Typically unprofessional of the BEEB now to just shut it off mid-way through a programme.A sad end indeed to a perfectly good system that served us well.Uncertainty about what will work with the supposedly better digital system will see tons of perfectly useable older TV sets,etc,dumped,and then they'll whinge about all the "rubbish" that results needing disposal! Very "Green" l don't think!
@AG3304 It's Crown Castle/Arqiva who do the switching off. The BBC haven't owned any transmitters since the 90s, ever since John Birt and Marmaduke Hussey started privatising bits of the BBC in the late 1980s - BBC Engineering was one of them.
I do think that the need not to update sets is very well publicised, but as better TV tech has already arrived, I think that most people either take this opportunity to update their set or are just willfully ignorant of the tiddly details of the DSO.
@AidanLunn That explains a lot,you saying about parts of the Beeb being flogged off for a quick buck,in return,it'd seem,for worse service.
There's many old folk around me who were very worried until l carted that ancient Sony set l have down to them and used it via a freeview box.But some,as you say,just don't WANT to know !
@AG3304 Well that's the other side of the Thatcher's Privatisations coin - even Britain's best assets, which were better off pre-privatisation, are going down the plughole.
Thatch and all the premiers since her should think about whether a state asset really would be better off under private ownership. In the case of the Beeb, no, British Gas, yes, British Leyland - well, it put it out of its misery.
@AidanLunn Actually, considering the price hikes to come this winter, maybe British Gas r BP aren't the best options for that comment. Replace "British Gas" with "BT", though they are still rip-off merchants.
@AidanLunn Well l know the railway did for sure.So much red tape and buck passing goes on now it's amazing,and it all costs far more to run than BR did.As for poor old Leyland,it was the management that finally sealed its fate,as Rover,or at least so we were all led to believe.
Seems strange that the government feels it a good plan to bugger up perfectly good things like the GPO,Beeb,and so on by playing at being private,and sad for us all.
Typically unprofessional of the BEEB now to just shut it off mid-way through a programme.A sad end indeed to a perfectly good system that served us well.Uncertainty about what will work with the supposedly better digital system will see tons of perfectly useable older TV sets,etc,dumped,and then they'll whinge about all the "rubbish" that results needing disposal! Very "Green" l don't think!
AG3304 5 months ago
@AG3304 It's Crown Castle/Arqiva who do the switching off. The BBC haven't owned any transmitters since the 90s, ever since John Birt and Marmaduke Hussey started privatising bits of the BBC in the late 1980s - BBC Engineering was one of them.
I do think that the need not to update sets is very well publicised, but as better TV tech has already arrived, I think that most people either take this opportunity to update their set or are just willfully ignorant of the tiddly details of the DSO.
AidanLunn 5 months ago
@AidanLunn That explains a lot,you saying about parts of the Beeb being flogged off for a quick buck,in return,it'd seem,for worse service.
There's many old folk around me who were very worried until l carted that ancient Sony set l have down to them and used it via a freeview box.But some,as you say,just don't WANT to know !
AG3304 4 months ago
@AG3304 Well that's the other side of the Thatcher's Privatisations coin - even Britain's best assets, which were better off pre-privatisation, are going down the plughole.
Thatch and all the premiers since her should think about whether a state asset really would be better off under private ownership. In the case of the Beeb, no, British Gas, yes, British Leyland - well, it put it out of its misery.
AidanLunn 4 months ago
@AidanLunn Actually, considering the price hikes to come this winter, maybe British Gas r BP aren't the best options for that comment. Replace "British Gas" with "BT", though they are still rip-off merchants.
AidanLunn 4 months ago
@AidanLunn Too right ! The thing is we're dependent for all of our energy on greedy mostly foreign interests.As for BT,absolutely so.
AG3304 4 months ago
@AidanLunn Well l know the railway did for sure.So much red tape and buck passing goes on now it's amazing,and it all costs far more to run than BR did.As for poor old Leyland,it was the management that finally sealed its fate,as Rover,or at least so we were all led to believe.
Seems strange that the government feels it a good plan to bugger up perfectly good things like the GPO,Beeb,and so on by playing at being private,and sad for us all.
AG3304 4 months ago
@AidanLunn Good old Maggie, what a cow she was!
Crkt4Eva 4 months ago