Russian TV airs video game as Syria footage

[EDcase 87]

Well, it happened again...   (ARMA used as 'real' footage)

Good advertising tho 

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-43198324

[jeza 5416]

one quick glimpse through a sniper’s scope of military vehicles blowing up. - Binoculars you noob!

[Zhivets 2392]

I remember when an ITV documentary did the same thing some years ago.

https://www.pcgamer.com/itv-documentary-cant-tell-the-difference-between-gaming-and-reality-mistakes-arma-2-for-secret-ira-film/

[spooky lynx 73]

Seems that more and more TV companies use game footage instead of dedicated 3D graphics for illustrations. And due to general incompetence they forget to insert some kind of watermark stating that it's not real footage.

[Dedmen 2714]

18 hours ago, spooky lynx said:

Seems that more and more TV companies use game footage instead of dedicated 3D graphics for illustrations. And due to general incompetence they forget to insert some kind of watermark stating that it's not real footage.

IMO using Arma or other Games for Illustrations or examples of how it could be is legit and reasonable.

But this video was some guy playing the game normally with TFAR. They probably just cut that out of some youtube video.

[dragon01 902]

Not the first goof of that sort. Graphics standards going up + reporting standards going down = this. It is a pretty easy mistake to make at this point based on visuals alone (you need to have either seen the real thing or played the game to know something's amiss), but someone should have checked the source of that clip.

[Wiki 1558]

Link to the actual video please?

[[ha]boris 49]

Link to the actual video please?

 

https://www.1tv.ru/news/issue/2018-02-25/21:00?#2   2:32

 

Original video "Lesson # 2.1 Mortar corrector"

4:10

[EDcase 87]

The issue comes with these reports claiming (or inferring) that the footage is real.

Either the production team are idiots for not realising its computer generated or they think the audience are idiots.

[spooky lynx 73]

1 hour ago, EDcase said:

Either the production team are idiots for not realising its computer generated or they think the audience are idiots.

I think both variants are true.

6 hours ago, Dedmen said:

They probably just cut that out of some youtube video.

They are too dumb to get familiar with ArmA editor.

[asys 42]

13 hours ago, spooky lynx said:

15 hours ago, EDcase said:

Either the production team are idiots for not realising its computer generated or they think the audience are idiots.

I think both variants are true.

in april 2016  TV already used these frames https://www.1tv.ru/news/2016-04-03/299679-imya_aleksandra_prohorenko_vyzvavshego_ogon_na_sebya_pod_palmiroy_stalo_izvestno_vsey_strane

idiots steps on rake again 

[haleks 8212]

23 hours ago, Dedmen said:

IMO using Arma or other Games for Illustrations or examples of how it could be is legit and reasonable.

 

Not when it's done without permission from the developpers.