All posts by MikeB
Below are all of MikeB's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Briantist: Ok, that makes sense!
By the way, I've just spotted PBS Stateside has a show called 'The Great British Baking Show', aka GBBO. They are still on Season 2! The Great British Baking Show | Shows | PBS Food
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New Freeview TVs and boxes to be HD only from 2016 | free and Friday 9 October 2015 2:00PM
Macclesfield
RogerH: I agree about the length of time its taken to stop non T2 tuners from being sold, but I suspect that the retailers etc would argue that its a free market and caveat emptor, etc.
T2 boxes might be a little more expensive than the older SD boxes, if only becuase they are likely to have internet access for Iplayer, etc (although when I try to use that function with mine, it kills thebox and I have to unplug it from the mains), but they should start to come down to the £30 mark.
Arguably, they have some years of phasing in already, but I suspect that once there is a firm date for SD switchoff (which will probably rely on the transmitters being ready and the number of SD tuners still in use), they will then encourage people to upgrade etc over a year or so.
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Alan Smith: I think that Talking Pictures needs a DVB-T2 tuner to get it. If you've just got Freeview, then your going to need to upgrade. I know its on my HD box, but not the TV itself.
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Caradon Hill (Cornwall, England) Full Freeview transmitterFriday 9 October 2015 9:42PM
Macclesfield
jb38: Yep - as the channels FAQ says:
'In order to receive Talking Pictures TV on Freeview, you will need to be within coverage and be watching on a Freeview HD television or Freeview HD recorder'.
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Heyshaw (North Yorkshire, England) Freeview Light transmitterFriday 9 October 2015 10:00PM
Macclesfield
Tom Wright: Your just 8km from the transmitter, so signal strength shouldn't be a problem. Frankly, you'd probably be better off with Freesat, looking at the reception you'd get from Belmont, but if your using an aerial, there you are.
The clue is the rain - its most likely you have a problem with your aerial system - rain gets in and kills most of your signal. When it dries out, so they come back. You'll need someone to check your aerial and the cable from the roof.
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Ossie Nelson: Since there doesn't seem to be any maintence work on the transmitter, logically the problem must be at your end. If your only getting ITV, then your missing muxes. That sound like you have a problem with your aerial system, with perhaps a damaged aerial cable getting some muxes, but not others.
Easiest thing to do is to swap out your aerial lead - if its damaged, then thats what can happen. Its a cheap way of curing a possible problem. If it doesn't work, then go further up the line to see where the problem is.
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Sandy Heath (Central Bedfordshire, England) Full Freeview transSaturday 17 October 2015 7:51PM
Macclesfield
Wendy: You havn't given us a full postcode, so we dont know where you are (NN1 is a large area). Once we know your location, we can judge what your signal should be. However, a couple of things spring to mind.
You've tried the TV at your mothers (NN7), with a poor signal as well. It could be that both your area's are poor for reception (of course, we dont know what that location is...), or you could both have aerial systems with possible faults. However, the first question to ask is - is it tuned to the right transmitter?
Check that its actually tuned to Sandy Heath, rather than another transmitter, much further away.
Next - is the aerial lead a problem? If its damaged, etc, and you've used it in several locations, then its possibly going to cause the same problem.
Your neighbour might have a similar problem to you, but its might be a different problem - dont assume that two people both having a problem with reception have the same problem or that its the transmitter.
As for your mums problem, its sound like a possible aerial probelm again, if it used to be really good, but is now poor. However, if its a an HD tuner equiped TV, then she should get HD channels, unless there is a big problem with the aerial.
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Newhaven (East Sussex, England) Freeview Light transmitterSunday 18 October 2015 8:57PM
Macclesfield
Ralph Wood:
1) BBC newhaven does not exist - the transmitter is run by Aquiva, and both ITV and BBC muxes are transmitted at the same power anyway.
2) This site has nothing to do with the BBC, or with Aquiva.
3) You havn't given a postcode, so we have no idea where you are relative to the transmitter. Without that information, nobody can tell what sort of signal you should get.
4) However, you problem sounds very much like Ossie Nelson's issue on the Hannington thread Which Freeview channels does the Hannington transmitter broadcast?
The advice myself and MikeP gave probably applies to you as well.
As for the freeview light thing, David Lindsay has an explaination for it (which I suspect is on a copy and paste function), but basically, without the BBC, you'd pretty much get nowt. If geography means you can't get Freeview from a full transmitter, try Freesat.
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N Kelly: Winter Hill is showing a possible weak signal, but what that means, relatively speaking, is impossible to say without knowing your location.
However, check your signal strength. Your TV and PVR have senstive tuners, and if you have a problem with your aerial system, HD muxes are vanishing. It could be that you were just about OK, until the weak signal from the transmitter compounded the problem. Start with the aerial lead into the first device, just to make sure its not duff.
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Thursday 8 October 2015 6:42PM
Macclesfield
Alfred: To be fair, PBS could just mean 'Public Sector Broadcaster', so PBS America does make things clearer.
Its a shame PBS isn't coming to Freeview, since they have some excellent documentaries.