All posts by Chris Shaw
Below are all of Chris Shaw's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.Ian: I agree! I can barely get 3G at my house, which is only 200m from the main south coast trunk road & the main south coast railway line. If the phone companies nick all the UHF frequencies does that mean that they will nick the transmitters as well? There are parts of the country not reached by Freeview let alone the mobile network.
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Briantist:
This sounds sensible. The current system is a complete hotchpotch! My TV is new this year and my videorecorder is about 4 years old but both seem to make sense of it all (although they put all the HD channels at the end of the list & for some reason the local BBC news is not broadcast in HD, which is a nuisance).
I am continually amazed that the system works at all, though it must be frustrating for people who cannot afford to keep updating their equipment and are finding it more and more complicated.
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Hi,
I bought a new TV this year, to replace one which was 'HD ready', mainly in order to get an optical audio output! This one has a Freeview tuner with HD of course. It this DVB-T2?
The TV also has Internet capability but one fewer HDMI sockets than my old TV. My older video recorder has also an HD tuner and Internet connection. No scart, thank goodness. The Apps that these things provide (like my Apple TV box) are pretty random though. It does seem that there is a bewildering choice of inputs, outputs, tuner and Internet combinations - even within the same brand, or between different stores. It is extremely difficult to know, when you buy this sort of equipment whether it is the latest or the most'future proof'!
I guess that it is because no service provider wants to provide anything for free (except the BBC) and Freeview is something we have to struggle to hang on to, albeit at the price of frequent equipment changes.
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Follow the money is the maxim. Broadcast Freeview will probably last as long as I do (I'm 70!) but I am continually frustrated by poor mobile phone signal. The coverage maps are hopelessly optimistic.
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Brian Gregory: I'm no expert but surely, if it was a problem with 'bitrate' the picture would be the first to suffer?
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BBC 4 HD, (Channel 106 Freeview) has disappeared from the Rowridge transmitter. I don't often watch live but just sat down to watch at 0930 and it said No Signal. A retune caused 106 to disappear. All other channels are operating normally.. I am ina very good reception area.
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Saturday 26 September 2015 6:45AM
Watching a couple of hours of TV a day, which is what we like to do, is relatively simple. The problem is CHOICE! There are so many ways of watching TV now, so that if you forget to record a clashing programme you can usually find a way of watching it online. However, venturing online, getting disparate pieces of equipment to interact with each other, and searching for compatible content is getting increasingly complex. The new ITV HUB sounds a great idea but - will my TV find it? My Apple TV? My video recorder? No doubt there will be an App for the iPad as well. And since we still rely on some copper wire and the BT Open Reach cable network ( which is beginning to struggle on occasion) we may just go back to the days of, "What's on telly tonight?"