All posts by Elliott Manley
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Elliott:
Hi Dave, thanks for the response. I have a bog standard Sky dish.
I did some experiments yesterday with Lyric FM (the Irish classical radio channel). I compared the satellite feed, decoded by my Toshiba TV, with the Internet feed sent from my laptop by the virtual soundcard facility of Jamcast via wifi to my Sony bluray player. I was surprised that the Internet -> wifi -> laptop > -Jamcast -> wifi (again) -> bluray version sounded significantly better (fuller, richer) than the satellite -> TV version. Whether this reflects more on the compression of the satellite signal or on the relative processing abilities of the TV vs the bluray player, I cannot say - though I suspect the former. Comments welcome.
This limited experiment with an unrelated signal (!) does encourage me to stick with the Internet and not put too much effort into finding a weak satellite signal. To this end I have ordered an Internet radio.
This also has the potential to remove two sources of irritation with the Toshiba TV, which has no straightforward way of selecting radio channels and the screen cannot be turned off when listening to the radio. I am anticipating using the Internet radio instead of the TV as my standard method of reception. We'll see...
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Thursday 22 December 2011 9:28PM
Alton
I would love to be able to receive FIP (a Radio France station) but my attempts to manually tune to it on Astra 1L 11494 H 22.000 have failed dismally. My TV tells me the signal is "poor" and fails to find any channels. I can get plenty of other channels from Astra 1L. Is there anything I can do (apart from keep listening online or moving to Brighton, where they can get it on FM)?