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Big Brother 2004 on official YouTube channel (Live streamed Aug 29 -30 + Sept 6-7)
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And it'll probably be down to $100k this year. Indeed for 4 weeks they don't deserve much more.also need to remember $1 Million was still a reasonably big deal back then. I remember the hype around when Who Wants To Be A Millionaire first started in the late 90's, and even when a couple other shows offered a similar amount of money. Contrast with inflation and all that today with the 1.2 million dollar homes being a median price point in certain areas, puts it into perspective. Indeed BBAU jumping from 250,000 to $1 Million was quite a thing. BBUK around this point had only just jumped from £70k to £100k iirc.
Zcsund1234
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the audio for the next episode is airing whilst the previous episode is still displayed?
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This is the third consecutive Big Kevin episode, so that's not the end of the world I guess.
I think that's 1 skipped, 4 Big Kevins, and 7 successfully aired episodes so far.
Part of me wishes they'd just waited, although I don't know enough about tapes to know if "restoring" them is actually realistic.EDIT: Aaaaand another Big Kev.
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Yeah, it's just before he became a parody of himself and started hissing everything angrily through his teeth.
Well just after this started airing, BBUK went down the "Big Brother turns evil" storyline - UK and Aus seemed to influence each other for a bit.Yeah, it's just before he became a parody of himself and started hissing everything angrily through his teeth.
It’s because the original rips for this season, and every season from here on out, was significantly better resolution than 2003.
The capture quality of the 2004-2008 seasons were only slightly less than the original SD 576p broadcast resolution. So when upscaled it’s not as noticeable and actually look half decent. There’s even caps of 2006-2008 in existence that are at least 720p.
For comparison, the original caps for 2003 were like less than 250p or thereabouts, so even upscaling couldn’t save it much.
They’ve already said almost the whole first few weeks of 2004’s Daily Shows are unplayable, but the second half of the season is fine. They’ll also be streaming every season through 2008 “before the tapes degrade any further”.
It was revealed the master tapes had been stored at Dreamworld for all these years (very shocking) and not in a proper archival storage facility like these sorts of broadcasts usually are, hence the decay.
I can only imagine where they were kept once the auditorium and old production offices were demolished several years ago…
Some tidbits that were revealed by the BBAU social team during the stream overnight:
- they are taking notes from these YouTube livestream tests for potential use in the upcoming season
- they will be officially digitising every episode of Ten’s run from 2001-2008 “before the tapes degrade any further”, including the stuff they’re not / can’t stream (i.e. Uncut, CBB, etc)
- there are teams currently “chasing down plenty of leads to see who still has DVD screeners or backup tapes”, as so many episodes from the master tapes have degraded too much
- given the nature of digitising analogue tapes, the entire series is being watched in realtime so this is also being used as an opportunity to “look back at the full channel 10 run (and it) will be good to see what worked and didn't work to make 2025 the best it can be”
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Afflllate
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Checking in, Looks like end of Week 4, Ryan getting himself into a bit of crap upsetting Ashalea and Elle. Its the task where there was a divider in the middle of the house. Spotted a Ten cross promotion bar at the bottom for American Idol Final Two as well, thats right I remember they fast tracked it not long after the US that year. Eviction #3 Starting now (Sun 30th May 2004), check out that Fringe on Gretel haha maybe she's taking some inspiration from Ashalea.
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Heading to bed now, but thought I'd share the current tally as of Episode 31, Eviction #3:
- 15 of BigKevin's rips
- 12 episodes actually from the archives
- 1 episode skipped halfway through
Am I missing something or wasn't this supposed to just be a 12 hour marathon?
Missed the one they skipped.Heading to bed now, but thought I'd share the current tally as of Episode 31, Eviction #3:
This is... quite something.
- 15 of BigKevin's rips
- 12 episodes actually from the archives
- 1 episode skipped halfway through
BB12
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There's a part 1 on their YouTube channel under the "Live" tab. Part 2 of the livestream is on now.
Ohh, i thought they implied they were doing 12 hours of streaming per day.
No. As mentioned on here, they won’t be uploading the episodes individually, so their workaround is providing the full 12-hour stream for a period of time, with timestamps to jump to each ep. The streams only go back 12-hours, so to ensure every episode remains up they’re stopping and restarting each stream before that time.
2004 will have five parts split across this weekend and next.
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