Fri, 22 June 2007 A journey in London's upmarket Mayfair district from Grosvenor Square to Berkeley Square, taking in the magnificent buildings and gardens in both squares.
(US viewers may be interested to learn that Grosvenor Square is host to the American Embassy) Comments[0] |
Fri, 15 June 2007 This episode opens with a close-up view of the Victoria Monument which is built in front of Buckingham Palace.
As we observe the many tourists in front of the palace we notice that there is increasing movement of the military personnel within its compound.
The next thing we know, the gates have opened and a military band is playing, followed by today’s duty guards who are leaving the palace (this time the turn of the Royal Air Force - the Navy and Army also take turns).
We watch the military parade march off down the Mall, a great long parade road leading from Buckingham Palace all the way to Trafalgar Square in the distance. The Mall is festooned with Union Flags its entire length.
Finally the military band has disappeared, returning the Mall to the thousands of sightseers enjoying the sunshine. Direct download: 07_Changing_the_Guard_at_Buckingham_Place.mp4 Category: podcasts -- posted at: 3:35 AM Comments[0] |
Fri, 8 June 2007 It's time to take a journey on the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) from Bank to Canary Wharf. The DLR is run entirely by computer systems which drive and brake the trains and switch the track points. There is no driver to guide the train. However there is almost always a 'passenger assistant' who is there to ensure everyone's security (and check for valid tickets!). Technical point: There is much picture movement taking place in this episode. Given my self-imposed 3 Mbps video bitrate limit (safely within the playback bitrate limit of most video devices), the high definition picture may look a little soft and lacking in detail in some places. Abandoning my 'locked-off and look' design inevitably brings consequences since the video compressor will always be challenged if every part of the picture is changing from frame to frame. For experimentation, I had to allow the compressor to run at 8 Mbps for the footage to be indistinguishable from the original - but I am unable to publish that version because devices such as Apple TV are unable to playback video at that high a bitrate. I always run the compressor at its very highest possible quality settings (constrained only by the 3 Mbps bitrate setting), which means that it performs 'multi-pass' reads of the original footage in order to have the very best go at keeping the image detail and quality in the compressed version. Comments[0] |
Fri, 1 June 2007 The Fire Monument is a 61-metre (202ft) stone column commemorating the Great Fire of London - a fire in a bakery which started at a location exactly the distance away from the column as is represented by its height: 61m. The Great Fire started in a the bakery in Pudding Lane (a street which still exists) shortly after midnight on 2nd September 1666 and spread rapidly through the closely-built wooden houses. The fire raged for three days, destroying more than 13,000 homes as well as the original St. Paul's Cathedral. You can climb the 311 steps to the top of the column and enjoy the skyline of London from the viewing platform.... or simply enjoy watching the views in your high-definition window now by playing this episode! Having reached the top, the views showin in this episode are (in order): For more information on the Great Fire of London and the Fire Monument, this Wikipedia entry is a good starting point: To link directly to a Google satellite map centered on the Fire Monument, follow this link: Fire Monument - and I'll leave it to you to 'drive' Google map from there to get a sense of the location. Comments[0] |
London Landscape TV (HD 720p)
If you love London, you'll love London Landscape TV.
This regular high-definition video podcast allows your TV or computer to become your own window overlooking one of the world's greatest and historic capital cities.
Whether you live in London now, have stayed in London and wish to remember it, or you have never been but would love to come, let London Landscape TV be your visual guide to the UK's capital city.
Each LLTV podcast episode is filmed in high-definition by Nick Lansley to bring each particular scene into sharp focus and allows the life of London unfold before the lens in high resolution detail.
The finished movie file is available in the format MPEG4 H.264 Widescreen 720P HD which is compatible with most HD video players.
You'll find LLTV in the iTunes Podcast Directory, Adobe Media Player catalog, TVTonic for Windows Media Player, Zune, and at various other podcast directory sites such as Juice, Doppler, Democracy, jPodder and Feedstation. You can use the RSS feed in any RS reader or pod-catcher application.
Check out LLTV's website at http://www.londonlandscape.tv for all the ways of receiving, watching and enjoying episodes, and even re-using content under the terms of a creative commons license.
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