[backstage] Competition Commission bounces Project Kangeroo

See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7869181.stm A victory or a loss for consumer choice? -jeremy P.S. Also; opportunities for a marsupial pun thread. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit

Re: [backstage] HD Videocamera advice please...

Simon Thompson wrote: The GOP length is the number of frames between successive I-Frames. A long GOP length will, for example, cause a delay on video appearing on changing channels on a STB or, as editing cuts can only start from an I-Frame will mean you can't do frame accurate editing. I

Re: [backstage] Zattoo - live streaming BBC channels

Gareth Davis wrote: Why would it be? SDI is the usual way we send SD digital audio and video round the studios. The bitrate may be high, but it is still interlaced SD resolution video. I can't remember the various different bandwidth figures for HD SDI, and I can't be bothered digging through

Re: [backstage] iPlayer and the ISPs - a solution

Brian Butterworth wrote: * ISPs provide rack space for BBC servers inside their network * Who pays for servers? * Who maintains servers? ISP? Siemens? * Who pays for power usage? * ISPs provide list of IP addresses to directed to said servers * How is this done? Manually? How many ISPs? Or as

Re: [backstage] New BBC customisable homepage

Christopher Woods wrote: I'm glad to see that the clock has finally made a comeback (...) I'm a bit disappointed by the clock - or more generally, any web clock that simply uses the local clock time when it should really be getting a sync from the server (at the best it duplicates information