• Re: Televising a major live event in the 1990s - eg Funeral ofDianaPrincess of Wales

    From Ashley Booth@removetab@snglinks.com to uk.tech.broadcast on Tue May 19 13:22:49 2026
    From Newsgroup: uk.tech.broadcast

    NY wrote:

    On 15/05/2026 10:44, Ashley Booth wrote:
    https://flic.kr/p/9fqMGt This was my satellite uplink (SNG) that I
    used for a pool feed of Diana's coffin travelling thru north London.

    Were the links from cameras to the dish done by radio (eg microwave)
    or by coax cable?


    Belden cable - 1 co-ax and 2 audio pairs.

    I lived in Bracknell at the time and had access to CNN and another US
    station through the cable-TV feed to all houses. It was interesting
    to see the CNN was using a mixture of BBC and ITN feeds, which they standards-converted from 625/25 to 525/30 for use in the USA. But
    this was then converted back to 625/25 for broadcast on the European
    version of CNN. The results, especially when the car went past a
    stationary camera or the camera panned, were not pretty :-) It was
    the frame-rate conversion that suffered.
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