BBC to help pensioners go digital

JF wrote:
In message om, Mark
Carver writes

JF wrote:

NB: Quite a good boy meets girl film, too. Set on a boat en
route from Ireland to New York. There was a wholly unnecessary
sub-plot at the end about the boat getting into difficulties.

I wouldn't assert your 'voyage starting point' in any Southampton
public houses too loudly.

Why not? She was most en route from Ireland. Quite a number of
passengers embarked and disembarked in Ireland. Queenstown, I think.

You're quite right, I do apologise. It seems that Queenstown was indeed the
last stop before it hit that iceburg.

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You could be right actually. I mean, there was an Aldi upscaling DVD player
for £40 not long ago. But get this, it came *with* an HDMI cable. I've been
struggling to find a high street retailer with HDMI cables for less than
£40. So given time, who knows?

The hun-owned Aldi/Lidl are a strange outfit. Most unenglish in the way
they operate. They don't price shadow their competitors, or practice
'drop and swap' marketing. Nor do they operate variable margins on say,
gondolier end displays. They operate fixed margins across the board, and
through-out Europe. This results in many UK marketing traditions getting
ignored. If they buy-in a job-lot of 100,000 units at, say, GBP100 each,
they'll plonk 'em on their shelves at GBP110 each.

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"rbel" wrote in message
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6155518.stm
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About time. I've helped a few of my elderly neighbours get sorted now -
fearing they'd be left stranded when the switchover came. It's something
that seems so straightforward to us, but you'd be surprised what it's
actually like for an elderly person, with an aging mind, who is quite
comfortable with analogue and set in their ways. For some it has been very
confusing.

However, It give me a great feeling when I visited an old neighbour the
other day, who told me he watches UKTV History for hours on reliving his
war
days - and told me loves his Freeview set-up for the radio channels too.
Made me feel all warm inside.


Once upon a time the TV trade would look after people like these, course
they didn't do it for free but do they still exist?...
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Tony Sayer


Sorry, does what still exist? If you meant the concept of doing stuff for
free? There are thousands working in the voluntary sector every day, so yes.



No!, The TV trade that was, who'd give good unbiased advice, not rip
people off, had engineers around who knew what they were talking about,
and all in all it worked very well.

Saw the coming and going of 405 to 625 lines, from Mono to colour, all
without government or BBC intervention.

What's changed?....
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In message , JF
writes
In message , Slitheen
writes

You could be right actually. I mean, there was an Aldi upscaling DVD player
for £40 not long ago. But get this, it came *with* an HDMI cable. I've been
struggling to find a high street retailer with HDMI cables for less than
£40. So given time, who knows?

The hun-owned Aldi/Lidl are a strange outfit. Most unenglish in the way
they operate. They don't price shadow their competitors, or practice
'drop and swap' marketing. Nor do they operate variable margins on say,
gondolier end displays. They operate fixed margins across the board,
and through-out Europe. This results in many UK marketing traditions
getting ignored. If they buy-in a job-lot of 100,000 units at, say,
GBP100 each, they'll plonk 'em on their shelves at GBP110 each.

I have to correct you there, Aldi is German owned.
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In message , Mark Carver
writes
JF wrote:
In message om,
Mark Carver writes

JF wrote:

NB: Quite a good boy meets girl film, too. Set on a boat en
route from Ireland to New York. There was a wholly unnecessary
sub-plot at the end about the boat getting into difficulties.

I wouldn't assert your 'voyage starting point' in any Southampton
public houses too loudly.
Why not? She was most en route from Ireland. Quite a number of
passengers embarked and disembarked in Ireland. Queenstown, I think.

You're quite right, I do apologise. It seems that Queenstown was indeed
the last stop before it hit that iceburg.

To be fair, my mention of Queenstown is what is referred to on
alt.usage.english as a factoid.

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rbel wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6155518.stm

So we pay a higher licence fee, so the BBC can "help" people go
digital, so the government can sell off the "spare" frequencies.

Good. I always wanted to pay more tax.


I think the biggest sense was talked by the representative from Channel
Five during the commons committee hearing on digital switch over. He
said (paraphrasing) "put a free to air service on satellite. Those that
want it can get it, those that don't can stick with what they have. No
coercion, no expense, no problem, no forced analogue switch off".



