TV4, la télé-visionnaire !
Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2015 1:24 pm
Hello everybody,
A few years ago we talked about making programms for NBTV, but this never occured. It's nice to save, repair, and make work old patrimonial unique pieces of technology, but only to display a testcard, or cropped 4/3, i was kinda disappointed and lost interest for a while.
But i was not very far; i was just in the next room, playing with analog electronic television
More years ago, around 2009, with some friends, we made a web-tv, whose action was set in the past. We filmed in black and white etc… but we did not have real gear of that time. In early 2014 we decided to start this project like new.
We spent time to seek for old VCR and cameras, import them, restaure them, repair everything, and also learn how they work.
We also made programs. We value the programs because it's the only way to touch more people, and this gives a purpose to our stuff.
Le télétexte, break through technology !
So, we are going to use, CCD and Trinitron™ ( tube ) cameras, 8mm and SvhsC camcorders ( for the outsides ), Svhs U-matic ( yes ) and maybe Video 2000 tapes for the VCRs; and almost everything we use are from this era.
( yes i know Svhs existed later but it's hard to get everything from that era )
an U-matic that still works and will be used
Our web-tv first program is next week, but i have to warn you that this is not aimed at an international audience. Almost everything will be in standard French language, with no translation at all. So if you know French, good for you, but if you don't know, you can still appreciate the visual quality of analog tapes. Hence you are all interested in analog video i wanted to share this with you.
This will be Friday the 30th, in the evening at 9:30 PM Paris timezone ( CET ).
For those who will watch the event, i will give you a bit of context.
As you know, in the mid 70's in Italy, there was a lot of small local tv stations. There was a huge freedom.
But in France this was not the case. Only a very very few pirate stations. All was very centralised and state owned. There was only 3 tv channels and not many radios. In 1981, there was a new left-wing government, wich allowed the pirate radios to be legalized. There was weird radios stations everywhere. But they never changed the law, and there was only 3 channels on tv until 1984.
Our story is set in 1981, in a parallel universe, where the government allowed private channels.
An excentric italian investor, who got rich in household market and porn videotapes, get the right to create the 4th channel.
TV4 is born, and it's only goal is to make him richer while broadcasting the most stupid programs.
He also hired a crew of local journalists and made local stations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-np3qvydFI
Everything is now ready for the first transmission, be there !
Let's watch analog video in action !
Lowtone, aka Débranché, local journalist from rural area
The official website
Facebook
Twitter
Youtube ( live, Friday the 30th of october 2015, 9:30PM CET)
and a last more technical video
Présentation de la régie
A few years ago we talked about making programms for NBTV, but this never occured. It's nice to save, repair, and make work old patrimonial unique pieces of technology, but only to display a testcard, or cropped 4/3, i was kinda disappointed and lost interest for a while.
But i was not very far; i was just in the next room, playing with analog electronic television
More years ago, around 2009, with some friends, we made a web-tv, whose action was set in the past. We filmed in black and white etc… but we did not have real gear of that time. In early 2014 we decided to start this project like new.
We spent time to seek for old VCR and cameras, import them, restaure them, repair everything, and also learn how they work.
We also made programs. We value the programs because it's the only way to touch more people, and this gives a purpose to our stuff.
Le télétexte, break through technology !
So, we are going to use, CCD and Trinitron™ ( tube ) cameras, 8mm and SvhsC camcorders ( for the outsides ), Svhs U-matic ( yes ) and maybe Video 2000 tapes for the VCRs; and almost everything we use are from this era.
( yes i know Svhs existed later but it's hard to get everything from that era )
an U-matic that still works and will be used
Our web-tv first program is next week, but i have to warn you that this is not aimed at an international audience. Almost everything will be in standard French language, with no translation at all. So if you know French, good for you, but if you don't know, you can still appreciate the visual quality of analog tapes. Hence you are all interested in analog video i wanted to share this with you.
This will be Friday the 30th, in the evening at 9:30 PM Paris timezone ( CET ).
For those who will watch the event, i will give you a bit of context.
As you know, in the mid 70's in Italy, there was a lot of small local tv stations. There was a huge freedom.
But in France this was not the case. Only a very very few pirate stations. All was very centralised and state owned. There was only 3 tv channels and not many radios. In 1981, there was a new left-wing government, wich allowed the pirate radios to be legalized. There was weird radios stations everywhere. But they never changed the law, and there was only 3 channels on tv until 1984.
Our story is set in 1981, in a parallel universe, where the government allowed private channels.
An excentric italian investor, who got rich in household market and porn videotapes, get the right to create the 4th channel.
TV4 is born, and it's only goal is to make him richer while broadcasting the most stupid programs.
He also hired a crew of local journalists and made local stations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-np3qvydFI
Everything is now ready for the first transmission, be there !
Let's watch analog video in action !
Lowtone, aka Débranché, local journalist from rural area
The official website
Youtube ( live, Friday the 30th of october 2015, 9:30PM CET)
and a last more technical video
Présentation de la régie