Alec Bray
With digital television transmission, broadcasters can no longer use analogue clocks (the ones with hours, minutes and seconds hands) as part of their station idents. The processing time for digital signals depends on the complexity of the picture, but also depends on the medium used for distribution. Virgin cable (fibre optic) pictures and sound are considerably delayed compared to Freeview, for example. A digital clock can be “wrong” by nearly two minutes but still be “correct”, whereas an analogue clock with a second hand will nearly always show the wrong time to the viewer.
Bernie Newnham
… wondered about this picture 12:38 on 11th July 2016.
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Dave Mundy
The clock in the Elizabeth Tower is being serviced, I think.
Steve Edwards
There’s a simple explanation:- It is Not appropriate for the BBC to be clearly showing Two Fingers in the background whilst discussing the subject of backing Teresa May.
Dave Buckley
I saw this some weeks ago, and realised that the background is a still frame.
So that the background can be used at anytime, the time on the clock face has been ‘erased’!
Ian Hillson
Methinks it’s the ITN (? ) camera feed of Big Ben.
And (in the late 1960s) the most important clocks of all …
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