1st June, 2018.
Yes, it’s true: we were supposed to get thunderstorms, yesterday.
There was even an Amber weather warning.
An Orange Alert, if you will.
Enough of a fuss for me — despite the muggy and overcast heat — to wear a raincoat.
Sensible, yes?
Yes.
Except it didn’t actually rain.
Not a drop.
Not here, in Brentwood: and not in Chelmsford, where I work.
Oh, we got mist …
Just not the expected storms.
One of these days … ?
We’ll get accurate forecasts.
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Just as a thought … ?
It seems the BBC* is going to be stream some matches from this years’s World Cup on its iPlayer Service.
For free, seemingly, and on a first-come, first-serve basis.
And in what’s call 4K, or UHD: in other words, at a resolution from 3840 × 2160, to 3840 × 2160, and using to High Dynamic Range colour.
I’m not a football fan. But feel the implications of that? Are going to be many-fold.
I don’t know if I could tell you all of them.
I think that if the BBC do this, then it will encourage 4K uptake in the UK: and help to lower prices of the relevant kit.
I’m ALSO thinking something else.
I’m an ex-barman: a fourteen year veteran of the trade.
I’m a veteran aware football is popular enough to see many pubs pay good many for pay-per-view football channels.
I’m assuming, theses days? That many pubs will ALSO be paying a small fortune for football matches through IPTV set ups.
The fact the BBC will be airing World Cup football, via IPTV, for free?
Is something I feel would be good for the industry: it’ll help lower costs, and reduce a pub’s need to use illegal streams from a fully loaded Kodi box.
Here’s hoping.
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