BBC Two 'Neon' Ident

[emanuelshapera]

I never thought they'd have these on youtube. This made my day.

[dalekusa]

Audio doesn't seem as high quality as the others. Maybe mild laser rot caused this?

[TheTelegothika]

@dalekusa Interesting point! This was all mastered onto and then played out on modified laser disk recorders & players wasn't it?

[2007TGD]

@TheTelegothika The audio situation is a mild curiosity (well, to me anyway :P). If you were to sample a few recordings from the very first weeks of these idents' launch (see TV Ark), the tracks will sound exactly as presented here, ie ever-so slightly off.

It appears the audio was cleaned up/perfected/remastered whatever you want to call it a month or two after their debut.

And that's my trivial fact for the day.

[NGMan62]

Is the name for this ident Neon or Sign?

[LambieNairnTube]

@NGMan62 Hi NGMan62, as far as we are aware the name for this ident is 'Neon', hope that helps!

[NGMan62]

@LambieNairnTube That did, thanks.

[CHANNELMICHAEL]

@LambieNairnTube No, it's called Sign! Someone has dragged up the VT Clock for it (dated 16/11/1990)

[Tomfunkforever]

wats up with the sound

[ImageDissectors]

Hard to believe these are nearly 20 years old.

[alwardemshire]

Fantastic. Was the audio meant to be like that or is it just an old copy?

[Latias82]

This is my fave of the BBC 2 idents.