Well as always I suspect we will argue about this until the cows come home and not resolve it.
Your caveats seems weak and speculative. People won't miss something they never knew they had in the first place especially if they are able to do all the things they can now, which it appears they will be. To quote yourself: "the above talks solely about the direct effect upon consumers in the short term based on the equipment which exists today and assuming they don't want to do any of the things which the scheme prohibits _and_ have up-to-date equipment supporting the various schemes which make it work." So no problem then. -----Original Message----- From: owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk [mailto:owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk] On Behalf Of Mo McRoberts Sent: 15 June 2010 21:48 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] Freeview HD Content Management On 15-Jun-2010, at 21:38, Mo McRoberts wrote: > > On 15-Jun-2010, at 20:58, Nick Reynolds-FM&T wrote: > >> With respect to you Mo presumably this person who wrote this comment >> on the Media Guardian story doesn't understand it either: > > those caveats, which make quite a significant difference: > >> "nwhitfield >> 14 Jun 2010, 7:04PM >> My understanding is that most (if not all) of the equipment already >> on sale includes the necessary stuff to work with this, so isn't >> going to be affected - essentially the kit can understand an EPG >> whether it's broadcast using the Huffman codes or not. Now they will >> be using them, but end users aren't going to see any difference in that regard. > > Freeview HD receivers on sale today will be unaffected, though they may well need a firmware upgrade. that rather depends on whether the BBC has *already* distributed the decoding table to manufacturers, which would be quite naughty of them. oops, missed out: but if the receiver is the only part of the chain being upgraded (i.e., they already have an HDTV, as many people do), "everything working" is *far* from guaranteed. - 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/ - 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/
