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Sorry I didn’t get around to grabbing more of these, but here is what SBS ran for a bit during the World Cup as their idents. To see the more extensive SBS World Cup themed idents click here.
Download the whole H264 bunch in one swoop here (7.5mb *.zip).
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I have to admit I’m not that big of a soccer fan, but if SBS’s enthusiasm is anything to go by its hard not to resist its lure. The network has gone all out for the World Cup, and why wouldn’t they, its got to be the most exciting quadrennial event the station gets to air, and the craziest ratings month they are likely to see until South Africa hosts it in 2010.
SBS totally rebranded its on air presentation for the World Cup and these are the new idents they’ve been running.
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Oli commenting from the previous post suggests its a bit Academy Awards meets Mastercard, I tend to agree..
And whats with the sign in the background saying “I told you so”? (screen capture below).
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Just to complete the set I started earlier, here are the openers for the ABC and SBS News’ from last Friday night, similarly dominated by the Snowy Hydro news, although SBS not quite as much.
Download the whole H264 bunch in one swoop here (15.5mb *.zip).
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It was a few months ago when I wrote my 100th post, and I’m not sure if this is slow or quick, but here we are at the 200th. To celebrate I thought I’d “re-release” my favourite series of Australian idents thus far in the year-and-a-bit that I’ve been blogging.
Its the SBS liquid series created by Sydney agency Inkproject, they’ve done a lot of really amazing stuff for SBS, and samples of all of it are on their website.
> RealPlayer Media (1.4mb)
> Quicktime Download in H.264 (6.1mb)
(Before I went overseas I pre wrote a few posts to fill the empty space while I was gone.. this is one of them.)
This promo from SBS about digital TV has been around for a while, but its a cool take on it.
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When it comes to the extra channels available on digital TV, ABC2 is pretty the extent of it for me. But, SBS do offer their World News Channel, and it’s a pretty awesome resource of international news broadcasts, and although its not much use to english-only speaking me, I’d imagine it would be pretty sweet for people looking for news broadcasts in their prefered language.
> RealPlayer Stream (424kb)
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> RealPlayer Stream (420kb)
> Quicktime Download in H.264! (2.4mb)
SBS have gone all out for summer, the idents are very ‘Australian’ without pandering, the top two are my favourite, but I really like the whole theme.
Continue for more SBS..
All networks in Australia, except the ABC broadcast Electronic Program Guides on Digital TV. For some reason SBS is the only network that broadcasts their EPG in Canberra, on my trip to Sydney however I managed to grab samples from the other three EPG’s.
SBS is my favourite of the bunch (check out their old EPG here). I don’t mind the Seven and Nine EPG’s and the Ten one looks good too but it so horribly out of date its embarrasing. They have icons promoting shows that aren’t on anymore, they have photos of Neighbours cast that have left the show, and I thought Australian Idol was over? Its as if Network Ten don’t realise their even broadcasting it.
> SBS EPG RealPlayer Stream (3.3mb)
> Seven EPG RealPlayer Stream (1.8mb)
> Nine EPG RealPlayer Stream (2.2mb)
> Ten EPG RealPlayer Stream (2.1mb)
The networks all have their own take on how to present weather, SBS do the whole world in a minute while Nine barely get past the suburbs of Sydney on their ‘National’ broadcast. ABC seem to take the longest, with a weather report that can at times top three minutes. Ten and Seven insist on sending out weather people to locations around town, Tim Bailey on Ten is far more annoying then Seven’s Nuala Hafner though.
From a design perspective ABC and SBS are at the top of my list. Ten is by far the worst with its depressing little sunshine icons. Nine waste too much time with scroll bars at the bottom of the screen and moving the map around from left to right, and Seven’s map looks OK, but is a bit cartoony.
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