Are interviews via Skype on television compatible with technological advances in TV?

[Lat-Literal]

I assume that the increasing use of amateur looking interviews with "experts" in their homes is as a consequence of Skype or similar new technology? While I have no objections to Skype in principle - not that I use it myself or have ever wanted to - these television features always look to me as if they belong to the 1950s or earlier and not in any good way.

[Richard Tarleton]

I assume that the increasing use of amateur looking interviews with "experts" in their homes is as a consequence of Skype or similar new technology? While I have no objections to Skype in principle - not that I use it myself or have ever wanted to - these television features always look to me as if they belong to the 1950s or earlier and not in any good way.

I think they're all of a piece with the increased use of amateur footage in news reports, and (I'd suggest) much better use of license fee than sending a camera crew round, or hauling experts into the studio...and there was that charming episode with the N Korea expert and his child the other day....and you can try to read the titles on the spines of the books behind them....

[Lat-Literal]

I think they're all of a piece with the increased use of amateur footage in news reports, and (I'd suggest) much better use of license fee than sending a camera crew round, or hauling experts into the studio...and there was that charming episode with the N Korea expert and his child the other day....and you can try to read the titles on the spines of the books behind them....

I suppose so but a part of me would like to go back to the 1960s and the 1970s where there was a newsreader at a desk and not a lot else.

It was reassuringly moderate, "expert" free and it all looked so sophisticated.

Unfortunately - or perhaps not - I didn't see the North Korean expert with child but what I have seen is a still photograph of volleyball players and even a volleyball alongside a North Korean nuclear plant. That of itself raises the question of how aeroplanes can just disappear and atrocities can be carried out elsewhere without clarity about their source.

But that is more about the other thread I have posted.

[vinteuil]

I suppose so but a part of me would like to go back to the 1960s and the 1970s where there was a newsreader at a desk and not a lot else.
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... surely better to go back to the 1920s and the 1930s where there was a newsreader only on the wireless and not a lot else. But at least you cd be sure he was in a dinner jacket.



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[Richard Tarleton]

Unfortunately - or perhaps not - I didn't see the North Korean expert with child

Here it is.....

[Dave2002]

... surely better to go back to the 1920s and the 1930s where there was a newsreader only on the wireless and not a lot else. But at least you cd be sure he was in a dinner jacket.
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1920s - mechanical rotating disk TVs -

Because only a limited number of holes could be made in the disks, and disks beyond a certain diameter became impractical, image resolution on mechanical television broadcasts was relatively low, ranging from about 30 lines up to about 120. Nevertheless, the image quality of 30-line transmissions steadily improved with technical advances, and by 1933 the UK broadcasts using the Baird system were remarkably clear.

It wasn't until a few years later in the back half of the 1930s that regular TV broadcasts happened in the UK which used 405 line electronic equipment.

Perhaps our OP doesn't really want to relive those times - he only mentioned the 1950s.

[Lat-Literal]

Here it is.....

Oh.........that one!

... surely better to go back to the 1920s and the 1930s where there was a newsreader only on the wireless and not a lot else. But at least you cd be sure he was in a dinner jacket..

One of the most sensible things I have heard all week.

If not, presumably there is now the technology to present all current news through the voice of John Snagge or Alvar Liddell?

1920s - mechanical rotating disk TVs -

It wasn't until a few years later in the back half of the 1930s that regular TV broadcasts happened in the UK which used 405 line electronic equipment.

Perhaps our OP doesn't really want to relive those times - he only mentioned the 1950s.

405 went long into the 1970s, didn't it.

Many happy days spent in the Surrey loft turning round the aerial to see in which weather conditions I could watch Anglia TV through deep fog.

Genuinely - but it needed the IBA handbook for details on tuning the black and white set.

[Ferretfancy]

1920s - mechanical rotating disk TVs -

It wasn't until a few years later in the back half of the 1930s that regular TV broadcasts happened in the UK which used 405 line electronic equipment.

Perhaps our OP doesn't really want to relive those times - he only mentioned the 1950s.

Dinner jackets were required as late as the early sixties for radio shows like Friday Night is Music Night. The poor old back room engineer had to wear one in case he had to go on stage in front of the audience to fix a cable or something. There was a dress allowance!
I was too inexperienced to qualify, and had to stay home trying to find the right spot on the crystal.