London 2012 MegaThread [Part 2]

Mint Sauce

Just switched over to More4, same coverage, same comentery thus far.

Guy:Incognito

Boris is on. Listen for some comment about "cappers" or somesuch.

Mint Sauce

Did Boris Johnson just claim wheelchair basketball to be far more violent.

Guy:Incognito

irish-stew wrote: »

Did Boris Johnson just claim wheelchair basketball to be far more violent.

He's probably getting mixed up with wheelchair rugby.

Mint Sauce

21 minutes gone, Ad break 2.

I'm guessing C4 are trying to get them all out of the way before the opening ceremony starts.

mike65

There are 3 new feeds SKY 450, 451 & 452

Freesat
Chan 150 - C4 Para 1 -
Chan 151 - C4 Para 2 -
Chan 152 - C4 Para 3 -

free to air

SD
11469 H 27500 2/3
11469 H 27500 2/3
11469 H 27500 2/3

HD
12304 H 29500 3/4
10921 H 23000 8/9
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Mint Sauce

mike65 wrote: »

There are 3 new feeds SKY 450, 451 & 452

Freesat
Chan 150 - C4 Para 1 -
Chan 151 - C4 Para 2 -
Chan 152 - C4 Para 3 -

free to air

SD
11469 H 27500 2/3
11469 H 27500 2/3
11469 H 27500 2/3

HD
12304 H 29500 3/4
10921 H 23000 8/9
10921 H 23000 8/9

How do you get the free to air ones? Do you have to retune?

Guy:Incognito

Sean Bean?

Most surreal O2 ad ever.

My name is URL

It's already infinitely more sophisticated than the Olympic opening ceremony

Guy:Incognito

Does anyone remember what the show was a few months back , think it was a panel show (maybe QI?), possibly with Jimmy Carr either asking or being asked did he know what Paralympics stood for and he says "paraple-" then stops. Hilarity ensued.

Mint Sauce

My name is URL wrote: »

It's already infinitely more sophisticated than the Olympic opening ceremony

Did they blow up steven halkins? No sign or mention of him since that big bang.

:eek:

df1985

the sound is fooked....

Guy:Incognito

df1985 wrote: »

the sound is fooked....

No, its just a really bad remix.

gwakamoley

Pretty cool opening sequence, although was anyone else getting dodgy sound quality?

Colmustard

Pretty amazing alright.

gwakamoley

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

df1985 wrote: »

the sound is fooked....

No, its just a really bad remix.

You must be right. It's fine now thankfully!

noelfirl

There isn't anywhere I can see this without talking-way-too-much-already-Krishnan?

gwakamoley

The use of the lights in the crowd really is brilliant

Mint Sauce

noelfirl wrote: »

There isn't anywhere I can see this without talking-way-too-much-already-Krishnan?

More 4 has it with audio describtion.

Colmustard

I said during the opening and closing ceremonys the lighting is absolutely amazing.

I am wondering is each panel wired to a central processor, it must have cost a fortune.

Guy:Incognito

Boring entrance fromt he Queen.:)

My name is URL

G'wan the queen! Fcuk.. she deserves a gold medal for her energy alone

Mint Sauce

No sigh of Harry in the Royal Box. Queenie already looking happier.

Guy:Incognito

Colmustard wrote: »

I said during the opening and closing ceremonys the lighting is absolutely amazing.

I am wondering is each panel wired to a central processor, it must have cost a fortune.

Theres a candle in each one and the people in the seats have different colour crepe paper to hold up when they are told to.

My name is URL

irish-stew wrote: »

No sign of Harry in the Royal Box

He's balls deep in some other royal box

noelfirl

irish-stew wrote: »

More 4 has it with audio describtion.

Cheers for the offer, but I've never been a big fan of AD. Never mind, he shut up a bit for a while there.

I'm not honestly smitten with this yet as I was with the Olympic opening ceremony but will give it time.

df1985

Harrys grounded!

df1985

was the "for those that can" comment really necessary before the anthem??

Colmustard

Now due respects to the British, the home of beatles bowie handel worthsworth shakespeare and on and on but Gawd could they do something about their anthem.

It is such an awful tune and the lyrics are worse. I am not saying ours is much better.

mike65

irish-stew wrote: »

How do you get the free to air ones? Do you have to retune?

you'll need to add them manually.

