End of TV sets?

. . . without a doubt comes the end of the licence fee too

> so, there ya go - no more license fees - THAT's a good sign eh . . .

Thanks for that Post Chris - Hope all is Well w/ you & your lady

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> so, there ya go - no more license fees - THAT's a good sign eh . . .

Thanks for that Post Chris - Hope all is Well w/ you & your lady

Well, firstly they'll have to levy the money from an alternative source, and secondly it won't work until we all have faster broadband (21CN).

All is well this end Richard, thanks for asking.

You'll have the Guardian readers up in arms, Chris, if it happens!

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Oh well, one more nail in the coffin for the chance to do anything together as a family, even if it does mean sitting around the TV without conversing to each other. That's the only sad thing about it. On the other hand, there won't be any rows either over who wants to watch what.

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Eleanor Roosevelt.

Its a very interesting story. But when you think about it, its the obvious choice. Many of the channels are now asking you to "Press the red button" for this, and press the blue button for that (On your remote). Through mixing TV and the Internet, you can get Hugh interaction between the viewer and the show.

I believe its a glimpse of the future and where its going!

John.

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> so, there ya go - no more license fees - THAT's a good sign eh . . .

Thanks for that Post Chris - Hope all is Well w/ you & your lady

Well, firstly they'll have to levy the money from an alternative source, and secondly it won't work until we all have faster broadband (21CN).

All is well this end Richard, thanks for asking.

You'll have the Guardian readers up in arms, Chris, if it happens!

Now now, you little stirrer!

That's quite a naughty political arguement. (Just for the non-UKers amongst us "The Guardian" is accepted as the newspaper read by the UK's 'professional classes who are left of centre'... Ergo: Evil 'socialists' :o)~)



Many TV companies in the UK already provide a 'catch up' service via the net where people can rewatch various channel specific programs.

There has already been complaints by various ISPs about these streamed TV programs as they use far too much bandwidth.


If you watch standard 'cable' TV they have been using streamed compressed programs for years. They are often pixelised and blocky and often chop out every now and again whilst the system updates.

If you have ever watched Sci-Fi like "Star-Trek" you might have noticed the lag between image and sound.

The Virgin home channels often have a lag of a few milliseconds.

This pixelisation and lag suggest we already have internet style compression, streaming and technology on our TV sets.


No more TV license fees = An impoversished BBC?

If the BBC disapears I would miss it. No adverts, a cultural standard and an icon of British media.


However I hate how big and fat my TV box is.

I would never use a TFT (LCD) screen as they are pretty poor (blocky and pixelised.)

Give me a plasma screen.


Am I right in thinking current (VHF/basic cable) TV quality requires a "constant" 4 to 8MB /ps compressed stream.

This could be almost achievable for most homes using cable inet locally but I think the 'core' network (ISP<>ISP<>Media Servers) need updating.



I wonder if because we the end users pay for our broadband we might get fewer adverts? (I doubt it.)



It's an interesting time.


PS: One of the issues is that many of the TV companies offering streams at the moment expect you to either download their own proprietry software to watch their programs or require you to sign-up to their website...

Could you imagine having to sign up to 100 different services to get the same services you now get in one place over your TV box???...

I hope The Guardian readers and every other community will ask more questions as to how inet TV will work and benefit us...


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