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From: T i m on 16 Mar 2010 05:32 On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:23:53 +0000, real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid (Rowland McDonnell) wrote: >Graeme <Graeme(a)greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote: > >>> "Graham J" <graham(a)invalid> wrote: >> >> >> > I was being perverse. Given that the output of each BBC radio programme is >> > effectively 1mW into 600 ohms, that is what is an awful lot of money! >> > >> > It's really an old joke from some colleagues who once worked at the beeb! >> > >> >> On the lines of how inefficient Television Centre is, umpteen Megawatts in >> and 1 watt out. > >But you've negelected the information content of the output signal. >What about the energy needed to produce that much order? Hmm? Surely >you should be counting that in the output power? > On that, I was wondering how much of the BBC I'd miss if it was down-sized as they are suggesting? I hardly ever use their web-site, same with iPlayer. I can't think of a single TV program I would stay in for (any channel) and am generally as happy listening to Capital radio as I am Radio1. Granted, much of the BBC's output is of good quality (production, photography, content etc) but that's only important if the whole subject of television viewing is important. When I do watch I'm much more interested in the content than pretty well any other factor (as I would assume would be the case for everyone but apparently not, reading some of the replies here) and given the option I think I could watch a lot of the 'The Way things work' type broadcasts (I watched something like that on a mates Sky box I think). I've also liked the 'Monster Moves' and 'Biggest machines' type thing, that and a bit of SiFi (but not Fantasy Fiction?). This has been the way with me since a kid (I'm now 53). I can vividly remember watching 'Out of town' with Jack Hargreves, mostly in his shed doing all sorts of interesting things. ;-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEmo4gybnhs&feature=related Same with old Fred Dibnah .. ;-( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGnCbRnmeYM&feature=related Cheers, T i m
From: T i m on 16 Mar 2010 05:42 On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:19:13 +0000, Geoff Berrow <blthecat(a)ckdog.co.uk> wrote: >On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:42:36 +0000, T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote: > >>Talking of demos. Whilst working for Kodak (Microfiche/film support >>tech) I was invited (by mistake probably) to some marketing champers, >>nibbles and a very clever 'video' presentation produced by >>(interestingly for me considering) a wall of Kodak Carousel slide >>projectors. The presentation was run to music and seemed to go on for >>much longer than I imagined something running from that hardware >>might. > >I used to make shows like that. They were sequenced from a clock track >on the (usually) 4 track tape deck. Biggest show I ever did used 18 >projectors on 6 screens. Wow. > Great fun and remarkable image quality under >the right conditions. And they paid you to do this did they! ;-) Cheers, T i m
From: T i m on 16 Mar 2010 05:46 On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:13:58 +0000, Geoff Berrow <blthecat(a)ckdog.co.uk> wrote: >On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:00:15 +0000, T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote: > >>>Oh yes. Except that tinnitus is quite a bit louder. And rather lower >>>frequency centred, whitish noise. >> >>Is that your tinnitus then? >> >>Mine is pretty well the frequency of said CRTs and dog whistles etc >>and a real whistle (not buzz, white noise, whoosh or rushing sound). > >Mine too, with most of it coming from my left ear which is profoundly >deaf. Luckily (I think), mine is pretty central. I wonder if your tinnitus (in your left ear) wouldn't be so bad had you not lost hearing in that side? > >Has anyone here /not/ got it? :-} There aren't many people I would wish it on (even here). Cheers, T i m
From: Graeme on 16 Mar 2010 05:46 In message <1tfup5p3j6rt5vkdbdb20kc52rn4m2ra1s(a)4ax.com> T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote: > > Talking of demos. Whilst working for Kodak (Microfiche/film support > tech) I was invited (by mistake probably) to some marketing champers, > nibbles and a very clever 'video' presentation produced by > (interestingly for me considering) a wall of Kodak Carousel slide > projectors. The presentation was run to music and seemed to go on for > much longer than I imagined something running from that hardware > might. > Back in the 1970s there was a West End stage play about Prince Albert that utilised banks of Carousels to provide the'sets'. Technically very effective, shame about the script. -- Graeme Wall My genealogy website <www.greywall.demon.co.uk/genealogy/>
From: Peter Ceresole on 16 Mar 2010 05:57
Geoff Berrow <blthecat(a)ckdog.co.uk> wrote: > Mine too, with most of it coming from my left ear which is profoundly > deaf. > > Has anyone here /not/ got it? :-} Quite possibly not; it seems to be in part a function of age. Mine started at very low level when I was 17, as a result of ear damage from full bore rifle shooting in the days before ear defenders. Crept up until now, at 70, it's pretty damn loud. But an ENT consultant told me 15 years ago that my tinnitus was 'verging on disability'. For working as a techy at the Beeb, maybe. But not (as I was then) as a TV producer, and although it's worse now, it certainly doesn't spoil my life. Which is the only thing that counts. -- Peter |