So what he was basically saying was let the people that can afford sky have
it, and 'those other people', who can't afford it, stick with 5 channels of
analogue. A free service broadcasting on Sky doesn't mean the dish and box
is free - so it's no different. That sounds like something a Tory government
would have dreamed up. Tony Blair aint my best friend or out, but I'm
chuffed to bits that my tax is helping people with less money get a free box
and the help to use it. As regards your extra tax...sorry, but tough.


In other countries you can buy a satellite receiver and get free to view
TV. Costs less than 100 quid in most cases. Not a great deal of money
split over some years.

Here in the UK you can get some channels with any old digital TV
receiver, but if you want 4 and 5 you must have a sky box and viewing
card.

Thats what's wrong!..

One of the old boys I helped had a state pension and war pension, but would
have struggled to afford a Freeview box (you try living on it). He fought in
the first wave of the Normandy invasion - the least people like you or I can
do in return is pay a few lousy pence out of our hard earned to buy people
like him, or people who have contributed to our society for many years in
other ways, a bloody Freeview box.


Sorry M8 my dad was over in Africa sorting out Rommell and his ilk but
he managed very well thats on his pension and contributed a lot in taxes
over his lifetime.

I'd consider paying more tax but only if the bu**ers spent it wisely and
how often have they or do they do that?..

The old moo that runs BBC radio, the luvvies give her over 300,000 grand
a year where's the justice in that eh?. 15 million a year is it for
Jonathan Ross, silly isn't it?..

A freeview box doesn't cost that much. Its a once off purchase and thats
it. OK the aerial may need changing but a lot of TV aerials have been up
many years now and are in need of replacement anyway.

Still the government eh?. Any idea what they are doing with the digital
TV changeover?. Selling off publicly owned spectrum, another stealth tax
and what do you do in protest?.

Bugger all like a lot of people!....
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Tony Sayer

On Fri, 17 Nov 2006 20:48:02 +0000, Ian wrote:

|In message , JF
writes
|In message , Slitheen
writes
|
|You could be right actually. I mean, there was an Aldi upscaling DVD player
|for ?40 not long ago. But get this, it came *with* an HDMI cable. I've been
|struggling to find a high street retailer with HDMI cables for less than
|?40. So given time, who knows?
|
|The hun-owned Aldi/Lidl are a strange outfit. Most unenglish in the way
|they operate. They don't price shadow their competitors, or practice
|'drop and swap' marketing. Nor do they operate variable margins on say,
|gondolier end displays. They operate fixed margins across the board,
|and through-out Europe. This results in many UK marketing traditions
|getting ignored. If they buy-in a job-lot of 100,000 units at, say,
|GBP100 each, they'll plonk 'em on their shelves at GBP110 each.
|
|I have to correct you there, Aldi is German owned.

As also is Lidl.
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JF wrote:
In message , Slitheen
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You could be right actually. I mean, there was an Aldi upscaling DVD
player for £40 not long ago. But get this, it came *with* an HDMI
cable. I've been struggling to find a high street retailer with HDMI
cables for less than £40. So given time, who knows?

The hun-owned Aldi/Lidl are a strange outfit. Most unenglish in the
way they operate. They don't price shadow their competitors, or
practice 'drop and swap' marketing. Nor do they operate variable
margins on say, gondolier end displays. They operate fixed margins
across the board, and through-out Europe. This results in many UK
marketing traditions getting ignored. If they buy-in a job-lot of
100,000 units at, say, GBP100 each, they'll plonk 'em on their
shelves at GBP110 each.

You talk about Aldi/Lidl as one company which definately is not the case.

Roderick Stewart wrote:
You should recommend they buy a HDD/DVD PVR for their grandchildren
and get them to make DVDs of programmes of interest.

Maybe I didn't make it clear enough.

Yikes, you did. My speedreading let me down!

I was suggesting that they
purchase the recorder for their grandchildren and a simple player for
themselves. The children could then record stuff on DVDs and either
post them or deliver them personally depending on distance. Children
seem to take to modern technology naturally and should have no trouble
working out the most complicated gadgets you care to buy.

The suggestion was only partly facetious. It could work.

Yep it should. They live closeby. Hmmm, where would grandparents be
without children...

:-)

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