Government Finally Reveals When It Wants Freeview Gone

Black Hole said:
I don't understand why you need to see all the Loose Women's wrinkles.
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The point is people expect 4K and people with 65" TVs (the new normal size) can see the difference between HD and 4K. If Freeview does not provide 4K then those people will use a different transport mechanism so they get 4K. This reduces viewer numbers for Freeview and furthers the arguments in favour of switching it off. Adding Atmos sound to go with the 4K picture would be good too, that's becoming the expectation for people with sound bars (the most popular way of listening to surround sound now, alas).
 
Also the expectation of people with Atmos set-up of any kind. But only if the Hummy can play it! (Only joking about the last sentence, I expect I will need to move on.)
 
Owen Smith said:
people with 65" TVs (the new normal size)
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Has anyone else noticed that it's getting increasingly common for dramas to include as part of the plot things images of paper notes, newspapers etc that are actually too small to make out on older smaller TVs? They assume everyone has a 65" behemoth. (I know, I should have gone to specsavers... )
 
Wildebeest said:
Has anyone else noticed that it's getting increasingly common for dramas to include as part of the plot things images of paper notes, newspapers etc that are actually too small to make out on older smaller TVs? They assume everyone has a 65" behemoth. (I know, I should have gone to specsavers... )
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That, and some hard-coded subtitles on, for example, Sky News are so bloody small I can't see them on my 19" & 22" screens. Whereas some subtitles on French films on TPTV are so big that they take up ~20% of the screen. (So I exaggerated a bit!)
The addition of SMS or some other comms app text on the screen, either on a device or randomly placed, can be another one of those things that is too small and often too fleeting to be able to register. Who considers those of us who are older, decrepit and don't have massive screens when producing TV?
 
prpr said:
They have no clue, but they won't be told, don't listen and think they know best.
Just like politicians really.
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That sounds like every consultation process recently. We want your views, but we've already made up our minds and will ignore or lie about those views. Our decision is final.
 
It makes sense to me. Traditional OTA tv viewers are in decline. The old guard of licence payers since B&W are pretty much a captive audience who are unlikely to stray from TV even if it is only supplied online and unless they find a cure for death will continue to fade away whilst the young use a plethora of other internet based ways to be entertained rather than watching TV shows anyway and are a market that can at least be grown they already have adopted online entertainment as the norm and all the dross that comes with it, no recording, unavoidable advertising. cheap to make reality shows etc so the young are the logical demographic to try to capture whilst the old have no long term benefit to them and those in the middle should have enough tech know how to adapt to what they are given. Just like the decline in landlines it is the way forward for the money making machine even if it is a huge step backwards for us.
 
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