Read this: BBC uses RIPA terrorism laws to catch TV licence fee dodgers in Northern Ireland
Summary: quotA lack of transparency, accountability and oversight of how these powers are used has allowed the use of the powers to reach unacceptable levels. A BBC spokesman said quotLegislation explicitly grants the BBC the right to use these powers to detect unlicensed use of television receivers. We're regularly inspected by independent regulators and have always been open about using this power when there is no other option to help reduce evasion on behalf of the vast majority of the population who pay for their licence. - www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
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Saturday, 17 January 2015
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geoffrey o'neill5:48 PM
I have a 4k tv when will 4k broadcast on the bbc or one of 4 other channels
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geoffrey o'neill5:52 PM
How fast does broadband have to be to show 4k
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geoffrey o'neill:
It seems that for 'normal' HD a download speed of at least 5 Mbps is needed to avoid annoying 'buffering' so as 4k TV is at least fours times the amount of data that suggests it will need a service running reliably at 20 Mbps or better. Bear in mind also that actual speeds experienced varies with the amount of traffic use on the internet so it tends to slow somewhat at heavy use periods. That is not a function of your own download speed but of the way huge amounts of data are shared across the internet and provided through servers. If any server is experiencing a heavy demand, the rate of delivery tends to slow down.
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MikeB8:57 PM
geoffrey o'neill: When the terrestial channels will show 4K - goodness knows. At present even Sky isn't, so it might be a while. Sky is the most likely to start a service first - the extra bandwidth it has available makes things easier, Sky obviously have a market for 4K sports events, and since Fox Studio's is part of the group, they also have 4K films on tap (its how they are pretty much all shot these days anyway).
Frankly, if Sky had decided to show the World Cup in 4K, we would have shifted a lot of 4K TV's!
The BBC did experiment with 4K for the World Cup, but only internally. Terrestial TV has tended to get a lot of channels in relatively little bandwidth, but the Koreans have experimented with broadcasting 4K, and it seems to work, but there are a lot of things to be sorted out.
At present, your going to get 4K from a) Netflix (although its seems to be little more than House of Cards at present), b) upscaling using a 4K blu-ray player (around a hundred and fifty pounds at the moment), c) getting a server with 4K movies loaded on it. Samsung was giving these away with some TV's before Christmas, and Sony distributed something similar in the US a year or so ago.
I suspect there might be 4K content on the web, but what its like, I have no idea. In terms of speed, this article UHD 4K TV: how to get content, how does it work and is it worth it? | Expert Reviews reckons Netflix delives 4K at a max bit rate of around 15.6Mbits per second, so you going to need a fairly fast (and consistantly fast) broadband.
Frankly, I would have answered all these questions for you if you'd asked me when I'm working! 4K really has come down to a cost where it makes a lot of sense to get one, but only if your spending a decent amount of money. I was working last night, and all of us on the floor agreed (and told the customers that were asking about 4K) that you need to get a good one. Refresh rates are important on an TV, to get the best picture possible (its what you largely pay for).
In the case of 4K, I assume that your mostly watch 2K content on it, with the TV upscaling. That makes refresh rates very very important, because without a decent refresh, your going to get lots of stuttering. 48-49in is the minimum size I'd have at present - we certainly havn't been impressed with the 40in models we've seen.
Hopefully, you've bough one that delivers on 2k as well, because thats what you'll mostly be watching for a while yet!
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Sunday, 18 January 2015
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geoffrey o'neill6:19 PM
Stockton-on-tees
My tv is hd but 4k enabled from Panasonic internet tv
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MikeB6:44 PM
geoffrey o'neill: If your TV is HD, its not 4K (Ultra HD). HD is normally described as 1080, and has about 2 million pixels. UHD is 3840 x 2160 (sort of), and has about 8 million pixels.
You might be able to stream the 4K content (OK, demo's) via the Panasonic 4K TV app, and they will look great, but its not 4K you actually watching, because its the panel resolution which is the important bit.
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Monday, 26 January 2015
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geoffrey o'neill11:17 AM
Stockton-on-tees
two channels 246 and 247 when will they start and what will be on.
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jb385:01 PM
geoffrey o'neill: As far as I can gather, JSTV (246) is a Chinese based TV channel, KYKNET (247) being South African based, although once that they do come into service (date unknown), they can only be viewed on TV's or boxes connected into the internet, as both are IPTV channels.
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geoffrey o'neill6:31 PM
Stockton-on-tees
Thanks my tv is an internet tv so I will pick that channel up when it comes.
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Tuesday, 27 January 2015
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geoffrey o'neill10:06 AM
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A few facts from bt download 37.5 upload 8.37 does that mean I can get a picture in 4k through the net on the tv app from Panasonic.
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