Tillerman

It sounds as if something in your system folder isn't starting correctly and a file maybe corrupted hence why you can hear your hard drive spinning away. You can spend ages trying to find out what it is, or considering its still under warranty, take it back and get it fixed so you don't invalidate the warranty.

Should have made a TV programme about it. I can see it now.... "The Bridge That Guy re-Built" He can tour the network repairing derelict or outdated canal structures in a bid to save industrial heritage, in his own unique way. Chief.

Richard, I think you are one of the few that doesn't charge extra for fuel and insists on a damage waiver premium. I've seen costs rocket in the last 2-3 years. Have a look round and you'll find 58' 4 berths for £1,400 for a week in "high season" - still cheaper than flying a family abroad, but perhaps not as cheap as a stay-cation in sunny Bognor! You have to be realistic these days, the money just isn't around and for families who are forced to take holidays in the height of the season their choice of options is limited.

Of course, if you wanted to do Oxford properly, then get hold of a short term license and then you could moor up just past Folly Bridge turn in the river and come back viaPort Meadow and back onto the Oxford at Dukes Cut. That way you get to see Oxford at its best IMHO.

You can go through Isis lock, wind and come back through without the need for a license.

Sorry Chris, I was adding to post #25 and on reading previous posts its been slightly confusing as to if you represent the channel you supply to and your role as a programme maker. Niche channels, like any commercial channel, rely on revenue from advertisers or sponsors and that was what I was refering to, as was, I believe the poster in #25 so these comments are aimed, primarily at the channel rather than the programme makers. I am pleased you are making a living from making programmes that you feel passionate about and have found a market for that material. Sadly I've seen plenty of niche channels come and go because they forget that the principal aim to their audience is a constant supply of programme material and in this day and age providing programming purely for broadcast without finacial sponsorship is a non starter. Channels of all sizes must look at recouping their investments from other sources of revenue, including online, if they are to survive. Even the mainstream channels now insist on co production and sponsorship to provide the budgets as money gets tighter and budgets get squeezed. But skimping on any aspect of the production, however tempting, will hit the channels (big or small) in the end.

Sadly Chris the way the broadcast industry is going it would be foolish to limit your production to using out-of-date equipment. I see the tech spec listed for the IC as 4x3 - industry standard is 16x9 (14x9 protect) and as everyone is gearing up for analogue switch off, any programmes shot using SD low res equipment will look out of date. HD is the way forward I'm afraid. Your equipment is probably best suited to the online market which is where you will probably find your niche market, but by the time you've pad for your airtime license and Sky fees I would be surprised if you made any money at all! Skimping on sound and editing will ultimately show in the end product - you have to put all of your available money on screen as that is your current market. Cutting costs will ultimately loose you revenue and audiences.

Laughed me blooming socks off chief!

Did you do the online then Tony or were you in offline? Offline editors do have some say in the way content is manipulated, especially concerning matters of factual accuracy.

...or it could have been a pirate radio station! Anyway, the Radiocommunications Agency no longer exsits as its now Ofcom. Since 2003 I bet there were far fewer prosecuted under the act as I suspect Ofcom has no one to do spot checks and indeed the local office in my neck of the woods, Nowich, closed down years ago - so who actually polices the act taking into account that Ofcom has sole responsibility for all broadcasting and see's in its sites the major broadcastors who get fined far greater sums that the £5k you would get under the WT Act of 1949 (amended 2006) In fact have a look at Ofcoms website and you'll see amounts almost at bankers bonus levels being handed out to broadcasters for falling foul of the Broadcasting Act - little, if any, mention of VHF fines. And, before anyone jumps down my throat, I am not saying that because the system is not properly controlled and policed that you can resort to anarchy, I am mearly pointing out the facts.

Ah, I see... I worked with Avid Media Composer when I was at ITV

"Following rules" is what I was intending to say with the "by the book" phrase which didn't necesaryily mean "the law" eg following the rules of posting on this forum? Taking 12 items to the "only 10 items" checkout in a supermarket you get the drift. And if this particular requirement is equally un-enforced, you can see how easy it is for people to flout it.

You seem to know a lot about this - are you involved in the production in some way?? Not many people on here would know about "slot averages" when talking about BARB figures for instance... Ha, I see you are, Tony, an AVID viewer.. (cough)

Did I intimate that? No, didn't think so. I asked if you had always followed exactly "the book" - which does not always mean "the law" So you've never exceeded the speed limit (in a car) even by 2 miles an hour? But not a law delivered by parliament