Re: The beginnings of a campaign on Radio 3 Classical Music Message board

In article <1153909000.714733.260230@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
davidrobinson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <davidrobinson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
LongJohn wrote:
Dear Steve,

Of course, LJ knew what you've just told me. Remember, the 'other' LJ
wrote his screed for the benefit of the R3 message board.

As a postscript, I don't find much friendliness in this group. Far too
much points scoring...

I think Steve is just very angry, and this comes across.

How about a bit more courtesy, and a bit less assumption of ignorance
on the part of the other group members. Take a less a cynical attitude,
please.

I believe the answer to the current problem isn't to get Radio 3 back
at 192kbps on DAB - it's to get _all_ BBC radio stations at 256kbps
minimum on satellite, with guaranteed high quality clean non-transcoded
encoding.

The reasons why I think this is a better approach are:
1. It's easier for the BBC to deliver this - they have the capacity on
DSat, they do not on DAB. It's no use asking for something which they
cannot give, and short sighted to ask them to rob Peter to pay Paul.
2. It will bring audible improvements to _all_ BBC stations, not just
R3
3. It will set one platform apart for high quality listening, rather
than leaving us wondering which platform(s) we need to receive high
quality broadcasts.
4. It will potentially benefit more listeners - there are more
satellite users than DAB users.
5. It will bring the benefits to a larger geographical area: satellite
covers the whole of the UK and beyond; DAB covers 75% of UK population
6. It can be another selling point for their upcoming Freesat service,
which should also see a non proprietary EPG provided.

The disadvantage is that a few thousand people with expensive DAB
tuners will have no use for this equipment. However, they can, if they
wish, upgrade to DSat and receive higher quality digital radio
broadcasts than they have ever experienced from the BBC.

I hope you find this to be a friendly and constructive post.

Agree totally with that David, thats what would be the best thing to
happen.....

--
Tony Sayer

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