Comments on: Huge BBC Linux faux pas

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 17:52:30 +0000

I have another hint to save money. If you live in then UK and have/pay-for crappy one-way analogue TV cable, get yourself a high-gain Freeview antenna or a ‘Freeview’ satellite disk installed, then cancel the pointless cable fee, it isn’t compulsory!

Freeview looks much better, you get many more BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and other TV channels, and much better picture and audio quality, none of this crap about lightning strikes taking out cable TV booster amplifiers, for days.

BBC still looks like suspect value, even with their extra Freeview/satellite channels, I watch far more independent (advert driven) TV than BBC, when not watching far more timely downloaded shows. Too many channels seem to be obsessed with reality TV, reality style shows, pseudo-social shows and 2nd-rate-celebrity shows i.e. mediocre drivel; I want quality escapism, quality comedy and stuff which helps or educates me, not stuff which insults my intelligence; if I’ve not given it, I’ll download it!

The BBC needs to stop being a dinosaur with absurdly, overpriced studio technology and contractors, stop being a slave to Microsoft and have the guts to make more innovative and quality TV; I do see some signs of hope with the “The Truth About Property” mini series and use of Real media codecs for some BBC TV shows, given I am a property Bear and detest Windows media codecs, even for Windows!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:38:50 +0000

The sooner the BBC is dismantled the better. WHY?

BBC has no adverts this is worth the £120 a year(i spend 3x or more on bear/wine than this). and as advertisers gradually try to stop people from skipping adverts it becomes even more valuable. there real problem is wasting cash e.g BBC1 gets 20million a year to buy/make programs. BBC3 a new channel gets 120million but only has 5% of the viewers of BBC1.

they also pay top management far to much and give them bonuses ~8 million when they are thrown out each year so it has its problems but they do make money from dvd and cd sales so we are not paying the full bill.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 03:28:50 +0000

The sooner the BBC is dismantled the better. Why should the public be forced to pay for a tv channel? we already have other channels that are free! it’s utterly ridiculous. If the BBC can’t support itself with advertising like every other channel, then it should be shutdown.

I don’t even watch the BBC channels, so why should I pay for it??

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:51:54 +0000

unfortunately to use bbc resources properly i have to use application which pretend to be Microsoft e.g firfox pretending to be IE and running on windows.

also what may of these statistics forget is that people can have more than one operating system. i keep a copy windows around so i can play pc games and use the bbc iplayer and steam. I also have a mac and ubuntu LInux for all other work how is my vote counted probably as a windows user.