BBC - Radio - Download and Podcast Trial

The bbc podcast trial! Why is it still a Trial? It works ther are several good podcasts on here as sad as it may seem Radio 4 has some of the best podcasts with less music to cut out. However the BBC are such sticklers to copyright and licencing isues that you listen to the podcast u miss bit that would have been on the radio. WHY! Are you going to listen to an entier podcast every week just incase u can ilegaly copy a bit from the arces if evre it is made fun of? (not retorical question so please leave me a answer) Personaly im not and it brakes ur listing. This is material they brodacst to everyhome in britan that anyone with a casset radio can record how is letting the few people who listen online here it going to make a difference. Ican see why there never going to let the chriss mnoyls show out with songs in it, thats just asking for trouble but to stop someone hering a parody mix of some of ther own material is plain rediculous.

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Just found that the bbc offer full version radio versions of the their sowhs online acesible to everyone anyware in the world so why is the podcast cut?

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Geek News Central Podcast a Technical Audio Show

Just thopught id mention the geek news central podcast on this un read blog of mine. Is a grate thechnical audio show that is just about the best way posible to keep up with all the tech news with out any effort required. Is a very relable podacst with two shows every week, i can only rember him mising one show in the year ive been listing. Runs to hour long show it did used to be bild as 45 mins but noone expects that to happen again. One trick to do if u do find it a bit long is to up the speed to 1.4 (i use wmp) that brings the lenght down and you dont miss anything unless u read one of the liked artiacls. Anyway if ur even vagule in to tech cheek it out and subsribe to the maling list Useualy rather poitless thing to do cos the haveing the show notes in Firefox is far more stable than in outlook but thjer is talk of cash prizes in the next episode so supscribe quick.

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Digital switch over

On wathing a report on the impeding swich over to digital telvision in britain i though two things: 1 wher are the small cheep digital redy tv's (14'' crts for £60) and 2: why are they still selling anolog TV's . the lack of small dvB redy tv's is going to be one major hasell when swiching to digital, i have digital but because there is no freeveiw in my area i have sky which is only in the livving room as is most digital television. Even when goverment figures show everyone has digital tv it will likly be only onm the large screen tv in the main room so the numerus other televisons (3 in my case) that just runn off ring areials will all sudely swich off requiering about £150 to upgrad with set top boxes and new areials. And backk to the point who waqnts to be running set top boxes takeing up vauble room and a scart socet and not to mention the extra power nedded for a small tv used in a bed room. The answer no one would if given a choice so if anyone out ther knows why i cann not by a chepa digital tv for £20 more (£30 box less materiall costs for power suplys and cases) than an anolgle one please let be know. secondly with digital swich over impending why are alolge tv still widly avalible. surely a swich over would be far esier if when ur old tv broke u just bought one and it was already digital reday which could be achived at very low extra cost. This is in stark contrast to digital camers where even with no pned govermewnt banning of film cammras digital cameras are prolific and i would have to look for a film camera (of any qulity) rather than looking for the digital modle. To ilistrat the chronic lack of digital ready TV's out of 13 TV sould by one onlie supler only 1 surported Freeveiw.
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