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Listed below are comments made by lloydengland between Saturday, 19th July 2008 and Friday, 21st November 2008.

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Strictly Message Board: What Happened Update 6:47pm on 21 Nov 2008 I think on this occasion, option 4 was the right thing to do.

A suggestion for the future, how about having approved bbc members who are volunteers (or even random bbc staff) who are trustworthy (I guess you'll have to figure a way that you would be satisfied they are trustworthy), being trained with the system.

Then, if something similar occurs again, you can call on these trusted volunteers to come online and help clear the backlog?

Just a thought!
Lloyd
BBC HD: What Works Best? 11:04pm on 24 Sep 2008 This maybe a stupid question which has already been answered, but why don't the BBC do what alot of channels in America do, which is rather than having a seperate independant HD channel (or even alongside it), but simply play HD programmes on the standard BBC channels like BBC1.

This way if someone has a HD TV, that certain programme plays on BBC1 in HD, and if someone has a SD TV, then it just plays at lower quality.

Is there technical contraints doing it this way such as compression or not enough spare bandwidth capacity?
myCBBC: All Your Stuff In One Place? 11:34am on 19 Jul 2008 I don't see a problem with the BBC using 3rd party assets, especially in applications like this, but it would be pretty much impossible to control what users are uploading if they were allowed to use anything from the web without 100% moderation from the BBC - but as you said, thats also not possible.

Perhaps the way to get around this is to go to other broadcasters such as ITV and Disney, even as well as some record companies, and see if they are willing to provide the BBC with a catalogue of their material to use.

Then MyCBBC could use the BBC's own content, and selected content from other publishers which has all been vetted as safe before hand, thus allowing users to get material to use from multiple places, while being safe from the rest of the big bad internet!

Then again, this would require the other companies willingness, but I dont really see why they should say no, seeing as how the BBC is 1 - a non profit organisation, and 2 - its free advertising for them.

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