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Watermark Me! Watermarks, watermarks, watermarks

#501 routemarker

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Posted 31 October 2006 - 06:45 PM

QUOTE (chicki @ Oct 31 2006, 04:09 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

They have always had the 7 live watermark on digital, "HD" however has the regular watermark

Not always, throughout ITT and the first couple of eps of DWTS, digital had no watermark.

#502 Reuder7

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Posted 05 November 2006 - 10:26 PM

I think we've got some of the most discreet watermarks compared to other stations around the world. I caught a season one episode of PrisonBreak from Fox5 and the watermark on that was solid white (pretty much). It wasn't that distracting. Bottom left is the best for discreetness.

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Posted 05 November 2006 - 10:55 PM

They also have annoying solid,animated ones. If you watch enough Nightline, they'll eventually source a story from the ABC (US) version. Not only is it solid, but it's big enough to cover all three safe areas and worse still, it animates. Whereas we seem to have a faint, grey watermark (and in some stations, it fades in and out, pending on the colour), except for stations such as Seven Central and GWN, they have rock solid watermarks.

#504 Andy B

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Posted 05 November 2006 - 11:01 PM

This is ABC (US) sport watermark

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Posted 06 November 2006 - 11:18 AM

QUOTE (Andy B @ Nov 6 2006, 12:01 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

This is ABC (US) sport watermark

It's not that bad. The animating news one on the other hand...

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Posted 06 November 2006 - 11:33 AM

QUOTE (Reuder7 @ Nov 5 2006, 11:26 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

(I assume you mean Fox 5 New York (WNYW)? or Fox8?)

I agree with you on that, there are some decently done watermarks, Prime's is one I rate highly. If you're going to do it, do it well, that's what I say.

QUOTE (Mike Beckham @ Nov 6 2006, 12:18 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

It's not that bad. The animating news one on the other hand...

I agree...its a shocker, and VERY distracting.

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Posted 06 November 2006 - 07:50 PM

QUOTE (Big_Dan @ Nov 6 2006, 12:33 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

From what I've seen of the Seven HD watermark, not on it's size, but it's transparency seems to be quite good.

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Posted 07 November 2006 - 12:52 PM

QUOTE (Reuder7 @ Nov 5 2006, 11:26 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I caught a season one episode of PrisonBreak from Fox5 and the watermark on that was solid white (pretty much). It wasn't that distracting. Bottom left is the best for discreetness.

I suspect this is the one you are talking about. I don't mind the watermark at all personally.

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Posted 07 November 2006 - 04:56 PM

QUOTE (ATNI @ Nov 6 2006, 08:50 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

From what I've seen of the Seven HD watermark, not on it's size, but it's transparency seems to be quite good.

It is way too big, and it is also way too opaque.

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#510 Andy B

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Posted 07 November 2006 - 04:59 PM

The more transparent the better, I don't see the problem.

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Posted 24 November 2006 - 07:31 PM

[font=Arial]The win watermarks in Queenland look like a kid has been let loose on the sport and the news logo some times no watermark over the nine mark any regions have this mess.

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Posted 25 November 2006 - 09:52 AM

QUOTE (boness @ Nov 24 2006, 08:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

The win watermarks in Queenland look like a kid has been let loose on the sport and the news logo some times no watermark over the nine mark any regions have this mess.

Welcome to my world, the other day our's wasn't lined up properlt so you could see about three inches of the nine logo, so how did they fix that you may ask, simple, they just streched it, so it looked worse....

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Posted 25 November 2006 - 06:21 PM

Ok, so what are the odds of that Japanese Midget submarine story on 60 minutes being swamped with large, solid and intrusive watermarks? You've seen how it looks in the ads, but how bad will it really be?

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Posted 25 November 2006 - 06:44 PM

Watching football in QLD on WIN watermark has little dots on edge of the logo the last few days the old looked cleaner but this is horriable WIN must be cost cutting the logo area.

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Posted 30 December 2006 - 01:21 PM

ABC seems to be the worst when it comes to watermark consistency. There exclusive tags are all over the place. Watching the Hopman Cup, I thought the ABC had it's own sports watermark, currently it's just a rather large standard ABC in the top right hand corner.

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Posted 30 December 2006 - 01:29 PM

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ABC haven't had a sports watermark in years

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Posted 30 December 2006 - 05:51 PM

And various states are doing various styles/transparency etc. for the watermark on sports.

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Posted 03 January 2007 - 04:03 PM

5th Ashes Test Watermarks:

Day 1 - Grey translucent
Day 2 - Normal white translucent

Did anyone else notice that?

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Posted 03 January 2007 - 04:22 PM

QUOTE (Cyril Washbrook @ Jan 3 2007, 05:03 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

5th Ashes Test Watermarks:

Day 1 - Grey translucent
Day 2 - Normal white translucent

Did anyone else notice that?

The grey was awful.

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