All posts by Dave Lindsay
Below are all of Dave Lindsay's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
tony mccaul: Yes, Muldonagh will supply you with Freeview. An outside aerial is generally preferred and as you would probably be best served by using it.
The only thing to be wary of is that Muldonagh will only relay the Public Service channels which carry BBC standard definition and high definition, BBC radio, UTV, UTV+1, UTV HD, ITV2, Channel 4, Channel 4+1, Channel 4HD, E4, More4 and Channel 5.
Unfortunately this isn't likely to change and you don't appear to be in an area that is served by a full service transmitter.
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Terry: Freeview makes available four HD channels: BBC One HD, BBC HD, ITV1 HD and Channel 4 HD.
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Liz Charlton: Carry out a manual scan of UHF channel 55 if your Bravia allows manual tuning; this is where ITV1, C4 etc is up until 26th.
Failing that, you will probably have to wait until then in order to get it back.
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Terry: These are text services. For example, logical channel number (LCN) 106 is "Mail Travel TV". I just went on it and it said to press the Text button on the remote which I did and this then came up with a the logo for the Daily Mail and a text page.
BBC Red Button is another such service which is on LCN 105, although it is also available by pressing text or the red button on any BBC standard definition service.
Personally I set all these to skip.
See here for a full list of services:
DTG :: DTT Services by Multiplex
At the top of the page is the configuration pre-switchover (pre-DSO) and below that is post-switchover (post-DSO).
Each table shows a multiplex, which is a single signal that carries multiple services.
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Lee: Lots of informaion on ATV's site:
Television Aerial Boosters / Amplifiers, Splitters, Diplexers & Triplexers
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Ronald: All Freeview transmitters carry HD after switchover.
Some TVs are labelled as "HD Ready" which means that they can show HD pictures but do not have the means to receive HD signals and therefore require a separate box for such pictures.
Are you sure that the TV has a HD tuner in-built? Does it mention "Freeview HD"?
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David: I imagine it is totally insignificant. A quick look at a number of transmitters shows that they all say this.
Some times there may be a date which says "Reception change" where the reception prediction changes, usually due to another transmitter somewhere having being calculated as potentially having an impact.
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Paul: Never.
There are now two types of broadcaster in the UK: Public Service (PSB) and Commercial (COM).
The Commercial ones are purely profit-driven organisations and the Public Service ones, as the name implies, have a Public Service obligation.
The COM channels achieve coverage of 90% of the population by broadcasting from 81 of the largest transmitters (largest by viewer population).
There are over 1,000 PSB-only relays like Kingsbridge which serve about 8.5% of the population. For the COMs to add them to their portfolio would roughly double their cost of transmission. As they operate purely for profit derived from advertisers which requires viewers, then they wish to acquire most viewers at lowest possible cost. For this reason it isn't surprising that they don't wish to double their cost of transmission in order to add about 10% to their existing viewer base.
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Paul: Again, it is down to individual channels what platforms they wish to go on.
I guess that it is probably more profitable for them to pay to be free-to-air on the Freeview Commercial channels as well as Sky's subscription service.
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Monday 17 September 2012 10:11AM
Mr M. T. Whittle: These services are carried on Mux D and it is presently on UHF channel 57 from Fenham and C53 from Pontop Pike. Check that it hasn't tuned to the other.
If it is tuned correctly, then hopefully when it goes to full power on 26th, it will come good.