Would you believe it?

"John Legon" wrote in message
o.uk...

"Mark Carver" wrote in message
...
jamie powell wrote:

The somewhat laconic announcement you've heard from ITV, saying there
was "a
glitch in the HD transmission chain" really doesn't give much away.

No it doesn't, and deliberately so. I know more detail, but I'm bound
not
to
put it in the public domain. You'll have to take my word for that I'm
afraid.

An article in The Times yesterday was explicit about the fault being
caused
by human error, saying that someone in the Technicolor transmission team
accidently triggered the advert while operating a computer. He was "given
a
considerable telling off..."

John L





I recon it was deliberate. There was a delay to transmission and as the goal
was scored someone deliberately put the add in to obliterate the goal. It
was a plot and it was to undermine the morale of the country. If it had
worked they could have denied the goal had ever happened but they did not
realise the SD feed was unaffected.
I recon the Germans had something to do with it or Maradonna. :-)

On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 09:36:59 +0100, "Gary"
wrote:


"John Legon" wrote in message
news:[email protected] co.uk...

"Mark Carver" wrote in message
...
jamie powell wrote:

The somewhat laconic announcement you've heard from ITV, saying there
was "a
glitch in the HD transmission chain" really doesn't give much away.

No it doesn't, and deliberately so. I know more detail, but I'm bound
not
to
put it in the public domain. You'll have to take my word for that I'm
afraid.

An article in The Times yesterday was explicit about the fault being
caused
by human error, saying that someone in the Technicolor transmission team
accidently triggered the advert while operating a computer. He was "given
a
considerable telling off..."

John L





I recon it was deliberate. There was a delay to transmission and as the goal
was scored someone deliberately put the add in to obliterate the goal. It
was a plot and it was to undermine the morale of the country. If it had
worked they could have denied the goal had ever happened but they did not
realise the SD feed was unaffected.
I recon the Germans had something to do with it or Maradonna. :-)


Whatever the cause it gave viewers a temporary respite from the
irritating noise of the vuvulezas.

--
Peter Duncanson
(in uk.tech.digital-tv)

"Mark Carver" wrote in message
...
wrote:
I must say, what happened must count as UK broadcasting's biggest ever
technical cock-up, I can't think of anything worse ? It's only fortunate
that relatively few people were watching in HD.



Going to adverts at the last few laps of a F1 grand prix and missing the
finish was bigger

On Jun 15, 8:39*am, Roderick Stewart
wrote:
In article , Mark Carver wrote:
I feel as if we're both bungling in the dark here.
The somewhat laconic announcement you've heard from ITV, saying there was "a
glitch in the HD transmission chain" really doesn't give much away.

No it doesn't, and deliberately so. I know more detail, but I'm bound not to
put it in the public domain. You'll have to take my word for that I'm afraid.

If there's something you're not prepared to tell us, why mention it at all?
Withheld evidence won't convince anybody of anything.

Rod.

Those of us who have inhabited this group for a long time must surely
know by now that Mark C is a man who is privy to a lot of industry
information. You must surely understand that he can't always tell you
everything. Mark is also a man of total integrity, so you should
accept what he says and be glad of it. I think you should be grateful
to him for telling you as much as he can.

Bill

On Jun 15, 11:01*am, "Martin" wrote:

wrote:
I must say, what happened must count as UK broadcasting's biggest ever
technical cock-up, I can't think of anything worse ? It's only fortunate
that relatively few people were watching in HD.

I didn't.

Bill

On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 04:38:51 -0700 (PDT), "
wrote:

On Jun 15, 8:39*am, Roderick Stewart
wrote:
In article , Mark Carver wrote:
I feel as if we're both bungling in the dark here.
The somewhat laconic announcement you've heard from ITV, saying there was "a
glitch in the HD transmission chain" really doesn't give much away.

No it doesn't, and deliberately so. I know more detail, but I'm bound not to
put it in the public domain. You'll have to take my word for that I'm afraid.

