Sunday Night

Posted to TV, by curmi on the February 25th, 2009

Sunday Night, Channel 7 broadcasted a brand new TV show, imaginatively titled “Sunday Night“. Apparently it promised to be “breaking the stories that matter and delivering moments you’ll never forget“.

The great thing about Channel 7 is that they never fail to live up to their promises. It certainly is one show I’ll never forget. There was this one story about a man capturing dangerous crocodiles. The look of fake horror on the reporters face…the reporter “paralysed” with fear, unable to leave the boat… I will never forget that.

Too scared to look!

Too scared to move!

But you know, what I’ll never forget most of all are the new watermarks.

Two watermarks must be better than one!

Yes, not content with one watermark, Channel 7 felt the need to have a second, and to move both of them in to the 4:3 space to make sure you didn’t miss them. Oh, and yes, it was the same on 7 HD – because there are so many people out there with 4:3 sets watching 7 HD.

Actually, is anyone watching 7 HD? During the Australian Open it wasn’t even worth watching the tennis on 7 HD because Channel 7 without warning switched to other shows at 9:30 each night in the middle of a game.

I can’t believe I have shares in Channel 7. What was I thinking?

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3 Responses to “Sunday Night”

I’m still pissed they couldn’t broadcast the tennis in HD here but they could in the US from 7′s feed. We’ve had digital tv since 2000?

Have you noticed 10 HD has dropped their bitrate as they’re getting ready for their sporting channel?

Ten HD has dropped from 16.5Mbps to 13.25Mbps (still at 1920x1080i resolution)
Ten SD has dropped from 4.6 Mbps to 4.0 Mbps
The new One Digital/SD is 3.6 Mbps (no dolby digital audio -only MPEG audio)

Comment by Grant — February 26, 2009 @ 9:49 am

Interesting data on the bitrates Grant. TV continues to suck and disappoint.

As I’ve said before, it is time the government stepped in, revoked all their licences, and had new companies come in to try and run Commercial TV 2.0.

Comment by curmi — February 26, 2009 @ 5:54 pm

10 HD is now 1440 X 1080i, I’d say to compensate with the lower bitrate. To bad if you have a 1080p set.

I presume the issue comes down to the bandwidth offered to each station when the originally bid for it? I remember 10 ditched their TV guide to increase the bitrate for their HD channel.

Comment by Grant — February 26, 2009 @ 6:07 pm

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