Talk:Noddy (camera)

Was it really NODD?
This is a controversial point - it's been widely suggested that the device was called Noddy, because it nodded up and down - indeed there was a companion device called Big Ears which was a dual slide scanner - and NODD was an unofficial Backronym, which has perpetuated. Discussion at http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/03/pic_of_the_day_bbc1_ident_1.html with some BBC staff involved with the device suggests that it's controversial.

It also wasn't just for BBC1, BBC2 had its own Noddy, as pictured at http://www.tvstudiohistory.co.uk/tv%20centre%20history.htm#pres Stevebentley (talk) 17:11, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

There is no evidence that the acroynm "NODD" was ever used within the BBC. Its first usage was on an internet forum in the 2000s. It is not recognised by anyone who worked in BBC Presentation or Engineering during the time the system was in use. 213.132.48.105 (talk) 12:22, 18 December 2013 (UTC)

Consequently a page move request has been added where wikipedia guidelines instruct - at the bottom of this page.


 * A further source - BBC EngInf, an internal publication for Engineering staff, which refers to it as Noddy but neither NODD nor Nexus Orthicon Display Device http://www.bbceng.info/Eng_Inf/EngInf_20.pdf Stevebentley (talk) 17:43, 4 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Another interpretation - NODD is the process of applying the colour to a black and white image, but it was also the nickname used for the racks of idents and clocks that were filmed. The room name for them was actually 'The Noddy room', but the name refers to the process. Rafmarham (talk) 21:09, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

Lead
The lead which echoes the IP's comments above, in a long paragraph without citations, either needs cites to support it, or should come out. Conversely if the statements it challenges are not reliably sourced, they too shoudl be removed. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 22:25, 23 June 2014 (UTC).

Can't make sense of this
"It was the longest running clock of 1974 and 1985 in Wales and was the last region to adopt the computerized clock and preserved the polo dot." Anyone familiar with the material would be doing a great service to fix this and other slightly odd constructions in the article. All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 22:25, 23 June 2014 (UTC).

Requested move 29 June 2015

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The result of the move request was: moved. Jenks24 (talk) 09:29, 14 July 2015 (UTC)

NODD (Nexus Orthicon Display Device) → Noddy_(camera) – As shown in both the article and this talk page, there is a detailed argument for the renaming of this page, including citations. As the desired new name is not unique, the parenthetical (camera) or (camera system) should be appended as shown. --Relisted. George Ho (talk) 20:18, 6 July 2015 (UTC) Peter Fagan (talk) 14:21, 29 June 2015 (UTC)


 * Support - basically anything on those lines would be an improvement. The backronym is anachronistic and unconvincing. It wasn't widely used as a name for the thing either, so it shouldn't have any place in the article title. I'd even be happy with "BBC spinny globe on a stick" as an improvement. Andy Dingley (talk) 16:11, 29 June 2015 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

external links are all broken
At least to me, all the external links at the bottom of the page now direct to 404s, presumably because the TVARK website has shut down. Can someone please try to archive/remove the dead links? 2A02:C7E:FEE:ED00:71A4:BB54:819C:B1D2 (talk) 15:48, 22 October 2022 (UTC)