TV Breakdown Appreciation Thread

[mof]

You can see everything start to die here, the picture starts going just as the announcer is telling us there's no sound then bam! Black screen followed by slide. Weather related perhaps?

On another note has anyone else noticed that when Gogglebox on E4 comes out of an ad break the sound starts off a little choppy?

This was the one where the power to the OB truck was inadvertently disconnected, a phase at a time, during the late highlights payout.

The sound desk went first, hence the silence, and the jumping picture was partly a futile attempt to put the playout EVS direct to line before the power went off completely.

[Inspector Sands]

A minor breakdown on BBC2.... looks like they left the telecine on air long after the film had finished for some reason.

https://youtu.be/V4WUm2pcPPs

[Roger Darthwell]

A minor breakdown on BBC2.... looks like they left the telecine on air long after the film had finished for some reason.
 
https://youtu.be/V4WUm2pcPPs

What is a telecine?

[Markymark]

A minor breakdown on BBC2.... looks like they left the telecine on air long after the film had finished for some reason.

 

https://youtu.be/V4WUm2pcPPs

What is a telecine?

 In layman's terms it's a film projector that outputs the film as video so it can be broadcast on TV. Not actually a projector shooting onto a screen, that is in turn shot by a video camera, but that's the idea

Bedtime reading for you..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecine

[VMPhil]

Is it pronounced “telly seen” or “telly sinny”?

[Markymark]

Is it pronounced “telly seen” or “telly sinny”?

Tele Sinny !

[commseng]

Isn't it pronounced TK?
That's what we were taught!

[Markymark]

Isn't it pronounced TK?
That's what we were taught!

Only because TC would have confused it with a large doughnut

[Inspector Sands]

Yes, to prevent confusion... is the programme coming from TC2 or TC2?

[Curto32]

Here's a breakdown from Channel 4 in the mid 2000s were they are having VT problems while trying to play the movie Last Of The Badmen.

https://youtu.be/VOHr8f6PjwY

[Steve in Pudsey]

That was weird leaving vision on black

[identcircle]

What happened to the recent TV breakdowns or ones happening if there is one noticed lots of old breakdown videos being shared

[Steve in Pudsey]

There are fewer breakdowns these days. OBs tend to have redundant paths, recorded programmes play out from servers which are duplicated rather than a single tape or film with reel changes.

[Inspector Sands]

What happened to the recent TV breakdowns or ones happening if there is one noticed lots of old breakdown videos being shared

There are still some, they do depend if I'm on shift or not.... and I've been off a few weeks  

[telebox2001]

Technology is improved and/or different. I think someone said about BBC VILOR in local radio that instead of regular sideswipes and rear endings you get the very occasional plane crash. I.E. things don't go wrong as often but when they do, they really do.