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  • ITV's turn now!

    From MB@21:1/5 to All on Mon Oct 11 22:50:40 2021
    Oh dear, seems it is ITV's turn now.


    "ITV is forced to apologise and says its service 'has been restored'
    after Freeview customers across the UK were left with pixelated screens
    when trying to tune into its channels"

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  • From Brian Gaff (Sofa)@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Tue Oct 12 07:56:44 2021
    I blame the lack of investment in infrastructure severely reducing
    throughput.
    I often wonder what might happen if all channels sent out write noise and
    the equivalent in video. That would severely muck up the bandwidth I'd say.
    Brian

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    "MB" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:sk2bhm$gjn$[email protected]...
    Oh dear, seems it is ITV's turn now.


    "ITV is forced to apologise and says its service 'has been restored' after Freeview customers across the UK were left with pixelated screens when
    trying to tune into its channels"

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  • From MB@21:1/5 to All on Tue Oct 12 08:02:36 2021
    On 12/10/2021 07:56, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
    I blame the lack of investment in infrastructure severely reducing throughput.
    I often wonder what might happen if all channels sent out write noise and the equivalent in video. That would severely muck up the bandwidth I'd say.

    And the lack of engineers at senior levels in many broadcasters?

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  • From Mark Carver@21:1/5 to All on Tue Oct 12 08:16:58 2021
    On 12/10/2021 08:02, MB wrote:
    On 12/10/2021 07:56, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
    I blame the lack of  investment in infrastructure severely reducing
    throughput.
      I often wonder what might happen if all channels sent out write
    noise and
    the equivalent in video. That would severely muck up the bandwidth
    I'd say.

    And the lack of engineers at senior levels in many broadcasters?


    Not just at the broadcasters, at the service providers too.
    Arqiva seem to have been struggling at both ends of their chain recently.

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  • From MB@21:1/5 to Mark Carver on Tue Oct 12 16:11:28 2021
    On 12/10/2021 08:16, Mark Carver wrote:
    And the lack of engineers at senior levels in many broadcasters?


    Not just at the broadcasters, at the service providers too.
    Arqiva seem to have been struggling at both ends of their chain recently.

    You can be sure there will be no shortage of people to lecture everyone
    about "diversity" and plenty of beancounters.

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  • From Vir Campestris@21:1/5 to Mark Carver on Tue Oct 12 21:46:32 2021
    On 12/10/2021 08:16, Mark Carver wrote:
    On 12/10/2021 08:02, MB wrote:
    On 12/10/2021 07:56, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
    I blame the lack of  investment in infrastructure severely reducing
    throughput.
      I often wonder what might happen if all channels sent out write
    noise and
    the equivalent in video. That would severely muck up the bandwidth
    I'd say.

    And the lack of engineers at senior levels in many broadcasters?


    Not just at the broadcasters, at the service providers too.
    Arqiva seem to have been struggling at both ends of their chain recently.

    We seem to have the same problem in many professions.

    It's assumed that being able to talk the talk is the same as being able
    to walk the walk.

    Andy

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  • From Paul Ratcliffe@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Tue Oct 12 23:53:21 2021
    On Tue, 12 Oct 2021 16:11:28 +0100, MB <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 12/10/2021 08:16, Mark Carver wrote:
    And the lack of engineers at senior levels in many broadcasters?


    Not just at the broadcasters, at the service providers too.
    Arqiva seem to have been struggling at both ends of their chain recently.

    You can be sure there will be no shortage of people to lecture everyone
    about "diversity" and plenty of beancounters.

    We need diversity of managers with a clue. There are too many, seemingly,
    who don't appear to have any.

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  • From Brian Gaff (Sofa)@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Wed Oct 13 08:56:52 2021
    That is because its always contracted out, and then you have to find out the hard way that the person who is duty responder on that day knows little
    about that particular system.

    Brian

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    "MB" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:sk3bsh$b1$[email protected]...
    On 12/10/2021 07:56, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
    I blame the lack of investment in infrastructure severely reducing
    throughput.
    I often wonder what might happen if all channels sent out write noise
    and
    the equivalent in video. That would severely muck up the bandwidth I'd
    say.

    And the lack of engineers at senior levels in many broadcasters?



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