At 20:04 +0100 27/5/07, Kim Plowright wrote:
I _suspect_ they just fob people off and ignore complaints they
dislike. Or maybe I was unlucky and the two people I communicated with
didn't do their job properly?
Audience comms and complaints are outsourced to Capita.
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You missed out a
Bloc not block ;)
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From: Gordon Joly [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC Archive trial
At 17:43 +0100 28/5/07, Timothy-john Bishop wrote
I _suspect_ they just fob people off and ignore complaints they
dislike. Or maybe I was unlucky and the two people I communicated with
didn't do their job properly?
Audience comms and complaints are outsourced to Capita.
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And the call-tracking app is being developed by iSoft...
... Two wonderful companies
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From: Kim Plowright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 27 May 2007 20:04
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
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I _suspect_ they just fob
On 25/05/07, Colin Moorcraft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I only got it once. Discrimination?
Ofcom will hear of this...
- Colin
Good luck with that; I tried to complain to Ofcom about the recent Panorama
on WiFi (The whole thing was blatently misleading, factually wrong and
biased), but
On 26/05/07, vijay chopra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Good luck with that; I tried to complain to Ofcom about the recent Panorama
on WiFi
I think you may want to look at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/
Doubt it will do much good though.
In my experience they feed you false information on the
I _suspect_ they just fob people off and ignore complaints they
dislike. Or maybe I was unlucky and the two people I communicated with
didn't do their job properly?
Nope, that's normal; I used that site to complain about the changes to the
606 message boards, I was directed to a URL that I'd
I just received an e-mail which seemed to confirm I was part of the
trial - excerpt:
We'll e-mail you your account details in just a few weeks and then
you'll have access to hundreds of hours of programmes.
:D!
On 19/04/07, Matthew Cashmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It¹ll take a few weeks I
Me three ;-))
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Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 5:45 PM
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I just received an e-mail which seemed to confirm I was part of the
trial
On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 05:44:50PM +0100, Gary Kirk wrote:
I just received an e-mail which seemed to confirm I was part of the
trial - excerpt:
We'll e-mail you your account details in just a few weeks and then
you'll have access to hundreds of hours of programmes.
So did I. Well I got it
No I got two too. I assume most or all people did.
On 25/05/07, vijay chopra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 25/05/07, Andy Leighton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So did I. Well I got it twice to be precise - sent date within 6
minutes of each other.
The same thing happened to me; does mean I
I only got it once. Discrimination?
Ofcom will hear of this...
- Colin
On 25 May 2007, at 21:08, Ciaran Hamilton wrote:
I got it twice too, actually - I meant to say that but I forgot.
Seems a little weird. I'm guessing it's just a glitch.
On 25/05/07, vijay chopra [EMAIL PROTECTED]
At 19:30 +0100 18/4/07, Tom Loosemore wrote:
On 18/04/07, Gordon Joly
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 16:39 +0100 18/4/07, Ian Forrester wrote:
Hi All,
Outside of the framework debate...
The BBC Archive trial is getting closer to opening its doors.
Exclusively I can now
Do you think it's a generation gap thing? Or, like that
recent article I read on DigitalSpy about the results of the
DAB quality survey, people who don't vocalise their concern
about lowering quality just don't fully understand what a
good quality stream should look / sound like?
Andrew Bowden wrote:
I'm far better on visual artifacts I must say. Interestingly though a
colleague of mine from BBC News told me that surveys have shown people
are far more likely to put up with a dodgy video picture if the sound is
clean and crisp.
Yes, it's well known (and proved) that
On 4/19/07, Kirk Northrop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, it's well known (and proved) that you can do what you want with the
picture if the sound is OK.
True but a slight exaggeration - A certain level of video quality still
qualifies as an acceptable threshold, IMO. In addition,
Tim Cowlishaw wrote:
True but a slight exaggeration - A certain level of video quality still
qualifies as an acceptable threshold, IMO. In addition, crystal clear sound
and crystal clear vision are both pretty useless if they're not in sync.
