All posts by MikeB
Below are all of MikeB's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
clive john valentine: If the on demand service isn't working properly, start with your system and your download speed - if its too slow it just wont work. And do you have a capped download limit?
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william: Each channel you watch will require an LNB at one end, and a sat. tuner at the other.
So if you have 4 LNB's on a dish, and coax to each room, thats fine. But you'll still need a box of some kind at the other end, be it an old Sky box, a cheapish Freesat receiver (assuming you've the PVR with the twin LNB in the main room), or have a look in the back of your TV - LG's have had generic sat tuners for some years (as have Sony's), and have finally gone Freesat this year.
A fair number of Samsung's have had them for about 4 years, and oldish Panasonics tended to have them as standard.
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Bonnie: Since your just 25km from Caradon Hill, either your not tuned into the right transmitter, or your aerial system is failing. The latter is the most likely.
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Murray Burton: Since I'm on Waltham, and its fine, start looking at your system , or something to do with it.
If you've lost the HD muxes, chances are that your system as a problem with a loose connection, frayed wire, etc somewhere - losing a mux is a classic sign of that. I bet your other muxes are just about at the level of reception (check your signal strength) , but they are not going to get any better.
Do a check back from the TV itself, and if needed, get a professional out to have a look.
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Rob B: You can check for 4G masts yourself. However, based on all the other 'is it 4G?' questions on this site, the answer is probably no.
Your 46km from mendip, with a clear line of sight. So check your signal strength - as I replied to someone yesterday, if your losing channels. your losing muxes. And thats most likely because your system is failing. So check all connections, etc.
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James McDonald: You can check yourself, but I doubt it.
You dont say what you mean by 'interference' - that could mean anything. But check your signal strength, and which transmitter your actually tuned into. If its very high, then its likely your tuners are overloading (so remove a booster if you have one - you likely dont need it). If its very low, then your system as a problem, and evidently that would be before or at the point where the signal splits.
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Dave: Wrong. You need a TV licence to receive live transmissions or services which stream live. As the TV Licencing website explains:
'You must be covered by a TV Licence to download or watch BBC programmes on iPlayer live, catch up or on demand. This applies to any device and provider you use.
Don't forget, you still need a TV Licence to watch or record programmes on any channel as they are being shown on TV or live on an online TV service.'
Any channel as they are being shown on TV or live on a online TV service - which covers the other broadcasters as well.
As for Ian's orginal points, they are anything but original, and have been consistently debunked (which sadly, does not stop people saying exactly the same things over and over again).
Have a look at Brianist's excellent series of articles, such as BBC 2017 BBC 2017: Which of these 14 options is best to collect 4 billion quid a year? or his more recent ones of BBC cuts, etc.
How exactly could the BBC move to a subscription or pay per view system? Every single Freeview (and Freesat) receiver would have to be replaced with one which would have the capacity to block BBC services unless a fee had been paid (and such boxes do not yet exist) The cost of those boxes, and administering that system would be huge - Brianist has cited the figure of 25% of Sky revenue is taken up in such a way, so how do you suggest the BBC could do so? Brianist wrote a whole articlehttps://ukfree.tv/article/1107052194/BBC_2017_The_problem_with_turning_Freeview_into_Pa about the problems involved - if you can do better, let us know!
If people were paying a licence fee, but nobody watch or listened to the BBC, you might have a case, but BBC1's weekly reach is close to 90% of households, and some 93% or more of other BBC services in total. Radio, net, news - all part of the mix - and people who say they never use the BBC are either very very unusual, or they are lying.
And want to know what happens when people have the BBC withdrawn in an experiment? They did it last year for 9 days (just Google it) - even the bulk of the ones who didn't want to pay the licence fee or felt it was too much had changed their minds after just over a week, and were pretty surprised by the relatively low cost for what they got.
You claim to only watch 5 short BBC series each year. However, what about the rest of the household? What about BBC news? Radio? Website? Apart from the cost of administering micropayments, think how much you'd pay over the length of a year for those service, being charged per hour (and thats if you could be - radio?). Currently, your paying 2.79 per week, all in. Watch 5 hours a week in total, and thats 52p an hour. How much does Netflix/Amazon/Itunes/Google Playstore charge per hour watched?
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Mr C. Holding: We are not going to email you, but if you put a postcode into the website when you next post, we can see what sort of signal you should expect, but in the meantime, check your signal strength on all muxes.
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Monday 13 February 2017 2:25PM
Harold Pye: Because its almost certainly your system thats at fault.