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Big Brother 2002 on official YouTube channel (Live streamed Aug 8-10)

the Theorist said:
Of-course if a TBC was used during the transfer, which it should’ve been, then those tapes must actually be damaged. The digitised result is what we’re currently seeing.
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Yeah I think they might be able to fix the horrible glitching you posted by re-digitising it from the master. Hope so.
 
I would be surprised if they do tbh, after already spending the time to do it the first time. Especially to re-upload the whole season on YouTube again when they already have such a big task ahead with what’s to come. But hopefully.
 
They were on Betacam tapes which was the industry standard at the time but I agree with Theorists’ comments. You’ll also find the quality of the pre recorded programming IE Daily shows etc, were all higher quality due to the way they were post produced and played out . Live shows you’ll find there is more compression on them as they were recorded off the live data link to broadcast playout.
Word is that all these tapes were stored at 10 Pyrmont and not really looked or touched since the 2008 axing.

There is the possibility of a few AI programs that are able to savage and repair issues with older tape content so will be interesting to see if they use it/try
 
There was a digitising of BBAU a few years back as part of of an effort to preserve Australian TV history in some archive - I remember reading a tweet at the time that someone was watching Johnnie's eviction as it was being done.

So there might be some digital copies that might be free of some of these issues, depending on when tapes became damaged. Possibly even during transport for that previous digitisation effort.
 
Rison said:
There was a digitising of BBAU a few years back as part of of an effort to preserve Australian TV history in some archive - I remember reading a tweet at the time that someone was watching Johnnie's eviction as it was being done.

So there might be some digital copies that might be free of some of these issues, depending on when tapes became damaged. Possibly even during transport for that previous digitisation effort.
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Thank you for mentioning this! Not many people seem to remember this happened.

From memory, I think it might’ve been just 2001 that was originally preserved for prosperity, due to its cultural and historic significance. At least that’s what they publicly said at the time, I think.
 
I definitely remember the Johnnie tweet, or at least I saw it posted on Instagram at the time, was it around 2017? I always thought all of the channel 10 seasons were preserved.
 
Here we go!! Funnily enough, I completely forgot I actually started this thread! 😂

Re-reading our discussion about the widescreen format and doubts that the show would ever be publicly available to watch again…🥲…oh lol

It’s also kinda heartwarming to read the hopeful comments about re-watching it in high quality again, now knowing that one day we actually got to!

the Theorist

Thread 'Archiving of BBAU - widescreen from the start'

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Johnnie from BB01 posted this tonight. Aside from the very heartfelt message, it is great to know the original seasons of BBAU (or at least the very first) have been officially archived.
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