2013 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

The concert hall at the Sydney Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 29,000 times in 2013. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 11 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.

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Met Opera: Falstaff – TX

Services ceased at 21:10GMT – Goodnight.
Content concludes at 21:05GMT
Brief audio loss at 20:46GMT
Brief audio loss at 18:02GMT
Subtitle system rebooted at 16:32GMT causing brief vision disturbance
Momentary Audio loss at 16:24GMT
Subs to line at 16:22GMT
Awaiting Subtitle data from origin so no subs at present
Brief black to line from origin at 15:59GMT
EU5Wa established and stable at 15:56GMT
IS905 service established and stable 15:54GMT
IS10-02 services established and stable at 15:52GMT
The tuning period for tonght’s transmission will commence at 16:00GMT (UK) / 17:00CET (Western Europe)
Online clock here

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ROH: Nutcracker – TX

Services ceased at 21:53GMT – Clean and stable transmission
Content concludes at 21:52GMT
Black to line followed by tape spooling at 18:48GMT – Clean pictures again at 18:50GMT
Services established and stable at 18:08GMT
NB: UK cinemas should select subtitles off.  There is no foreign language content tonight
The tuning period for tonght’s transmission will commence at 18:15GMT (UK)
Online clock here

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ROH: Nutcracker – AM Test

Test ceased at 12:00GMT
Brief service loss at 11:41GMT
Brief vision interference at 11:34GMT
Services established at 10:57GMT
Today’s test will commence at 11:00GMT (UK)
Online clock here

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Met Opera Test: Falstaff

Today’s test will commence at 09:30GMT (UK) and 10:30CET (Western Europe)
Online clock here
Services established and stable at 09:25GMT
Services ceased at 10:00GMT

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Andre Rieu – TX

Services ceased at 17:42GMT
Content ceased at 17:40GMT
Sync correct at 14:36GMT

Sync adjusted causing brief vision loss
Rouge Dolby encoder removed at SNG – Hopefully micro mutes resolved at 14:24GMT
Vision disturbance at 14:24 causing loss of vision and audio
We are hearing micro mutes in the 5.1 audio stream (perhaps once a minute) that has been reported by two sites.  We are working on a resolution. Timed 14:15GMT
Both IS10-02 & IS905 established and stable 13:35GMT
Online clock here
The tuning period for today’s transmission will begin at 13:35GMT (UK) and 14:35CET (Western Europe)

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Andre Rieu – AM Test

Services ceased at 09:01GMT
IS905 established, stable and verified at 08:31GMT
IS10-02 established and stable at 08:23GMT
The test period is due to commence at 08:30GMT (UK Time) and 09:30CET (Western Europe)

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RSC: Richard II – TX

Content concludes and services ceased at 22:16GMT – Clean & Stable transmission
Both services established and stable at 17:20GMT
The pre transmission tuning period is due to commence at 17:30GMT (UK time), 18:30CET

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RSC: Richard II – TX day AM test

Service ceased at 12:00
Both services established and stable at 10:50GMT

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RSC – Richard II: Test TX

Services ceased at 12:00GMT
Both services established and stable at 10:48GMT

The test transmission will commence at 11:00GMT (UK time) / 12:00CET

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