All posts by Michael Perry
Below are all of Michael Perry's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Sound quality on a flat panel TV is treated by many manufacturers as secondary to the picture quality. Consider the effort put in to produce HD and now UHD sets - but the sound has not improved since the SD sets first appeared.
It needn't be like that though. Try listening to a Bose Airwave radio. They are fairly small but produce far superior sound quality than comparable size radios from other manufacturers. They use a carefully designed enclosure similar to a 'folded horn' that enhances the tonal quality of the resultant sounds.
That can be done inside a flat panel TV, but they don't as it costs money they don't want to spend - despite the [erception that many viewers would like better sound quality from the TV. So they are forcing us to buy and add-on 'soundbar' that may give some improvement - at a higher price than some would consider paying.
I'm a mere 69 and have HF hearing loss due to working with TV sets for so many years covering the 405 and 625 line eras. The whistle from the 'line transformer' (that produced the horizontal acan plus the EHT (up to 25kV) for the CRT has seriously affected the hearing of many TV service engineers over the years.
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Michael
It is not a matter of ignoring EU 'rules' but of copyright ownership. Whoever owns the copyright of the programmes can, and will, decide which locations it can be legally viewed in. So the broadcasters, to maintain the legallity of their operations, will not contravene the copyright laws.
It is not the broadcasters who are discriminating but the programme owners who are exercising their right to control who can view and where.
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Anthony
But they are obeying the copyright agreements they have with the programme suppliers. Some agreements allow pan-European broadcasting but others limit it to specific countries/territories only.
Just because some providers agree to cover a wider area does not mean all should and there is no legal requirement for them to do so. There *is* a legal requirement for the broadcasters to observe the terms of the copyright agreement that governs their transmissions.
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Amcv:
It is unlikely that your cable from the dish is 'split' as that will not work at all. You probably have 2 separate cables fed down from the dish LNB.
Your Youview box has an aerial input socket - which is for a UHF aerial and not a dish.
You could look at How to install your YouView Box | TalkTalk Help to see how to connect a Youview box.Part 4 shows how to connect an aerial to the box. A dish will not work as Youview does not use a satellite source but a normal TV aerial is used to receive the programmes.
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Anthony:
As I stated, it is entirely the choice of the copyright owners as to which areas/territories/countries it is allowed to be viewable in. That can be controlled by several means, as mentioned by MikeB and others.
The supremacy of Copyright Law overrides any 'dictat' from Brussels.
Also as stated by MikeB, I doubt many across Europe would wish to watch 25 year old Greek soap operas if they themselves are not of that population/family group.
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michael:
I've just moved to Trowbridge and find that DAB is very poor downstairs and only reasonable upstairs. It is poor in the back garden and fair at the front! FM is fine in all areas of the house and gardens.
I personally prefer the sound quality provided by FM analogue services, but then I have a musical history since joining a choir at the age of 8 some 60+ years ago!
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Carol Robertson
If you take a subscription to the Sky services, they provide you with the necessary box free of charge. However, you may find some used ones for sale on eBay for example. Or you might consider Freesat that uses your dish but does not require a subscription, boxes are widely available. Prices depend on make/model so a search on Amazon, for example, may reveal what is available. Don't buy a 'cheap' one but go for a more expensive option. Some here suggest a Humax may be a good choice, but I don't have one myself so can't really comment.
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MikeB & jb38:
Whilst totally agreeing with the details of your discussion, there is another possibility - a loft distribution system that takes inputes from the LNB and distributes the various signals to different points in the house. One such is at Labgear others are available. As you probably know already, these take the signals from the LNB, preferrably from a quad with all four connected to the switch, and re-distributes the various IF signals to the TV sets or boxes. The switch sorts out the polarities, etc and hence if best with all four inputs being fed from the dish.
Just a thought.
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PG:
The only way to get signals to more than one receiver from a single LNB without separate cables is to use a distribution amplifier as sold by the likes of Labgear, etc. Splitting a satellite IF feed *does not work* and as MikeB says could well risk the LNB being irreparably damaged.
Satellite signal feeds from the LNB are *not* the same as the signals from a terrestrial aerial as used for Freeview. With a terrestrial aerial system you may be able to divide the signals to 2 or more TV sets, with some loss of signal strength. You cannot do the same with satellite signals.
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Tuesday 28 October 2014 7:57PM
Life begins at 70, or 75, or 90. Depends on your attitude to gaining more knowledge and experience (aging).
Hope you enjoyed the 'special event' you mentioned.
BTW, I'm a mere 69 and learning Python programming currently.