Hard News: Onwards and upwards
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I htink she'll be excellent in this role, and it's also great for NZ.
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Wonder if its worth having a gander at what Kiwiblog's commentariat is saying about this....
Naa, can probably write it myself - lesbianazi liarbore now in hags'nkisses with Mugabe and other muzzi wogs...Just looked. Yup.
A fair few of them have been frothing at the mouth on the Herald's "your views" bit as well, surprise, surprise.
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Oops - that should be Herald
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there has barely been a squeak out of her since
Well, me being someone who deals in press releases, and the actual foreign minister seeming to be above putting out actual statements on things like international wars and so on, I've come to regard her not so much the 'shadow' as the 'default' minister of foreign affairs.
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Good Job and, she will surely do a far better job than Moore managed at the WTO.
I heard her speak to a small audience a couple of weeks ago. What struck me, other then her quiet understated mood, was just how thoughtful a person she is. As far as context and history goes she has it all.
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Damn, I'd shorted her on ipredict. That's me out a couple of bucks, then. Ah well, win some, lose some.
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Any info on DPF's story about TVNZs 6 & 7 going to Sky? Is Freeview getting Prime?
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Is Freeview getting Prime?
Oh please, and make it proper HD to go with it.
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Any info on DPF's story about TVNZs 6 & 7 going to Sky?
No, but I've known it was coming for quite a while.
Is Freeview getting Prime?
Completely separate negotiation, and may take a lot longer, because it suits Sky to use Prime as leverage, even at the cost of some audience. Don't expect the gummint to step in there either.
Oh, and I enjoyed this from one of Farrar's darlings:
Media 7. You’re not missing much, but if you do happen to enjoy watching smarmy, snarky limp-wristed pinkos and listening to their dire views on the world, you’ll love it.
Heh.
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Here's the announcement:
MEDIA RELEASE
TVNZ and SKY extend carriage agreementTVNZ and SKY Television have signed a new agreement making all TVNZ channels available to SKY’s more than 2 million viewers.
The agreement provides for HD versions of TV ONE and TV2 to be available to MYSKYHDi viewers from 1st June, for TVNZ 6 and 7 to be available to all SKY viewers from 1st July, and for TVNZ to provide regional advertising on TV ONE from 1st July.
The two networks had a carriage contract for TV ONE and TV2 which was scheduled to expire at the end of 2011. The new agreement provides certainty for both parties until 2020 and beyond.
TVNZ’s Chief Executive Rick Ellis said the national broadcaster wanted to secure a strong foothold for all TVNZ channels to protect the network well into the future.
“To truly fulfil our strategy of “Inspiring on Every Screen” we want all our channels to be available on as many platforms as possible,” Mr Ellis said.
“We believe SKY subscribers will welcome access to TVNZ 6 and TVNZ 7, and MYSKYHDi subscribers will welcome TV ONE and TV2 in HD.
The introduction of regional breakouts for TV ONE will provide new opportunities for some advertisers, and incremental revenues for TVNZ,” he said.
SKY Chief Executive John Fellet said that he was pleased to have reached the new agreement with TVNZ which will deliver more viewing options to over 2 million New Zealand viewers.
“The new agreement not only increases the number of channels available through SKY by adding TVNZ 6 and TVNZ 7 to our digital channel line-up but also increases the appeal of our High Definition package through the addition of HD versions of TV ONE and TV2, supporting our strategy of providing subscribers with everything from one box” said Fellet.
I'd love to know how the new deal compares to the old one.
Great news that One and 2 will be available in HD.
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TVNZ to provide regional advertising on TV ONE from 1st July.
On Sky? How can they do that? One satellite transmission, no?
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“To truly fulfil our strategy of “Inspiring on Every Screen” we want all our channels to be available on as many platforms as possible,” Mr Ellis said.
Why that sounds positively megalomaniacal. 'Spose its more betterer than:
"When you cant afford to go out, relive those moments when you laughed with encore showings from our vaults, whoops sorry, extensive back catalogue"That David Fane, John Leigh, Craig Parker combo sure does have some moments. I liked that grimey tattooist where did they find him.
Malacca? -
very happy if it is true.
Need to be convinced that Twyford is capable of leaving his New York head office or warm fuzzies lefty scene and becoming one of the locals. Otherwise seems a sharp guy with good credentials.
go Helen!
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Oh, and I enjoyed this from one of Farrar's darlings:
Heh.
I was more shocked by who wrote that.
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I'm more interested to see where Cullen ends up. To me that's more of an interesting unknown.
The rumour from "Labour Party sources" was that Cullen intends to resign before May 2009 budget to be an Iwi Treaty Negotiator. Herald item
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On Sky? How can they do that? One satellite transmission, no?
Last time I dumped out the Sky DVB tables (this was a while ago, pre HD and pre freeview) the TVNZ channels were in the clear and on their own transponder (with freeview in the offing this makes sense) - from memory there were 3 copies of TV1 with different regional ads. Sky ran 3 regional channel maps
I suspect they dropped that down to make room for TV6/7 - if they want 3 HD channel (plus TV6/7) they'll need a lot more bandwidth - as a plus freeview will probably get HD TV1 too since it's all really the same bits on the same transponders on the same satellite.
