All posts by Corin
Below are all of Corin's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Pam Bateman asks
"I wondered if you have a shortage of films to show?"
The movies that a station shews has nothing to do with a shortage of potential material but whether or not they have purchased the rights to broadcast a particular movie to the target geographical area.
As Movie Mix is a budget low rent station, it will be shewing those movies which it can acquire with the lost possible cost for acquiring the rights, possibly as a group purchase of titles, or ancient, and so now copyright free, movies.
At the same time it will probably be getting the actual material supplied, and for these ancient low cost movies, the distributor will not provide subtitles if these have not already been created. And Movie Mix will not have the budget or facilities or staff to create subtitles for these movies by its-self.
In fact it has been known for some TV stations to even use sub-titles for movies or tv series that fans of the movies or tv show have created for use on file sharing networks in order to avoid the costs that would be incurred to have it done professionally.
So remember, the costs of shewing a movie on TV is all about paying large sums of money to the distributors to send back (after taking their cut) to the movie studios.
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Which regional version of BBC-1 is broadcast across the Netlherlands from the terrestrial transmitters of Digitenne (van KPN)?
<http://www.digitenne.nl/digitenne-zenders/>
Is it BBC-1 London?
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There is a problem on the Winter Hill relays page
<https://ukfree.tv/maps.php?key=subregion&c=51>
The transmitter in Moreton, previously named Bidston, but since renamed Sunningdale, not because of the locality but because of the name of the appartment block on which it is located is labeled as Portwood (Stockport) and links to that transmitter.
Corruption in the database?
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Strange that in my just posted message above, the message parser creates a hyperlink on the word "Bidston" to the Sunningdale transmitter, but not the word "Sunningdale" its-self.
And that the word "Moreton" becomes a hyperlink to "FM, MW and LW radio transmitters".
Something really is broken.
At least it got both "Portwood" and "Stockport" correctly hyperlinked to to the Portwood transmitter.
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STV HD appears to be no longer transmitted from 28,2° East, having left its frequency of 10,936 GHz Vertical on February 17th, 2014.
I do not know why it is shewn as being on the SKY or Freesat EPG since it will not appear there until at least April 2014.
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And another thing, the link give above to STV HD on the STV Website is *broken*
http://www.stv.tv/stvhd/
404 Page Not Found
The page you requested was not found.
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Postings on some other satellite forum sites are suggesting that STV HD may not be transmitted again from 28,2 East until testing begins for the addition of the service to the Freesat EPG and Sky EPG addit in April 2014.
The loss of the STV HD program stream could result in a loss of revenue for STV because viewers wanting to watch ITV networked shows in HD will tune to UTV HD or one of the four ITV HD "regional" services, a habit which STV should surely not want to encourage?
Or maybe the bean counters at STV have esitimated that by not having to pay for transmissions on SES Astra between February 17th (?) and sometime in April, they will break even or even save money?
They are of course still paying for the BISS encrypted transmission on 11,495 GHz Vertical from Intelsat 907 at 27.5° West.
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And for the record, the earliest date and time that anybody appears to have noticed that STV HD had gone black from 28,2 East was not February 17th, but 5 days earlier at 13:31h on February, 12th, 2014.
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MikeP: "Seems very little gain overall."
Were you saying that when BBC-1 became available as 625 lines in addition to 405 lines?
The improvement in picture quality in going from SD 720x576 to HD 1920x1080 is a much greater "gain overall", as well as the HD service offering AC3 sound sometimes with 5.1 channels, rather than just MPEG-2 stereo.
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Saturday 14 September 2013 4:19PM
This TV station is only on Freeview, clogging up the EPG and taking away bandwidth from other stations, because some viewers are stupid enough to watch it and pay money for the goods and services it offers.