BBC in France

On Sun, 09 May 2004 14:09:19 +0100, nsj wrote:

But how many people in the UK speak Portugese, Polish, German, Bulgarian, or
French? At least to a standard to make watching a television programme or
film worthwhile. When I've watched Spanish TV, I can't say the content was
anything worth writing home about.

A hell of a lot. There are for example many more French people living & working
in the UK then British ex-pats in France. Same applies for Spain, Portugal,
Italy, Poland etc. The UK is a very, very multi-cultural nation more so than any
other in Europe & has sizeable populations of various nationalities who I am
sure are delighted to have a little taste of home by watching TV in their native
language.

--
Nigel Barker
Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur

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Nigel Barker wrote:

There are for example many more French people living & working
in the UK

About a million, I think I heard President Chirac say the other day (on
French TV natch).

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nsj wrote:

But how many people in the UK speak Portugese, Polish, German, Bulgarian, or
French?

French and German - a sizeable chunk. And presumably quite a few Polish.

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nsj wrote:

People will watch what is good. If that comes from America, then so be it.

Actually, people will watch what is crap. If that comes from America, then
so be it.

Jomtien wrote:
that the MEPs of some of the recently arrived member states earn more
in a month than their national counterparts do in a year.

http://www.europarliament.net/ to check on your MEP.

And they all
still get the tax-free groceries too, AFAIK.

I'm fairly sure that I read that shop had closed now, because it's not too
hard to get EU products imported to bxl any more, but damned if I can
remember where I read it. Just to not help at all, some EU web site designs
changed on 1 May...

Nigel Barker wrote:
best web site in the world plus you can stream or download most any radio
programme broadcast in the past week. [...]

As long as you use one of their blessed computer systems. Hopefully that will
change soon, whether ogg or mp3, and stop using stupid pop-up consoles.

Then again, some of us remember the stories of BBC agressively advertising
its own web site to face down commercial competitors and closing World
Service transmitters and paying BBCi for "transmission" instead.

Giuseppe Sottotetti wrote:

The real problem is that Murdoch is probably more powerful than Blair,
Chirac and all the others.

I won't argue with that.


An expert interviewed by the French
"Telesatellite" tv show had to admit that if I may not subscribe a
British satellite channel there are mainly economical reason i. e.
paytv stations have divided Europe into "zones of influence".

Nor that.

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The Sky Digital FAQ: http://tinyurl.com/yvnsy
How to get UK TV overseas: http://tinyurl.com/6p73
Fed up with logos / red buttons? : http://logofreetv.org/
BBC gone? : http://www.astra2d.co.uk/
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MJ Ray wrote:

And they all
still get the tax-free groceries too, AFAIK.

I'm fairly sure that I read that shop had closed now, because it's not too
hard to get EU products imported to bxl any more, but damned if I can
remember where I read it.

About time. I'm sure that they make up for the loss with many other
freebies and cheapies, supported by EU tax-payers.

--
Digibox problem? : A reboot solves 90% of these.
The Sky Digital FAQ: http://tinyurl.com/yvnsy
How to get UK TV overseas: http://tinyurl.com/6p73
Fed up with logos / red buttons? : http://logofreetv.org/
BBC gone? : http://www.astra2d.co.uk/
----
Only the truth as I see it.
No monies return'd. ;-)

On 09 May 2004 20:42:28 GMT, MJ Ray wrote:

Nigel Barker wrote:
best web site in the world plus you can stream or download most any radio
programme broadcast in the past week. [...]

As long as you use one of their blessed computer systems. Hopefully that will
change soon, whether ogg or mp3, and stop using stupid pop-up consoles.

Then again, some of us remember the stories of BBC agressively advertising
its own web site to face down commercial competitors and closing World
Service transmitters and paying BBCi for "transmission" instead.

Given the investment in software to get Real Media working as well as
they have it currently, they are not going to change over to ,mp3 or
any other system lightly, and broadcasting in mp3 uses more bandwidth
and does not sound as good at similar bitrates.

Its better to listen to audio by satellite, net broadcasting is still
second rate.
--
Jim Watt
http://www.gibnet.com

On 09 May 2004 20:42:28 GMT, MJ Ray wrote:

Nigel Barker wrote:
best web site in the world plus you can stream or download most any radio
programme broadcast in the past week. [...]

As long as you use one of their blessed computer systems. Hopefully that will
change soon, whether ogg or mp3, and stop using stupid pop-up consoles.

You can convert the Real Audio to whatever form you like. I suggest you google
on Streambox. What's wrong with a pop-up console it's better than the whole damn
Windows Media Player or Musicmatch popping up when you click on an mp3 file.

--
Nigel Barker
Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur