Empty studio sets: BBC backgrounds for your video calls

Doh. I guess I get them mixed up over here because a lot of British content ends up on both the CBC Gem app and Netflix which has a muddling of all of them.

Agreed!

NICE! Thanks!

IT crowd and Father Ted were Channel 4, so unlikely to be included in this collection.

It's been a long time since I saw it last, but Fawlty's racism is meant to be backwards even for 1970s standards, so you're meant to laugh at him for idiotic prejudices that often backfire on him. I guess a similar American example of that time period would be Archie Bunker. Fawlty is a little bit less overtly boorish than him.

I guess there are a lot of cheap jokes at Miguel's expense and they don't really fit with what I've seen of Spanish culture. But also Spain was under Franco in that time so a pretty different place too.

A green screen background still works better but, at least in the case of my office setup, Zoom works pretty well with just my regular background.

I have never found that setting. I wonder if its not included in their linux version, or perhaps, like Teams, it requires a newer CPU than what I have, so its not shown.

>Don’t know the tech behind it

If you can assume constant lighting it would seem pretty easy? ask the user to move out of frame, take an image, and that's your "green screen" - difference current input fromt the camera vs the reference image of the users room, and overlay whatever doesn't match (e.g. the user) against their choice of background.

This is an entirely naive approach with no research into the problem done, and I can see big problems (such as "assume constant lighting"), but it doesn't seem too complex at a distance. I'm sure there's a video editor out there somewhere fuming at my ignorance though.

Anecdotally, I've found that Microsoft Teams is better with virtual background/intelligent cropping than Zoom is for me. Teams is able to work perfectly so far as I can tell while things seem to punch through on Zoom.