On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mr I Forrester wrote: > > "Relationships between the BBC and internet industry have plunged to an > > all-time low, after the BBC's internet chief Ashley Highfield used a > > blog post yesterday to tell ISPs to get stuffed - and even threatened to > > name and shame them." > > For those who actually want to read the original blog post it is at: > > <http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/04/hidden_costs_of_watching_tv_on.html> > > I think Ashley did make a slight mistake though: > > The Telegraph suggested users stream content rather than download to > > save money. We don't think this makes any difference. > > It makes a huge difference when billed by the byte so to speak. > The Streaming iPlayer is lower quality (so lower bit rate) and the data > transfer is one way. Download iPlayer is higher bit rate and sends data > both ways, and it is hard (if not impossible) to tell in advance how > much is uploaded. >
Balanced by the fact that you don't often stream stuff during the off-peak times when a download service might feasibly do a large chunk of it's downloading, and the fact that you don't generally download the same programme over and over again, while you may do so for streaming. > What we really need is Unlimited monthly quota on all plans because the > average man in the street does not understand all this quota rubbish. > > Oddly foreign countries can offer Unlimited monthly download/upload with > speeds of 100Mb down AND up for less than we pay in the UK[1]. BT is > crippling the countries Telecoms infrastructure and Ofcom does nothing! > True, but that won't stop the ISPs here from crying crocodile tears about having to provide the unlimited service which their marketing departments have sold to consumers. Of course, I'm betting that they'll go to the government next. What a bunch of irritating whingers they are. I hope that if they try and get the government to redefine 'unlimited' as 'limited', they'll get laughed out of the room. Asshats, the lot of them. If it weren't for the bright sunshine and fresh spring breeze, I'd be emigrating to Scandinavia to get a decent connection about now. We need to destroy the ISPs and BT in order to save the Internet from their malevolent incompetence. As I said, asshats. Somehow it's the consumer or the BBC who is to blame for the fact that their business model sucks. -- Tom Morris http://tommorris.org/ - 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/[email protected]/
