All posts by Briantist
Below are all of Briantist's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
neil: it is fibre optic in the rest of the network.... Still it is a great shame that we don't get fibre to home. A huge shame.
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michael: I don't mean to be rude, but
a) this is my site, I make the rules;
b) I have been a professional (ie, paid) writer since I was in my teens. You might recall I used to write for Personal Computer World back then.
c) I have chosen to use a rulebook that I was given, and treasured, many years ago. As you've NEVER SEEN "Write For Your Reader" (as it's distribution was to "BT Managers Only") I find your dismissive comments rather unworthy of you.
I can assure you that "Write for Your Reader" is neither the product of the GPO (I'm too young for that) or "Modern Management" as I got it around 1991 during the "Project Sovereign" era, when BT was discovering what management was. BT Archives
d) I was told by my writing mentor many years ago to "pick a rule book and stick to it" as consitancy is what matters above all.
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MikeP: The idea of having a cheap GPS+3G chipset in the box is just for the return path for the decryption key access. It's only going to be a few hundred bytes a day. It would use it like the Amazon Kindle's do for "whispernet".
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scott: Given your location, I would have thought that Freesat would be the best option for you to go for. See Detailed comparison | ukfree.tv - 11 years of independent, free digital TV advice for the full comparison.
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David Mansell: Thank you for your comments.
The designations of COM7 and COM8 are provided for us by Ofcom. The multiplexes belong to Arqiva, a private commercial company. It may carry BBC services, but the designation of the multiplex is that of a commercial one.
I'm going to look at why the transmitter is showing the wrong BBC designations.
Unless there has been a recent change - and there could have been - ITV HD was showing only the "ad regions" on the HD multiplex, which are London, Granada, Meridian South East, Central West.
This means that the HD service doesn't carry the correct local news in the "YTV area", you get a filler service of Granada. This may have changed on Freeview, but the only versions I can see from here in London are those on satellite: Eutelsat 28A & Astra 2A/2E/2F at 28.2?E - LyngSat
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I've corrected the database, I have no idea why it had the wrong BBC value. Finger trouble no-doubt.
I'm sorry it took so long, but I do rather have a lot "on my plate" at the moment, so some things have to take lower priority,
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trevorjharris: " is quite clear that the BBC would not get anything like that if they had a choice of not paying the licence fee"
Can you please provide me with something that supports this assertion?
"If Sky were overcharging for their service people would not pay for it. "
This is an interesting proposition. Given that Sky Subscriber Services Ltd work in a market with a single participant, it is hard to know, from any reading of competition law history that they could be doing ANYTHING other than overcharging.
Sherman Antitrust Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There are several points that BSkyB will probably have to address:
1) Being a monopoly gatekeeper;
2) Restrictive practices of the "bundle" rather than allowing consumers to choose "a la carte" ;
3) Using their dominant market position in one market sector (satellite TV subscription) to allow them to enter other markets (say the NOW TV thing).
4) Using "lock in" tactics ("the box is free ... but we disable your Sky+ box's PVR facilities if you stop paying us") to stop customers going elsewhere. This isn't allowed with mobile phones, the network providers have to "unlock" them after you have paid for them.
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Re "compulsory licence fee" - it's not compulsory to own a television set.
Do you complain that "road tax is compulsory" too (but only for people who own a vehicle on the road).
How about "council tax is compulsory?" but only if you live somewhere...???
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Friday 4 April 2014 12:08PM
Mike Davison: it was what was printed in the last issue of broadcast magazine.