Re: "BBC Two first to go fully digital"

On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:34:46 +0000, kim wrote:

> "steve" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:pan.2005.11.14.21.09.48.82187@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 09:45:56 +0000, Phil Thompson wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 00:21 +0000 (GMT Standard Time),
>>> agree2pay4uce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Paul Cummins) wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hmmm... how is a silver stick over 2 feet long, with up to 59 sticky
>>>>out branches and a horrible reflector, stuck up a pole on your chimney,
>>>>less intrusive than a 40cm grey dish that can be as low as ground level
>>>
>>> most of us don't walk round looking up at 45 degrees, so we see the
>>> latter
>>> all the time and not the former.
>>>
>>> Some of it is tradition, and some snobbery. Aerials have been around
>>> for all of many peoples lives, satellite dishes for 20 years or so. The
>>> first place I saw a satellite dish was on a gipsy caravan, and the
>>> highest density seems to be on "social housing". There are therefore
>>> people who would not want to have "one of those" on their house.
>>
>> The blistered tower block is just poor planning, each flat never had its
>> own aerial.
>
> But they do have a commuinal aerial feed.


Thanks Kim that was my point.

> What they don't have is a
> satellite feed or very often an FM radio feed either. The women from the
> tennants' association looked at me like I was dolally when I raised this
> particular subject since the majority of them already have Sky dishes and
> can't undersand why anyone else wouldn't pay £30-£40 a month to have a
> Sky dish of their own.

Quite, people are victims of their own doing yet still blame everyone
else. No one is willing to organise and bring other's on board, they just
want it on a place.

BTW: as you are still in this thread and started out stating how
shambolic the plans are, can you answer my question as to how you would
do it better.
> (kim)

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