Yes, all of your OTA is free, but it's so covered in adverts, that it's impossible to watch. I remember the first time I visited the US in 2002, and couldn't believe the ad break every 6 minutes in a film on ABC. It just made it impossible to watch. I gave up about half way through.

What the hell has it got to do with democracy?? Is it undemocratic to have taxes?

I would much rather pay the £120/yr Licence Fee than have to put up with US style TV channels, with more adverts than programme, and everything appealing to the lowest common denominator. I'm sorry if I sound harsh, but I am surprised you put up with it!

As a UK resident, I don't like the line you finished the article with "anything could happen in a country that taxes TVs". I assume that you are referring to the TV Licence Fee, which pays for the BBC, the transmitter network and PSB on the other terrestrial channels.
£120 a year is not a lot of money for the quality of services the BBC offers. We get 7 national TV channels, all advert free, 12 national and countless regional radio stations, all advert free. The excellent BBC website, including the fantastic iPlayer, all advert free. On top of that the BBC have developed the vast majority of the technology used in broadcasting, if not entirely on their own, in co-operation with the Japanese broadcaster NHK.
To me £120/yr seems like an absolute bargain for all of that, and I can't imagine too many countries around the world who are not envious of the beeb.

Yes! The football is back, thank god!

That said, football is a game played with the FEET, and not the hands with far too much padding.
Come on Yanks, join the rest of the world in calling football football.

SD DV is 25Mb/s.
It's an uncompressed format, and NOT what is on a DVD.
That is MPEG2, which are you rightly say tops out at around 10Mb/s

Brilliant! Been waiting for this one. A fantastic film, and very well shot too.
Hopefully the UK release won't be too far behind.

It may say "50Mb/s", but if you use that for more than a couple of minutes they cap your speed. I am on their 10Mb/s service. If I download over a gigabyte a day they reduce the speed by SEVENTY FIVE PERCENT! Making my "10Mb/s" service a 2.5Mb/s. They say they won't throttle the 50Mb/s until it goes nationwide next year, but at 50Mb/s it's only going to take a matter of minutes before the unbelievable cap comes in. Better of going with a DSL provider like Sky, who offer a lower top speed, but maintain it 24/7.
As soon as my 12 month min term with Virgin is up, I'm off, never to return!

YES! Pulp Fiction please! The DVD I've got is the worst transfer of a film I've ever seen, come on, give us it on Blu.

Fight Club would be good too.

Thank god!
Paramount Comedy Channel is terrible for this,
Good thing is, this might actually happen. The TV regulators in this country do seem to have teeth. Thats why normal commercial TV is watchable in the UK unlike the US. Ad breaks every 6 minutes is horrible, it'd drive me mad!

They mentioned this releases are in AVC, I wish studios would use VC-1 a bit more, I just think it looks better.

"We Americans may think it's cute or quaint to read about "progammes" and "colours," "

I do hate to have to point this out, but the language is ENGLISH, and unsurprisingly the ENGLISH know how to use it! That is how you spell those words, not how you Yanks spell it.
But yes I agree with the above poster, do you always have to start pointing out differences, and just get on with the news.