Ofcom and the Giant Digital Dividend
 

On 30 Mar 2007 06:28:31 -0700, "hdtvexpert"
wrote:

I clearly remember the euphoria with which the end of Tory rule was
greeted a few years later. "Things can only get better" was the anthem
of the day. I remember waking up with a hungover smile, too few hours
after switching off the election special. But how much has changed for
the better in the intervening years?

As we went to vote for Bliar, a cuckoo was singing.

In retrospect it was trying to tell us something . . .

Ofcom and the Giant Digital Dividend
 

"Clive." wrote in message
...
In message , Bill Wright
writes
I would think that the very common installation consisting of a wideband
masthead amp and a wideband aerial would be very susceptible to
interference
from a passing UHF transmitter on a vehicle or whatever.
That's what they're designed to do, you'd need a band pass or band stop
filter to be able to present the dodgybox with just the required signals.

Quite. So the selling off of part of the TV band will mean that private
citizens have to fit previously unneccessary filters to their equipment. Who
will pay for these filters and for their installation? Oh, I expect the
government will say "OK, fair enough, we've done this for profit, so we'll
reimburse everyone." Will they my arse. You and I will have the
inconvenience and cost, and we'll get SFA out of the sale. Just another
stealth tax.

Bill

Ofcom and the Giant Digital Dividend
 

On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 16:26:21 +0100, Dave Fawthrop
wrote:

!Once upon a time, people would switch on their telly to watch a
|!programme, then switch it off afterwards.
|!
|!I still do. Mine spends more time off than on.

Same here!

Thinking about this some more, it's probably because I'm old enough to
remember the arrival of television into a household (or a world, for
that matter) that previously didn't have it, and at first there were
only a few programmes per day anyway. Not having grown up with 24 hour
multichannel garbage is probably why I've never got into the habit of
taking it for granted. That, and possibly the fact that my parents
never saw the point of leaving things switched on when nobody was
using them.

Rod.