I do not know why you think I am Peter. I am not! Do you really think Peter Simon would take or have time to come on here to pretend to be me and talk to you all?
Especially when you shelled out for a case of plonk!
just curious, did the friend work at Ideal World? Or how did they hear you were mentioned in a forum?
An explanatory video would certainly have helped. If only he a working camera and encoder...
or a phone and a tik tokAn explanatory video would certainly have helped. If only he a working camera and encoder...
I don't know, he's been having a run of bad luck. Maybe the dinosaur at the theme park ate his phone. Seriously though, tik tok serves an entirely different demographic and it will probably help the business if this disastrous launch is mentioned as little as possible on that platform.
It feels inappropriate replying to this at the moment given that it feels like the death of a family friend has just been announced. However, I'll be brief: There were many, many things wrong. But if you ask me, the final nail in the coffin was letting Aurelius get hold of it. As soon as the announcement was made we all knew roughly how it was going to go having seen what happened to Bid, and go it did. As an example they sold our prime Freeview channel to TJC and pocketed half the proceeds into their own company - we're talking £millions. They charge a 'management fee' for the businesses they run, presumably as insurance against underperformance.
How did your friend know that you were the Muriel that Peter was referring to? And its a co-incidence that your friend reads this forum.
That's exactly what Peter would say. If Peter were pretending to be a member of the public.
Simon this is the statement we have been waiting for (and not looking forward to) because what little we saw was good shopping telly. Just my opinion but many on this forum were rooting for you. But also head scratching at how it has all been handled. Coming forth sooner might have saved a lot of stress. We've all commented a lot on here over the last few days, so I'm not going add anything new. I hope those involved are able to find gainful employment moving forward. Good luck to you all.
NDI is becoming much more commonplace in the industry. It's not as rugged as SMPTE2110 in my opinion but definitely has its uses, especially in lower cost situations.Sad to hear the unfortunate news of the demise of Seen on TV.
I almost plumped (geddit) for the Laura Ashley pillows set, the HB airfryer, a genuinely good deal, and the pineapple corer, ok not the latter, but the separate line item p&p were prohibitive.
Good luck to all in their future endeavours.
What has been interesting to learn is the type of broadcast technology being used these days. The NDI standards technologies for video broadcast that an Insider mentioned.
And the good quality people and relationships, in the main, that appear to exist within the shopping tv community. Hopefully you can all do something successful in future to renew, reinvigorate and succeed with an innovative, new, successful TV shopping related format.
I know Simon said there were still investgations going on
I have found someone who has let the cat out of the bag in a message. I get the impression they think that others outside the company did not want them to succeed! This hints at possible sabobatge or foul-play to me. Yeah, QVC and TJC/IW will have been quaking in thier boots and had to put a stop to it before it was allowed to pick up any momentum. That is said Peter Simon style, tongue firmly inside my cheek.
