All posts by Mark Morris
Below are all of Mark Morris's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
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10th April 2013 retune for Winter Hill, Keighley transmitters aThursday 11 April 2013 2:21AM
Preston
I've also just checked my signal quality/strength; BBCA on ch50 = Quality 0 - 8, Strength 54 - 58; ArqivaA on ch49 - Quality 9 - 23, Strength 62 - 66.
Compare that to D3+4 (ITV, CH4, CH5 etc) on ch59 Quality 48 at it's lowest, average 53 - 68, up to 78 at it's peak, Strength a constant 58, I have no issues with picture/audio breakup at all on D3+4!
Oh, people who cannot get BBCA, I had to do a manual scan on ch50 to get the BBC channels, if that helps. Some devices do a "Network scan" which if you select any of the known channels for that Transmitter, e.g. ch50 at Winter Hill it will scan all channels transmitting from that transmitter and will eliminate cross transmitter scan results; when I lived in Lincolnshire I could pick up both Belmont (the local news transmitter) and Waltham (Nottingham/Central) so I always did a manual with network scan to only receive the Belmont transmissions.
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10th April 2013 retune for Winter Hill, Keighley transmitters aThursday 11 April 2013 2:33AM
Preston
Dave, I'd argue that BBC have a financial investment in Freeview and therefore are partly responsibly for standard of transmissions, otherwise what was the point of pushing Freeview as the analogue replacement is it's not up to the job. But I fully understand what you are saying.
Regarding the uni halls, the uni has an Internet TV system that can be gained through the uni's network that is installed in all the rooms, so their argument would be we're providing you with an option, but I'd rather not watch TV on my laptop on my knee! Never mind not being able to record stuff on Series Link when I'm out or away. To be honest I don't know anyone who watches TV on their IPTV system.
I've seen this building has several TV aerials, I might just buy a load of coax and borrow a rather long ladder, hehe.
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10th April 2013 retune for Winter Hill, Keighley transmitters aSaturday 13 April 2013 8:16PM
Preston
Love how this retune has totally ruined Saturday night primetime, the picture ranged from a few minutes of watchable TV to green/purple fuzz then black few intermittent minutes. Fantastic! All because the Government and their quangos think 4G is gonna save this country!
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10th April 2013 retune for Winter Hill, Keighley transmitters aSaturday 13 April 2013 8:53PM
Preston
Just submitted a complaint to BBC, as one of the five shareholders of Freeview they are partly responsible for the service. Now if I couldn't receive a Freeview service in the first place I could let this go, but it's different when the quality of service was good prior to the retune!
I'm gonna try and find a complaint method for Arqiva who do run the transmitters and there MUX is also affected!
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Thursday 11 April 2013 1:56AM
Preston
I'm in Preston receiving from Winter Hill and since the transmission frequency changes, I'm experiencing much poorly quality of reception. It wasn't perfect anyway as I am only able to receive from a portable wideband aerial due to living in Halls of Residence at uni.
BBCA multiplex was always the strongest/most reliable of any, now I'm getting picture break up/pixelisation and audio drop out.
ArqivaA multiplex is just as bad, if not worse, Challenge became unwatchable at one point, I've never had issues before!
I'm not happy at all, I didn't spend £160 on my Freeview+ box and later £450 on my Freeview HD TV only for it all to be rendered virtually useless coz the Government and all it's Communications departments to screw Freeview viewers over because it wants to roll out 4G for mobiles without even testing it fully or knowing the full consequences of it.
I have no other options for TV other than Freeview due to the building I live in, cable or satellite isn't an option!
If it doesn't improve over the next few days I will cancel my TV Licence and will go to court if necessary, why should I pay for a poor service!