All posts by MikeB
Below are all of MikeB's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Dave: MikeP asked you to supply a full postcode and signal strength, but you havn't. Realistically, if your having the same problem again and again, there is a fundamental issue with your system, or you need to look at alternatives. But your system wont right itself - it will just recover a bit for a while.
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Chris Hunt: If you cant contact one particular company, why are you complaining to us?
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Ian Johnston: If your getting barely an signal on a main mux, and your 7 miles away, then you need to check the cabling again!
Check all muxes signal levels, but it sounds like something is badly wrong with your system. Just because your getting a signal doesn't mean your getting a strong signal, so you need to give us the levels on all muxes.
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nicholas: You blathered on about this eight months ago - and still nobody has a clue what your on about now.
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MikeP: Exactly!
Artifacts are just one of those things you get with a digital display - the more you pay and the more data you have, the less you get (see a cheap TV and an expensive TV next to each other and the difference in processing will become very clear). But even if you go to a multiplex cinema and look very closely at their 4K projection you will get a little bit of motion blur.
There is no 'deliberate noise' - no manufacturer in their right mind would do that, considering how much money they spend trying to get the noise out of the system and getting you to pay for it. Seriously, this is tin foil hat territory.
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nicholas: Thats a very long winded way of say 'the Emperors news Clothes', and of course you still havn't supplied any actual evidence to back up your claim. So bring some evidence to the party.
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gregor pirrie: What is you signal strength on each mux? 75% should be perfect on each one, but obviously some will be slightly stronger than others. But its very odd that by killing the signal a bit, the BBC mux goes
Look at your cable - if its damaged then the BBC mux might unusually weak, whilst others are too strong.
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nicholas: Lets ask this simple question - if this strange circuit or signal exists, why would manufacturers put one in? Seriously, why?
Since people tend to buy a new TV about every 7 years or more, then manufacturers are trying to palm people off with a substandard product in the hope that they will upgrade...after much of a decade.
So again, I'd love to know what the rationale is behind this, or is it about as convincing as those 'they faked the Moon landings' explainations on YouTube?
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nicholas: Sorry, but I dont think any of that (including the moon landing thing) makes any sense.
Yes, VCR's used Macrovision to stop the copying of commercial tapes, but there is a simple reason why copying an analogue tape produces a poorer copy - its an analogue copy!
And the idea that manufacturers would deliberately make a poor SD TV to sell HD made no sense even 10-12 years ago - the last CRT TV was sold in the UK 11 years ago. They have all been HD since then. There is one very simply reason why you see 'noise' or a VHS signal etc on an analogue input compared with a HD digital source - the HD ones is better!
And why would this strange 'noise' continue with plasma TV's, DVD recorders, etc, which are no longer even made? And I have no idea what an 'lcd reciver' even is. 'SD camera?'
And why would people bother now? 80% of TV's are now 4k - so making a SD signal look especially bad is an utterly pointless activity.
'Digital blocks' are not noise - they are simply what happens when a digital signal isn't being processed properly.
The bottom line is that you've come up with a theory which made no sense in the first place, to explain things which are the natural results of an analogue or digital system. Your seeing things which are not there. And then coming up with an elaborate 'conspiracy' to explain it.
If your watching an analogue SD sources, it will not have as much data as a digital SD sources. An HD source has yet more data, and therefore looks better. Thats it.
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Monday 29 May 2017 11:34AM
mrs Cox - Yes, you will, your TV will automatically retune , and even if it doesn't, its a simple thing to do. And since my parents also live in Poole (where I was brought up), I can safely say you will get all the channels you have now, plus possibly more.
The only problem might be if you need a new aerial, but cross that bridge when you come to it.