On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 14:18:20 +0100, Stephen Neal
<stephen.neal@NOSPAM.as-directed.com> wrote:

> If you are talking about supplying CEEFAX style 888 subtitles (for insertion
> into Vertical Blanking on transmission) as part of the recording on VT
> rather than as a separate disc or e-mailed file, then I think you have to
> deliver on a Digital format as the data is encoded as part of the SDI stream
> that is recorded on VT. (Some VBI lines can be recorded directly as data on
> most digital VT formats, rather than being compressed?)  I don't think that
> Beta SP supports this - so you'd need to delier on DigiBeta ?

Sure it does. Lines 21 and 334 appear to be the BBC standard for 888
subtitles. We can accept a tape with recorded subtitle data on these
lines and with a modicum of thought it will make it through the vision
system and into the inserter.

> Some English regions WILL accept Beta SP for programme delivery still
> I think)

I'd have thought everybody would accept it. It is still our main work
horse. DV crap is a newsgathering format IMHO. We cannot use anything
else without dubbing it off somewhere.