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[[File:Hhh.jpg|right|thumb|300px|One of windowvision's earlier incarnations]] | [[File:Hhh.jpg|right|thumb|300px|One of windowvision's earlier incarnations]] | ||
Initially, Windowvision was a TV in a window. This was put in place at the start of [[Freshers' Week]] 2003, also in a moment of madness when [[Jonathan Bufton]] and [[Dave Baker]] | Initially, Windowvision was a TV in a window. This was put in place at the start of [[Freshers' Week]] 2003, also in a moment of madness when [[Jonathan Bufton]] and [[Dave Baker]] assembled a structure of questionable safety which the graphics operator would then need to sit underneath in order to use the [[Commodore Amiga]] during a programme (shortly afterwards the new [[Graphics PC]] was installed in a better location). The aim was to try and at least catch people's eyes when they walked past the station, although obviously was without sound. The station had also lost a few monitors across campus due to building works in the previous few years so this was an easy way of re-dressing the balance. The windows were also filled with whatever station publicity posters were in vogue at the that moment. | ||
==2010== | ==2010== | ||
Revision as of 14:47, 29 September 2010
Windowvision is the name given to viewing YSTV via the control room window. Due to being behind a window, windowvision typically does not have sound, apart from the odd occasion here and there...
2003-2010
Initially, Windowvision was a TV in a window. This was put in place at the start of Freshers' Week 2003, also in a moment of madness when Jonathan Bufton and Dave Baker assembled a structure of questionable safety which the graphics operator would then need to sit underneath in order to use the Commodore Amiga during a programme (shortly afterwards the new Graphics PC was installed in a better location). The aim was to try and at least catch people's eyes when they walked past the station, although obviously was without sound. The station had also lost a few monitors across campus due to building works in the previous few years so this was an easy way of re-dressing the balance. The windows were also filled with whatever station publicity posters were in vogue at the that moment.
2010
Windowvision 2010 emerged as a moment of complete madness by Michael Chislett, egged on by Michael Cullen, and Steven Perring. It consists of Chislett's projector, mounted on MDF ontop of the AV rack (opposite the G/046 window), pointing onto the blinds (which are convieniently always down at night). It is worth pointing out that YSTV's windows are convieniently almost a 4:3 aspect ratio. Audio is provided by shoving speakers onto a stool near the window if anyone can be bothered. Inaugaural projection was Man Man. Within a few minutes, windowvision Actually Had Non-YSTV viewers, one of which remarked to a fellow viewer "you have just been out-awesomed". This version of windowvision may re-appear once a timed IR interface is made for the pojector - with the hope of it being linked into a light sensor, and automatically turned on if it is dark enough.