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NO LOGO wrote:

2. "On this, the Corporation welcomes the opportunity to work with other
organisations as quickly as possible to begin to make a non-subscription
digital satellite option a reality."

So the BBC who instigated the collapse of a multi PSB Free Sat have made
a statement of intent to reverse this problem. Good.

This means that something major such as ITV, C4, and FIVE going Free To
Air will happen, or something major in resetting up SOLUS must happen.
May be now Dyke-head is gone, the BBC may even re-encrypt.

There is no earthly reason why the BBC or any other broadcaster should
have to pay Sky an arm and a leg to have FTV cards issued.
Sky must be obliged by law to provide these at cost (£5?) to anyone
who wants one and must also be made to charge a really fair price for
EPG placement and FTV encryption services. Current rates for both of
these are an absolute joke that makes Ofcom look like the toothless
NewsCorp lackey it is. Mind you, the same applies to Blair and cronies
in spades.

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On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 11:58:56 +0000 (UTC), "NO LOGO" wrote:

5. "On the final stage of the journey towards a fully digital Britain we
want to see our services available to all licence fee payers as quickly
as possible and ensure that there are no pockets of people who are
digitally disenfranchised. "

Well with 50% yet to convert, and most of the conversion done by BSKYB
so far, this is not the final stage of the journey, more the beginning
of the hard slog.

How about they do a BBC FTA satellite receiver which gives all the currents
Freeview channels. There are precedents for BBC hardware e.g. BBC Micro
computer.

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Interesting post on http://forum.logofreetv.org/ by Mark G.

http://forum.logofreetv.org/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=979

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"Mark Carver" wrote in message
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"NO LOGO" wrote in message

my brother got my mum a freeview digibox for her birthday. We don't
have an
outsider aerial but the picture is great. I know that you can pay to
"add
on" at least E4 but can you get anything else added on and if so
would we
need an aerial then?

I hate technical stuff

The box you have purchased will not be able to receive any of Top Up TV's
"add on" channels, regardless whether you have an outdoor aerial or not.

Top Up's pay channels require a card, only the older (and no longer made
or sold) OnDigital/ITV-Digital boxes have a card slot. Top Up claim
that new boxes will be on the market 'soon' with card slots, but for
you I guess it's too late.

I'll not cry I never get to watch the downstairs tv anyways and its purely
as I would consider getting myself one in the future if I thought there
would be something decent.

Kathryn