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Title: CTO talks about BBC technology
Post by Administrator on Apr 1^st, 2011, 3:15pm

John Linwood, the BBC's Chief Technology Officer, has given an interview to silicon.com, in which he covers a wide range of issues, from cloud computing to local radio studios. It's worth a read. Click here to see it.
Grateful to Bill Rogers's excellent blog for the reference.

Title: Re: CTO talks about BBC technology
Post by Amigo on Apr 1^st, 2011, 4:20pm

All this is very interesting, but from the viewer and listener's point of view... does it all guarantee programmes that we want to watch, to listen to, and enjoy?

Is there room for a "Dad's Army"? Is there space for a nice simple programme that a family can watch, share and enjoy, or do we all become 'an end-user' of some "flash" display?

If there is, then fine. But after all the technology, servers, and cloud storage have crashed, what are we left with?

Nothing.

To whom are we trusing our heritage of broadcasting?

When (it is alleged) someone at Siemens turns something off in a warehouse in an industrial estate in East London (or wherever it might have been), nobody can hear anything, why is the BBC here? To broadcast Radio 4 into a 600 ohm resistor?

(The above refers to a recent even where the entire BBC web-presence was off-line for about an hour).

Will the last person in the control-room turn off the light and power?

Oh, sorry, it's already been automated, with the power supply fed from a 3 amp fuse. :-/