All posts by Michael Rogers
Below are all of Michael Rogers's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
There are two markets that should become one.
Some want hi-fi better than FM.
Some would settle for a reliable signal.
Solution: leave everything as it is and give the rest in the kitty to bbarqofcom fatcats as bonuses...
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1. There should be a gap between highest DTT and lowest 4G frequencies sufficient to limit interference and to reduce investment to provide filters etc.
2. Any replacement costs for consumer equipment bought in good faith before 4G inception must be borne quibble-free by the 4G operators.
3. 4G licences should include the obligation to provide low-power SFN DTT PSB and COM relays on 4G masts.
4. Why should demand by the affluent for 4G services disadvantage further less affluent viewers who cannot afford them?
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. . . A N D far better nationwide coverage to at least equal FM in-home portable and in-car reception! (Yes, we do keep repeating ourselves...) Replacing and recharging batteries is only acceptable if not too often, as mobile phone and laptop experience frequently remind us! I might buy another relatively low-consumption vest-pocket DAB radio and mount it in a bigger box with D-cells, amp, speaker, telescopic aerial, coax socket - and an inflatable DAB antenna mast :-) Hopefully, the industry will beat me to it!
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Brian : any idea what will happen to Ilfracombe relay D3&4 in 2013? It will presumably have to vacate ch61. Carmel ArqivaB is to move from ch61 to ch49, so Ilfracombe d3&4 may well do the same so as to guarantee ongoing interference :-)
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Brian and Dave : thanks for the info and links. As I feared, CCI will continue as now.
With everything having to be squeezed into
fewer channels, the incidence of CCI will
surely increase nationwide. Maybe there will
be more SFNs?
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Susie, to receive all the main free-to-view Italian channels from Hotbird unrestricted, you need a tivu receiver registered to a bona-fide codice fiscal in Italy. Any standard satellite receiver will continue to pick up most free-to-view channels most of the time. See earlier posts here for more details.
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Is the nature of "engineering work" a state secret? In the age of freedom of information, brief technical detail of the work to be untertaken would be most welcome - not least so that we know that blocking and drop-outs are only temporary.
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Klaus Kadur: All German channels on 19°E are as before. I have the same receiver which continues to receive all SD channels. ARTE changed frequencies some time back. Am Besten vorab alles lschen und neu installieren! With luck, that will solve the problem. Other possible cause:
Fault in V/H voltage supply to LNB. If the channels you still receive are either all V or all H polarised, either the LNB or the receiver has a fault. In that case, first replace the LNB. If that doesn't work, your receiver may need replacement. Any basic sat receiver will do the same - eg Technomate TM-5200D. An HD sat receiver is hardly worth the outlay as there are few free-to-view HD channels - most are subscription. Gru, Michael.
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Why are they so coy about the internet dependency and minimum requirements of YouView? No go, no joy for not a few on less than 3mb/s! Goverment and industry are evidently lalling. Let us first have reliable high-speed internet in 95% of the country, then we can revel in new-age televisual delights!
Brian, could you provide a succint technical overview of YouView?
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Friday 20 April 2012 9:56AM
Idris: A TNTSAT box will receive all the TNT
channels from Astra on 19°East and a FRANSAT
box the same from 5°West. Other boxes will
only receive a few channels in French.