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In article ,
Roderick Stewart wrote:


I don't think they'd even let you *work* in the BBC if you don't pay
your licence. I used to work for them, and although I never saw it in
writing, it was generally understood that licence evasion was a
sackable offence. You might expect, as I did before joining them, that
BBC employees would be allowed to watch their own work without paying
towards their own wages, but sadly this is not the case. All we got
for free was a copy of the Radio Times.

and that was because you were a member of the BBC Club.

--
From KT24 - in "Leafy Surrey"

Using a RISC OS computer running v5.11

Top BBC boss fired for being an idiot.
 

Roderick Stewart wrote:

If you want your opinions to be taken seriously, it would be helpful
to provide some clarification.

FFS, Rod. He knows perfectly well that he's writing nonsense. That's the
whole point. Success in provoking a long earnest rebuttal to two words is
encouragement for more of the same.

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"WCZ" wrote in message
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"Lord Turkey Cough" wrote in message
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"Roderick Stewart" wrote in message
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On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:22:39 GMT, "Lord Turkey Cough"
wrote:

I'm sure you must realise that with both 4:3 and 16:9 screens in
widespread use, it isn't possible to fill both types of screen

Oviously a 5 year old would figure that.

perfectly with the same material, so rather than make every programme
twice

Only a complete idiot consider doing that, obviously.
Ther is a persectly obvious and sensible solution

I'm afraid there isn't one which is obvious to me, apart from the
compromise that is actually used (presumably in the hope that it will
be temporary). The only ideal solution is one kind of television
signal and one kind of screen on which to show it, but unfortunately
real life isn't ideal. We cannot ignore the fact that broadcast
television is not the only available source of material to show on
domestic screens, and the pictures are of several different shapes.

Thats rubbish


Well you're posting in the digital tv group so I'll assume you have a
digital tv box. Go into the settings and choose 4:3 as the TV type and
magically all those black bars should dissapear. You may need to select
something like centre cut out or one of the 4:3 sub options but it should
work.

Im talking about the analogue signal as there is no other TV group
for analogue I had to ask here.


Unless you're trolling of course.


Rod.

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"+tacos+" wrote in message
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Roderick Stewart wrote:

If you want your opinions to be taken seriously, it would be helpful
to provide some clarification.

FFS, Rod. He knows perfectly well that he's writing nonsense. That's the
whole point. Success in provoking a long earnest rebuttal to two words is
encouragement for more of the same.

No you are just very low on intelligence, that's all, you are too stupid to
understand anything that requires an IQ over 90.

Top BBC boss fired for being an idiot.
 

Lord Turkey Cough wrote:

No you are just very low on intelligence, that's all, you are too stupid
to understand anything that requires an IQ over 90.

It's obvious that being called stupid is a real sore point for you,
since you've always trying (clumsily) to project it onto everybody else
here. And yet you're so messed up that you always end up soliciting more.

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+tacos+ wrote:
Lord Turkey Cough wrote:

No you are just very low on intelligence, that's all, you are too
stupid to understand anything that requires an IQ over 90.

It's obvious that being called stupid is a real sore point for you,
since you've always trying (clumsily) to project it onto everybody
else here. And yet you're so messed up that you always end up
soliciting more.

He's too much of a cretin, to be called stupid he'd need to be a lot
cleverer.

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"WCZ" wrote in message
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"Lord Turkey Cough" wrote in message
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"Roderick Stewart" wrote in message
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On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:22:39 GMT, "Lord Turkey Cough"
wrote:

I'm sure you must realise that with both 4:3 and 16:9 screens in
widespread use, it isn't possible to fill both types of screen

Oviously a 5 year old would figure that.

perfectly with the same material, so rather than make every programme
twice

Only a complete idiot consider doing that, obviously.
Ther is a persectly obvious and sensible solution

I'm afraid there isn't one which is obvious to me, apart from the
compromise that is actually used (presumably in the hope that it will
be temporary). The only ideal solution is one kind of television
signal and one kind of screen on which to show it, but unfortunately
real life isn't ideal. We cannot ignore the fact that broadcast
television is not the only available source of material to show on
domestic screens, and the pictures are of several different shapes.

Thats rubbish


Well you're posting in the digital tv group so I'll assume you have a
digital tv box. Go into the settings and choose 4:3 as the TV type and
magically all those black bars should dissapear. You may need to select
something like centre cut out or one of the 4:3 sub options but it should
work.

The broadcast TV (not old films) programs with black bars too.
Programs made for TV in digital.

Unless you're trolling of course.


Rod.

