Rain wrote:
Wot that pastime you only end up doing if you really, really have nothing
better to to do instead?
Oh, I know, I know! Is it: "debate the meaning of 'TV'"?
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Wot that pastime you only end up doing if you really, really have nothing
better to to do instead?
(okay, 'Thick of it' is alright...)
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--- On Tue, 12/15/09, Dominic Smith wrote:
> From: Dominic Smith
> Subject: Re: [backstage] What is TV?
> To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
> Date: Tuesday,
>From the International Telecommunications Union Radio Regulations:
Television: A form of telecommunication for the transmission of
transient images of fixed or moving objects.
(where 'telecommunication' is defined in the annex to the Constitution
of the International Telecommunication Union as:
Brian Butterworth wrote:
Another way of looking at TV is that is the delivery of audio visual
services using high capacity omnidirectional technology.
I think you mean broadcast.
Clearly, in 1980, you absolutely cannot do 'video on demand' for everyone.
The playback technology diddn't exist
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:17:47 +, you wrote:
>On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:11, Paul Webster wrote:
>
>> Radio Society has more info
>> http://www.rsgb.org/plt/
>> In particular they are chasing after the Comtrend models supplied by BT.
>>
>>
>I thought the Comtrend powerline adapters aren't "Home
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:11, Paul Webster wrote:
> Radio Society has more info
> http://www.rsgb.org/plt/
> In particular they are chasing after the Comtrend models supplied by BT.
>
>
I thought the Comtrend powerline adapters aren't "HomePlug" (
http://www.homeplug.org/) standard compliant. Wh
On 15-Dec-2009, at 13:37, Dan Brickley wrote:
> A year or two ago, there was a nice proof of concept showing iplayer
> embedded within Facebook. And there was inconclusive discussion here a
> while back about APIs. What's the current state of art?
The stock EMP embedding code, last I looked, can
Hi folks
A year or two ago, there was a nice proof of concept showing iplayer
embedded within Facebook. And there was inconclusive discussion here a
while back about APIs. What's the current state of art?
Context: In the NoTube project, I am looking at possible lightweight
standards for connectin
Radio Society has more info
http://www.rsgb.org/plt/
In particular they are chasing after the Comtrend models supplied by BT.
Paul
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:24:53 +, you wrote:
>Oops, same team did look into internal systems, but the noise problem is
>similar. I'll see if I can find their rep
Oops, same team did look into internal systems, but the noise problem is
similar. I'll see if I can find their report.
Mo McRoberts wrote:
On 15-Dec-2009, at 10:33, Simon Thompson wrote:
The RF noise generated by these technologies is quite bad, it's in a band where noise can propogate
Wasn't encryption an option on Homeplug 1.0? I thought it came with
either a default password or the option to switch it on.
Stephen Jolly wrote:
On 15 Dec 2009, at 10:33, Simon Thompson wrote:
Also, it's very easy to demodulate the Ethernet traffic radiated from your
house wiring from on
2009/12/15 Mo McRoberts :
>
> On 15-Dec-2009, at 10:40, Ian Forrester wrote:
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>> 2017 right after the Vista upgrade right?
>
> I heard a report†that 37.6% of sales of Windows Vista were in fact Siemens
> stockpiling supplies so that there would still be copies around near the end
> of the next
On 15-Dec-2009, at 10:40, Ian Forrester wrote:
> 2017 right after the Vista upgrade right?
I heard a report†that 37.6% of sales of Windows Vista were in fact Siemens
stockpiling supplies so that there would still be copies around near the end of
the next decade.
M.
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2009/12/15 Simon Thompson :
> Also, it's very easy to demodulate the Ethernet traffic radiated from your
> house wiring from one of these systems - it's not very secure!
>
Mitigated by the use of 128bit AES encryption (in the ones I have anyway).
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On 15 Dec 2009, at 10:33, Simon Thompson wrote:
> Also, it's very easy to demodulate the Ethernet traffic radiated from your
> house wiring from one of these systems - it's not very secure!
I think the Homeplug AV standard uses 128-bit AES traffic encryption, which
should be enough to foil the c
On 15-Dec-2009, at 10:33, Simon Thompson wrote:
> The RF noise generated by these technologies is quite bad, it's in a band
> where noise can propogate worldwide via the ionosphere. It can prevent
> receivers locking to, or demodulating a signal.
>
> http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rd/pubs/whp/
2017 right after the Vista upgrade right?
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The RF noise generated by these technologies is quite bad, it's in a
band where noise can propogate worldwide via the ionosphere. It can
prevent receivers locking to, or demodulating a signal.
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rd/pubs/whp/whp-pdf-files/WHP116.pdf
Also, it's very easy to demodulate
On 15-Dec-2009, at 10:17, Andrew Bowden wrote:
>> Last I checked, so is (much of) the BBC. I'm sure somebody
>> here is well-placed to correct me if this is no longer the case!
>
> As far as I know, all the BBC now has IE7 installed, however it was only
> a few months ago that they did the upgr
With the minute amount of time I can spare I've taken the plunge and
put an updated entry on the BBC R&D page on wikipedia- it's not much,
and I haven't even fixed the logo- plu it redirects to BBC Research (
a non existent entity!). Rather than run the risk of being accused of
rampant commercial
Router upstairs in back bedroom.
Freesat set top box downstairs in living room.
Master phone socket at the bottom of the stairs.
Homeplug's far easier in such a scenario - which is the scenario in my
house.
Freesat are a joint venture, 50% owned by the BBC and 50% owned by ITV
plc, so it's not
> Last I checked, so is (much of) the BBC. I'm sure somebody
> here is well-placed to correct me if this is no longer the case!
As far as I know, all the BBC now has IE7 installed, however it was only
a few months ago that they did the upgrade.
Firefox is now available to all staff if they reque
Not definitional but:
TV is a large international engineering, entertainment, and journalism
complex with a contiguous attitude toward it's 'audience' and in most
cases, it's 'customers/clients' (aka advertisers). It is a culture
under threat, and reacting to that threat with several contradicto
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