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| Tacolneston (Norfolk, England) Full Freeview transmitter | H | Harry hardy: Thank you for replying hardy. I m pretty sure the postcode is alright and I ve checked the trouble areas around Bury on the map, it seems we ought to be | |||
| Rebuilding Freeview High Definition from 2019 onwards | free a | Brian Butterworth Colin R: I guess it s worth remembering that the at800 | 4G Freeview | 4G interference | 4G Filters | 800 MHz people have bee | ||||
| Rebuilding Freeview High Definition from 2019 onwards | free a | Brian Butterworth Barrie Spink: There are no plans to extend Freeview beyond the current broadcast areas. In the Scottish Highlands it is very hard to put up transmission mas | ||||
| Rebuilding Freeview High Definition from 2019 onwards | free a | Brian Butterworth John Martin: In fact, when they refer to 8k , it doesn t refer to the vertical resolution ( lines ), but the 7680 horizontal pixel count. | ||||
| Why do less than one in five people with an HD set watch in HD? | J | Jeff Egginton As an ex TV and video engineer with over 40 years in the electronics and computer industry since 1975, I was interested in this subject of why only a small perc | |||
| Who is still watching TV? | MikeP My wife and I use Freeview, Freesat and Sky most of the time. We don t watch any football at all but I am interested in Formula 1, but even that is not availabl | ||||
| Tacolneston (Norfolk, England) Full Freeview transmitter | J | Jos Hi, Our postcode is NR12 0HS. According to the Digital TV coverage checker, most of our channels seem to be in group B, with just COM7 HD and COM8 HD in grou | |||
| Hastings (East Sussex, England) DAB transmitter | S | StevensOnln1 ECC: The SDL National mux (which carries Scala) is predicted to be available at your postcode. Do you have Absolute 80s and Planet Rock in your station list (bo | |||
| Talking Pictures TV | W | WT Brian: Hi, I have a Bush FreeSat box (7 years old) and can’t get the TP channel on 306. Presumably the Freeview discussion here on HD/SD, DVB-T2 tuner and trans | |||
| Waltham (Leicestershire, England) Full Freeview transmitter | P | P. Lamb When I select channel 3, ITV all the information comes up, signal strength , content, how long the program has been on, but there is no picture or sound. All th | |||
| My Freeview box has no EPG, is blank on FIVE, ITV3, ITV4, ITV2+ | T | ThudnBlundr I ve lost a single HD mux on Emley Moor (C41) on YouView and my TV; all others are at 100% quality. Is this likely to be due to the weather issues, or is it a p | |||
| Winter Hill (Bolton, England) transmitter | N | Nick Hoare The winter hill transmission frequencies page appears to be wrong. It does not agree with the Find transmitter by frequency page, which looks to be right (match | |||
| Winter Hill (Bolton, England) transmitter | MikeP Nick Hoare: The information has not been updated recently. For accurate information about channel allocation and usage consudt the Digital UK Coverage Checke | ||||
| Why are there so many +1 channels on TV? | free and easy | C | Craig Hello, I just discovered this website yesterday and think its brilliant, really interesting. Unfortunately I am in the position whereby I left Sky for Freesat, | |||
| Why are there so many +1 channels on TV? | free and easy | C | Craig Also interesting that recorders have peaked? If you watch programmes on demand then they have adverts built in, if you record them you can fast forward the adve | |||
| Why are there so many +1 channels on TV? | free and easy | MikeP Roger: The answer to your comment is contained within it - the term most . Not everyone has a TV with such facility and many users may be unaware that it i | ||||
| Why are there so many +1 channels on TV? | free and easy | Brian Butterworth Craig: Welcome, and thanks. It appears that Sky made a special deal that pulled Channel 4HD and All4 services from the Freesat platform, which is a great | ||||
| Ridge Hill (County of Herefordshire, England) Full Freeview tra | S | StevensOnln1 Chrissie cruickshank : There are no faults showing with the Ridge Hill transmitter, if it has been off air for 2 days there would be thousands of complaints. Ha | |||
| Tacolneston (Norfolk, England) Full Freeview transmitter | H | hardy ignore my last post . mixed up who I was replying to. Jos . I think an 18 element standard group B would only give a temporary improvement as it has a peak a | |||
| Rebuilding Freeview High Definition from 2019 onwards | free a | S | StevensOnln1 Keith: COM7 COM8 have moved to UHF channels 55 56, where they will remain until they close in the next couple of years. These are well outside of th | |||
| My Freeview box has no EPG, is blank on FIVE, ITV3, ITV4, ITV2+ | R | R A HALL BBC Wales TV Image I have very recently lost excellent reception of both BBC1 Wales and BBC2 Wales (HD and SD) and also S4C. All of which I use (especially B | |||
| My Freeview box has no EPG, is blank on FIVE, ITV3, ITV4, ITV2+ | R | R A HALL BBC Wales TV Image I have very recently lost excellent reception of both BBC1 Wales and BBC2 Wales (HD and SD) and also S4C. All of which I use (especially | |||
| Sandy Heath (Central Bedfordshire, England) Full Freeview trans | S | StevensOnln1 Terry Tibbs : There are no faults showing for the Sandy Heath transmitter (this website is independent and has no connection with the transmitter company or an | |||
| Rebuilding Freeview High Definition from 2019 onwards | free a | Mark A. Is it correct that Digital 3 and 4 (D3 4) expires in 2022? That s only 3 years away for every one to get a new TV if they want to watch ITV, Channel 4 or F | ||||
