All posts by MikeP
Below are all of MikeP's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Lynda:
You should try asking True Entertainment directly. Their website is at Home - True Channels
This independent website is primarily aimed at helkping with reception problems and related matters of interest.
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Dawn:
Not knowing what equipment you are using means I cannot tell you exactly what to do, but you can make some checks.
Select programme number 11 and find out what you have showing. Is it Pick TV as it should be. If it is not then you will need to retune the TV, the User Manual supplied with the set will tell you how to do that - but do not do it if there is engineering work being done on the transmitter you are using. Check on the relevant page on this website to see if there any works being done currently. Ypu will need to know which transmitter you are using, or shpuld be using. If you look at where your aerial is pointing, if it is almost due North then you should be using the Fenton transmitter. If it is pointing South East then you should be using Sutton Coldfield.
More advice available depending on the results of those checks.
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Alison:
As TV3 is an Irish broadcaster based in Dublin, you are unlikely to be able to receive their broadcasts in Wales unless you are lucky enough to be able to receive from a transmitter on the east coast of Ireland. As you live on the border between England and Wales, you will be too far away from any such transmitter.
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'Sickofyou':
With your signal at 100% strength oit is too strong and the cause of your problems. Reduce the signal strength by fitting an attenuator. The ideal strength is between 60% and 80% with quality above 80%.
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Michelle :
Please see the links given to the PopGirl operator's websites at the top of this page. They may give some reasoning.
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Anthony :
But that will introduce a further problem! Who is going to pay for the replacement of all the existing 'standard' TVs and Freeview boxes that are not MPEG-4 capable and only have a DVB-T tuner and not a DVBT-2 tuner with MPEG-4 capability? That is why a 'phased' roll out is used.
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MikeB
Most people think that £450 is a lot of money to spend just to get a few more channels that they may not be interested in watching anyway, especially if their curremt TV set gives them the programmes they want to watch and is working well. Research shows that most people expect to keep a TV set for at least 7-8 years and are very reluctant to spend a lot of money just because Freeview/Ofcom want to change things around. Many consider what is proposed to be 'change for changes sake' with little or no real perceived benefit to them. A lot of people get fed up with all the retuning that is needed with digital TV, remembering back to the analogue days when retunes were virtually unheard of - except if you wanted to get Channel 4 or Channel 5 when they started. Once tuned in they remained with no further 'fiddling about' as people see it now. There is also the thought that replacing a 'perfectly good' set is wasteful of resources.
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MikeB:
If they all do pretty much the same thing, there will inevitably be confusion in the minds of non-technoical viewers, probably the majority. When considered from the customers' point of view, why should they consider investing in three pieces of equipment that all do the same thing - and add yet more wires to the tangle behind the TV? Many will be confused by this appatrent duplication. Technically aware people are unlikely to be confused but may well ask why we need three systems doing much the same thing? The only answer I can think of is that they want to offer viewers more choice, but repeating what others are already doing doesn't seem to be much of a choice.
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Briantist:
For clarity, PBS is used in the USA to denote a Public Broadcasting Service, some of which are funded locally and others at State or national level.
The equivalent in the UK is PSB denoting Public Service Broadcasting and covers the BBC, etc. They are those broadcasters required to provide national coverage such as BBC, ITV, etc. Some are commercially funded, such as ITV, and one by the TV Licence (BBC). Generally, those covered by the term PSB would be found on the PSB multiplexes and those not in that category are on the COM multiplexes, but the distinction is now being blurred as services are moved around the multiplexes.
My daughter lived in the USA for many years and initially PBS was fairly poor and very local in coverage, but there are more services now and a number are covering matters relevant to their 'home' State and some aim to cover the whole of the USA.
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Monday 21 September 2015 8:42AM
Dawn:
For Freeview reception, it should be available on COM5, depending on your location and whether your local transmitter provides the COM5 services.
If you are using the Fenton transmitter, you should find COM5 on channel 22 (482.2 MHz at 1kW power), or if you use the Sutton Coldfield transmitter it will be on channel 45 (666.0 MHz at 200kW power. There are engineering works currently with possible weak signals). Note that these are the frequencies to tune to and not the logical channel numbers, Pick should appear on logical channel number 11.