subject:* RE: [backstage] [Backstage] New BBC News site



 Me too..



 I like the wider pages, good considering the increasing amount of
 widescreen users (msyelf included).



 However, the black up top is too large and an unnecessary waste of screen
 real estate. The BBC logo isn't even aligned with the BBC News logo, so it
 all looks off-kilter. Also, a slight, subtle columnisation would work nicely
 - just a slightly darker background colour for the see also column on the
 far right of the screen would be nice. Some aspects like the darker bgcolor
 for image captions is gone, which is a shame as it helped separate the main
 body text from the captions.



 Not everything in the old design needed getting rid of...



 Switchable stylesheets would be the win!


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 *Sent:* 31 March 2008 15:19
 *To:* backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
 *Subject:* Re: [backstage] [Backstage] New BBC News site

 Today!



 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2008/03/refreshing_changes.html

 300 comments already!



 On 31/03/2008, *Matt Barber* [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 When did this go live?! The black bar at the top will have to grow on
 me... are there any plans to do anything else with that, other than a
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Re: [backstage] New BBC News site

2008-03-31 Thread Jason Cartwright
#blq-mast,#blq-accesslinks {display:none}
.centerbody {padding-top:10px !important}

In FF's userContent.css works for me, then I can see all the local stuff
better.

J

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 4:36 PM, Tom Hannen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 The question is - how best to avoid looking at the black bar?
 Adblock?  Some CSS thingy?  Greasemonkey?

 Tom

 On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Robin Cramp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 
 
 
  The header and footers are being pulled in on all new designs within
  bbc.co.uk to keep the standard throughout the site.
 
  I must agree that it doesn't quite work in this instance; if all new
 pages
  are to follow this format then it might be worth looking at how the news
  banner is incorporated better into this design format.
 
 
 
  Robin
 
 
 
   
 
 
  From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   Sent: 31 March 2008 16:00
 
 
   To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
   Subject: RE: [backstage] [Backstage] New BBC News site
 
 
 
 
 
  The double mastheads (black then red) take up too much space and push
 the
  main chunk of the site too far down the page. Apart from that, a very
 nice
  design. Centred and wider…. at last. /applause/
 
 
 
 
 
  -Original Message-
   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Christopher Woods
   Sent: 31 March 2008 15:47
   To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
   Subject: RE: [backstage] [Backstage] New BBC News site
 
 
 
  Me too..
 
 
 
  I like the wider pages, good considering the increasing amount of
 widescreen
  users (msyelf included).
 
 
 
  However, the black up top is too large and an unnecessary waste of
 screen
  real estate. The BBC logo isn't even aligned with the BBC News logo, so
 it
  all looks off-kilter. Also, a slight, subtle columnisation would work
 nicely
  - just a slightly darker background colour for the see also column on
 the
  far right of the screen would be nice. Some aspects like the darker
 bgcolor
  for image captions is gone, which is a shame as it helped separate the
 main
  body text from the captions.
 
 
 
  Not everything in the old design needed getting rid of...
 
 
 
  Switchable stylesheets would be the win!
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
  From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Butterworth
   Sent: 31 March 2008 15:19
   To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
   Subject: Re: [backstage] [Backstage] New BBC News site
 
  Today!
 
 
 
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2008/03/refreshing_changes.html
 
   300 comments already!
 
 
 
  On 31/03/2008, Matt Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 
  When did this go live?! The black bar at the top will have to grow on
   me... are there any plans to do anything else with that, other than a
   search box?
 
   ./Matt
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Re: [backstage] New BBC News site Get the minutes and seconds for weighted puffs

2008-03-31 Thread Brian Butterworth
On 31/03/2008, Tom Hannen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 The question is - how best to avoid looking at the black bar?
 Adblock?  Some CSS thingy?  Greasemonkey?


You can block the international adverts with Adblock plus on the URLS in
http://m1.2mdn.net/

I love some of the comments in the page... in particular

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 On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Robin Cramp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 
 
 
  The header and footers are being pulled in on all new designs within
  bbc.co.uk to keep the standard throughout the site.
 
  I must agree that it doesn't quite work in this instance; if all new
 pages
  are to follow this format then it might be worth looking at how the news
  banner is incorporated better into this design format.
 
 
 
  Robin
 
 
 
   
 
 
  From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   Sent: 31 March 2008 16:00
 
 
   To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
   Subject: RE: [backstage] [Backstage] New BBC News site
 
 
 
 
 
  The double mastheads (black then red) take up too much space and push
 the
  main chunk of the site too far down the page. Apart from that, a very
 nice
  design. Centred and wider…. at last. /applause/
 
 
 
 
 
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   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Christopher Woods
   Sent: 31 March 2008 15:47
   To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
   Subject: RE: [backstage] [Backstage] New BBC News site
 
 
 
  Me too..
 
 
 
  I like the wider pages, good considering the increasing amount of
 widescreen
  users (msyelf included).
 
 
 
  However, the black up top is too large and an unnecessary waste of
 screen
  real estate. The BBC logo isn't even aligned with the BBC News logo, so
 it
  all looks off-kilter. Also, a slight, subtle columnisation would work
 nicely
  - just a slightly darker background colour for the see also column on
 the
  far right of the screen would be nice. Some aspects like the darker
 bgcolor
  for image captions is gone, which is a shame as it helped separate the
 main
  body text from the captions.
 
 
 
  Not everything in the old design needed getting rid of...
 
 
 
  Switchable stylesheets would be the win!
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
  From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Butterworth
   Sent: 31 March 2008 15:19
   To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
   Subject: Re: [backstage] [Backstage] New BBC News site
 
  Today!
 
 
 
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2008/03/refreshing_changes.html
 
   300 comments already!
 
 
 
  On 31/03/2008, Matt Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 
  When did this go live?! The black bar at the top will have to grow on
   me... are there any plans to do anything else with that, other than a
   search box?
 
   ./Matt
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