BBC iPlayer login will be required from 2017

[Owen Smith]

The 405 line shutdown was planned, it wasn't due to maintenance. To judge how many people were still watching, they put an X graphic overlay in the corner of the screen. They got people complaining that X rated material was being show before the watershed. So they changed the overlay to the text "405". It is true there were very few complaints about the 405 line shutdown, but it was planned and advertised in advance. Nothing to do with a maintenance shutdown.

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Owen Smith <owen.smith at cantab.net>
Cambridge, UK

>> On 1 Oct 2016, at 13:57, David Cantrell <david at cantrell.org.uk> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 2016-10-01, 10:58, Peter Corlett wrote:
>>> On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 12:02:55PM +0100, Jim web wrote:
>>> It is the responsibility of the *vendor* of closed commerial items to ensure
>>> what you buy works as it should. They may 'subcontract' that to the makers,
>>> who in turn may commission someone else to deal with it.
>> 
>>> The BBC try to give info well in advance to makers and those who offer 'smart
>>> TV' boxes. Its then their job to handle it. Not the BBC's.
>> 
>> I must disagree.
>> 
>> The BBC has historically maintained broadcasting in standards long after they
>> had become obsolete. BBC2 launched in the new 625 line service in 1964 and the
>> BBC had internally migrated everything to this new standard by 1969. The BBC
>> maintained a downconverted 405 line service until 1985. It was supposedly only
>> scrapped because they needed to bring the service down for maintenance for a
>> while, and received no complaints.
> 
> On the other hand they stopped broadcasting analogue TV signals, and some people complained, and those complaints were ignored. Some people received help converting, but that was a DCMS scheme, the BBC was only the administrator of the scheme.
> 
> Maintaining and running a a large number of versions of a piece of software and everything that surrounds it for long periods of time while also upgrading it to provide new features for new users is just not practical.
> 
> -- 
> David Cantrell | Enforcer, South London Linguistic Massive
> 
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