Re: Freeview HD boxes in the shops from next week
- From: tony sayer <tony@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 17:31:43 +0000
In article <k8olm55gc7h6o5gotqo2ulfm0f0i1fgiot@xxxxxxx>, Peter Duncanson
<mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> scribeth thus
On 4 Feb 2010 13:38:15 GMT, richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Richard Tobin)
wrote:
In article <p0yan.35553$Ym4.13483@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Ivan <ivan'H'older@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I would suspect that there are also quite a number of hard core sports fans
who will initially go for it, especially in World Cup year
When is the world cup? Presumably prices will drop immediately
after it.
People will have time to get HD-equipped for the Olympics.
But.... then....
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/space/article7012205.ece
Scientists warned yesterday that a peak in solar activity is due to
occur in 2012, risking the disruption of television and internet
networks during the London Olympic Games.
“The Olympics could be bang in the middle of a solar maximum,” said
Richard Harrison, of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory,
Oxfordshire, speaking before the launch this week of Nasa’s Solar
Dynamics Observatory.
It has long been known that surges in solar activity can cause
disruption in satellite and terrestrial communications systems, but,
until now, it has been almost impossible to predict solar storms in
advance.
....
By turning off sensitive electronic circuits before a storm, damage
to satellite transmitters, and the resulting disruption, could be
minimised.
The Nasa probe, which is scheduled for launch from Cape Canaveral on
Saturday, will spend five years in orbit around the Earth,
investigating the causes of extreme activity, such as sun spots,
solar winds and violent eruptions from the Sun’s atmosphere known as
coronal mass ejections. “Such events can expose astronauts to deadly
particle doses, can disable satellites, cause power grid failures on
Earth and disrupt communications,” Professor Harrison said.
Yes.. Anyone remember any of these taking out TV networks in the UK at
all?....
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Tony Sayer
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