National Mass Retuning Day

On May 22, 9:23*am, David Hearn wrote:

£49, plus minimum of £26.25 per month for minimum of 12 months. *So
absolute minimum cost over the 12 months = £364.

They give you the box for peanuts, because they hope you'll stay for
longer than 1 year - each subsequent year they get another £315 off you..
* *They probably recoup their costs in the first year, but hope you'll
stay on for longer.

Do you still lose the ability to record, or play back recorded
programmes ones you've cancelled your subscription? *If so, then you
just end up with a glorified FreeSat box.

That's right, kill the Sky sub, and you effectively kill the HDD.

"David Hearn" wrote in message
...
Agamemnon wrote:

"J G Miller" wrote in message
news
A National Mass Retuning Day has been proposed.

And DVB-t2/MPEG-4 boxes are to be priced at GBP 200 (claims The
Grauniad)

http://www.guardian.co.UK/media/2009/may/20/digital-tv-freeview-retuning-world-cup

These morons have got to be out of their minds. You can get a Sky+HD box,
which includes a built in hard drive for only £49, and installation is
free.

£49, plus minimum of £26.25 per month for minimum of 12 months. So
absolute minimum cost over the 12 months = £364.

They give you the box for peanuts, because they hope you'll stay for
longer than 1 year - each subsequent year they get another £315 off you.
They probably recoup their costs in the first year, but hope you'll stay
on for longer.

Do you still lose the ability to record, or play back recorded programmes
ones you've cancelled your subscription? If so, then you just end up with
a glorified FreeSat box.


Also bear in mind that the very mention of the words 'Sky' or 'Murdoch' has
a similar effect on many people to that of 'Thatcher' on a dyed in the wool
socialist.

In article , Agamemnon
scribeth thus

"J G Miller" wrote in message
news
A National Mass Retuning Day has been proposed.

And DVB-t2/MPEG-4 boxes are to be priced at GBP 200 (claims The Grauniad)

http://www.guardian.co.UK/media/2009...view-retuning-
world-cup

These morons have got to be out of their minds. You can get a Sky+HD box,
which includes a built in hard drive for only £49, and installation is free.
On top of that the bitrate on satellite is considerably higher than the
6mbps that each channel is going to be broadcast at on DVB-T2. 6mbps is
barley adequate for SD quality on DVD let alone HD.

And to pay for this rubbish, are these ******* are going to cram the
existing 5 terrestrial channels, plus BBC3/CBBC, BBC4/Cbeebies, BBC News,
BBC Parliament, 3 BBC interactive streams and 12 BBC radio stations and the
text service into 24mbps, averaging less than 2mbps each? And if not where
are the other 8 channels (counting the radio stations as one channel) going
to go?




Whats your MP have to say about this?, if you can get his/her snout outa
the trough for long enough;..
--
Tony Sayer

In article , Ivan
scribeth thus

"David Hearn" wrote in message
...
Agamemnon wrote:

"J G Miller" wrote in message
news A National Mass Retuning Day has been proposed.

And DVB-t2/MPEG-4 boxes are to be priced at GBP 200 (claims The
Grauniad)

http://www.guardian.co.UK/media/2009...view-retuning-
world-cup

These morons have got to be out of their minds. You can get a Sky+HD box,
which includes a built in hard drive for only £49, and installation is
free.

£49, plus minimum of £26.25 per month for minimum of 12 months. So
absolute minimum cost over the 12 months = £364.

They give you the box for peanuts, because they hope you'll stay for
longer than 1 year - each subsequent year they get another £315 off you.
They probably recoup their costs in the first year, but hope you'll stay
on for longer.

Do you still lose the ability to record, or play back recorded programmes
ones you've cancelled your subscription? If so, then you just end up with
a glorified FreeSat box.


Also bear in mind that the very mention of the words 'Sky' or 'Murdoch' has
a similar effect on many people to that of 'Thatcher' on a dyed in the wool
socialist.


Meanwhile Arqiva have a bigger business and monopoly and no one bats an
eyelid;!..


Its the Aussies revenge;!...









--
Tony Sayer

J G Miller said the following on 21/05/2009 20:49:
A National Mass Retuning Day has been proposed.

And DVB-t2/MPEG-4 boxes are to be priced at GBP 200 (claims The Grauniad)

http://www.guardian.co.UK/media/2009/may/20/digital-tv-freeview-retuning-world-cup


Remember the olden days when you'd get a plain screen announcing
transmitter engineering works which will happen in a couple of months
time and apologies for any inconvenience caused? After it was done,
that would be it for a long time.

Wouldn't it be nice for a governing body to suspend channel renaming
and frequency shifting and for it to be done all on one day.

In article , Richard Brooks
wrote:


Remember the olden days when you'd get a plain screen announcing
transmitter engineering works which will happen in a couple of months
time and apologies for any inconvenience caused? After it was done,
that would be it for a long time.

Wouldn't it be nice for a governing body to suspend channel renaming and
frequency shifting and for it to be done all on one day.

no telly for a whole day - you'd have a riot ;-)

--
From KT24 - in "Leafy Surrey"

Using a RISC OS computer running v5.11

Remember the olden days when you'd get a plain screen announcing
transmitter engineering works which will happen in a couple of months time
and apologies for any inconvenience caused?

Cue grams "Walk and Talk"

--
Graham.

%Profound_observation%

tony sayer wrote:

Also bear in mind that the very mention of the words 'Sky' or 'Murdoch' has
a similar effect on many people to that of 'Thatcher' on a dyed in the wool
socialist.


Meanwhile Arqiva have a bigger business and monopoly and no one bats an
eyelid;!..


Its the Aussies revenge;!...


Not really. Arqiva might have cornered the transmission market, but that market
is being slowly replaced by satellite and broadband over 3G and 4G. The BBC and
other broadcasters know this, hence the large investment in those technologies.

"Ivan" wrote in message
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"J G Miller" wrote in message
news

A National Mass Retuning Day has been proposed.

I'm a protestant will it affect me?


Only if you have been circumcised

Steve Terry

On 22 Maj, 01:45, "kim" wrote:
J G Miller wrote:
A National Mass Retuning Day has been proposed.

And DVB-t2/MPEG-4 boxes are to be priced at GBP 200 (claims The
Grauniad)

http://www.guardian.co.UK/media/2009/may/20/digital-tv-freeview-retun....

Nearer £300 with a hard drive I suspect?

(kim)

I posted this on digitalspy
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/s...7&postcount=21

Where 'Ilse Howling, the managing director of Freeview'
is quoted - May 4. - for the £200, NOT for
a Freeview box - but a Freeview + HD box.

It took me 3-4 minutes and Google to find
this article and the quote.

Lars

PS! PSB-3 HD channels will share 36.1 Mbps
or 11.5 Mbps each (+ overhead 1-2 Mbps)
Later in 2010 4 channels will use 8.5 Mbps.