Hi all, after reading this (from beginning to end) and testing various things (which I will not go through here for brevity), my summary of the digitalswitchover is that it has been a total disaster (whether it be on purpose of by "accident"). Signals rely too much on weather/no-one building between you and the transmitter/trees growing/someone thinking too much in between you and the transmitter. All of these things are blamed on the consumer and you MUST buy a new complete aerial system every 18 months as you will be blamed each and every time (although these things will not assist you in any way). Is it a} badly built aerials being sold to UK consumers? or b} a less than useless digital replacement to the analogue system that was in place (woow, you can now watch 100 useless channels for free showing US (as in USless) shows) or is it c} we are all really bad people and don't realise we are gnawing the cables during the night like rats? In summary, it does not seem to matter where you live when it comes to the SH transmitter, you now have a choice of the usual 4 channels most of the time and then you have to choose if you want to pay someone 100 a time when someone says the aerial has been moved by 1.3mm "due to the wind". So thankful we are away from analogue where it just worked... Maybe why we have lower unemployment now?
Saturday 23 December 2017 6:39PM
Hi all, after reading this (from beginning to end) and testing various things (which I will not go through here for brevity), my summary of the digital switchover is that it has been a total disaster (whether it be on purpose of by "accident"). Signals rely too much on weather/no-one building between you and the transmitter/trees growing/someone thinking too much in between you and the transmitter. All of these things are blamed on the consumer and you MUST buy a new complete aerial system every 18 months as you will be blamed each and every time (although these things will not assist you in any way). Is it a} badly built aerials being sold to UK consumers? or b} a less than useless digital replacement to the analogue system that was in place (woow, you can now watch 100 useless channels for free showing US (as in USless) shows) or is it c} we are all really bad people and don't realise we are gnawing the cables during the night like rats? In summary, it does not seem to matter where you live when it comes to the SH transmitter, you now have a choice of the usual 4 channels most of the time and then you have to choose if you want to pay someone 100 a time when someone says the aerial has been moved by 1.3mm "due to the wind". So thankful we are away from analogue where it just worked... Maybe why we have lower unemployment now?