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I know that +1 channels seem like a waste if you have a PVR, but they *DO* pick up viewers.
The current BARB figures have
ITV +1 0.9%
Channel 5 +1 0.4%
Channel 4 +1 0.8%
ITV2 +1 0.5%
E4 +1 0.6%
Film4 +1 0.4%
This would suggest that BBC1+1 would pick up quite a few viewers.
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Just gone though the BARB numbers for +1 channels
Around 6% of viewing each week is to a +1 channel!
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KMJ,Derby: If only Ofcom would update Ofcom | UK Digital Terrestrial Television Transmitter Frequency and Site Data to show the new figures, I could use them.
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Mark Agius: yes. It became BBC 2 HD overnight. The schedule has changed months before.
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Richard E: But... +1 channels are very cost effective, especially when you run it during peak. It will cost the BBC nothing in terms of rights, and will utilize bandwidth they already contracted to.
As the Patrick Barwise and Robert G. Picard February 2014 https://reutersinstitute.….pdf report points out, the cost per viewer-hour for BBC services is low: The BBC at £1.98 a week, other PSBs at £2.06 a week and non-PSB services at £7.65 a week.
This makes the cost-per-viewer hour 8p for ITV/C4/C5/S4C (including all their channels) and 9.2 for the BBC. Non-PSB is 24.9p per viewer hour.
It's probably worth remembering that the BBC runs programmes for 59 minutes per hour, the other channels run them for around 43 minutes per hour. The BBC is exceptionally good value for money.
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Bill Kocher: It's rather ironic then, that the BBC licence fee has been raided - to the tune of three hundred million pounds - to pay for "rural broadband". BBC News - BBC Licence fee 'to fund superfast broadband' roll-out
I had Virgin Broadband which is fibre to the cab and then coax. Did 100Mbps without fail.
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MikeP: When they start rolling it out - and O2 are committed to 99% coverage - 4G broadband on the old TV frequencies will be a good move for many rural locations.
The 4G towers can provide high bitrates to large areas of low-density users.
Once there is fibre to the locality, then there isn't an limit to the speed of broadband in rural areas.
The limits of ADSL are well know and effect urban people as much as rural ones: the distance from the telephone exchange is the main variable.
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MikeP: I made a page of comparisons a long while ago
A comparison of TV, HDTV and computer monitors | High definition | ukfree.tv - 11 years of independent, free digital TV advice
HDTV 720-line 1280x720, 16:9, 0.87 megapixels, 2.22 x SD
HDTV 1080-line 1920x1080, 16:9, 1.97 megapixels, 5 x SD
I have to say that on our 42" TV in the lounge - which is HDMI-connected to Freesat, a Windows 7 Media Center PC and a YouView box, you certainly can tell the difference between HD and SD material.
I do try to remember to record things I want to watch using Freeview HD as it's twice the resolution of the HD from BBC iPlayer.
Sometimes it's very subtle stuff: for example this evening's Jonathan Creek I laughed at the joke about the cherub when the painting first came into view. I didn't need to wait for a close-up of the relevant section.
Text is a lot easier to read on HD channels. The ticker on BBC News HD is clearer than the one on the SD version.
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Thursday 6 March 2014 10:21PM
Dave Lindsay: I was (just) just backing up my assertion that "the majority of people don't have a PVR"!
BBC News - TV viewing figures increase in UK also says that
"In 2003 there were 2.03 television sets per UK household but by 2012, this had reduced to 1.83 sets, according to the TeleScope report."
This starts to explain the low amount of viewing to non-linear TV. (Just) less than half the UK **HOMES** have a PVR, but there are 1.83 TV sets per household gives a figure of just 25.6% of TV sets have a PVR.
The BBC News report says
"Britons are recording an estimated 455 million hours of TV a year, however despite new technology being embraced, less than 1% of viewers solely watched catch-up, or "timeshifted", TV."
"455 million hours of TV " sounds a lot, but as there are 63.23 million people. in the UK, that works out at 8.3 minutes each A WEEK!