It's notable that dishes sprout out of the walls of large, inner city, blocks of flats, but in the leafy suburbs, you see hardly any. Get out into the countryside and they're about as common as hens' teeth.
Incidentally, I've not really been away, it's just that at least 99% of what you talk about here is irrelevant to me, so I monitor only occasionally, that's all. Now that Freesat's opening up, that may change. I'm pretty busy these days, even though I retired 4 years ago. I still do the BBC's camera assessments for HD, and supply the "BBC settings" documents, and am fairly fully occupied with training these days (two recent courses in Belfast, more coming up, plus some in Scotland unless I'm much mistaken) and have been talking to manufacturers about camera design. Of course, you wouldn't expect me to tell you about any of that :-)
A----- Original Message ----- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 7:57 PM Subject: [opendtv] Re: Freesat: 'Final piece in the digital jigsaw'
Alan Roberts wrote:Because there is still a major tide swell against satellite dishes in the UK, and cable is a very minor part of the broadcast environment. In my village (about 200 house over a square mile or so) I have seen not a single satellite dish. That will soon change, because I'll be getting Freesat as soon as PVRs come on the market. The UK is not like the US, we are different. OTA broadcast will remain a major force for way beyond the foreseeable future.Very nice to hear from you again, Alan. And by the way, one of the local NPR stations in this market, WAMU, transmits quite a lot of BBC Radio news, as well as World Have Your Say, on their third digital radio subchannel. Of course, also available online. I guess I don't understand the nature of the satellite dish antipathy. I thought it was related to the subscription fee, but evidently not. Bert ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways:- Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org- By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.-- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG.Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.23.9/1416 - Release Date: 05/05/2008 17:11
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