Star Trek break-up on BBC2 last night?
 

What on earth happened to Star Trek "The Which Survives" 7m 45s into the
episode. I was listening in Dolby Surround PLIIx and the mono soundrack went
ambient and then started jumping to the surround speakers and then left then
right and all over the place. Along with that at about frame 11828 and 11898
or 7m 55.9s one of the fields jumped by about two scan lines, which is the
sort of thing that happens on VHS tape and after this the fields went out of
sync and the edges of vertical columns started shimmering for the next few
seconds. At first I thought it was the DTT signal breaking up because that's
what happened 38 minutes into the previous episode but now that I've looked
at it in VirtualDub it can't be that since there is no blocking.

I thought the BBC had gone digital but obviously the episode must have come
from an analogue source. Looks like the BBC has a mangled tape. On top of
this since the sound distortion was synchronised with the video fault it
also looks like the audio was recorded using depth multiplexing on the same
track as the video which is something that as far as I know is only used on
cartridge formats so what was the BBC broadcasting it from. Hi8?

Star Trek break-up on BBC2 last night?
 

Agamemnon wrote:
What on earth happened to Star Trek "The Which Survives" 7m 45s into the
episode. I was listening in Dolby Surround PLIIx and the mono soundrack
went ambient and then started jumping to the surround speakers and then
left then right and all over the place. Along with that at about frame
11828 and 11898 or 7m 55.9s one of the fields jumped by about two scan
lines, which is the sort of thing that happens on VHS tape and after
this the fields went out of sync and the edges of vertical columns
started shimmering for the next few seconds. At first I thought it was
the DTT signal breaking up because that's what happened 38 minutes into
the previous episode but now that I've looked at it in VirtualDub it
can't be that since there is no blocking.

I thought the BBC had gone digital but obviously the episode must have
come from an analogue source. Looks like the BBC has a mangled tape. On
top of this since the sound distortion was synchronised with the video
fault it also looks like the audio was recorded using depth multiplexing
on the same track as the video which is something that as far as I know
is only used on cartridge formats so what was the BBC broadcasting it
from. Hi8?

Yep, the original repeat on July 29, 1969 was spotless ISTR.

PLUS the lights on the transporter console were blinking
red-blue-red-green rather than the usual red-red-blue-green - who the
heck was doing continuity that day??

****poor stuff eh?!

Hang on, I'll give the director, Herb Wallerstein, a quick call - any
idea if he's still alive?

10 GET ($SENSE_OF_PROPORTION)
20 GOTO 10

Star Trek break-up on BBC2 last night?
 

On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 10:15:41 +0100, Linker3000
wrote:

Agamemnon wrote:
What on earth happened to Star Trek "The Which Survives" 7m 45s into
the episode. I was listening in Dolby Surround PLIIx and the mono
soundrack went ambient and then started jumping to the surround
speakers and then left then right and all over the place. Along with
that at about frame 11828 and 11898 or 7m 55.9s one of the fields
jumped by about two scan lines, which is the sort of thing that happens
on VHS tape and after this the fields went out of sync and the edges of
vertical columns started shimmering for the next few seconds. At first
I thought it was the DTT signal breaking up because that's what
happened 38 minutes into the previous episode but now that I've looked
at it in VirtualDub it can't be that since there is no blocking.
I thought the BBC had gone digital but obviously the episode must have
come from an analogue source. Looks like the BBC has a mangled tape. On
top of this since the sound distortion was synchronised with the video
fault it also looks like the audio was recorded using depth
multiplexing on the same track as the video which is something that as
far as I know is only used on cartridge formats so what was the BBC
broadcasting it from. Hi8?

Yep, the original repeat on July 29, 1969 was spotless ISTR.

PLUS the lights on the transporter console were blinking
red-blue-red-green rather than the usual red-red-blue-green - who the
heck was doing continuity that day??

****poor stuff eh?!

Hang on, I'll give the director, Herb Wallerstein, a quick call - any
idea if he's still alive?

10 GET ($SENSE_OF_PROPORTION)
20 GOTO 10


Hey Linker it's a bit harsh to take the **** like that.
This is obviously down to sub-space interference interfering with the
beaming of the signal. It just needs new dilithium crystals.

Star Trek break-up on BBC2 last night?
 

Hey Linker it's a bit harsh to take the **** like that.
This is obviously down to sub-space interference interfering with the
beaming of the signal. It just needs new dilithium crystals.

Aw c'mon - if I had wanted to take the **** I would have pointed out
that the OP had mis-typed the episode's name.

Star Trek break-up on BBC2 last night?
 

"Ed" [email protected] wrote in message news:[email protected]
On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 10:15:41 +0100, Linker3000
wrote:
Hey Linker it's a bit harsh to take the **** like that.
This is obviously down to sub-space interference interfering with the
beaming of the signal. It just needs new dilithium crystals.

I thought there was an infection in the bio gel packs that make up the
main computer. Or perhaps Chakotay was on a sprit quest and that
interefered.

"Akoochimoyah. I am far from the sacred places of our grandfathers."

Star Trek break-up on BBC2 last night?
 

"Linker3000" wrote in message
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Hey Linker it's a bit harsh to take the **** like that.
This is obviously down to sub-space interference interfering with the
beaming of the signal. It just needs new dilithium crystals.

Aw c'mon - if I had wanted to take the **** I would have pointed out that
the OP had mis-typed the episode's name.

It's the way it's spelled in Wikipedia.

Star Trek break-up on BBC2 last night?
 

On Jul 29, 4:05 am, "Agamemnon" wrote:
"Linker3000" wrote in message

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Hey Linker it's a bit harsh to take the **** like that.
This is obviously down to sub-space interference interfering with the
beaming of the signal. It just needs new dilithium crystals.

Aw c'mon - if I had wanted to take the **** I would have pointed out that
the OP had mis-typed the episode's name.

It's the way it's spelled in Wikipedia.

Wikpedia - "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_Which_Survives"

Aggie - "The Which Survives"