All posts by Josh
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I don't mean to be rude but when you say "In comparison with most other countries in the world, the UK had always had a poor local TV service." which countries do you mean? I know the United States is one such example, but which other countries do you mean?
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What will happen with Windows 7's Media Centre centre and using DVB-S2 tuner cards? Because Windows 7 was released before Astra 1N even existed, it will not recognise Astra 1N's existance, so therefore no more FTA UK channels via satellite for Windows Media Centre viewers!
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I bet that this must have required some intense negotiations with France over frequency planning!
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Will this mean that Sky+ HD sunscribers in Northern Ireland will get UTV HD in the 103 position because of Sky's HD channel swap where the HD version of a channel appears in the slot for Sky+ HD subscribers where the SD version of a channel would normally appear? And if not, why not?
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Freeview HD is 1080 line as well, so the statement about it being limited to 720 line is incorrect.
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Since the Crystal Palace transmitter is already extremely powerful, after DSO, I wonder how much overspill there will be into not only other regions, but maybe even into the north of France and Belgium etc?
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@Briantist: You might want to update the multiplex listings on this page as Channel M is no more: Channel M closure sounds warning for local TV - Media News - Digital Spy
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Wow, that Sky box must be ancient then, as it says on the back "Manufactured in the UK"!
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May I suggest a Taskforce style section which functions in a similar way to what this website: office.espadar.com (I'm not trying to advertise my website in any way, I am just showing an example to support my suggestion).
Basically, if there was any ideas about the technical ins and outs of terrestrial transmissions and changes to the EPG on Freeview etc, instead of people posting the ideas as comments on random articles, there would be a place on your website where all the ideas would be categorized and easy to find instead of searching through the articles for individual comments.
Since your website is already immensely popular, and some Ofcom employees might have secretly read the comments on this website, they are bound to notice the Taskforce section a lot more easily.
Also on this Taskforce, people would be able to post ideas into categories and vote and comment on each other's idea submissions.
Here is the source code for creating a Taskforce: tf.zip
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Saturday 18 February 2012 8:10PM
MTSS: You could always get Saorsat which provides an ultra tight spot beam FTA satellite TV servie to the Republic Of Ireland. Bear in mind however that you will need to get a KA band LNB and the satellite dish will need to be pointing in a different direction to what it would for Sky/Freesat.