BBC4 to recreate the first night of television.
 

Sounds like an interesting project from BBC4:

http://www.a516digital.com/2016/08/b...f-british.html

The first night of broadcasting is to be restaged.

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A reminder that this is on on Wednesday:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0817s4g

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:tu:

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Looking forward to watching it.

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Me too.

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I think you'll find the first night of TV was rubbish, some dotty bint singing for half an hour, and a repeat of Emmerdale ....

Unless you have a 405 line TV, BBC4 HD will have to do the opposite, ie. downgrade the definition.

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The BBC dramatised the story for the 50th anniversary in 1986. "The Fools on the Hill" seems to be on YouTube in its entirety: https://youtu.be/jCtijZAQJEY

I remember watching and enjoying it at the time.

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Well, I'm trying to get converted to UHD, so I am not motivated to tune into some boring programmes in barely watchable grainy black and white images. I really do not see the fascination with that.

But then again, I'm just a typical renegade youngster!

Oh, wait... is it really 2016 already? Change that to cantankerous old git lost in a space-time vacuum!

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The show is also about recreating the technology as well as the broadcast by the looks of it, so it won't all be in the old format

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It's a science/technology show OB. The idea is to rebuild the equipment in order to understand the challenges they faced as well as to see what results they got, because there is no surviving recording from that first night's broadcast. The whole thing has been shot in 1080HD, as is now standard for BBC productions.

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I was just being playful, Chris. I'm sure it will be rivetting viewing. :beer::zzz:

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So, what did we all make of this?

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It was about an hour too long. The tecchy stuff of the 2 camera systems was interesting, but it's a story that's been told many times before.

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I enjoyed it, but think that they should have made it into a 2 or 3 parter to cover more things will less rushing.

I'd like to have seen what happened with regards to the break for the war and when they reopened, even up until the start of competition from commercial companies in 1955.

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l thought it was excellent and gave viewers a real insight into how it all started.