In reply to a post by RobertoS:

In truth it's more a case of pointing out the amusing futility of all the effort and money that was put in over the years to get the time signals as accurate as possible, and now they are mostly all over the place. Plus successive governments and the Beeb all wanting us to ditch FM radio and change to DAB.

I always found the push for DAB to be politics over technology. Luckily mobile phone networks have improved as has internet access, so you can get "digital radio" in better quality without the hassle of DAB. (or DAB+).

In terms of time sync, for IT systems that I have built in the past, we used both GPS (antenna on roof) and NTP sync from the National Physics lab. This was shared around the network, so we just checked our PCs.

Using the pips on Radio 4 seems a bit 1980s now.

I have a friend who still refers to the Home Service and the Third Programme.

I prefer the light programme

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

I have a friend who still refers to the Home Service and the Third Programme.

In reply to a post by mking90031:

Hi,

FYI, you need a license for anything that either IS live or WAS live (i.e. a recording). Only if you use streaming services to watch non-live events like films or old shows do you NOT need a license.

HTH,

YOU CAN LEGALLY WATCH ON DEMAND TV so long as it ain't the FAKE NEWS BBC Woke soon to be broke Iplayer

Edited by tommy45 (Mon 15-Jun-20 00:59:41)

PLEASE SHOUT A BIT LOUDER. I COULDN'T HEAR YOU LAST TIME.

if you want accurate time, get the "Casio Wave Ceptor Men's Watch WV-M60 " from amazon
also no faffing about when the clocks go back / forward, it does it by itself!!

a note about tv licencing - a single licence will cover the whole household, no matter how many TVs you have!! just make sure you notify TVL before you buy one...

Edited by comnut1 (Mon 15-Jun-20 09:02:13)

In reply to a post by comnut1:

a note about tv licencing - a single licence will cover the whole household, no matter how many TVs you have!! just make sure you notify TVL before you buy one...

The Wireless Telegraphy Act of 1967 (as amended) has been repealed, meaning that from 25 June 2013 onwards you no longer need to send us customer name and address details when you sell or rent out TV equipment.

It may sound like heresy to some here ... but I'd just point out that if people do simply lie about not using the BBC's services, and then don't pay for a license, then there is a potential problem down the line in that there won't be a BBC or ITV to be able to broadcast those football matches (or whatever) for those who want to see them "for free". Rupert Murdoch or his heirs will own it all - and the £240 a year you can pay him now will be as nothing once he owns it all!
Yes, it's 'popular' to claim that you "don't watch any programmes on the BBC", and that all you watch is Sky or Netflix (and remember that you can pay a very high price for that privilege) or that ITV is "free" - whilst conveniently forgetting that you pay for it through your 'everyday purchases' - but that's NOT an argument I want to enter into here. When this recent Coronavirus stuff kicked off it's reckoned by independent authorities that approximately 55% of the UK population tuned in to the BBC to find out what was happening. So there is a hard-core of people who do still use the BBC as their ultimate reference - even if they don't like to admit it (and to pay for it!).

In reply to a post by JohnUU2:

It may sound like heresy to some here ... but I'd just point out that if people do simply lie about not using the BBC's services, and then don't pay for a license, then there is a potential problem down the line in that there won't be a BBC or ITV to be able to broadcast those football matches (or whatever) for those who want to see them "for free". Rupert Murdoch or his heirs will own it all - and the £240 a year you can pay him now will be as nothing once he owns it all!
Yes, it's 'popular' to claim that you "don't watch any programmes on the BBC", and that all you watch is Sky or Netflix (and remember that you can pay a very high price for that privilege) or that ITV is "free" - whilst conveniently forgetting that you pay for it through your 'everyday purchases' - but that's NOT an argument I want to enter into here. When this recent Coronavirus stuff kicked off it's reckoned by independent authorities that approximately 55% of the UK population tuned in to the BBC to find out what was happening. So there is a hard-core of people who do still use the BBC as their ultimate reference - even if they don't like to admit it (and to pay for it!).

I use the BBC, but only for their news and only on the website. Although, after the recent months worth of terrible biased news I'm not sure if i'll be using it for much longer. If the BBC want money, they need to be legally required to be impartial and unbiased (or as close to that as it's realistically possible).