____/ [H]omer on Wednesday 17 October 2007 23:08 : \____
> Switch to Digital Television Picking up Steam
>
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> | Alioth writes "The long-anticipated switchover to purely digital
> | TV began last night in Britain. Although digital broadcasts have
> | been available for a while in most parts of the UK, they have been
> | running alongside the old analogue frequencies. Last night, in the
> | small hours, the analogue signal for BBC2 was switched off forever
> | in the town of Whitehaven in Cumbria. Analog signals are expected
> | to have been switched off over the whole of the UK by 2012.
> | Meanwhile in the states Best Buy has stopped selling analog
> | televisions. 'Best Buy is the first consumer-electronics retailer
> | to report an exit from the analog-TV business. More than 60 million
> | U.S. households currently rely on an antennas or analog cable, and
> | cable operators are required to guarantee their customers will
> | receive broadcast channels until February 2012.'"
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> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/17/1917244
>
> For some, access to BBC content is now only available in a digital
^^MS
> format, and as Digital Terrestrial does not serve 100% of the UK, that
> means many will only be able to access the Beeb over the Internet (or
> pay twice for BBC content by buying a Sky subscription /and/ paying a
^^MS
> license fee to the Beeb).
>
> Let's hope the Beeb allows /everyone/ who /pays/ them for their service
> (in the UK that would be /everyone/ with a television) to access those
> services, not /just/ Windows users.
Remember who's setting the agenda now.
BBC iPlayer Protests
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| Who are the people responsible for creating this mess?
|
| * Mark Thompson, BBC director general (DG)
| * Erik Huggers, group controller at BBC Future Media & Technology
| * Ashley Highfield, director of new media and technology
|
| Right now, there is very considerable concern within the BBC that the actions
| of the Director General and his team are sending the corporation in the wrong
| direction. The BBC has been embroiled in a number of recent controversies,
| all linked back to the DG's leadership.
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http://www.defectivebydesign.org/iPlayerProtest
BBC Corrupted
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| Today the BBC made it official -- they have been corrupted by Microsoft. With
| today's launch of the iPlayer, the BBC Trust has failed in its most basic of
| duties and handed over to Microsoft sole control of the on-line distribution
| of BBC programming. From today, you will need to own a Microsoft operating
| system to view BBC programming on the web. This is akin to saying you must
| own a Sony TV set to watch BBC TV. And you must accept the Digital
| Restrictions Management (DRM) that the iPlayer imposes. You simply cannot be
| allowed to be in control of your computer according to the BBC.
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http://defectivebydesign.org/blog/BBCcorrupted
As the following shows, 'Windows lickers' get premium service while everyone
else pays obscene amounts of money to a convicted multi-time monopoly abuser
and then gets treated like a third-class citizen.
BBC courted for Xbox link
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| Microsoft was attracted to the BBC’s library of content and to
| high-definition programmes such as the award-winning series Planet Earth,
| Honey said.
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http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article2412752.ece
First-class corruption.
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