Indeed. But as long as the glitches are small
/me guesses, somehow, that the denizens of this list are somewhat
demographically homogeneous.
I got kicked off after about 60% when I said I was male. hhm.
Oh well, perhaps 35-44 age bracket is already full.
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No way Kim, I'm NOT normal. ;-)
On 19 Apr 2007, at 13:28, Kim Plowright wrote:
/me guesses, somehow, that the denizens of this list are somewhat
demographically homogeneous.
I got kicked off after about 60% when I said I was male. hhm.
Oh well, perhaps 35-44 age bracket is
James Cox wrote:
I hope that if this gets past the various layers of governance and
gets budget to become a 'real' project, some effort into hooking up
into bittorrent (I'm sure Bram could come up with some trickery to
have certified users (ie, license fee payers ;)) only which would
On 19 Apr 2007, at 14:39, Scot McSweeney-Roberts wrote:
James Cox wrote:
I hope that if this gets past the various layers of governance and
gets budget to become a 'real' project, some effort into hooking
up into bittorrent (I'm sure Bram could come up with some trickery
to have
Do you know when we will hear if we are in or not? (Or is the fact that I've
not heard mean I'm not in?)
Paul (Long Time Lurker)
On 19/04/07, James Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 19 Apr 2007, at 14:39, Scot McSweeney-Roberts wrote:
James Cox wrote:
I hope that if this gets past the
On 19/04/07, Scot McSweeney-Roberts
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Even with content
from the BBC, I pay the licence fee so why should I pay in bandwidth as
well?
Because Peer to Peer is the only current scalable way of distributing content.
Server to client just isn't scalable enough.
Server to
Slightly Off Topic, as you mentioned Ubuntu ISOs, nice to see that the
BBC is not covering this on it's technology news, it gave an awful lot
of press to Vista.
They even gave coverage to some World of Warcraft expansion pack! Then
again, I've never agreed with them on their definition of
On 19 Apr 2007, at 16:07, Mutt Baskerville wrote:
Slightly Off Topic, as you mentioned Ubuntu ISOs, nice to see that
the
BBC is not covering this on it's technology news, it gave an awful
lot
of press to Vista.
They even gave coverage to some World of Warcraft expansion pack!
Then
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Sent: 19 April 2007 10:34
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: RE: [backstage] BBC Archive trial
I have a DAB radio and I confess I can't tell the difference between
(say) Radio 2 on FM and Radio 2 on DAB. I know some
audiophiles who look at me in disbelief when I
Mutt Baskerville wrote:
Slightly Off Topic, as you mentioned Ubuntu ISOs, nice to see that the
BBC is not covering this on it's technology news, it gave an awful lot
of press to Vista.
They even gave coverage to some World of Warcraft expansion pack! Then
again, I've never agreed with them on
Slightly Off Topic, as you mentioned Ubuntu ISOs, nice to see
that the BBC is not covering this on it's technology news, it
gave an awful lot of press to Vista.
The BBC News Technology section is rather more mainstream focused - it's
not The Register. And I think that's reflected in the
It¹ll take a few weeks I would imagine before you¹ll hear much the list is
getting blasted at the moment as you¹d expect!
I¹ll post up more information as I know it.
m
On 19/4/07 15:53, Paul Jefferson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do you know when we will hear if we are in or not? (Or is the
Hi All,
Outside of the framework debate...
The BBC Archive trial is getting closer to opening its doors. Exclusively I can
now tell you that the register your interest form is up (16:30). So if your
interested in taking part in the trial, go to http://bbc.co.uk/archive now.
There is no press
Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The BBC Archive trial is getting closer to opening its
doors. Exclusively I can now tell you that the register your
interest form is up (16:30). So if your interested in taking part in
the trial, go to http://bbc.co.uk/archive now.
Euuwww... that was
On 18/04/07, Nic James Ferrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The BBC Archive trial is getting closer to opening its
doors. Exclusively I can now tell you that the register your
interest form is up (16:30). So if your interested in taking part in
the trial,
At 16:39 +0100 18/4/07, Ian Forrester wrote:
Hi All,
Outside of the framework debate...
