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(January 2006)

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DV
dvboy
Second Davis Cup match to be played tomorrow, at 11:00 BST. Will probably be on the red button to avoid disruption to BBC One/Two schedules.
BR
Brekkie
There is absolutely nothing to disrupt on BBC2.
DV
dvboy
BBC2 is what they've done, starting now. No play until 12:00, continuity have just said we're getting highlights from last night's match.
AG
AxG
Watching the highlights on BBC Two HD, it's not SD quality, but my god the HD is awful.
DV
dvboy
I thought that too watching yesterday.

Some horrible fog circles on a couple of the cameras.

Jonathan Overend expressed his view on the quality (or lack of) of the Serbian produced highlights reel at the end of each set.
Last edited by dvboy on 16 July 2016 3:29pm
HA
harshy Founding member
Odd graphics for the BBC Open highlights.
So, I wasnt expecting to see the 'glass' Sky Sports graphics, but I would have thought we would have had the BBC house style for the player, hole and score top left graphic.

What we have instead, is a monsterously big score box, which appears to be a mash of The Open IMG produced webfeed graphics and bits of the NBC Sports Channel's.

Take it Sky Sports/European Tour productions don't use Alston Elliot? So the BBC can't plug their graphics into the same NTT data stream, and pull the highlights graphics out in the BBC sport style, and have ended up with this ugly screen clutter.

It's huge isn't it I am not sure if this is the European tour normal style I can't remember it being this big.
RD
rdd Founding member
Eirsport are using those graphics too, so presumably they are the "world feed" graphics. They're huge, and horrible.
DV
DVB Cornwall
Am hearing rumours that ITV4 will announce secondary US Open Tennis Rights later in the week. Eurosport not claiming exclusivity on their promos might give this some validity.
TL
toby lerone 2016
rdd posted:
Eirsport are using those graphics too, so presumably they are the "world feed" graphics. They're huge, and horrible.


Terrible compared to last years world feed which were very similar to the BBC Sport style and were massively better

Am hearing rumours that ITV4 will announce secondary US Open Tennis Rights later in the week. Eurosport not claiming exclusivity on their promos might give this some validity.


Good news if it happens, have to give credit to ITV4 French Open Coverage which has been excellent the last few years.
BR
Brekkie
That would be surprising but fantastic news. Just hope it includes live rights for the latter stages and not delayed covverage like Eurosport had.
AG
AxG
Noticeable white noise especially at quiet times during today's Davis Cup.
DV
dvboy
Picture quality still rubbish too. I assume we are blaming Serbian television for both.

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