All posts by Trevor Harris
Below are all of Trevor Harris's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Think you forgot one. If the sun is directly in the line of sight of a satellite dish the signal may be lost for some minutes.
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@James
The Director General of the BBC is a media baron. Well he certainly acts like one.
@Mike Dimmick
The role of the BBC as an educator or an informer is minimal. The level of education is very low indeed usually below secondary school level. Undergraduate level education is non existant. As for the information again it is realy dumbed down stuff. The BBC has admitted that they are going to "dumb down" thier sports coverage even more. The BBC news is also very superficial and usually fails to grasp the complexity of situations.
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One problem is that freeview uses very old technology eg mpeg2 and DVB-T. Changing to h264 and DVB-T2 as used for HD would halve the bandwidth needed. I was very disappointed when mimo was not adopted for HD as it would have halved the bandwidth again. We also now have h265 which could also halve the bandwidth. So by changing technology freeview would only need an sixteenth of the existing bandwidth for SD. More savings could be made by not transmitting SD versions of HD channels.
There is no reason why televisions could not be made with downloadable software updates which could keep the technology up todate.
We also have ultra high definition on the way which would also be a big challenge for freeview. 3D will also need 50% more bandwidth if the MVC standard is adopted but this will probably be reserved for a few specialist channels.
Looking forward there is also holographic television which has made great strides in recent years
Again there is an incredable waist of bandwidth by allowing +1 channels in the days of the PVR and internet tv.
The introduction of FTTC/P make the internet a very attractive alternative. Infact we could get rid of linear television for most programs except live programs.
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Its about time regional tv was in HD in any case.
@Brianist What about the BBCs plan to drop one of it channels?
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If they are going to put BBC 3 online and still use the vacated bandwith for BBC One +1 where are the savings coming from?.
It also would appear that it will be legal to watch BBC 3 online without a tv licence as it is not being "broadcast".
All very odd.
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BBC Four is by far the best channel the BBC has in terms of program quality. In any case none of this is happening until August 2015 and the BBC might not even exist then or the license fee scrapped. The license fee has just become another tax as it is paying for the World Service and Broadband.
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The problem here is that the license fee is just not fit for purpose. The Government cannot put it up in times of austerity. Non payment already takes up 10% of magistrate court time sending 70 people a year to prision for non payment of fines. Together with the fact that the BBC is notorious for waisting money. The license fee has also become a tax as it pays for the World Service and broadband. The BBC already shows alot of adverts mainly for its own programs and the dreadfull DAB system. The BBC is no longer a public service as it is concentrates too much on viewing figures and not enough on quality programmes. It should be sold off and be funded by a combination of advertizing and subscription. This would also have the benefit of freeing the BBC news from government control.
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Value for money should not measured in terms of cost per viewer hour as it does not take into accound the quality of the programs.You could reduce the cost per viewer hour by continually showing repeats but this does not mean it is good value for money. The value of BBC programs cannot be determined with a compulsary license tax. In fact you could argue that large numbers of people not paying the tax is an indication of bad value for money. The licence tax is simply an outdate way to fund the BBC.
The BBC needs to be sold off and the money used to reduce the national debt. It could then be funded by any combination of voluntary contributions, subscription, pay per view and advertizing.
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Don't worry about it. Noel Edmonds has setup a consortium to buy the BBC .
Deal or No Deal!
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Tuesday 14 January 2014 11:23PM
@MikeB
I should say I have no view on "Benifits Streets" as I have not been following the discusion. My point was that the One show was very biased when they should be giving a balanced view.