d6jg wrote: > Indeed. > I was joking. > You are spot on concerning the lack of understanding about the technical > issues. When I wrote to my MP I found it very difficult to adequately > explain the issue in layman terms. She hasn't responded. > The chatter on the blog is dying down which is I suppose inevitable. > There is little commercial motivation for any of the manufacturers to > take issue with the BBC - they are just a small part of the industry and > why would any manufacturer volunteer to spend money for zero return. The > aggregators may be more peed off but presumably they pay a fee to the > BBC to get the streams which they on sell to the manufacturers. Easy to > sweeten their pill. > I don't think we should let things lie but unsure what further action > apart from lobbying is actually available to us.
Pessimistically, I think there's very little which can be done. People have tried a wide range of options - none of which seem to have had any effect given the Audio Factory's response has been to just tough it out. Goodness knows how may listeners they've actually lost - the i-thingy crowd probably haven't even noticed any changes as their listening experience is probably limited to less than 7 seconds before they move off to some other media event of zero-content and importance! Call me an elitist snob if you like, but the serial dumbing down of broadcast media into smaller and smaller impact chunks makes me fume. In one sense, the provision of on-demand, listen again material, is becoming superfluous as everything broadcast is repetively rebroadcast over any 24 hour cycle as a live stream - the news channels are specific offenders when a news item (which they call a 'story') is rebroadcast every 15 minutes - drives me nuts! Touch - Muse M50 EX TPA3123 T-Amp Mini - Acoustics Q10 speakers Logitech Radio Logitech UE Smart Radio Raspberry Pi + Squeezeplug LMS + Squeezelite Cubieboard + Debian 7 + LMS 7.8.1 + Squeezelite - Soundwave SW100 bluetooth speaker O2 Joggler + SqpOS + Aune X2 T-amp + Mordaunt Short ms-3.40 speakers IBOX + Debian 7 + LMS 7.8.1 + Squeezelite - Soundwave SW100 bluetooth speaker Squeeze2upnp - Sonos Play1 & Vistron internet radio (Reciva) Pure One Flow ------------------------------------------------------------------------ castalla's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15624 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103311 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
