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About the Author and the Site
Jason Robertson has been a TV presentation enthusiast for as long as he can remember, and surfaces occasionally on Darren Meldrum's MHP-Chat mailing list. He has a particular interest in the old Midlands ITV contractor, ATV, and schools presentation.
He remembers the ITV schools lightspots first-hand, and trying to play the ATV 'In Colour' jingle on a piano at the age of four.
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On the 1st March 2001, sub-TV formally joined the Transdiffusion Network of websites.
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This website is intended to be a research archive of past and contemporary TV presentation and continuity. All copyrights are respectfully acknowledged. If you are the owner of the rights to any material posted on this site, and you wish to see it removed, please email me.
Non-proprietary
Why does this site used non-proprietary file formats? Well, I have a non-standard machine, an Amiga, and we Amiga users (along with many other platforms, like Acorn for example) cannot view Realmedia as Real Networks have not supplied a player for our machines. This is not because our computers aren't fast enough - Amigas use PowerPC chips these days!
This site helps to address this problem. And anyway, MPEG video is much smoother than RealVideo :-)
Some of the MPEGs are a bit iffy in quality - this is because they were recorded off-screen using a Sony Mavica :-) I have a capture card now, so the quality of images, video and audio should now increase.
Technical
This site uses the surprisingly wonderful ASP technology from Microsoft that, in conjunction with server-side VBScript, powers the easily-switchable 'print' and 'access' versions of its pages and a lovely originally-developed hit counter.
The navigation bar is included into all pages and was converted to this format from the original messily-coded site by a templating program which takes all code from within the <BODY></BODY> tags and places it into a pre-defined template, at the same timechanging all of those nasty <FONT> tags for <Hx> tags that can be styled as required using Cascading StyleSheets.
Any text styles are done using Cascading Style Sheets.
Any future changes to the layout or style of the site can now easily be acheived by running the current pages through the templating program again with a different template and / or changing the stylesheet and include files.
There's a section hidden in the corner of the site for those who are interested in knowing what effect the bitrate has on MPEG quality and filesize.
Go to http://www.jasonrobertson.co.uk for more info.
