All posts by Ian Grice
Below are all of Ian Grice's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.If you combine the regions as suggested there's not much point in having them at all, I'm in Leicestershire I don't care what's happening locally in Leeds! If I lived in Norfolk and tuned into local news only to find out it was covering Middlesbrough I would be a bit miffed to say the least.
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What is in store for the next round of BBC regional TV cuts?
Thursday 11 December 2014 10:46PM
Hinckley
Thursday 11 December 2014 10:46PM
Hinckley
On sky you can get any bbc or itv region you want, bbc are in the 900s and itv is available in other channel menu.
In my town 90% of aerials point at sutton coldfield, pointless as we are in the east midland, at least sky know where we are.
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yes that's true, but they are expected to cope with all the freeview retunes and the demise of analogue, my poor old mother in law was still confused about it to her dying day.
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Would be nice if BBC iplayer radio actually worked most of the time. I have had to contact them several times in the last month alone because for some reason a program was not available, the last fault is that most programs from Wednesday and some from Thursday on 4 extra are not available on any device. I just don't think the Beeb give a monkies any more. While I would really miss BBC radio I cant see it surviving and neither can I see the licence fee surviving. Unless the people slashing budgets start slashing top end pay packets.
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"This is because BT provides 20Mbps internet free into every home"
LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL.
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We used to have an 8mb connection (this should have been able to cope with streaming TV) but still had buffering problems, we now have a 31mb fibre connection and at times have the same problem you have described with servers not able to respond fast enough.
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Wouldn't it be nice if "they" focused on getting the present technology to work properly before announcing its outdated and revealing the new bug filled latest piece of Chinese built rubbish.
I would love ITV and Dave to be able to broadcast without it looking like there is a frame missing every few minutes.
I would love BBC i player radio to sort out there "program not available" (sometimes for 50%+ of programs for any given day on 4 extra)
I would love the internet to work 100% of the time, but most company's don't want to spend the money on it, so we get telephone lines that are 40 years + old and underground joints that are so rotten they contain more water than a garden pond.
etcetera etcetera etcetera.
Quick profit, bugger the infrastructure.
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HMM... Maybe I'm just cynical but this just sounds like an excuse to squeeze more money of of the public.
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Saturday 29 November 2014 11:47PM
Hinckley
We moved to fibre about 6 months ago and since then we have never had a buffering problem.