hardtailstar Posted July 1, 2019 Posted July 1, 2019 https://twitter.com/markwayt/status/1145045580961525760 1
FishCustard Posted July 1, 2019 Posted July 1, 2019 I'm going to guess some sort of embedded system as part of the projection equipment...
Arthur Posted July 1, 2019 Posted July 1, 2019 Was Neneh singing "7 Seconds" while she was waiting for it to boot up? 7 seconds away Just as long as I stay I'll be waiting 1
JATSO Posted July 1, 2019 Posted July 1, 2019 I'm going to guess some sort of embedded system as part of the projection equipment... Or maybe a request from the artists for it to be brought back into mainstream support. Bet Microsoft wished it had been Win10 on that screen just for the publicity.
6Foot2 Posted July 1, 2019 Posted July 1, 2019 How big is Glastonbury? Link: Glastonbury Map Overlay Enter your location in the search bar to see how Glastonbury Festival site compares to any location in the world. You can also drag and drop the outline... 2
Arthur Posted July 1, 2019 Posted July 1, 2019 This article is quite interesting too. How Glastonbury Festival builds a city-sized phone network for just one weekend When Glastonbury Festival comes to Worthy Farm, it turns the normally-sleepy patch of Somerset countryside into a temporary city, population circa 200,000. “You’re looking at a city the size of York that all needs to be set up in the space of two or three weeks,” says Tom Bennett, EE’s mobile innovation director. EE has provided mobile network coverage to Glastonbury for 19 years, which means building the on-site infrastructure each year from scratch to support festival-goers and their growing data demands. No longer are people content to bring along a dumbphone for the week; now they expect full connectivity, not just to make calls and send messages but increasingly to upload images and stream video to social media too. In 2010, data usage over the Glastonbury network reached 0.11 terabytes. In 2013, the first year of 4G at the festival, it jumped to 12.3, and at the last event in 2017 (2018 was a fallow year) it rose to 54.2 terabytes. The busiest time for data uploads was during the “legends” slot on Sunday afternoon, when Bee Gee Barry Gibb took to the Pyramid Stage. This year, EE predicts that data usage will pass 60 terabytes – with 5G being brought to the festival for the first time to take on some of the load. The main challenge is not coverage but capacity, given the tight geographic space people are packed into. “We’re looking at Glastonbury being the size of York, but the capacity required is more like central London,” says Bennett. The engineering team sets up six temporary mast sites for the festival, supplemented by one permanent site erected in 2017 (which, Bennett jokes, probably makes the local village one of the best-connected in the country for the other 51 weeks in the year). This year, EE aims to support 5G at three of the sites. 2
jthompson Posted July 2, 2019 Posted July 2, 2019 It's probably just me, but I'm always a little annoyed at how much the BBC seems to fawn over Glastonbury. I'm not sure I see the big appeal of it on TV or radio. None of the music is new and it sounds worse than the studio recordings. 1
JJonas Posted July 2, 2019 Posted July 2, 2019 Some of the coverage annoys me, there was far too much Jorja Smith this year. In other years bands have had far too much coverage and bands headlining on other stages have been left out completely. Bruce Springsteen's set a few years ago was shown three times, but Playing for Change who headlined the Jazz stage didn't even get a mention.
FishCustard Posted July 2, 2019 Posted July 2, 2019 It's probably just me, but I'm always a little annoyed at how much the BBC seems to fawn over Glastonbury. I'm not sure I see the big appeal of it on TV or radio. None of the music is new and it sounds worse than the studio recordings. I agree. If I want to listen to whoever it is, I have hundreds of options for listening to proper studio recordings as you say!
CHiLL Posted July 2, 2019 Posted July 2, 2019 It's probably just me, but I'm always a little annoyed at how much the BBC seems to fawn over Glastonbury. I'm not sure I see the big appeal of it on TV or radio. None of the music is new and it sounds worse than the studio recordings. Isn't that the case for any gig that a band/performer does? In most cases they're promoting a new album and that's what the set will mostly contain, but it'll never sound as good as the studio recordings.
FishCustard Posted July 2, 2019 Posted July 2, 2019 Isn't that the case for any gig that a band/performer does? In most cases they're promoting a new album and that's what the set will mostly contain, but it'll never sound as good as the studio recordings. Oh of course, which is fine if you're there - because (a) you're there for the experience as well as simply listening, and (b) it'll sound better in person anyway! Why they seem to think that people want to watch festival performances via a TV camera+microphone though I'll never know.
CHiLL Posted July 2, 2019 Posted July 2, 2019 Oh of course, which is fine if you're there - because (a) you're there for the experience as well as simply listening, and (b) it'll sound better in person anyway! Why they seem to think that people want to watch festival performances via a TV camera+microphone though I'll never know. I get you. Actually, I did watch some of the highlights of the festival, just to see what everyone has been talking about.
chazzy2501 Posted July 2, 2019 Posted July 2, 2019 XP embedded has a green loading (not blue) bar and usually says "embedded" or a nostalgic play 1
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