YLE transmission problems

peteh · Post by **peteh** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 11:39 pm

Turkey vs Germany....................You pay 200 euros a year................bollocks

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Mark I. · Post by **Mark I.** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 11:44 pm

Well, they say the reason is in Basel, even German and Austrian TV blacked out.

blaugrau · Post by **blaugrau** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 11:47 pm

i heard the heavy storm over vienna was the reason, as the international transmission came from there.. nevertheless, what a thriller this game has been!!!

Hank W. · Post by **Hank W.** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 11:58 pm

Deutsche Fußball, deutsche Treue,
Deutscher Wein und deutscher Sang
Sollen in der Welt behalten
Ihren alten schönen Klang

Salopian · Post by **Salopian** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 12:08 am

Yup, lightning did the damage, apparently - TV coverage was lost all around the world, not just YLE's transmission.

Great game, though I feel the better team lost on this occasion. Great tournament overall.

otyikondo · Post by **otyikondo** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 1:01 am

peteh wrote:Turkey vs Germany....................You pay 200 euros a year................bollocks

Typical idiotic knee-jerk. If you had LISTENED, you'd have heard it was beyond anyone's control, unless you happen to have a hot-line to Ukko Ylijumala. Even the Beeb were blacked out. As were the Germans themselves - and they really had something to gripe about.

Though doubtless in your fantasy world Canal + or Sky would carry the signal on the backs of trained Nepalese sherpas all the way to your receiver.

Hank W. · Post by **Hank W.** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 1:32 am

I'd think they got the connection they paid for.

sinikala · Post by **sinikala** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 1:47 am

otyikondo wrote:
peteh wrote:Turkey vs Germany....................You pay 200 euros a year................bollocks
Typical idiotic knee-jerk. If you had LISTENED, you'd have heard it was beyond anyone's control, unless you happen to have a hot-line to Ukko Ylijumala. Even the Beeb were blacked out. As were the Germans themselves - and they really had something to gripe about.

Though doubtless in your fantasy world Canal + or Sky would carry the signal on the backs of trained Nepalese sherpas all the way to your receiver.

Typical knee-jerk bollocks comments by our resident geriatric patient to a plainly knee jerk OP.

What got me was that they sat there talking pish most of the time the picture was out or they gave a rotating trophy image.
Is it beyond them to get someone in the stadium on the phone? Or could it be that their match commentators were actually sitting in a broom cupboard in the Yle studios in Helsinki?

Still good result, Germany represent the best chance of preventing the Spaniards winning the whole thing.

otyikondo · Post by **otyikondo** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 2:08 am

sinikala wrote:
otyikondo wrote:
peteh wrote:Turkey vs Germany....................You pay 200 euros a year................bollocks
Typical idiotic knee-jerk. If you had LISTENED, you'd have heard it was beyond anyone's control, unless you happen to have a hot-line to Ukko Ylijumala. Even the Beeb were blacked out. As were the Germans themselves - and they really had something to gripe about.

Though doubtless in your fantasy world Canal + or Sky would carry the signal on the backs of trained Nepalese sherpas all the way to your receiver.
Typical knee-jerk bollocks comments by our resident geriatric patient to a plainly knee jerk OP.

What got me was that they sat there talking pish most of the time the picture was out or they gave a rotating trophy image.
Is it beyond them to get someone in the stadium on the phone? Or could it be that their match commentators were actually sitting in a broom cupboard in the Yle studios in Helsinki?

Still good result, Germany represent the best chance of preventing the Spaniards winning the whole thing.

Did we watch the same thing? All lines were cut, but they got an audio connection that also kept cutting out. The fact that TV commentators were as usual totally incapable of making a fist of commentating "radio-style" is quite another matter. As it happens, the group games WERE commentated on from a broom cupboard in Pasila. It's only for the semis and the final (where sadly they will wheel out the dreaded H-P - one has to wonder what dirt he's got on everyone that he always gets the plum jobs even if he knows as much about football as he does about particle accelerators) that they've sent a commentating team. Since UEFA was demanding umpteen gazillions for the signal and the rights, one hopes they will be sending a cheque posthaste to all the broadcasters who were inconvenienced. What was bizarre was the way the signal came back - and went within 30 seconds - almost like they obstinately kept blowing the fuse.

MTV3 had exactly the same problem with the US Open coverage - only this time it was a tornado in Toronto or something, and the actual golf was in San Diego. Go figure. (The MTV3 people were, naturally, in their own Pasila broom cupboard).

Will be interesting to see if the Eurosport coverage - when it comes - is "intact". Presumably the signal made it out of the stadium, but at least as far as the explanations go, not any further than a control room in Austria.

"According to news agency reports late on Wednesday, the only broadcasters whose signal escaped the interruption were Swiss public TV company SRG in Zurich and Al-Jazeera."

Odd combination. Wonder how they managed to route the signal.

P.S. Did anyone also notice that the times when the picture came back, the commentary was initially an annoying second or so out of synch and ahead of the visuals, so the commentators (who couldn't shut up when there were pictures just as they couldn't elocute when there weren't any) were able unerringly (well... in theory) to tell you who would receive the pass that Lambi or Schicklgruber or Doner Kebab was about to unleash.

blaugrau · Post by **blaugrau** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 7:28 am

otyikondo wrote: "According to news agency reports late on Wednesday, the only broadcasters whose signal escaped the interruption were Swiss public TV company SRG in Zurich and Al-Jazeera."

Odd combination. Wonder how they managed to route the signal.

Not that I know anything about telecommunications, but according to Austrian media the Swiss switched to their own TV transmission from Basel (rather than the UEFA one) or something, since the problem was due to a power cut at UEFA's International Broadcasting Center in Vienna. Austrian and German TV then also switched to a Swiss satellite signal to get the picture and added the sound via telephone connection, that's why they were interruption-free after the first blackout (whereas the rest of us battled on with the crappy connection, think that was due to some rights issues).

peteh · Post by **peteh** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 1:40 am

For what its worth ......I don't give a crap........I pay so I want to see some play. Very simple.

Maybe I will just black out my next TV payment and blame it on some unpredictable force which is out of my control.

Mook · Post by **Mook** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 9:13 am

otyikondo wrote:
"According to news agency reports late on Wednesday, the only broadcasters whose signal escaped the interruption were Swiss public TV company SRG in Zurich and Al-Jazeera."

Odd combination. Wonder how they managed to route the signal.

Apparently UEFA forced all broadcasters to use their feed of the game -which is why they all had problems. One article I read said that the swiss just happened to have their own feed (for some reason)

Hank W. · Post by **Hank W.** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 9:56 am

Probably they were feeding it to the UEFA.

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