Watermarks

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Despite Sydney getting the AFL on 7mate (which usually results in a “7mate” version of the “Live & Free” thing the network usually does for Sport), we’re also getting this one.

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Last Monday night, Talking Footy on 7 Sydney had the 7mate logo.

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Was looking through some old discs and found some caps, so here’s some classic watermarks…

The initial ABC HD watermark from when the native 720p channel launched:


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They scaled it down after complaints:

For comparison, the ABCTV watermark at the time:

Of course they didn’t learn their lesson, and when they relaunched, they had some of the worst watermarks on TV -


I believe that ABC2 screenshot is after they toned it down. Unfortunately I still haven’t found a cap of the ABC HD one at the time - same spot as ABC1, larger and green.

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I just had a look at the old archive here and found this one. Dated 7/10/2007

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Of course it wasn’t just the ABC with massive HD watermarks:

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“The Blinds” :open_mouth:

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Nine thinks “blind auditions” is hard for fans to remember, so it replaces the term with “the blinds”.

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They’re renaming them as “The Visionally Challenged” next year.

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Or “The Curtains”.

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The green ABC HD watermark

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Nah, that’s the toned down version. They had a far worse one initially. I believe it was different on native HD programming.

That said, posting those old watermarks - I remember the outrage at the time about them - but that The Voice one from Nine now is far worse - solid and taking up far more of the screen. But now they seem accepted.

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Back in 2008:
Nine%20and%20Seven%20advertising%20watermarks
sourced from www.siteoffline.com

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Nine’s Olympic watermark, from 2010.

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The 3D Olympic watermark

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For some reason, HD looked better fifteen years ago then it does now for some reason.

Anyone agree?

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It is when you run a HD service in 1080i at a bitrate of 10mbps+.

Would be interesting to see a side-by-side comparison between 2007-era MPEG2 HD with 2018 MPEG4 HD, if that was possible.

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Hoping its permanent.

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I just switched on the TV to see if it was true and was sorely disappointed. Mappy lives. It has been so long since I last watched Ten programming on WIN that I pressed 5 instead of 8 on the remote.

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