#network 2

[letsallgotothelobby]

A co-worker was talking about Bosco (irish kids tv icon if you don’t know) and I got the urge to doodle em

[pxssagat]

Helmut Lang - Network #2, 2019, cotton, wax, resin, and tar on canvas 67 x 52 1/4 x 1 1/2 inches. Photo by Thomas Mueller. Courtesy of the artist and The Journal Gallery.

[tvarchives]

Network 2/RTÉ Two Commercials with News 2 Bulletin and Weather - December 2001 (Edited)

[transdiffusion]

From the http://www.transdiffusion.org/ archives...

Adverts, promos and idents from RTÉ's Network 2 in 2002. With thanks to Con Logue for contributing the tape 13 years ago.

[crappyoldstuff]

Oh no, not another murder! - Some late night, in-vision continuity from Network 2's N2 incarnation ('97-'05). Did anyone in Ireland even watch Water Rats?

[crappyoldstuff]

A promo for Network 2 (aka RTÉ Two)'s "comedy night" from around 2001. Not a bad line-up, but I think I was well over watching Father Ted repeats even then.

And for those wondering, my extensive internet research tells me that TV to Go was a BBC One sketch show from around the same time starring Robert Webb and Hugh Dennis among others.

[quantumfireball]

More old shitty ads.

Technical blah: The Pepsi ad looks less noisy than the rest because I had two different recordings of this and was able to combine them with AviSynth (using merge). The EBS ad was grainy as hell, I could have used heavier de-noising but whatever.

Some AviSynth plugins/filters used:

QTGMC - for de-interlacing (only applied where required, e.g. some fades, caption animations, and field-blended/fully interlaced ads)

srestore - for restoring field-blended film e.g. Pepsi and Playtex ads (probably both NTSC->PAL conversions)

MCTemporalDenoise (v1.4.20 mod 3.7 by 06_taro, original by LaTo) - for noise reduction (motion comp)

FFT3DFilter - for extra de-noising of chroma plane (VHS sucks yo)

nnedi3 - for restoring frames where only one field was present (often occured at first or last frame of ad, and the stills in the Harp ad)