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13th Nov 2020, 9:03 pm | #1 |
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Getting hard to find
Some things are becoming hard to find nowadays. I've already bemoaned the lack of corded ear buds and headphones, and someone just brought something else to my attention: Welsh broadcasting studios
BBC Wales - 3 Day Sale Today I went to the country's self-proclaimed biggest seller of batteries for a few D-cells, nothing bigger than C size. Fortunately Sainsburys has them, Energize or own-brand, which I think are the same but cheaper
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14th Nov 2020, 10:26 am | #2 |
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Re: Getting hard to find
Seeing the sale of BBC equipment at Llandaff Studios is really making me feel old, it only seems like yesterday that I was being shown around. I look forward to be shown around the new studio facility.
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14th Nov 2020, 11:36 am | #3 |
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Re: Getting hard to find
I thought the BBC was supposed to be hard up? What's wrong with most of this equipment - that it needs to be sold off - and apparently replaced with new?
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Re: Getting hard to find
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I've only looked through the first few pages but lots of turntables, reel2reel, compact cassette, CRT monitors etc. that probably should have gone from any state-of-the-art facility decades ago.
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15th Nov 2020, 1:46 pm | #5 |
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Re: Getting hard to find
Some of the pro audio and video stuff is going for silly money, some of it like furniture probably wont sell at all which means it would go to landfill.
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15th Nov 2020, 4:03 pm | #6 |
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Re: Getting hard to find
Presumably it would cost more to transfer ownership between contracts. What we'd do and what large commercial entities do is a world apart. I have a quantity of Dexion shelving and a filing cabinet that was to be scrapped when we moved service centres.
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15th Nov 2020, 4:18 pm | #7 |
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Re: Getting hard to find
There's at least some newish LCD TV sets in there as well.
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15th Nov 2020, 4:51 pm | #8 |
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Re: Getting hard to find
Many large conglomerates claim to be impecunious and on a tight budget, all this often means is there's less than £200M or £400M in cash, bonds, assets etc!
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15th Nov 2020, 6:39 pm | #9 |
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Re: Getting hard to find
Having bought a fair amount form the BBC sales, what I don't understand is why they need dozens of TV waveform scopes like the Tek 1741 etc. Can't they carry them around the building. Why is the Cardiff sites, plural, the size they are? Grill TV license dodgers?
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15th Nov 2020, 7:13 pm | #10 |
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Re: Getting hard to find
I remember seeing a picture of a studio at Radio Tirana, Albania. It showed a single
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15th Nov 2020, 8:01 pm | #11 |
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Re: Getting hard to find
As a shortwave listener in the 60s & 70s it sounds like the surroundings matched the bleak, gloomy and sombre output.
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15th Nov 2020, 8:02 pm | #12 |
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Re: Getting hard to find
Reading through the thread, I think Jules' purpose of alerting those interested to a forthcoming BBC auction has been served.
We all know various battery sizes are getting harder to find. Eventually planet Earth will be populated by cockroaches and AA cells. But to forestall the re-ignition of chucking rocks at the BBC, it's time for the little white dot....
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