I read somewhere I cannot remember where but they were going to put
projector adverts at tube stations? Do you know when they are doing this and
at which tube stations?

Thanks.

wrote:
I read somewhere I cannot remember where but they were going to put
projector adverts at tube stations? Do you know when they are doing this and
at which tube stations?

I heard the technique was tested some years ago at a disused platform at
Holborn. I also saw something about it on BBC London an evening a couple
of months ago: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5076430.stm

--
Olof Lagerkvist
ICQ: 724451
Web: http://here.is/olof

wrote:
I read somewhere I cannot remember where but they were going to put
projector adverts at tube stations? Do you know when they are doing this and
at which tube stations?

They've had them for years at QVB station (Sydney CBD). They also used
to show news and weather. I would like to see that in London but I
expect it isn't as much of a revenue source as advertising.

In message , Chris
Hills writes
wrote:
I read somewhere I cannot remember where but they were going to put
projector adverts at tube stations? Do you know when they are doing this and
at which tube stations?

They've had them for years at QVB station (Sydney CBD). They also used
to show news and weather.
Circular Quay Station had them in 2001, too. I hated the idea, just as
much as I hate the "on train" TV of which Central Trains seem so proud.

I would like to see that in London but I
expect it isn't as much of a revenue source as advertising.

That said, I'm not sure we're talking about he same thing on this
thread. The once on escalators are basically plasma "moving" versions of
the ubiquitous escalator ads which have been around for almost as long
as the Tube. But we may be talking about actual "programmes" (as
opposed to just animated posters for want of a better word) on
platforms.

--
Ian Jelf, MITG
Birmingham, UK

Registered Blue Badge Tourist Guide for London and the Heart of England
http://www.bluebadge.demon.co.uk

Ian Jelf wrote:

Circular Quay Station had them in 2001, too. I hated the idea, just as
much as I hate the "on train" TV of which Central Trains seem so proud.

I don't like CT's version, but I do like the Train-Infoscreen "silent"
version that is used on Hamburg's U-Bahn. It's a bit like a Powerpoint
presentation, and isn't at all disruptive, and (making it all the more
useful) it shows the next station information as well, together with a
nice picture of the station concerned.

To get back on thread, the same thing is shown by projector at Hbf-Sued
station, and isn't at all disruptive, nor in any way unpleasant. It's
been in use since at least 1999.

Neil

In message .com, Neil
Williams writes
I don't like CT's version, but I do like the Train-Infoscreen "silent"
version that is used on Hamburg's U-Bahn. It's a bit like a Powerpoint
presentation, and isn't at all disruptive, and (making it all the more
useful) it shows the next station information as well, together with a
nice picture of the station concerned.

There was something vaguely similar to that on the RV1 bus when it was
first introduced, apparently using GPS technology and it *was* useful.
But it seemed to fall out of use after a while.

--
Ian Jelf, MITG
Birmingham, UK

Registered Blue Badge Tourist Guide for London and the Heart of England
http://www.bluebadge.demon.co.uk

wrote:
I read somewhere I cannot remember where but they were going to put
projector adverts at tube stations? Do you know when they are doing this and
at which tube stations?

Thanks.

Not sure when, but it looks like the walls have been set up for it at a
number of stations (i.e. posters removed and walls painted with large
white blocks) - Oxford Circus springs to mind, as part of the ongoing
refurbishment.

--
Dave Arquati
www.alwaystouchout.com - Transport projects in London

Aren't they doing that at the Holborn escalators?

BTW, I remember that there were advertisements between stations on Berlin's
U-Bahn that worked like a film. As the train passed each frame, it created
for passengers on board the illusion that there was movement in the
advertisement.

Are there any such plans in London or has anything like that been tried in
the past?

"Dave A" wrote in message
...

Not sure when, but it looks like the walls have been set up for it at a
number of stations (i.e. posters removed and walls painted with large
white blocks) - Oxford Circus springs to mind, as part of the ongoing
refurbishment.

--
Dave Arquati
www.alwaystouchout.com - Transport projects in London

wrote:

BTW, I remember that there were advertisements between stations on Berlin's
U-Bahn that worked like a film. As the train passed each frame, it created
for passengers on board the illusion that there was movement in the
advertisement.

PATH (a rail system between New York and New Jersey) has (or had, not
too long ago) such an advertisement in an abandoned station at 19th
Street in Manhattan.

And the New York subway system used to have a piece of animated artwork,
called Masstransiscope, also at an abandoned station, in Brooklyn, near
the Manhattan Bridge. It was vandalized in the late 80's and the lights
were turned off then, but several months ago the lights were turned back
on (even though the exhibit is still covered in graffiti). You can see
it out of the right side of the northbound B and Q trains between DeKalb
Avenue and the bridge portal (just south of Gold Street interlocking).

More information on Masstransiscope:
http://www.akazelig.com/commlab/masstransiscope.html
--
David of Broadway
New York, NY, USA

wrote:

BTW, I remember that there were advertisements between stations on
Berlin's U-Bahn that worked like a film. As the train passed each
frame, it created for passengers on board the illusion that there was
movement in the advertisement.

Are you sure? That would only work if the distance travelled by the train
between two flashes of the electric lights were exactly the same as the
distance between two successive images on the wall, which seems hard to
manage even once, never mind consistently.