Re: BBC radio chief Jenny Abramsky urges unity on DAB

Bill O'Really wrote:
On 28 Apr, 22:13, Sean Inglis <inva...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
DAB sounds worse than FM wrote:





Mike Terry wrote:
The Guardian
28 April 2008

The BBC director of audio and music, Jenny Abramsky,

AKA the woman who screwed digital radio up for a decade / a
generation.

has called on the
commercial sector to unite with the corporation to tackle the
issues that threaten the future of digital audio broadcasting
(DAB) radio.

Abramsky said the BBC and its commercial rivals should work
together on a joint marketing push and a higher quality DAB signal.

Higher transmission powers, not higher bit rates, therefore audio
quality still ***.

She said the biggest danger was "technological uncertainty, and
this particularly applies to DAB".

Oh yeah? So she's the LIAR that's responsible for LYING to the
general public about DAB+ then?! I bet she fucking was as well -
she effectively LIED to the public when they held a public
consultation for the new digital only stations by omitting to tell
them an absolutelyu crucial piece of information, because she knew
that that information would jeopardise her plans, so it wouldn't
surprise me if it was her that's responsible for LYING to the
public about DAB+ over the last year.

She described the BBC as "squarely behind DAB"

Once incompetent, always incompetent.

but said there were
issues including coverage, affordability, quality of reception,

She still won't face up to the audio quality problem, the
incompetent fool. The sooner this woman goes the better the whole
country will be. All she's interested in is making sure her legacy
is that the nation uses her godforsaken system that the ENTIRE
PLANET* has turned its nose up at using but she backed because she
didn't have a clue.

* apart from Denmark and Norway, which are irrelevant.

the
attractiveness of digital radio receivers on the market, industry
cohesiveness and uncertainty over future technology.

Booohooooo. I'm crying.

"They are not easy barriers to overcome, but they are not
insurmountable," she said.

The BBC's national DAB stations currently reach about 86% of the UK
population, or 60% of the country geographically. It has committed
to build its coverage but only to 90% of the population within five
years.
Abramsky said the Digital Radio Working Group, which was set up by
the government to help push digital radio and includes
representatives from the BBC, commercial radio and Ofcom, should
consider ways to dramatically speed up growth of geographical
coverage.

"The BBC, commercial radio and our transmission providers have no
agreed planning model for digital radio or common measurement for
the UK," she said.

Presumably that's not helped by laying off 50% of the BBC R&D
department, is it Jenny?

"Instead of the three current methods that currently exist, I hope
the DRWG, under Barry Cox's leadership, agrees a single planning
model and common measurement and with a plan to fill in areas where
DAB coverage has 'holes', thereby providing the consistent
reception that DAB is capable of delivering."

Oh yeah, it's capable of it - at what price?

She added: "I strongly believe DAB must remain at the heart of the
UK digital radio experience.

Yes, it's your legacy, innit Jenny. That's all you care about.

The reason is simple: it is the only
platform that replicates some of radio's strongest features. It is
both portable and easy to use."

The only portable platform? Is it Jenny? Is it, you technically
incompetent idiot? Is it the only portable platform? Do you own a
mobile phone, Jenny? Have you learnt to use it yet?

But she said the most important factor in radio's future was
content. "Without content there will be no future. Content is
everything.

Oh, content is everything, and yet there's loads of problems?
Content isn't everythign then is it you incompetent fool.

Content is what matters to audiences. Everything else, all the
digital technology in the world, comes down to convenience."

So how does she explain the BBC iPlayer's success? Is that down to
"convenience"? Do people want to watch TV on their computers? Is
that more convenient than wathcing it on a TV? NO, obviously not.
More bull*** from the technically incompetent idiot.

Your fumings are nonsensical.

Content *is* everything. Convenience is a close second. Absolute
quality trails somewhere in the distance.

Explain the explosive success of media players that rip, store and
stream DVDs. Users willingly sacrifice quality for convenience and
to fit more of the content they want to see onto a device that makes
it easy to get to.

Of *course* the iPlayers success is down to convenience and content.
What *else* could it be? Unsurprisingly the BBC website is the
definitive source for BBC content. Content which is easily browsed
and increasingly complete.

*Far* more convenient than searching torrent sites / binary
newsgroups etc.


Oh hello, what's this then? Is it a reply to one of my posts by Seani, the
idiot who said that properly labelled graphs were misleading?

I can safely ignore anything that plonker says.

But just to reply whilst you're here and I can see ya, Seani, OBVIOUSLY the
iPlayer is less convenient to watch on a comfuckingputer than it is on a
TfuckingV, strewth.

And I recompress TV programmes I've recorded that I want to keep - like the
DVD example you use, but the reason is hardly to do with convenience - the
most convenient thing would be to not recompress, or in the case of DVD just
to burn the image to another DVD without recompressing. This is not more
convenient - it can be a bit of a pain, but it's to cut down on the number
of discs and *** like that.

And on the subject of content being "everything". The next few years will
sort that one out. If Blu Ray fails, you're right. If Blu Ray succeeds
(despite the credit crunch), or any other HDTV format, then absolute quality
isn't as irrelevant as you'd like to think.

Far more convenient than searching for torrents? Have you been taking acid
again, Seani? I thought you were going to lay off it mid-week after your
last psychotic incident over my graph?


--
Steve - www.digitalradiotech.co.uk - Digital Radio News & Info

The adoption of DAB was the most incompetent technical
decision ever made in the history of UK broadcasting:
http://www.digitalradiotech.co.uk/dab/incompetent_adoption_of_dab.htm


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