Posts by Shedman

Milk IN the teapot: Innovation or abomination?

Re: WTF?

Ah, flask tea. What we always referred to in Kent as, "Hop picking tea."

The future looks bright: Prepare to be dazzled by HDR telly tech

Re: "If it's a good programme, you soon forget the image quality anyway"

That was something that came up in videophone research. It was found that breakup and noise on the picture was far less intrusive than that on the sound.

Which makes me wonder why picture quality is getting better, (apart from the awful colour setting) and the sound quality is getting worse.

BT warned: Speed up Openreach repairs or face PUNITIVE FINES

Re: Monopoly?

I have signed up to the Reg for the first time just so that I could up-vote David's comment. I am also an ex-Post Office engineer and have seen BT get steadily worse since the privatisation. The Post Office did not have to pay shareholders, marketing departments, or any of the thousands of useless hangers-on who sit in offices dreaming up TV adverts and trying to flog us credit cards, home entertainment and other non comms. related stuff. Oh, and, as just discovered above, wasting our money on bloody football. The Post Office did telecomms only and were bloody good at it. They had the best research establishment in Europe, if not the world, at Dollis Hill, (they were working on digital exchanges in the '50's, experimenting with 100Mbps data systems, and had laid fibre to at least one exchange in the '70s) and all profits made went into infrastructure and research, NOT shareholders pockets. Fault reporting centres were manned by local engineers who knew the area and could speak the local dialect! Yes, there have been great strides in telecomms since the '80s, but I believe that is purely due to the normal advancement of technology, and nothing to do with competition and private enterprise.