If there's something you're not prepared to tell us, why mention it at all?
Withheld evidence won't convince anybody of anything.

Rod.

Those of us who have inhabited this group for a long time must surely
know by now that Mark C is a man who is privy to a lot of industry
information. You must surely understand that he can't always tell you
everything. Mark is also a man of total integrity, so you should
accept what he says and be glad of it. I think you should be grateful
to him for telling you as much as he can.

I have been in this group for a relatively short time but my impression
of Mark C is the same as you have said above.


--
Peter Duncanson
(in uk.tech.digital-tv)

"Pikey G" wrote in message
...

Anyway you lot, I started this thread and it was about there being a
tree in the way of our lass's ITV HD signal. I went out today armed
with analyser and test dish to find the best location for the dish, in
a scientific manner. After some time I concluded that every possible
location had snags, and I stood there wondering what to do for the
best. Then Hil came out, pointed immediately at one of our lamp posts,
and said, "Why don't you put the dish on the lamp post?"
"Foolish woman!" I scoffed. Then I tried it. Not only is there clear
line of sight from the base of the post to the satellite, there's a
disused underground duct from the post to the basement where the head-
end for the house is, and the post is in concrete and is very solid.
I'll wait a few days before moving the dish, in the hope that she
forgets that I poopooed the idea.

Lamp post... ew. You should get a professional installer in to sort it out
properly, Bill. They'll only charge £50 you know

"Peter Duncanson" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 09:36:59 +0100, "Gary"

wrote:


"John Legon" wrote in message
news:[email protected] .co.uk...

"Mark Carver" wrote in message
...
jamie powell wrote:

The somewhat laconic announcement you've heard from ITV,
saying there
was "a
glitch in the HD transmission chain" really doesn't give
much away.

No it doesn't, and deliberately so. I know more detail, but
I'm bound
not
to
put it in the public domain. You'll have to take my word for
that I'm
afraid.

An article in The Times yesterday was explicit about the
fault being
caused
by human error, saying that someone in the Technicolor
transmission team
accidently triggered the advert while operating a computer.
He was "given
a
considerable telling off..."

John L





I recon it was deliberate. There was a delay to transmission
and as the goal
was scored someone deliberately put the add in to obliterate
the goal. It
was a plot and it was to undermine the morale of the country.
If it had
worked they could have denied the goal had ever happened but
they did not
realise the SD feed was unaffected.
I recon the Germans had something to do with it or Maradonna.
:-)


Whatever the cause it gave viewers a temporary respite from the
irritating noise of the vuvulezas.

--
Peter Duncanson
(in uk.tech.digital-tv)



Vuvuzela

Mike Henry wrote:
In [email protected], "Martin" wrote:

"Mark Carver" wrote in message
...
wrote:
I must say, what happened must count as UK broadcasting's biggest ever
technical cock-up, I can't think of anything worse ? It's only fortunate
that relatively few people were watching in HD.


Going to adverts at the last few laps of a F1 grand prix and missing the
finish was bigger

I agree. Now all the football fans know how the F1 fans felt for 12
agonising long years from 1997-2008. I thought "I can't think of anything
worse" was a huge over-reaction, but I was grateful for Mark's inside
knowledge and continuing technical expertise so wasn't going to criticise
:-)

Ha, fair play !

I would tend to define the F1 cock up mentioned, as more serious error of
judgement by the director and production team than a technical fault as such,
though I've not seen it, was it a planned break as far as you could tell, or
did the ads suddenly start up totally unannounced ?


--
Mark
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On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 19:36:17 +0100, "Woody"
wrote:

"Peter Duncanson" wrote in message


Whatever the cause it gave viewers a temporary respite from the
irritating noise of the vuvulezas.



Vuvuzela

You see. The noise has affected my ability to spell.



--
Peter Duncanson
(in uk.tech.digital-tv)