Andrew Bowden wrote: > > However when you have sizable audience bases, it's extremely difficult > just to turn something off because something better has come along > because people don't want to go out and buy new equipment. Such big > switch-offs are rare
If we were to ditch everything and start again tomorrow I'm not convinced we wouldn't be in the same situation. The multiplex operators would take the same correct (from the shareholder's point of view) commercial decisions to fit as many streams on a mux as possible. So instead of getting 64K Mono MP2 station you will get 2 32K Mono AAC stations. Would this be an improvement for the amount of hassle it would cause? > (last one I can think of was the > migration from VHF > to UHF for TV signals which finally ended in the 1980s after UHF first > launched in the 1960s) Which released Band III, which was then available for use by DAB. -- Gareth Davis | Production Systems Specialist World Service Future Media, Digital Delivery Team - Part of BBC Global News Division * http://www.bbcworldservice.com/ * 702NE Bush House, Strand, London, WC2B 4PH My views - not Auntie's. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
