* Posts by Eyeball

4 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Sep 2007

Freesat gets Five

Eyeball
Unhappy

No Fiver

Broadbandtvnews reports that "A spokeswoman for Freesat said that although there were discussions over the addition of Five’s additional services Fiver and Five US, no immediate launch was expected."

So don't bank on them joining the party any time soon.

Toshiba pitches HD DVD players as... DVD machines

Eyeball

Upscaling

Surprisingly, my LCD telly manages to scale all content to its native display resolution; the DVD player doesn't need to.

PC superstore refuses to take sack in hand

Eyeball

Sticking up for PC World staff

OK, so you've justified why PC World staff aren't so technically hot, but can you explain the reasons behind the country-wide (and hence seemingly company policy) of not marking up prices, putting products next to price labels for different products, and not bothering to put products into the EPOS system, so you can't actually buy them?

Ofcom moots the 900MHz boot for O2 and Vodafone

Eyeball

Stealth tax

The money paid by operators for the spectrum doesn't come magically out of thin air - it comes from customers, i.e. us.

The existing free licence, on the proviso that something useful is done with it, sounds much better to me.