All posts by Stephen Phillips
Below are all of Stephen Phillips's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Might be a faulty product.
Might just be that it is a bit less sensitive than the other boxes.
Plug in your postcode top right or here
UK digital TV reception predictor
to get info on signal strength where you are.
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Alvin - Presuumably standard DAB will still work?
The statistic that amazed me is the 20% of radio purchses are DAB.
So if thei illbegotten madness is forced on us, 4 out of 5 radios bought NOW will soon be redundant?
Surely a BAN on non - DAB sales is essential if we are to have this ghastly scheme forced on us?
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"nearly as good as FM. One day DAB receivers will be affordable and with planet and wallet friendly low battery-drain; with nationwide DAB coverage all will be well."
Nearly.
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I suspect that is a lack of updating here!
Unless you can actually view it on your TV!
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ATC - I am not an expert, but I wonder if you need to do something different to get subtitles with the digital transmission.
Did you try reading the .... manual?
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ATC - KB aerials has hit on what was vaguely in my mind.
With analogue TV the subtitles are sent via Teletext and suoerimposed on the screen.
With digital they are part of the signal itself, and you have to tell your tuner - box or built in to a TV set - whether to have them on or not.
S4C sometimes has English subtitles!
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Brian - you say "considered DAB+ and rejected using it in the UK due to the number of existing equipment that would be unable to receive transmissions using the more modern codec."
Why do they not take the same view to existing FM equipment?
You Mr Cridland interestingly thinks that FM receivers integrated into other kit do not matter. To my mind they matter a very great deal BECAUSE they make the other kit obsolete. (see below)
NB I am in no way hostile to Digital Radio. Just to ceasing FM.
In fact, Ofcom calls them radio devices', for a very good reason: they're not all primarily bought as radios. They're quoting GFK figures, who define these radio devices (fig 7) as portable radios, personal media players, car audio systems, home audio systems, clock radios, radio recorders, headphone stereos, tuners and receivers. It's difficult to argue that the primary purpose of an iPod Nano, which has an FM radio in it, is as a radio: or, for that matter, a car. Radio's ubiquity in new devices means that you see a lot of devices having radio inside.
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PS The wuoted 1.9 FM recievers per household in regular use - I find incredible.
We have one per room, ALL in regular use except the spare bedroom. Plus a garage/shed radio and one per car.
PLUS iPods etc.
So we're about a dozen - that can't be very unusual, making 1.9 impossible to credit.
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Friday 15 July 2011 8:10PM
Ali - has analogue TV been turned off there? If not, can you get it?
Do the flats have a shared aerial system?
Anything in the lease about TV aerials?