All posts by Briantist
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Alan: It's not clear if the text services will go, I think the cuts will be to the one/two/three additional streams of audiovisual content.
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More from the Telegraph today... BBC Four and News Channel facing axe as BBC eyes cuts of
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BobW: The BBC do in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. However the cost for doing this for the 15 English Regions - Which BBC regions are on satellite? - is too high at a time where the BBC is having cuts! ITV only has them for the people who pay for the programmes - the advertisers!
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More stuff here - BBC spending more per head in Scotland, NI and Wales than England | Media | The Guardian ..
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Andrew: just for the purpose of clarity. The figures are for spending IN Scotland, Wales, England and Northern Ireland.
This means that the money is paying for people, buildings, equipment and services there. This isn't about making local programming for these areas.
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For additional charity, the BBC doesn't spend more in cash terms in Scotland than England because TEN TIMES as many people live in England than Scotland. The graphs reflect this.
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Jon Freeman: Thanks for your comments. If I'm going to be picky here, it's worth remembering that Ceefax WAS a digital service. It - and Oracle/Teletext ran using 6 transmission lines per "625", which meant 6 lines x25 frames per second x 40 characters x7 bits = 42,000 bits per second, or 42kbit/s! As I've got Hyperoptic internet running at 1,000Mbps = 1,000,000 kbps I think I'm better off with the internet - my rules is save the DVB-T2 transmissions for thigns stuffed with adverts.It's odd that people think that Ceefax carried more stuff than BBC Digital Text, why is that?
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Jon Freeman: Details of Teletext/Oracle/Ceefax here - 2 days left of analogue television - goodbye teletext .
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TruthBeSaid: If you really, really need the huffman tables they are here - http://www.rst38.org.uk/v…diff look for the line starting "struct hufftab memtable[] = {" .
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Thursday 19 November 2015 10:40AM
MikeB: I think the only time I have used Red Button was during the 2012 Olympics... I have used it for Glastonbury in the past, but on-demand iPlayer can provide all the Extras you might want these days. Unless you don't have an internet connection, of course. I wonder if the text news and sports services will go too? The problem for Jessie Norman is that he should be respecting the independence of the BBC, shouldn't he. Protecting it, perhaps?