It is possible to do smart stuff at the settop end splicing in ads on the fly (requires hardware support in the transport processor), but unless you have some storage on the box (ie mySky only) or maybe stagger the ads wrt some other channel on the same transponder you still need the same peak bandwidth as sending all 3 channels
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More HD channels = more disk consumption. I understand that something like 50% of the MySkyHDi capacity is reserved for premium on demand programming which we shall almost certainly never use. Is there any way to allow use of this space for normal stuff?
As it is I estimate that two stages of the Tour de France in HD will fill the thing up, not good.
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As it is I estimate that two stages of the Tour de France in HD will fill the thing up, not good.
You watch more than two stages of the TdF at once? Each to their own, I suppose. If Sky's TdF comes with Phil Liggett on the commentary, I can understand that being possible.
Anyway, congratulations to the former Prime Minister.
I have no doubt that coming from New Zealand made her job easier. Many people seem to have no idea how New Zealand is viewed internationally, and if they do, they take it for granted. New Zealand is idealised by even smart and well educated people, and there are a good number of misconceptions about how things really are. Environment, peace, that kind of thing.
If understandings were to change, it would be A Bad Thing, and threaten New Zealand's place in the world.
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oh where do I start .... I've spent the past 7 years building PVRs for cable/satellite companies in the US - I got a MySky recently and boy does it suck .... so many little things are missing or just wrong - it's a great pity there aren't competing platforms available to encourage
for example why is there no "what did he say" button that skips back 30 seconds? (also called "instant replay' for sports fans) - I can understand them not have the skip forward "ad skip" button - after all they sell advertising but I don't understand not having the opposite
Of course in this case you can do what I did and buy a universal remote and create those missing buttons for yourself .... but there's lots of other useful stuff missing that can't be fixed too (why are the graphics so lackluster? why can't I listen to the news or ads while I search for things to record? why is series link so half hearted? why does searching just suck? why does the guide not go to the channels around the one you're tuned to? two button presses to get to the guide? grid guides are so, well, boring, recording abutted programs doesn't work unless you're lucky about timing ..... all of these things could be better)
I don't know if it's reserving disk space for premium channels, we don't buy them, don't even plug in the phone (it doesn't work with our household telephone exchange) - but good quality HD uses a LOT of space, you shouldn't be surprised if it fills up the disk fast - I'd guess that half of the satellite transponder space (available incoming bandwidth) is used for PPV channels which may be where the "half for premium" meme comes from
On the other hand it has 4 tuners and can record 2 plus play/watch/record one live at the same time - that's actually quite hard to do - it's set up for multiple satellites for the future (you'll need more household wiring and a different LNB if/when the time comes) and there's ports out the back to add your own drives should they deign to allow that (again that's hard to get right and probably only some makes of drives will actually work reliably - that's a nightmare support issue for the manufacturer) - but Tb drives are getting cheap - I'd drop a couple on the back of mine - if the UI for recorded shows didn't look like it won't scale well (why are the things that you've recorded mixed in with the things to be recorded?)
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Speaking of Helen Clark, check out that fucker Paul Henry this morning...
(sorry I haven't worked out how to insert the video yet)
The prick is all class, it is a little window into the women hating culture of small minded right wing misogynists like of Paul Henry, and says a lot about why that other powerful woman, Helen Clark, was so loathed by dickheads who also find this sort of thing hilariously funny.
TVNZ should be ashamed that he hasn't been made to at least apologise in public for his behaviour.
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TVNZ to provide regional advertising on TV ONE from 1st July.
On Sky? How can they do that? One satellite transmission, no?
Have the UK MySky and basically all the BBC regional channels are broadcast as stand alone channels, with your region as the default putting it at the top of the list.
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The prick is all class, it is a little window into the women hating culture of small minded right wing misogynists like of Paul Henry, and says a lot about why that other powerful woman, Helen Clark, was so loathed by dickheads who also find this sort of thing hilariously funny.
And there was no such vitriol when Jim Bolger & Don McKinnon were posted to Washington and London respectively.
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I'd never seen Paul Henry on screen before...it was like watching a chickenshagger try to be funny about his bestiality. None of it worked. And his news co-host should've just spat at him and left the desk.
No wonder TVNZ is losing its viewers in droves...
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Ugh. Paul Henry. Puerile is the word that springs to mind. It's not (just) that he read out the letter; it was the sniggering glee with which he did so. He looked like an overexcited schoolboy passing on a thrilling rumour. Guess what, mummies and daddies have hair on their weewees! Shriek! Giggle! Urgent pocket jiggle!
I did think it entirely apt that he followed up by checking under the desk for his "hooter." It would surely shrivel up and fall off entirely, were he to encounter a real woman with a beard, or indeed one of our more forthright trannies...
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Oh, and his dismissive response to the letter from the woman with PCOS (which pointed out that for many women, excess facial hair is merely the unwelcome visible manifestation of a thoroughly distressing condition)? Classy.
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