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daveirl

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Mossy Monk

another good reason to get rid of the ****ing things

limerick_man

No they didnt ... i was watching .. it was above! I was actually impressed with the highlights (i dont usually say that about RTÉ)

radioman

That patronising ad about widescreen on RTE really pisses me off at the moment. They don't know how to use it right themselves yet try to patronise the viewers

daveirl

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Wertz

Come on, you only have to look at the likes of Winning Streak sets or their ham-fisted editing of cutting into ad breaks to see their lack of even semi-professional status when it comes to production values.

Most homemade sets look....well, homemade....unintentionally camp, garishly decorated and lit, and frankly like something an art student in the 70's would have come up with given a big enough budget.

I know it's the in-thing to bash RTÉ, but they leave them selves so open to it...it really really pains me to hand over €150 every year to them.

tvnutz

Wertz wrote:

Most homemade sets look....well, homemade....unintentionally camp, garishly decorated and lit, and frankly like something an art student in the 70's would have come up with given a big enough budget.

The Fair City sets are the Glenroe sets,just re-done

Wertz

tvnutz wrote:

The Fair City sets are the Glenroe sets,just re-done

...and you know what really gets me about it, is that if you stick on the likes of About the House or whatever, the interior designers on there can come up with some very nice contemporary styles on a budget...why doesn't RTE employ the calibre of people like this and put some quality into their set production?
I mean all they'd have to do is knock a few % off the wages they pay their "big names" to cover the fees, instead of getting some office hack to do the set design on the back of a beermat at lunchtime...

rogue-entity

I still dont see the big deal with the onscreen logos, I still think that they are a good idea, especialy for analogue cable. I have to tune in the stations on the TV and I tell you, it is a real PITA having to tune in the channel, then find the channel on another TV just to ID it.

Okay, some channels really messed up:
Disney Channel/+1/Toon Disney/Playhouse Disney
BBC Three
ABC1
MTV

But I still think that a correctly placed logo is acceptable, and I also think that Sky should put back the logos on the movie channels between showings, my friends still get them on analogue you know.

Wertz

rogue-entity wrote:

I still dont see the big deal with the onscreen logos, I still think that they are a good idea, especialy for analogue cable. I have to tune in the stations on the TV and I tell you, it is a real PITA having to tune in the channel, then find the channel on another TV just to ID it.

Okay, some channels really messed up:
Disney Channel/+1/Toon Disney/Playhouse Disney
BBC Three
ABC1
MTV

But I still think that a correctly placed logo is acceptable, and I also think that Sky should put back the logos on the movie channels between showings, my friends still get them on analogue you know.

I think most people's real problem with the DOGs (as far as RTÉ is concerned at least) is the bloody size of them...and I personally have a problem with the placement of them too...TV3 rarely receive praise from me, but they have their DOG in a much better placement than RTÉ's (lower right corner as opposed to upper left; it matters as our eyes read from top left to bottom right), it's a better size, and it's semi transparent (although I think montrose have recently followed suit)....basically it doesn't interfere with the picture so much and isn't as hard to ignore.

Do we really need;
RTÉ ONE or RTÉ TWO
where a simple graphic/logo could convey the information a lot less obstructively?

byte

Yeah, I agree. It's bad enough when commercial broadcasters throw idents all over the place, but even worse when the broadcasters whom we pay via our license insist on throwing their brand in my face.

Not sure if it's just my TV, but a lot of the time, I find the logos aren't far enough into the corner either.

Off Topic: Wertz: Love that sig!

limerick_man

Wertz wrote:

Do we really need;
RTÉ ONE or RTÉ TWO
where a simple graphic/logo could convey the information a lot less obstructively?

Umm... its not like its blocking half the screen!

Wertz

limerick_man wrote:

Umm... its not like its blocking half the screen!

Well of course not...but just quickly channel hop between RTÉ1 and TV3 and compare DOGs...the TV3 (stylized 3 logo) is fully half the size of either of the RTÉ DOGs and is offset further into the corner.

Many people have complained to Montrose about DOGs with seemingly little results...which shows that they think they know better than their viewers...yet more evidence of their amateurishness and seeming unwillingness to take feedback onboard in any aspect of their output.

As I said before, it pains me greatly to hand over 150 notes to the bunch of cronies...

Oh and cheers Byte

sturgo

The €150 licence fee is worth it for Fair City alone. It's funnier than Carl Spain, Tommy Tiernan, and that phoney yank idiot put together.

Wertz

sturgo wrote:

The €150 licence fee is worth it for Fair City alone.

*head explodes*

Sturgo wrote:

It's funnier than Carl Spain, Tommy Tiernan, and that phoney yank idiot put together.

Oh wait...you were being sarcastic...my bad

sturgo

It only costs RTE €150 to produce a full episode of Fair City. The actors don't get paid, but are allowed to live on the Fair City set for free. Which is basically two porta-cabins and a bus stop at the back of some car park in Montrose.