ITV digital bankruptcy auction - some seriously cool stuff

[Mark R]

For those who don't know, ITV digital was the UKs first company to broadcast digital terrestrial TV. It went bankrupt after it bid several hundred million pounds more than it could afford for the broadcast rights to major football matches.

Anyway, as you might imagine, a fully digital TV broadcast network is now up for sale, and there is some seriously cool stuff.

From quality office furniture, to signed & framed photos of Jeremy Beadle and Hear'Say. Firewalls, servers, Realtime MPEG2 encoders, assorded digital audio transcoders, digital video multiplexors, knitted monkey dolls, COFDM broadcast modulators, transmultiplexors and NTP time units. 5000 lots of geeky goodness.

Check it out http://www.dovebid.com/Auctions/AuctionDetail.asp?auctionID=1450">link</a>. And remember, I've got first dibs on the monkeys.

 

[yakko]

Your link is broken.

 

[Freejack2]

Isn't Dovebid that place that pulls all kinds of stunts to jack up the prices of the auctions and then adds in a ton of "fees"?

 

[amnesiac]

Originally posted by: Freejack2
Isn't Dovebid that place that pulls all kinds of stunts to jack up the prices of the auctions and then adds in a ton of "fees"?

yes.

 

[Mark R]

Yipe!

DoveBid shall charge and collect from each successful bidder a 13% buyer?s premium for each sale at the auction, in addition to the purchase price as bid

That's pretty steep. Caveat emptor.

There is still plenty of good stuff - and I'm still wondering how much the monkeys will go for - they're going for £40 on ebay!!