The BBC Archive trial is getting closer to opening its doors.
Exclusively I can now tell you that the register your interest form
is up (16:30). So if your interested in taking part in the trial, go
to
Ian -
any idea how this trial is going to be delivered? any tech specs on
the trial itself?
i'm thinking scary black boxes and dial groups.
wait, that was nielson.
--- :)
On 18 Apr 2007, at 16:39, Ian Forrester wrote:
Hi All,
Outside of the framework debate...
The BBC Archive
On 18/04/07, Gordon Joly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 16:39 +0100 18/4/07, Ian Forrester wrote:
Hi All,
Outside of the framework debate...
The BBC Archive trial is getting closer to opening its doors.
Exclusively I can now tell you that the register your interest form
is up (16:30). So if your
it'll be delivered via the internet... using that funny HTML stuff
(streamed in Real/WM I expect, cos that'll make it easier to set up - it is
a trial after all...).
The actual site itself is very nice, IMHO (not that I had anything to do
with it!)
On 18/04/07, James Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Forrester
Sent: 18 April 2007 16:40
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: [backstage] BBC Archive trial
Hi All,
Outside of the framework debate...
The BBC Archive trial is getting closer to opening its doors.
Exclusively I can now tell you that the register your
interest form is up
Hey Tom,
By making it UK centric, isn't the BBC missing the public values of
an awful lot of us that no longer inhabit that island all year?
Or are there pages written in Polish etc, just to please the total UK
population. I wish the Trust would accept BBC internet presence
for what it
-wise (18-24 male bracket)... Or
maybe that's why I wasn't accepted... Maybe I should say I'm a 74 year old
grandma of 4?
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Sent: 18 April 2007 19:40
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: RE: [backstage] BBC Archive trial
for this trial.
Is there a list of recruitment criteria?
Cheers...
...t.s.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ian Forrester
Sent: 18 April 2007 16:40
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: [backstage] BBC Archive trial
Hi All
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: [backstage] BBC Archive trial
Hi All,
Outside of the framework debate...
The BBC Archive trial is getting closer to opening its doors.
Exclusively I can now tell you that the register your
interest form is up (16:30). So if your interested in taking
part
On 18 Apr 2007, at 19:34, Tom Loosemore wrote:
it'll be delivered via the internet... using that funny HTML stuff
(streamed in Real/WM I expect, cos that'll make it easier to set up
- it is a trial after all...).
The actual site itself is very nice, IMHO (not that I had anything
to do
@lists.bbc.co.uk; Ian Forrester
Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC Archive trial
At 16:39 +0100 18/4/07, Ian Forrester wrote:
Hi All,
Outside of the framework debate...
The BBC Archive trial is getting closer to opening its doors.
Exclusively I can now tell you that the register your interest form is
up (16:30
Vocab is used for English - Somali on our South East Wales site:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/southeast/sites/help/pages/somali.shtml
(Cardiff has a large Somali population)
Chris
On 18 Apr 2007, at 20:04, Tom Loosemore wrote:
The Trust have to base all their decisions on the needs of UK
Thanks Tom,
I appreciate you suggestion, and will do.
Vocab looks great.
All the best
RichE
On 18 Apr 2007, at 20:04, Tom Loosemore wrote:
The Trust have to base all their decisions on the needs of UK
licence fee payers, first and foremost.
But yes, a global internet, that challenges lots
Shame. I love the idea of digging into blackadder and jeeves and
wooster and all the other comedy greats -- but getting them in a
format that is at least somewhat representative of their quality.
Sucks that I'd have to stream it certainly encoding into divx
or mpg would show some
On 18 Apr 2007, at 22:51, Jonathan Tweed wrote:
On 18 Apr 2007, at 20:03, James Cox wrote:
On 18 Apr 2007, at 19:34, Tom Loosemore wrote:
it'll be delivered via the internet... using that funny HTML stuff
(streamed in Real/WM I expect, cos that'll make it easier to set
up - it is a
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