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Listed below are comments made by jgjones between Wednesday, 14th May 2008 and Tuesday, 10th February 2009.

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100Mbps broadband - who needs it? 9:05pm on 10 Feb 2009 My only thought of 100Mbs is...

This would be utterly fantastic for video phones...in HD.

I'm deaf...so I use videophones a lot (ie via Skype etc) but having 100Mbs would be fantastic...although obviously not everyone have that...but if rolled out across UK etc...

Lots of benefits of this...such as webservers at home, with better P2P management etc etc - decentralising services etc. Lot of potential with everyone having access to high speed connection.
BBC iPlayer subtitles increase: our early Christmas present to hard of hearing people 11:24pm on 01 Jan 2009 steppsman - perhaps the blog post should have been clearer but as far as I am aware, the new iPlayer Desktop is in beta hence it not being announced for folks such as yourself.

Jonathan - an issue with iPlayer Desktop...

I do not get subtitles with downloaded files on the iPlayer Desktop even though the streaming version does have subtitles. This is on Ubuntu. Auto-install of iPlayer Desktop did work flawlessly - I was impressed with that.

I've not yet tested it on Windows or OSX yet.
Subtitles & Signing Advances On BBC iPlayer 4:40pm on 14 May 2008 One issue...when BBC got 100% subtitling, they celebrated with RNID? I have an issue with this because many many deaf people who did not work with RNID at all whatsoever did much hard work in getting subtitles on the TV.

For example - Deaf Broadcasting Council. They was the outfit that took a TV with all speakers removed and took it to the Number 10 Downing Street to ask the Prime Minister of the day if he could follow it.

Naturally the PM couldn't and it was a powerful message of how deaf people can't follow the TV without subtitles etc. All of this was done without RNID. There are many other people that did the same sort of thing.

But BBC doing it with RNID is giving the impression that they (RNID) was the sole organisation that got BBC to do 100% subtitles. This is nothing short of an insult to many other people that worked hard and campaigned for subtitles on the TV etc.

And RNID with their vast PR dept reap all the credit. Brilliant(!)

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