This brought back some memories, sitting in the green room at TVC on launch night. As someone who was involved in this channel I can say it was well intentioned but underfunded. There was a lot of new sorts of content for the BBC and it was quite an exciting place to work. Pick of the week was a real 'seat of the pants' experience with some new tech that sometimes didn't work properly for the live part. Also at launch the number of set top boxes available could be counted on two hands, - sadly lacking, I had trouble getting them and I was the technical manager for the Choice Production village.
Sweet God, whenever Clive mentioned "tapes" it made me feel very old. I remember VHS and video tapes. I used to have a huge collection of VHS recordings of sitcoms, dramas, events etc from when I first got a VCR in 1988 until the last time I used a VCR in June 2009 after which we dumped it and moved over to what was Sky+.
Why launch a channel, when there was no service to transmit it to viewers? At least when say BBC 2 launched in April 1964, there was at least one UHF transmitter in London transmitting it to the capital.
It was transmitted, on terrestrial, satellite and cable. But neither Sky Digital or Ondigital had launched so the recovers weren't I the shops yet. The early days were mainly for demonstration reasons, and presumably there was a desire to be first
1936:huzzah televisión!!! 1968:huzzah color!!! 1998:huzzah digital!!! 2022:huzzah...Smartphone hang on i thought were going for holographic tv's not smartphones and tablets!!!
Didnt they reuse the same countdown graphic and anthology documentary launch program format for the launch of BBC4/BBC Knowledge in 1999 the next year?
This brought back some memories, sitting in the green room at TVC on launch night. As someone who was involved in this channel I can say it was well intentioned but underfunded. There was a lot of new sorts of content for the BBC and it was quite an exciting place to work. Pick of the week was a real 'seat of the pants' experience with some new tech that sometimes didn't work properly for the live part. Also at launch the number of set top boxes available could be counted on two hands, - sadly lacking, I had trouble getting them and I was the technical manager for the Choice Production village.
3:48 “the picture quality was dreadful, almost as bad as channel 5” damn bbc
Channel 5 oof
Channel 5 picture quality is still dreadful, even on the HD simulcast. It looks like the bitrate is about 2, and the quality is upscaled from 360p.
Sweet God, whenever Clive mentioned "tapes" it made me feel very old. I remember VHS and video tapes. I used to have a huge collection of VHS recordings of sitcoms, dramas, events etc from when I first got a VCR in 1988 until the last time I used a VCR in June 2009 after which we dumped it and moved over to what was Sky+.
BBC choice, where there isn't any.
The virgin BBC Choice vs the Chad ITV Select
Dang, this was 1998? This is so high quality!
That countdown timer was freaky
I remember that the launch was first simulcasted on the Internet then they did the same thing for the Sky Digital launch anyway
2:55 Karl Collins who later went on to play DC Danny Glaze in The Bill
It's cool how they put in the first spoken words from the original Star Wars trailer in there.
Although I would like to see more of the countdown.
19:02 Hey look, a future Doctor!
19:02 That's Sophia Myles from Doctor who
The countdown is the same from from the launch of BBC Knowledge
Why was David Batty shown scoring Michael Owen's penalty at 7:23?
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Um, because it was part of the example of the programs on Pick of the Week.
So much promise.
0:00 - 1:29 Can you di a with Link plies :)
Thanks
8:59 jogaram terra no coitado...
this was only online and through those display TVs in shops
No if you actually read the description it wasn’t available to many so it was online for many until it was later available on Freeview
"Sorry! Mustn't show you the ending." 🤣
i miss bbc three/choice. though i wasn't around when bbc choice was airing. (i was born in 2004). hmm. not a flying fuck was given that day.
Why launch a channel, when there was no service to transmit it to viewers? At least when say BBC 2 launched in April 1964, there was at least one UHF transmitter in London transmitting it to the capital.
It was transmitted, on terrestrial, satellite and cable. But neither Sky Digital or Ondigital had launched so the recovers weren't I the shops yet.
The early days were mainly for demonstration reasons, and presumably there was a desire to be first
1936:huzzah televisión!!!
1968:huzzah color!!!
1998:huzzah digital!!!
2022:huzzah...Smartphone hang on i thought were going for holographic tv's not smartphones and tablets!!!
If holographic TV did become a thing it would be a short-lived novelty like 3DTV.
Didnt they reuse the same countdown graphic and anthology documentary launch program format for the launch of BBC4/BBC Knowledge in 1999 the next year?
Yes they did, and here it is th-cam.com/video/dEa1W_h23Jc/w-d-xo.html
how did people watch this without on digital or sky digital?
+ccateni WAN At home they didn't, as the description says it was a soft launch for promotional purposes
but how did he get the start up?
+ccateni WAN Who's 'he'? the cats mother?
Never you mind where I got it from ;-)
I'm wondering how you got the footage on opening night.
+ccateni WAN You'll have to keep wondering....
I thought Jim Dale had something to do with Eastenders for a second there
0:00 - 1:29
What countdown is this?
Put in link to watch
all that hope and expectation, shame they didnt realise that they were going backwards.. (:^D)
2:26 uma tentativa de previr o Noel Robinson...
Was this launch simulcast on either BBC 1 or BBC 2?
No it wasn't, there probably was a mention of it on the news that day.
01:29
Who else thought that the guy at 3.00 looks kinda like Miniminter
Choice is Cbeebies.
CBeebees on the Daytime, THREE at night.
No CBBC at day and BBC three
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lmfao