All posts by George Buchanan
Below are all of George Buchanan's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Trevor Harris:
It's not about 'most of the time' but the other times. Should all of the UK just receive the current output which is overwhelmingly dominated by England based outpit? One example was just on Wednesday when England women's football international was shown in full HD while Scotland's women's international was shown on BBC Alba at 544 by 576. It's the British Broadcasting Corporation - or is it?
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Quality is an issue for sure. As far as I know, BBC Scotland is prepared for HD so that can't be the reason. I suspect the BBC do want to provide the best quality in utilising more transponders but are constrained by government cuts. I just hope that complaints will be many and vocal and will focus on that as the solution and not on abandoning separate geographical services. You would think there would be some technical way they could transmit the few (and they are few) variations when necessary instead of the wasteful duplication of most of the output most of the time.
At the root is the government desire to reduce the quality of the BBC overall to drive viewers to Sky and ITV. I believe most in this government would like to see it privatised - end of.
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If I read the OFCOm digital Radio 2012 report correctly, the target is to have DAB available on all major roads. By most criteria, this would mean A class roads. Are we to get DAB on he A82 Loch Ness route for example?
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KMJ
I'm not sure that I undestand the term 'heaviliy subsidised' as it applies to radio transmitters. The opposite is surely 'lucratively profitable'. How does that work? Do you mean the number of listeners in a given area?
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Interesting article. How technology moves on... NICAM was once a real advance in TV audio. Previously, it was just bad - no other word for it, muffled and buzzy. I recall I could ony use it from the output sockets in my VCR.
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Interesting article again - thanks for that! If I recall correctly, I think it was the 1970s when the West Highlands finally got ITV, with some surprise that it was STV and not Grampian. One of the biggest advances is that TVs no longer break down every few weeks. It happened to me on Christmas day once in the 1970s. And are there any rental companies left now, once so ubiquitous.
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Interesting feature, the line of sight map - although I'm unaware of any raised object 5km away as indicated - it's all water. Perhaps the postcode area is sufficiently broad to include some locations that do experience some land at that distance, but for me it's all water beyond about 1/2 km. Straight line, yes, but the signal still vanishes when a lorry or a buss passes by :-(
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I've got an HD TV ... why can't we have high definition channelSaturday 22 June 2013 12:34PM
Fort William
I agree with Briantist - SD now seems very much inferior to HD. My HD channels are all bunched in a group at the top of the listings. I never watch a channel in SD if it's on HD.
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Friday 21 September 2012 12:15PM
Thanks - BBC page also states 20th September. Only in the forum responses can I see 27th September mentioned. Confusion, but the BBC article defintely states 20th September.