| Rebuilding Freeview High Definition from 2019 onwards | free a | K | Keith Keith: Thank you for your reply it is what I expected. I have not changed my aerial not only because of the likely hood of even poorer signal quality on existin | |||
| Upcoming Freeview transmitter changes 2017 to 2020 | C | Chris.SE Brian Butterworth: it s not clear to which transmitter your last post refers. However, the error to which you refer seems to affect all the transmitter pages | |||
| Details of Free_Radio-Bham DAB radio station | T | Thomas k wiltshire Can I get this station in Bewdley and how please. | |||
| Your suggestions (and my corrections) for 2014 please | About u | MikeP Ken: Digital UK, who are responsible for the transmitters on behalf of Arqiva, list if at Gartley Moor, see | ||||
| Huntshaw Cross (Devon, England) Full Freeview transmitter | G | George Swindail Good morning, Since yesterday, 13Mar, all of my Freeview equipment (TVs and 2 x Topfield 5810 recorders), has had problems with the EPG guide. Most of the prog | |||
| Tacolneston (Norfolk, England) Full Freeview transmitter | J | Jos MikeP and Hardy, thanks very much for your recommendations. I think we will go with a wideband high gain aerial and replace the cables and splitters/taps for th | |||
| Sandy Heath (Central Bedfordshire, England) Full Freeview trans | Brian Butterworth Brian: I m not sure as I have version 8.5 installed, and I m in London where there have been fewer changes for 700MHz clearance. So, which you pick DVB-T2 | ||||
| Tacolneston (Norfolk, England) Full Freeview transmitter | MikeP hardy and Jos: Octo LNBs are readily available and can be used with a single dish, they are not terribly expensive, see for exam0le | ||||
| Derby (Derby, England) Freeview Light transmitter | B | brian lowe I live in South Derbyshire, in the village of Weston on Trent, and recently, perhaps due to inclement weather , the Freeview signal have deen disconn | |||
| All free TV channels in the UK | P | pat So annoyed that the Smithsonian channel is not available where I live! | |||
| Huntshaw Cross (Devon, England) Full Freeview transmitter | M | Mike Hammond What are you doing to improve the signal into Fremington at EX313BS as the signal here is very weak. Also e.g. is also causing problems of interference to tv si | |||
| Huntshaw Cross (Devon, England) Full Freeview transmitter | F | F Edmonds After the engineering issue on 13/3/19 all the channel guide information text is scrambled - both on the channel guide and on the info button. W | |||
| Feedback | Feedback | C | Carissa Mirams Are you aware that you are able to reach more individuals on Facebook messenger than almost anywhere else? You can easily create a messenger bot that engages w | |||
| Feedback | Feedback | MikeP Carissa Mirams: Are you not aware that Facebook in any form is not trusted by a great many people and it is unlikely to be suitable for the purposes of this | ||||
| My Freeview box has no EPG, is blank on FIVE, ITV3, ITV4, ITV2+ | MikeP Christine Wildman: Please provide a full pist code so that we can look up the expected reception conditions at your location. With that information we will k | ||||
| My Freeview box has no EPG, is blank on FIVE, ITV3, ITV4, ITV2+ | C | Carolyn Keil Guide is showing gobble gook for the past week. I am unable to check what programmes are showing for the day. Can this be fixed? | |||
| My Freeview box has no EPG, is blank on FIVE, ITV3, ITV4, ITV2+ | J | Judith My tv guide is showing gobbledygook for the last week. How can I fix this? | |||
| Sandy Heath (Central Bedfordshire, England) Full Freeview trans | H | hardy Brian. If you have a loft aerial it can be quite sensitive to where it is positioned in the loft as it is affected by water tanks wiring and thickness of walls | |||
| Ridge Hill (County of Herefordshire, England) Full Freeview tra | MikeP Melanie Marchant: If you provide a full post code then we can look up what the expected reception conditions are like at your location. | ||||
| BBC One HD | N | Nataliya Matviyenko I m the only one! St Patrick s Day! Actual! I made this brooch myself. In Ireland and England, you will not find a person anywhere who does what I do. I m the o | |||
| Feedback | Feedback | D | Dave J MikeP: I thought there was going to be Smithsonian TV on Freeview channel 99. What happened to it? | |||
| My Freeview box has no EPG, is blank on FIVE, ITV3, ITV4, ITV2+ | S | StevensOnln1 Jim Robson: Which HD channels are you missing? Have you checked for any loose or damaged cables or connections behind your TV? Please provide a full postcode so | |||
| All free TV channels in the UK | S | StevensOnln1 michael: By the few do you the mean 70% of UK households which are able to receive COM7 COM8? | |||
| Will I need a filter when the 5G mobile broadband services star | S | StevensOnln1 Chris Warner: FreeSports is broadcast on the COM8 multiplex from Crystal Palace, although you will need a wideband aerial rather the Group A which was commonly | |||
| My Freeview box has no EPG, is blank on FIVE, ITV3, ITV4, ITV2+ | P | Paul For the past week my EPG is showing odd symbols instead of readable text my signal comes from the Hunshaw Cross Mast the problem appears on different TV s using | |||
| Huntshaw Cross (Devon, England) Full Freeview transmitter | P | Philip Oakley As a radio amateur who is licenced by Government Ofcom I have started suffering inference on the 40 metre band with electrical noise also on 2 metre |