Ministers are also looking at tiering the licence fee so that lower-income households don’t pay the same rate as more affluent users.
Another option was to leave the licence fee largely as it is, with a few tweaks, but with better enforcement, a person familiar with the internal deliberations said.
These greedy people, honest to god.
How about a tweak of letting home owners re-transmitting the DVB signal locally since they have such a good home internet connections these days, saving on the required transmitting POWAR of the BBC funded ones such as Emley Moor etc? I’d love to see the power usage of that thing.
Too radical, oh well…
Yup!
No matter what external storage you buy be it an external drive / NAS / SAN / whatever, make sure you buy a UPS firstly. I dunno about where you live, but here the amount of “brownouts” through the night damages electronic gear irrevocably and I learnt my lesson.
Best investment(s) ever.