All posts by Josh
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I've read in a PDF from the BBC that Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland versions of BBC One HD will launch in 2012.
http://downloads.bbc.co.u….pdf (DN163AP)
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Looks like pretty decent DAB coverage to me. The DAB transmitters that are on the south coast, are they restricted in which direction they broadcast in? It just seems like you could easily recieve the DAB signals in Belgium, The Netherlands and the northern part of France!
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Braintist: OK, so what about if there was a "weather lift" period? Would that mean there would be more chance of the DAB radio stations being picked up in France?
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New Astra 1N satellite to offer more UK-focused capacity - and
Tuesday 9 August 2011 11:40AM
Scunthorpe
Tuesday 9 August 2011 11:40AM
Scunthorpe
Maybe once "exclusive contracts" and similar agreements have ended with companies like Virgin Media and BSkyB, we could have Channel 5 HD, Film4 HD and E4 HD? And how about HD versions of 5* and 5USA?
And one other thing: has the Astra 1N satellite been launched with both DVB-S MPEG-2 and DVB-S2 transponders pre-fitted? Or will the DVB-S2 have to be added at a later date or has it been launched exclusively DVB-S2? Since most people these days who have a Sky or Freesat system have HD versions, it would've made sense for the satellite to be DVB-S2 only.
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I wonder if anyone from the southern part of Norway ever recieves signals from this transmitter during weather lift conditions?
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BBC to reduce satellite transponders from seven to six on 7 Oct
Saturday 27 August 2011 8:34PM
Scunthorpe
Saturday 27 August 2011 8:34PM
Scunthorpe
Why was the BBC News channel even FTA on Astra 2A anyway? I thought they didn't have the rights to broadcast on a Europe wide beam? And if they broadcast the BBC News channel on a Europe wide beam, why couldn't they make the geo-block restriction extend so that both the UK and continental Europe can watch the live feed of the BBC News channel on their website?
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@Dave: The reason why the licence fee idea in Australia didn't work was because apparently there was mass civil disobedience where people stopped paying their fee en masse.
If more people here stopped paying the BBC licence fee en masse, I'm sure we could then have the BBC government funded yet no adverts shown.
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Hopefully, this means they can start to think about phasing out the sales of DVB-T only devices and phase in a rule mandating that only DVB-T2 devices may be sold in the UK. Then, once satisfied that enough of the UK has DVB-T2 devices, start phasing out DVB-T in favour of DVB-T2.
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Braintist: At least if only DVB-T2 devices were allowed to be sold, there wouldn't be the thing of people buying DVB-T IDTVs that are "Full HD ready" thinking that they will get Freeview HD with it.
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Sunday 10 July 2011 2:07PM
Will Belmont become a Single Frequency Network transmitter after it has completed it's switchover?