SG: Only in Singapore :) Singapore national TV was transmitting a Formula 1 race to the EBU satellites. before the race it is normal to send colour bars and a test tone to ensure the link is working correctly, and in SG broadcasters still use analogue PAL at 25 frames/50 fields per second. In PAL countries these bars are often put over a red screen (with analogue video the red colour can overload the distribution system and make the picture look distorted, but if too low the picture will be "washed out"). Its still used today but often there is an ident block and something moving about in the red bit (to check that an MPEG encoder hasn't crashed and stuck on a still frame).
Normally the full red bit is at the bottom (if you are above a certain age you may remember seeing these bars on colour TV in the morning before programmes started), but there is no EBU regulation about where it should be.
Someone at Singapore TV was feeling patriotic... (actually HK and CN (who both use PAL and similar flags) could have done the same stunt but Singapore like to always be first in everything :laugh_at:)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORZOmLeoik8
Lets watch "Les Maîtres du temps"(Time masters) I had this film recorded on VHS when it was originally aired on BBC1 in 1989 (the one and only time ever aired on UK TV) It was originally in French but the BBC dubbed it inot english. The guy who voices "Jaffar"(the mick jagger looking fella) did the voice for Mr Ben. tha animation was done by Mobius whom some of you might not like becaues of gorse fests like "heavy metal" etc But I really like it. I also have some of the soundtrack. The film was made in 1982 and the synths are absolutely great. (check out the early 80's techno tune in the intro)Anyway I used to watch this film loads as a kid and have watched it 3 times in 2 days. Bit of a difficult film for a 5 year old to grasp at the time but I think I semi understood the concept. Anyway Enjoy and sorry for the poor VHS rip. The only HD version available is the original French version (It looks great though)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0lnl8B1k_k
Movies for free I live above work and use their wifi and just got busted for downloading torrents. Fuck!
Anyway can anyone recommend any streaming movies for free sites. I tired youtube and movie25 but I can't get it to work without created an account.
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DK : Made in Denmark but not often known OK we know that Lego comes from there, and much bacon, and Carlsberg and cop shows with glamourous women wearing sensible winter jumpers (even the princess on the stamps wears one) - but as well as not realising until Sinner pointed out to me that ortofon turntable cartridges/styli are made there, the Philips electronic test card was designed in Denmark and not Holland! It is still used today but altered for digital transmission (by removing some biits and adding scrolling text/moving stuff as a crashed MPEG encoder will jam on the last still frame and a static testcard would hide this fault..)
in 1985 summer I was stuck at home and only had TV to watch as where I lived wasn't too safe to walk around on your own as ethnic minority teen, and I had this Japanese b&W set which also had VHF band I and very strong gain on its internal antenna. Band I was ceased for telly in the UK and was a different standard anyway, but that year had lots of sporadic E / tropo that maks VHF radio waves go much further.
So I was surprised to see on the VHF band this testcard, I knew the BBC2 sometimes used it but ours was adapted and this one said "TELEVERKET" at the top and "NORGE" at the bottom. Of course there was no Internet then and my family couldn't even afford the telephone so I had to look through various atlases until I worked out I was watching Norweigian TV. (TELEVERKET was the national telephone company, in many European countries they operated the networks to the broadcasting transmitters and also the towers) But I can see now why Sinner in his teens already had was helping set up the anarchist bookshop as there wasn't daytime TV to distract him :laugh_at:
The content and layout of the pattern was designed in the Philips TV laboratory in Copenhagen by chief engineer Erik Helmer Nielsen in 1968. The equipment, PM5544, which generates the pattern, was then made by his assistant engineer Finn Hendil in 1968-69.[1]
Sadly Finn Hendil passed away in 2011, but Erik is still around (but even he struggles with digital video codecs)
http://forum.recordere.dk/forum_posts.asp?TID=81564&title=omkode-drk-ts-fil-til-dvd-format
More than just a pretty face...
russell brand on american news prog You think the media would have learned by now: don't bring Russell Brand onto your show, especially if it's live, if you're not able to keep up with him. Otherwise he will run away with it and embarrass the hell out of you while doing so. Well done Russell, keep it up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADJhErmJuoQ&feature=player_embedded
gota love him :smile:
can someone recommend me a good film please? ...im watching on lovefilm so if you know its on there that would be amazing. im not really in the know on films currently. it can be past or present. only criteria is that it has a plot.
not too recent cos think it takes a little while to get on lovefilm
thanks :smile:123
UK : LDN / SE : Auntie make the ultimate cat video… I rarely watch telly and am usually fairly critical of much BBC content (though supportive of the concept of public broadcasting) but programmes like this make the license fee worth paying - these scientists (who are all British) actually discovered and confirmed new discoveries in natural science (I had suspected some of the findings myself but the science community is going to trust proper zoologists more than a telecoms/broadcast engineer who took a lot of drugs in the 90s and is prone to occasional clinical lycanthropy).
The Scottish dude who hand builds the trackers is a proper old skool boffin type (that reminds me I might borrow that idea he used to store the cable reels).
BBC News - Secret life of the cat: What do our feline companions get up to?
BBC News - Secret life of the cat: The science of tracking our pets
What are YOU watching at the moment [username]? Share some videos you like to watch or are watching at the moment :)
For me:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FhWCpKPl6Q
filming and editing is so smooth, fucking good skating12…45
Rango. Just thought I would recommend a really good movie I've just finished watching. I'm not sure about you lot but I am finding decent childrens movies quite hard to come by.
Now this was created by the team who brought you the likes of spongebob, ren and stimpy and rockos modern life so yes it is quite psychedelic, bewildering and splattered with all sorts of unexpected quirks.
Its chock full of gags, some of which only the adult audiences will get.
There was also a couple of fear and loathing cross overs and references (not to mention the main character is voiced by johnny depp and wears hawaiian shirt.) That made me chuckle.
To summerize the plot, a domesticated chameleon mad with solitude finds himself unexpectedly thrown into the desert. He seeks refuge in an old spaghetti westernesque town where his acting skills land him out of his depth.
It has some spiritual elements of deep southern and mexican myths and a few very trippy dehydration enduced halicinations.
As for the characters they made me laugh and they all seed to carry out their own humour which was exevuted perfectly with the wacky animated faces. (these are nickelodeon animaters remember so the characters are hilariously characatured)
In a nutshell a not to serious animated black comedy for all ages, refreshingly different and lacks the predictability and wetnes of most family comedies. (although maybe a tad wetnes...hard to avoid with family films though e
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