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All posts by Mark Agius

Below are all of Mark Agius's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.

YouView - no Ofcom investigation
Monday 28 February 2011 2:11PM
Haywards Heath

HT.
What browser and operating system are you using.

It prints fine with; Internet Explorer 9.0, Lunascape6, WebWindow, SlimBrowser,
Google Chrome, SR WareIcon, Apple Safari 5.0, Flock 3.5, SR WareIcon.

With; SeaMonkey 2.0, Firefox 3.6,
it only prints the list upto the line 'CNN International Europe'.

With; Opera 11.1 it crashed Opera when printing this page with Windows XP and Windows 7.

Strange it doesn't work with 3 Mozilla browsers, but works with the other 5 Mozilla browsers.

Tested with Windows XP, Windows 7 and printer drives:
Microsoft XPS Document Writer
Bulzip PDF Printer

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Feedback | Feedback
Monday 28 February 2011 6:34PM

Nedbod. (Amount of adverts on a channel)

The shopping channels, (EG. QVC, Price-Drop TV, TV Shop, Pitch TV etc.)
seem to get away with 60 minutes of adverts per hour.

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Local TV - an introduction | Local TV
Sunday 6 March 2011 10:55AM
Haywards Heath

Did you make up the Channel 6 logo?
If you did well done, except there are only 5 colours and not six in your logo.
Although the background fades from white to cyan, so I guess you have millions of different shades.

Will they have a different logo for each region, as ITV oince did?

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Zattoo - Freeview online | Watch TV online
Thursday 10 March 2011 7:22PM
Haywards Heath

I've had a look at Zattoo. (http://zattoo.com)
You can view the channels using a web browser or their application Zattoo 4.0.5
The only problem is the number of channels.
No BBC channels.
No ITV channels except the non ITV channel 3 channels of STV and UTV.
No Channel 4 but there is S4C.
No Channel 5.

I think your photo above is out of date.

The channels are; (In English unless other language in brackets)

S4C (Welsh)
Community Channel
Information TV
Al Jazeera
LA CHAINE D'INFORMATION DE LANGUE (Arabic)
Bloomberg UK
DW-TV Deutsche Welle (English and German)
ETB Sat (Spanish)
Extremadura TV (Spanish)
Outdoor Sport Channel (English -off line when tested-)
Red Bull TV
LA CHAINE DE L'ACTUALITE / France 24
France 24 (French)
God Channel
PokerHeaven.com TV
Russia Today
Rundschau (German)
ITV1, STV
sumo.tv (-off line when tested-)
ITV1, UTV
TV8 Mont-Blanc (French)
Press TV

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BBC Two
Tuesday 15 March 2011 3:53PM
Haywards Heath

Terry Evans
Freesat setup with a Welsh postcode:
102 = BBC2 Wales
104 = S4C

If Freesat is not setup with a Welsh postcode then:
971 = BBC2 Wales
120 = S4C

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Long Mountain (Powys, Wales) Freeview Light transmitter
Thursday 17 March 2011 6:55PM
Haywards Heath

Aerialman
This transmitter has had digital Freeview since 2009.
Some won't get it until 2013.
I'm sure there are a few people who think their transmitter is worse.

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Freeview HD will be 1080p25 and 1080i25. | Blogs
Thursday 17 March 2011 7:17PM
Haywards Heath

I see that Freeview HD is 720 lines per frame.
How many lines with standard definition?

I know it varies from channel to channel,
but is there a maximum and minimum Freeview SD number of lines.

Nice to also know which channels have the highest SD quality and which ones don't.

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Freeview HD will be 1080p25 and 1080i25. | Blogs
Friday 18 March 2011 6:44PM
Haywards Heath

Mike, thank you for your reply.
The minute I posted my question I realised I said 720 when I meant 1080 for HD.
(They where talking about HD with 720 lines before using 1080)


So BBC1, BBC2, ITV1, Channel4 and Channel5 SD use 720 by 576 (576 lines)
and the other channels can be from '706 x 544' to '720 x 576'.

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Freeview HD will be 1080p25 and 1080i25. | Blogs
Friday 18 March 2011 6:49PM
Haywards Heath

So BBC1, BBC2, ITV1, Channel4 and Channel5 SD use 720 by 576 (576 lines)
and the other channels can be from '544 x 576' to '720 x 576'

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What can I do when my Sky Digibox says 'No Signal' or &
Saturday 19 March 2011 8:34PM
Haywards Heath

paul.
My Sky and non Sky receivers are working.

Sounds like you have a problem with your dish or Sky box.
Press 'Services', 4 (System setup), 6 (Signal test)

If signal level is zero or low, could be disk aerial lead unplugged or break in the wire.
More likely is the dish has moved due to wind, rain or lose fixing screws.

If signal level is zero and you know somebody else that has a satellite receiver, (Sky, Freesat or any other type)
see if their receiver works with your dish.

If his receiver doesn't work in your home, then your dish is out of line, you have a break in the dish cable
or you have a fault with the LNB on the dish.

If his receiver dose work then you have a fauld with your Sky box.

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