All posts by Chris.SE
Below are all of Chris.SE's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Dollie:
Most likely due to recent weather conditions, high pressure coupled with Temperature Inversion which makes signals travel further than normal How clear skies and fine weather can affect your TV reception | Help receiving TV and radio
If you haven't got all your correct channels back to normal, try a retune.
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Rosie Devlin:
You've posted on the DAB Radio transmitter page rather than the one for the TV transmitter at Haddington but never mind.
I'm afraid you'll need to explain more clearly and precisely which programme(s) or channel it is you want to watch as what you have said is not known to me, whether it is to anyone else here I don't know.
If it is available on Freeview Television (as opposed to Freesat - that's a satellite version with similar channels) then we'll need a full postcode to see what the predicted reception is at your location.
It may not be available on Freeview, but it might be on Freesat.
On the other hand it may be a subscription only thing and until we know what it is, advice for the best options isn't possible.
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MikeP:
Not disputing that, as I said it's an excuse, because as not all material broadcast (on HD channels) is HD, so that is no excuse for not sorting out the feeds. The data links might be more expensive, but as they have two lots of links going to the transmitters, they are wasting money. If they just provided HD feeds to replace the current SD feeds, they could get rid of the then redundant SD feeds. OK they'd need a bit of kit to downscale the HD for the SD muxes, but the saving on feeds should pay for that in time. Plus there are other ways the BBC could save money without cutting services or programmes etc. to help with this sort of investment.
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MikeP:
I don't think I need to think anything more clearly. I think your remark is garbage. We are talking about broadcasting Local News and Weather bulletins on the HD channel instead of a stupid caption with child noises in the background telling us to change to BBC1 SD. Nor does the regulator have anything to do with this issue, this is purely a technical decision by the BBC, who will no doubt continue to claim they can't afford it and will have to cut services to pay for it. Well I'm not the only one who is now fed up with the way the BBC is run, and they are in for a big shock in the not too distant future.
TK: You've made some valid points there.
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Tell:
The information about free support for aerials is on the Freeview site, there is no financial support, there are appointed contractors that replace the aerial for those that qualify.
Other than the temporary COMs 7&8, all the other Crystal Palace multiplexes are within Group A.
The 700MHz clearance is a Europe wide program, not just the UK.
Not all main transmitters carry COMs 7&8 for technical reasons and/or financial reasons.
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TK:
Well that might sound a nice idea, I'm afraid it's a total none starter. Apart from aerial beam-widths etc. not being narrow enough, the source of the interfering signals during tropospheric propagation could come from anywhere. The distance such signals could travel will depend on the extent of the inversion layer as well as it's height. You can't exactly predict those factors. The signals could come from any where in Europe (even further afield) not just the UK, and from any direction, so it's not just distant "regions".
Channel sharing has always been the case, even in B&W analogue days. The allocation of channels for the various transmitters has been carefully worked out along with transmitter power and radiation patterns so that in typical conditions there is no co-channel interference (that includes our nearest neighbours such as France, Holland, Belgium and Ireland).
There's over 1100+ transmitters in the UK alone, of which 80+ are main transmitters (90+ transmitting the 6 main muxes).
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MikeP:
You are clearly NOT reading what I've said. EngineerM's post is nothing new, nor have I said anything contrary to the primary content of that. Of course it's going to cost some money. The current situation has existed for far too long now and the BBC need to get their collective finger out and get on with it. Whilst there is arrogant opinions around as some of those that have been expressed, then things may not happen as quickly as they should.
However, I can assure you that the pressure on the BBC to stop wasting money in other areas and invest money into things like this, is going to increase markedly over the next 12 months.
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MikeP:
Arrogance at its best. Precisely. Not only me but a lot of others as well think they have not only their priorities wrong but they continue to waste money. And the BBC are going to learn in the next twelve months or so that they are answerable to the licence fee payers.
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Rosie Devlin:
I was scratching my head a bit after your post but I'm sure emdubya77 has got it right. That annoying misleading advert even pops-up on this website from time to time. If you click on the following link it should show a picture of what the initial ad shows - https://google-url.com/q6Svf
When you click on the ad link it goes to a page which claims "All 5 "dragons" invested millions in this product, which lets you watch TV for free!" I'm not aware of ANY dragons investing in it.
From what we can tell this is nothing more than some sort of indoor aerial and I'd be surprised if it can do even a fraction of what it claims.
It certainly won't give you what you get from Netflix, nor if you have TalktalkTV will it give any of their streamed channels.
If you are getting your signals from the Haddington Transmitter, it only has the PSB multiplexes so doesn't give all the programmes that one of the main transmitters give. Whether you can get a main transmitter at you location will depend and a full postcode would be needed to see what the predictions are.
If you have limited coverage from Freeview, you could think about Freesat which has virtually all the same channels as the whole of Freeview plus a few others - but NOT Netflix or TalkTalk streamed channels. Sky doesn't have them either but they do have a lot of their own channels.
If you have a modern TV it may have a built in Satellite tuner, so you'd only need a dish and LNB for Freesat.
There are "streaming options" which your set may have built in and you need a reasonable broadband connection. You could look at NowTV if you want some Sky stuff which may be a cheaper option than Sky Satellite.
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Friday 3 January 2020 3:45AM
Simon Watkins:
As MikeP say, there are some regional variations around, BUT it is broadcaster dependant it seems, based on my experience. It depends on where the feeds come from.
ITV have some regional variations, eg. if you watch ITV1 HD in the West, you'll get the Central News/Weather. I did somewhere see an explanation of how the ITV feeds are done.
BBC1 HD put up the silly caption when regional news and weather is broadcast.
BBC2 HD do have regional variations similar to BBC2 SD. BBC News SD/HD is London.
As far as Mike's comment about studio equipment goes, that's the excuse the BBC have put out, but as currently not all stuff on the HD channels is not in HD anyway it's just an excuse, but it is more to do with the "communications" - the way the transmitter feeds are done, altering that will cost them money.