ARGH Satnav

I encountered a member of the public yesterday, not something that usually
occurs, as seeing my with my long white cane normally makes folk cross the
road, however, I digress.
She said to me, thought you would have a sat nav by now and could throw that
cane away.. After explaining that I knew of no sat nave which would spot
poeples wheelie bins for me when left strewn about the neibourhood by lazy
refuse collection engineers, the conversation changed to. I hear you can get
HD on satnavs now then. At the time I just shook my head and said, who
knows, its of no use to me anyway, and we parted.

The conversation came back to me just now when on the radio, an ad vert came
on for Tom Tom satnavs including HD traffic.
My brain is now asking, what is HD traffic?
Are we witnessing the use of HD for anything new now as a buzz word or what.
Is this so folk can read the number plate of the moron stuck in the middle
of the junction, or maybe its to aid drivers with poor eyesight,, might be
hope for me yet!

Anyone?
Brian

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On Dec 4, 10:38*am, "Brian Gaff" wrote:
I encountered a member of the public yesterday, not something that usually
occurs, as seeing my with my long white cane normally makes folk cross the
road, however, I digress.
She said to me, thought you would have a sat nav by now and could throw that
cane away.. After explaining that I knew of no sat nave which would spot
poeples wheelie bins for me when left strewn about the neibourhood by lazy
refuse collection engineers, the conversation changed to. I hear you can get
HD on satnavs now then. At the time I just shook my head and said, who
knows, its of no use to me anyway, and we parted.

The conversation came back to me just now when on the radio, an ad vert came
on for Tom Tom satnavs including HD traffic.
My brain is now asking, what is HD traffic?
Are we witnessing the use of HD for anything new now as a buzz word or what.
Is this so folk can read the number plate of the moron stuck in the middle
of the junction, or maybe its to aid drivers with poor eyesight,, might be
hope for me yet!

Brian, I bet you remember when the word 'transistor' was emblazoned on
all sorts of unlikely products. Then it was 'colour' (or sometimes
'color).

Bill

In message , Brian Gaff
wrote
She said to me, thought you would have a sat nav by now and could throw that
cane away.. After explaining that I knew of no sat nave which would spot
poeples wheelie bins for me when left strewn about the neibourhood by lazy
refuse collection engineers, the conversation changed to.

I wouldn't trust a SatNav to give me only verbal instructions on the
road system let alone walking. The mapping companies take anything up to
two years to reflect changes to the major road networks and considerably
longer for minor roads. If you don't match up what you actually see
with what the SatNav is trying to tell you to do you could be in serious
trouble.

I hear you can get
HD on satnavs now then.

One update every three minutes - yep, that appears to be the bit rates
that the BBC are attempting to achieve with their HD TV service!

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On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:38:52 GMT, Brian Gaff wrote:

...left strewn about the neibourhood by lazy refuse collection engineers,

These people are not engineers. They are operatives. You do proper
engineers a great dis-service by mis-using words like this in an attempt
to look 'clever'.

In article 5d1f1971-94c3-4fbb-a9f7-e41646ca3650
@j14g2000yqm.googlegroups.com, says...

On Dec 4, 10:38*am, "Brian Gaff" wrote:

The conversation came back to me just now when on the radio, an ad vert came
on for Tom Tom satnavs including HD traffic.
My brain is now asking, what is HD traffic?
Are we witnessing the use of HD for anything new now as a buzz word or what.

Brian, I bet you remember when the word 'transistor' was emblazoned on
all sorts of unlikely products. Then it was 'colour' (or sometimes
'color).


I remember Pye producing a TV which had 'Transistorised' emblazoned
across the facia.

Well, I suppose it was, but the difference wasn't easy to spot either
physically or on a circuit diagram ...

.... the set used ONE transistor (as sync separator) but, apart from
that, it was a standard valve design!
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"Brian Gaff" writes:

I hear you can get HD on satnavs now then. At the time I just shook my
head and said, who knows, its of no use to me anyway, and we parted.

HD satnav must be one which can not only tell which road you are on, but
also which lane you are in.

Graham Murray wrote:

"Brian Gaff" writes:

I hear you can get HD on satnavs now then. At the time I just shook my
head and said, who knows, its of no use to me anyway, and we parted.

HD satnav must be one which can not only tell which road you are on, but
also which lane you are in.

True 1080P Satnav can even steer you around the pot holes in Lambeth,

Sadly it's not going to be fully implemented in this country - but was
tested

On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:38:52 GMT, "Brian Gaff"
wrote:

My brain is now asking, what is HD traffic?

It refers to TomTom's subscription traffic warning system and refers
to it having a higher amount of information provided than via the free
radio based alternatives. I admit it is the loosest usage of the term
HD, even the TomTom website doesn't explain or justify it properly.
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On Dec 4, 11:27*am, Paul Ratcliffe
wrote:
On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:38:52 GMT, Brian Gaff wrote:
...left strewn about the neibourhood by lazy refuse collection engineers,

These people are not engineers. They are operatives. You do proper
engineers a great dis-service by mis-using words like this in an attempt
to look 'clever'.

Paul, I think Brian was being ironic. In any case, I know you are very
keen to preserve your status, but the word engineer is now so devalued
that I think you'd better start to call yourself something else. I
mean, I've even heard people who fix TV distribution systems call
themselves 'engineers'!

And here's worse, much worse. Last week a management agency received
an angry letter from a resident. She lives in a complex where there is
no DTT and no possibility of it. She'd had a telly delivered and 'set
up' by a major retail chain. "The delivery engineer had installed sets
throughout Sheffield and assured me that he had never had any
difficulty tuning all the channels in, so the new aerial system must
be defective. At my own expense I have had an aerial engineer of high
repute come and test the aerial and he installed a digital box and now
I can get hundreds of channels, so that proves your aerial man did not
do a proper job." I should mention that the 'digital box' was a
Freesat box. The system carries satellite signals of course.

Bill

Mikeapollo wrote:
Graham Murray wrote:

"Brian Gaff" writes:

I hear you can get HD on satnavs now then. At the time I just shook my
head and said, who knows, its of no use to me anyway, and we parted.
HD satnav must be one which can not only tell which road you are on, but
also which lane you are in.

True 1080P Satnav can even steer you around the pot holes in Lambeth,

Sadly it's not going to be fully implemented in this country - but was
tested

Yes, but what use is 1080i Satnav, it might direct you down one of gaps in a
cattle grid ?



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