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prpr said:
So you bought it after the HD services had started in the full knowledge that it wouldn't receive DVB-T2. That would appear to be your problem, wouldn't it?
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It wasn't clear to me, at the time, what HD ready meant. I mean it sounds like it's ready for viewing HD. No mention of no ability to decode DVB-T2 in the advertising or in the instruction manual - until you get to the specs hidden away in small print. So I reject the claim that I had full knowledge and it's my problem. In any case, my old TV was analogue only, so I was used to using an external box and an HDR-2000T covered the T2 reception, so I don't give a toss. Now whether other people have been caught out by the same dodgy description I don't know.
 
prpr said:
Caveat emptor. (Where is that on the scale BH?)
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Lingua franca, so not very high.

Yes, "HD Ready" always meant it can display a HiDef image if you stuff one up it, but not that it can receive HiDef directly. At the time of course, T2 was synonymous with HiDef.
 
Black Hole said:
Yes, "HD Ready" always meant it can display a HiDef image if you stuff one up it, but not that it can receive HiDef directly.
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I didn't know that at the time and it looks as though I didn't do a search to find the meaning. I was probably in a hurry to find a cheap (plus small and easy to carry from Argos) replacement when the old analogue crt bust.
prpr said:
That would appear to be your problem, wouldn't it?
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Maybe you're correct.
 
prpr said:
If broadcasters want to save money, this duplication is the first thing that can go. BBC has had regional HD for nearly 4 years. ITV still haven't done theirs, so need to get their collective fingers out. They could call it a saving - bean-counters like that sort of thing.
Apart from that, 15 years of duplication seems long enough to give people to replace their old kit.
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My worry is if the broadcasters get rid of the duplication they'll just switch the DVB-T2 mux off and we'll lose HD and 5.1 sound. They're petrified of cutting off a few hundred people who have TVs that won't receive DVB-T2 before a full Freeview switch off, but I can easily see them thinking that if you want HD you can stream it (use of satellite won't enter into their thinking these days).
 
prpr said:
If broadcasters want to save money, this duplication is the first thing that can go.
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The BBC could stop broadcasting news from Salford. Quite often I've seen London based newsreaders in Salford. Travel and hotels on expenses? Duplicate newsrooms - crazy. Then interviews down-the-line to London - bonkers.
 
EEPhil said:
The BBC could stop broadcasting news from Salford. Quite often I've seen London based newsreaders in Salford. Travel and hotels on expenses? Duplicate newsrooms - crazy. Then interviews down-the-line to London - bonkers.
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Governments for many years have been forcing moving things out of London on various organisations, so it might not be the BBC's choice.
 
Owen Smith said:
Governments for many years have been forcing moving things out of London on various organisations, so it might not be the BBC's choice.
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Yep. See "Yes Prime Minister" season 2 episode 1 "Man Overboard".
Going back many years parts of the civil service have been located in "odd" parts of the country: DVLA (Swansea), HMRC (Cumbernauld and elsewhere); many functions housed in the huge campus at Longbenton Newcastle, etc etc. It was common for the civil service to use sites originally constructed in WW2 as emergency hospitals for use in the event of invasion or other catastrophe, and many such offices were single story buildings in a fishbone pattern of what would have been wards off a central corridor. I think many such sites have now closed and been re-built on, eg Lytham, as they were in poor repair while Longbenton had a massive re-build of its offices.
 
EEPhil said:
The BBC could stop broadcasting news from Salford. Quite often I've seen London based newsreaders in Salford. Travel and hotels on expenses? Duplicate newsrooms - crazy. Then interviews down-the-line to London - bonkers.
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One could say the same about No. 10 but the new broom had something to sweep.
Perhaps they should stop broadcasting news from London. The pictures are a lot nicer from Salford. The stuff from BH is just so f**king dire it's depressing.
Owen Smith said:
Governments for many years have been forcing moving things out of London on various organisations, so it might not be the BBC's choice.
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That's been going on for decades, but they don't have to have two centres for that. They just chose to do it on this occasion, but it follows on from the decisions taken in 2013 when they shut Television Centre and sold it off which resulted in most of it getting knocked down and redeveloped into posh(-ish) (i.e. expensive) housing. That resulted in Breakfast, (Radio) 5 Live, and Sport moving to Salford.
 
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