TheWatcher Wrote:vila Wrote:This is true, but my comments referred to the format used most of the time, which takes up at least 40% of the lower part of the screen. Occasionally, like when they're not putting up promotion or text messages, the height is reduced, sometimes quite substantially, but that isn't very much of the time.
I have just done an accurate measurement taken from a dvd recording of the freeview show playing in mplayer on my computer. see attachment.
The text area and phone number plus black section at the bottom of display is 36% of the total height. This is as bad as it gets on freeview.
Yep, that's the text block I was talking about. So it's 36% with precise measurement and I estimated 40% by eye from my couch - not a bad effort, I think. I have to say that I've never seen it displayed like that on PP, where it always seems to be no higher than the bottom edge of that big phone number at the top. If the mobile number is deemed readable in the smaller size font (and it must be, or there’d be no point in putting it up), the main number digits don’t need to be any bigger. I’d hazard a guess that most callers use their mobiles anyway. If the main number was shrunk in that way it could be brought down alongside the mobile one and the whole thing need take no more than 25% of the screen height. I know the channel has to put up the info to make money, or we wouldn’t get a show at all, but they could make the screen a bit more viewer-friendly.
shandyman Wrote:as for the graphics, i made a mark on the edge of my screen when PP was on just over an hour ago and now babestation is on and they're the same height. the real difference is the left side of the graphics on babestation has a pink box from the edge of the box to the edge of the screen that pp doesn't have.......
Now I’m completely confused. Your post was made at 9:51pm and PP was on an hour previously? PP doesn’t start until 3:00am on my tv.
Pink box? I see no pink box either on my tv screen or The Watcher’s screen grab. Are we watching the same channels?
On a totally different tack, am I hearing things? When Amanda was doing her opening spiel about house rules etc, I’m positive I heard her say that if callers talk too dirty the girls will cut them off. Somebody tell me I didn’t hear this!
Edit: Aaarrrggghhh!!! Why do I always get my timing wrong? Amanda was very subdued again so I switched from Ch 33 to Ch 32 to watch Paige, then flicked back just in time to catch the end of what looked like Amanda's liviest section yet on Ch 33! I hope someone recorded this.
Btw someone's left the PP mike on - can't hear much though.