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Roderick Stewart wrote:

All we got for free was a copy of the Radio Times.

But not, AIUI, necessarily your region ?

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On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:58:36 +0100, charles
wrote:

In article ,
Roderick Stewart wrote:


All we got for free was a copy of the Radio Times.

and that was because you were a member of the BBC Club.

A common misconception - probably to allow the BBC to claim it wasn't
handing licence fee payers money out as freebies to staff. However,
the Club, in at least one region, didn't (and couldn't) pay for this
luxury. It eventually closed and still the RTs are freely available.
Kinda QED really.

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Z

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In article ,
Zathras wrote:
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:58:36 +0100, charles
wrote:

In article ,
Roderick Stewart wrote:


All we got for free was a copy of the Radio Times.

and that was because you were a member of the BBC Club.

A common misconception -

Not a misconception. Fact.

--
From KT24 - in "Leafy Surrey"

Using a RISC OS computer running v5.11

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On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 09:57:11 +0100, charles
wrote:

In article ,
Zathras wrote:
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:58:36 +0100, charles
wrote:

In article ,
Roderick Stewart wrote:


All we got for free was a copy of the Radio Times.

and that was because you were a member of the BBC Club.

A common misconception -

Not a misconception. Fact.

Not much evidence to support your claim though..eh?

Please explain how a region *without* a BBC Club and *without* any BBC
Club members (as they were all ejected without choice) still receives
a *plentiful* supply (hundreds) of RTs? I'd be very impressed if the
BBC Club is using its members money to hand out weekly freebies to
non-members!

There has been considerable internal debate and confusion about who
*really* pays for what in this respect. For example, the BBC might
well rent its premises to the Club at a fractionally discounted rate
while the Club buys the RTs. Nice clean audit trail, probably all
arranged by gentlemans agreement decades ago in smoke filled rooms,
all now long retired. Who knows.

BTW, I saw staff bitterly complaining to the Club about paying BBC
Club membership fees just to get their 'free' RT when they were told
that the Club wasn't actually buying them any more as it had no funds
to do so.

As I said, a common misconception..

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Z

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In article , Zathras
wrote:

On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 09:57:11 +0100, charles
wrote:

In article ,
Zathras wrote:
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:58:36 +0100, charles
wrote:

In article ,
Roderick Stewart wrote:


All we got for free was a copy of the Radio Times.

and that was because you were a member of the BBC Club.

A common misconception -

Not a misconception. Fact.

Not much evidence to support your claim though..eh?

Please explain how a region *without* a BBC Club and *without* any BBC
Club members (as they were all ejected without choice) still receives
a *plentiful* supply (hundreds) of RTs? I'd be very impressed if the
BBC Club is using its members money to hand out weekly freebies to
non-members!

There has been considerable internal debate and confusion about who
*really* pays for what in this respect. For example, the BBC might
well rent its premises to the Club at a fractionally discounted rate
while the Club buys the RTs. Nice clean audit trail, probably all
arranged by gentlemans agreement decades ago in smoke filled rooms,
all now long retired. Who knows.

BTW, I saw staff bitterly complaining to the Club about paying BBC
Club membership fees just to get their 'free' RT when they were told
that the Club wasn't actually buying them any more as it had no funds
to do so.

As I said, a common misconception..

It certainly used to be the case that Club Membership was required to
get the free Radio Times - they were stacked up in the Club and you had
to show a card to get in. Like so many things, the idea sort of
drifted. We were able to get free copies delivered to the Studio
Managers' Common Room at Bush, even though not everyone was a member.
This seems to have come to a halt with the fragmentation into
'regionalised' offices. I don't know what the position is now - I have
free life membership of the Club but I've hardly been in it in years
and I don't recall seeing any Radio Timeses there.

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On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:02:29 GMT, Roger Wilmut
wrote:

It certainly used to be the case that Club Membership was required to
get the free Radio Times

Indeed.

- they were stacked up in the Club and you had
to show a card to get in.

Ah yes.

Like so many things, the idea sort of drifted.
We were able to get free copies delivered to the Studio
Managers' Common Room at Bush, even though not everyone was a member.
This seems to have come to a halt with the fragmentation into
'regionalised' offices. I don't know what the position is now - I have
free life membership of the Club but I've hardly been in it in years
and I don't recall seeing any Radio Timeses there.

RTs have always been sought after and you had to be quick..in my
experience..to get one!

The BBC isn't anything like it was, even 10 years ago - many parts
have been sold off and more are at risk of being sold off. In many
respects it's quite sad to see the old Auntie being dismembered limb
from limb. The atmosphere there is quite different now.

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Z