Mint Sauce

Colmustard wrote: »

Now due respects to the British, the home of beatles bowie handel worthsworth shakespeare and on and on but Gawd could they do something about their anthem.

It is such an awful tune and the lyrics are worse. I am not saying ours is much better.

I always prefered 'Jerusalem', at least as the Anthem of England.

mike65

It strikes me that between them Danny Boyle and Stephen Daldry may have invented a new sort of the open air "in the round" theatre for the stadium age. Maybe they should keep it for more of this sort of thing rather than Leyton Orient or West Ham!

Colmustard

irish-stew wrote: »

I always prefered 'Jerusalem', at least as the Anthem of England.

Now that is a good idea. I would like that to be ours if they don't take it.

Mint Sauce

Colmustard wrote: »

Now that is a good idea. I would like that to be ours if they don't take it.

An Irish Anthem with the word England in. That will go down well.

Mysteriouschic

The opening ceremony for this was quite good.
These countries going in is going to take a while again.

Mint Sauce

mike65 wrote: »

It strikes me that between them Danny Boyle and Stephen Daldry may have invented a new sort of the open air "in the round" theatre for the stadium age. Maybe they should keep it for more of this sort of thing rather than Leyton Orient or West Ham!

Could be a reference to Shakesperes open air theatre, the globe.

Colmustard

irish-stew wrote: »

An Irish Anthem with the word England in. That will go down well.

Just scribble that bit out and write Ireland above. Simples.

noelfirl

Will Sir Ian, the Hawkmeister and Miranda be making a return after the parade? Otherwise that was a very short artistic section...

EDIT: Ok, so according to the outline here >http://www.itv.com/news/update/2012-08-29/order-of-events-at-tonights-opening-ceremony/, there's a lot more to come.

Mysteriouschic

There's a country called Benin where is that?
I learn something new at all the olympics.

gebbel

We are 24th of the 165 participating countries in terms of our number of athletes....49 Irish paralympians according to wikipedia. Punching above our weight already!

Guy:Incognito

gebbel wrote: »

We are 24th of the 165 participating countries in terms of our number of athletes....49 Irish paralympians according to wikipedia. Punching above our weight already!

Thats only, what? , 17 less than we managed to get to the normal Olympics . And with a lot less events.

Guy:Incognito

They touched on it there a few minutes ago but does anyone know what the story is with the grading etc?

Say with the likes of Pistoreous running against a single amputee . Who has the advantage, all things being equal bar one havign one leg and the other havign none.

gebbel

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

gebbel wrote: »

We are 24th of the 165 participating countries in terms of our number of athletes....49 Irish paralympians according to wikipedia. Punching above our weight already!

Thats only, what? , 17 less than we managed to get to the normal Olympics . And with a lot less events.

True. I see we have more athletes than the likes of Switzerland, Austria, Czech Republic and Belgium here. Good to see a healthy ratio like that, win or not.

Jimoslimos

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Thats only, what? , 17 less than we managed to get to the normal Olympics . And with a lot less events.

But a lot more classifications.

My name is URL

Jesus, John... cheer up!

Mint Sauce

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

They touched on it there a few minutes ago but does anyone know what the story is with the grading etc?

Say with the likes of Pistoreous running against a single amputee . Who has the advantage, all things being equal bar one havign one leg and the other havign none.

Think its more too do with how much of an impact the disabilty has on your ability. C4 used a diagram of it in relation to the swimming earlier on today.

Guy:Incognito

Blonde German one goes in ot the hot Olympic athletes thread.

robinph

irish-stew wrote: »

Think its more too do with how much of an impact the disabilty has on your ability. C4 used a diagram of it in relation to the swimming earlier on today.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paralympic_Games#Classification

Depends on the sport and how that effects the ability.

Approximately T= athletics track, F=atheltics field, S= swimming, SB=swimming breaststroke, and a million and 1 other codes.

I believe the team sports have a ranking for each disability and the total ability score per athlete, so if substituting during the game the ability score cannot go over a certain threshold for the whole team at any point.

ballsymchugh

My name is URL wrote: »

Jesus, John... cheer up!

on the other hand, more 4 sounds like they're doing the opening ceremony for daily star readers

noelfirl

I take what I said about the audio description people back. Listening to their relevant fact laden and only vaguely descriptive commentary is a Godsend after listening to Snow wittering on about the civil war of each country.