All posts by MikeB
Below are all of MikeB's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Cora: You can have a look at their website, but I doubt it.
You havn't given a postcode, so we have no idea as to what your signal is supposed to be like, and its possible that your booster is making things worse, not better.
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Phil: Do you have it attached to a working aerial? Because barely getting a single channel sounds like your getting pretty much no signal.
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nicholas: You've told us before...but nobody uses VHS anymore. Of course tinfoil would block out the signals....
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Richard Cooper: The tapes can still be found in Poundland. However, recording them is another matter - the bulk of VCR's were not built with digital tuners, and frankly, DVD's look much better, take up less space and are dirt cheap. The last VCR player was made back in June, and nobody has sold one instore for a good 4 years.
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nicholas: 'the reason is twofold,to spoil rerecording and make u buy HD versions.'
Why would you rerecord from a VHS tape, when you can often buy a DVD version in Poundland? VHS is an obsolescent technology, at best. The only VHS tape I've saved is 'Meet the Applegates', because it was never released on DVD. Yes, Macrovision was put on commercial tapes, but thats no secret.
As for HD, that would be Blu Ray, although it still amazes me that the bulk of discs sold in HMV, etc are still DVD's, not HD, even though nobody has sold an non HD screen for a decade.
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nicholas: Isn't the nasty ghosts possibly just artifacts from low rate picture processing? Or is that just part of the conspiracy?
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Hugh Sharp: Your just 28km from Moel-Y-parc witha clear sight line, so something is wrong. Check signal strength, could be too high, in which case look for 'too much of a good thing' on this site, and if its very low (assuming your on the correct transmitter), then something is up with the aerial.
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David: It doesn't look like there has been an announcement on DVB-T switchover yet, and the frequency change doesn't mean you have to - in fact most people probably wont notice the change at all, since their aerial will be fine, and the equipment will auto retune.
There is over 18 months until the first really large number of people will be affected - and by that time, the bulk of people will have a DVB-T2 tuner anyway, if they havn't already, simply through natural turnover, so its not worth worrying about.
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MikeP: Nobody has sold CRT TV's for a decade (my old one was from 2005), so the vast majority of TV's should either have a DVB-T2 tuner, or at least have at least one or two HDMI connections, able to take a seperate HD box.
Since companies like Mahanttan make an HD receiver which includes a scart, and even the latest Humax still has RCA phonos, even a relatively old TV should be upgradable, if it hasn't given up the ghost by the time DVB-T2 becomes the standard.
As you say, the old thing people really need to worry about for the moment is if their aerial will work, and we will see what the actual percentage that need to change them, rather than the headline figure. We all remember the panic over 4G!
David - yes, they are! However, from this year, sellers will have to explain clearly that they are Freeview only, and at some point soon, they will have to stop selling them. Frankly, this should have been done ages ago, but there you are.
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Thursday 6 October 2016 9:29PM
John Bayliss: A Freesat box (44 quid new) would have done much the same thing as your 2nd hand Sky box, and of course its a one off payment. You might even have one in the back of your TV.