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Wednesday, 21 March 2012
Kath: The channels you have are those that are carried by the Littleborough transmitter. There is no plan to add extra services, the Commercial broadcasters have chosen not to spend money on 1000 or so small transmitter sites such as Littleborough. For an explanation, see here:
Will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice
Your only real option for extra free to air services is Freesat. There would appear to be a communal satellite dish on the front of the building, mounted on the same pole as the terrestrial aerial which faces Littleborough.
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Mike Dimmick6:04 PM
ALAN PEACHEY: I believe the Anglia East and West regions still split for a small amount of local news. At Watch Anglia Tonight | Anglia - ITV News , part 2 is labelled 'East'. (No sign of an online video for 'West'!) Otherwise, the difference is merely the advertising.
Anglia West is encrypted because it is on one of the pan-European beams on the Astra 2B satellite. If it was not encrypted, ITV would have to pay much more for broadcast rights for all of the *other* programmes, to cover the whole broadcast area. Anglia East is not encrypted because it is on the UK beam on Astra 1N, which is intended to only cover the British Isles and is much harder to receive elsewhere in Europe (a substantially larger dish is usually required, and the signal levels available outside the official footprint could change without notice, as happened earlier this year when services moved from Astra 2D to 1N).
Oddly, Anglia South is also free-to-air, even though ITV no longer sell advertising airtime for this subregion separately from the Anglia East subregion, and it has never had a separate news service. It is anticipated that ITV will shortly close some of these redundant services, which may make space for Anglia West to move to Astra 1N and go free-to-air. However, the space might alternatively be used to provide a +1 hour timeshift of the Anglia service, replacing (for Anglia viewers) the Meridian +1 service you currently get.
The regional variations on satellite are selected by the postcode that your viewing card is registered to, for Sky, or the postcode you entered in system setup for Freesat. You can still view an alternative version through Other Channels/Non-Freesat Channels. The region boundaries are roughly those of the terrestrial transmitters: Anglia West is the area covered by Sandy Heath and its relays, while Anglia East is the area covered by Tacolneston and its relays. (Anglia South was Sudbury and its relays, but Sudbury now just transmits the same as Tacolneston.) There's a map in ITV Media's Factsheet at http://www.itvmedia.co.uk….pdf .
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ALAN PEACHEY10:31 PM
Thanks Neil and Mike for your help.
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Thursday, 22 March 2012
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ALAN PEACHEY12:46 PM
Another quick question. On Freesat I manualy tuned 11639v and to my suprise there was a channel there called RTB VIRGILIO. Any idea what it is? I think it might be Italian. Another strange thing is that it does not say what satilite it is coming from. Thanks.
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Mike Dimmick1:58 PM
ALAN PEACHEY: Astra 1N / Astra 2A / Astra 2B / Astra 2D / Eutelsat 28A (28.2°E) - All transmissions - frequencies - KingOfSat suggests that 11639 V would be a transponder on Eutelsat 28A (formerly Eurobird 1), though it shows the D10 transponder on 11642 MHz. It's listed as carrying occasional feeds, which may be what's happened here. Or, a broadcaster may have decided to rent that transponder, though Italian channels would be surprising on the 28.2°E cluster as they're nearly all in English, or Commonwealth languages targetting UK viewers. Or it could simply be a cock-up - it looks like Arqiva or BT are responsible for uplinking to its proper home on Hotbird 13B (located at 13°E). If it is simply a case of uplinking to the wrong place I'd expect the whole Hotbird 13B 10732 MHz transponder to be duplicated.
More about the channel at RTB Network ::: RTB City, RTB Virgilio, RTB Crypted, RTB Web & Televideo
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ALAN PEACHEY3:13 PM
Thanks Mike. I meant to ask before but I kept forgetting, as it has been there quite a while. I should say that when the clouds are quite thick it tends to disappear.
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jim a5:36 PM
Bognor Regis
since the change my tv takes ages to change channels & the screen goes blank for a few seconds is this normal or is my tv not working properly
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Shell8:48 PM
Sometimes we lose all ITV channels, CH4, CH5, etc on digital for days at a time. Still can watch on analogue, but getting worried as after switchover we won't be able to view that way and will end up missing episodes of programmes. I believe it is down to inversion. Will the situation improve after switchover or will we always be without channels? Had the signal checked and we have a strong signal strength.
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Saturday, 24 March 2012
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Chris10:14 PM
Is the standard Sky boxes HD ready? As an example, If Sky were to transmit a weekend of free HD progrmas on, say, Sky 1 will I be able to view in HD on my HD ready TV through a standard Sky box (NOT Sky+).
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Sunday, 25 March 2012
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P Wilson12:36 PM
Birchington
We have a Freeview HD ready TV and also a BT vision box. They have been working h=fine until recently and now we have good signal strength but 0-30% signal quality. We have moved the aerial and retuned bi=ut this only lasts hours. Is there a problem with our transmitter ,we believe it is Dover?
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