120M : Virgin Media dropping fibre internet ad for Docsis 3?

[Kushan]

Don't, you're making me sad

Someone needs to reboot B5 just like they did with BSG.

[pip08456]

Originally Posted by Kushan

Don't, you're making me sad

Someone needs to reboot B5 just like they did with BSG.

That I would think would make at least 3 of us.

I'd like to see a re-boot of Andromeda with Lexa Doig too (my avatar) but I don't think it will ever happen.

[General Maximus]

I have had an agreement with a close group of friends for a few years now that if I ever won £100+ million on the euro millions that we would start our own tv production company and bring back shows like B5. I would go to Warner Bros (or whoever it is who has the rights) and I would foot the cost of producing the show and they can keep all the profit. All I ask is that if the show makes a profit I get my money back and then I can start something else. The problem with tv networks is that they obsess about ratings and profit and don't look at the artistic quality. I personally wouldn't be involved with it because I like to think it is all real anyway I would pay for the best writers, set designers etc and put a great team together and let them have at it. The one thing I would love to do with B5 is get as many as the original crew back as poss and rebuild proper sets to make it as authentic as possible and none of that cg rubbish they did a couple of years ago.

And whilst we are talking about it, I defo want another Star Trek series as well. If it was based on a time ship like the Relativity the story possibilities would be endless. I would be more than happy to fund two or three season of that (character establishment etc) and see how it goes.

[pip08456]

To an extent I do agree with you but you have the problem of the TV Co's. They only look at the advertising revenue so if something doesn't get the ratings then advertisers won't pay for that slot within the programme and they lose money.

Perversely, you offer to do it for free for (in your example) Warner Bros then they have to sell it to the TV Co's. If they don't think it'll make them money through advertising then they won't buy it.

Then there could be another problem. Warner Bros may only own the distribution rights not the intellectual rights. Whoever owns them must be willing to allow you to use them (for a Large fee).

It's a total minefield perhaps intentional to stop what you (and others) may be willing to do.

Isn't this off topic to the thread though?

[qasdfdsaq]

Originally Posted by Sephiroth

Mon General gets right to the point. Fibre Optics means speed of light. That's fast and the unwashed (so to speak) will have that at the back of their mind.

Yet long distance connections that require extremely low latency use wireless, not fibre optic, because the speed of light in fibre is actually rather slow.

The 'fast'ness of fibre comes from it carrying craptons of bandwidth, and has nothing to do with the speed of light.

[pip08456]

Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq

Yet long distance connections that require extremely low latency use wireless, not fibre optic, because the speed of light in fibre is actually rather slow.

The 'fast'ness of fibre comes from it carrying craptons of bandwidth, and has nothing to do with the speed of light.

I think Seph was referring to public perception rather than any technical viewpoint.

[qasdfdsaq]

Originally Posted by pip08456

I think Seph was referring to public perception rather than any technical viewpoint.

I don't think that's the public perception though, plus in any case public perception is usually wrong.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/british-public-wrong-about-nearly-everything-survey-shows-8697821.html

[Sephiroth]

Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq

I don't think that's the public perception though, plus in any case public perception is usually wrong.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/british-public-wrong-about-nearly-everything-survey-shows-8697821.html

Perception isn't about being right. Perception influences buying decisions, though.

[qasdfdsaq]

Originally Posted by Sephiroth

Perception isn't about being right. Perception influences buying decisions, though.

And what exactly do you perceive the public perceives the speed of light to be perceivably faster than?

[Sephiroth]

Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq

And what exactly do you perceive the public perceives the speed of light to be perceivably faster than?

Don't be silly.

[General Maximus]

Three other series I would bring back; Terminator:SCC, Jericho and Dark Angel (in that order)

[Ignitionnet]

I can think of a thread topic I'd like to bring back

[horseman]

Originally Posted by Sephiroth

Don't be silly.

It's all relative..... according to my German uncle....

[General Maximus]

lol

[tweetiepooh]

Surely for the distances involved the speed of electrons in wire and photons in cable are ALMOST irrelevant. It's how fat the pipe is.