RTÉ TWO's DOG

Round Cable

Anyone notice that RTÉ TWO has been Dogless for the last 5 days, and more strangely, it's only on digital, analouge is still ridden with them, I wonder if this is RTÉ finally listening to viewers and that there is no need for them on digital, not that there really is a need for them anywhere? I'd reminds me of a what the BBC did with BBC THREE a few years back.

Mossy Monk

i would doubt that it is intentional if RTÉ One still has one

should a few emails to be sent to RTÉ congratulate them on a wise decision and asking when RTÉ One will be sorted or would that make them say "oh ****, the DOG is down, put it back"

Round Cable

RTÉ TWO has always been the testing ground; widescreen testing and the 14:9 test DOG. A few emails would do no harm, if it were intentional they'll take your comments, and if it's a 5 day accident they'll return anyway, so no harm in firing off a mail. The only onther reason I can think of is that they might actually be fixing the DOG's incorrect possitioning. Oh well let's hope they wise up.

Rick_

Round Cable wrote:

RTÉ TWO has always been the testing ground; widescreen testing and the 14:9 test DOG. A few emails would do no harm, if it were intentional they'll take your comments, and if it's a 5 day accident they'll return anyway, so no harm in firing off a mail. The only onther reason I can think of is that they might actually be fixing the DOG's incorrect possitioning. Oh well let's hope they wise up.

I was just about to post the same sort of message. RTÉ TWO is always used for the testing and it was the first channel to be upgraded to the new presentation suite that allowed widescreen programming and better graphics etc. Whatever happens to the DOG on RTÉ TWO will soon be implimented on RTÉ ONE afterwards. (Also, why on Sky is is called RTE One, and RTE TWO, can't the both be in uppercase, or just have numbers after them instead?!)

I think they have taken it off to finally make it smaller and to correct it's constant 16:9 position onscreen. Maybe now when a 4:3 programme is on, the DOG will actually be 4:3 on digital, but not the long streched version that is on analogue, the nice slender 16:9 look in the 4:3 position would look great, and the same look, but only in the 16:9 position.

If they're going to force DOG's on us, they should at least get them bloody right!

Paddy

Mossy Monk

well guess what. a DOG is now present on RTÉ Two on satellite looks smaller but please get rid of that ****ing TTV one. it is more of an eyesore than the RTÉ Two one

Mossy Monk

and now RTÉ Two is DOGless

Rick_

When RTÉ TWO had the Den logo onscreen during kids programmes, they did something with the DOG that made it look 4:3 all the time, so the Den logo wasn't too far in during 4:3 programmes, but this made it and the RTÉ TWO logo get cut off for 4:3 viewers watching a 16:9 programme. The for a while after that, programmes shown outside the kids strand had the same DOG in the 4:3 position all the time on all programmes for the first part of the programme. When an ad break was took, the DOG returned to the 16:9 position for the remainder of the programme. I mean come on!!

Are RTÉ that incompitent they cant get a few simple settings right to make a DOG appear on the right part of the screen for a certain programme? Why isn't it smaller and more to the top and left of the screen anyway, it's too far right and down! Same for RTÉ ONE!

Paddy

Round Cable

Paddy C wrote:

Are RTÉ that incompitent they cant get a few simple settings right to make a DOG appear on the right part of the screen for a certain programme? Why isn't it smaller and more to the top and left of the screen anyway, it's too far right and down! Same for RTÉ ONE!

Paddy

It was so low down because of the DOGs possition on analogue, so that those with widescreen TV's watching 14:9 could stretch the picture and the DOG would remain on screen. When they were doing digital widescreen DOG's, they were shifted inwards but not up.

Rick_

Round Cable wrote:

It was so low down because of the DOGs possition on analogue, so that those with widescreen TV's watching 14:9 could stretch the picture and the DOG would remain on screen. When they were doing digital widescreen DOG's, they were shifted inwards but not up.

Surely the analogue DOG shouldn't matter as on digital and on analogue, they are in two totally different places and do not have any similatities looks wise, so surely there are two different settings for analogue and digital DOG's. Surely the last 5 days proves that as the DOG still remains on screen in analogue in a streched form, yet on digital it's more squashed, and at the moment, it isn't even on the screen!

Paddy

Rick_

And surely enough, after all this talk about it, it returns during "Me, Myself & Irene" tonight in the 16:9 pisition, despite the film being in 4:3. Typical.

Also, K19 - The Widowmaker on RTÉ ONE had been advertised all week with proper 16:9 footage in the adverts, (not a streched 4:3 picture), yet the film is being shown in 4:3, why?!?!?!

Paddy