All posts by Dave Lindsay
Below are all of Dave Lindsay's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Alistair McNeill: Please can you give us your post code so we can give a more accurate answer?
What channels are you getting? Is it just BBC, ITV1, ITV1+1, ITV2, C4, C4+1, E4, More4, C5? What else do you get?
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trevor long: I would say that one issue you might have is caused by the fact that you are in an area where you might pick up signals from different transmitters and that means your receivers could have tuned to the wrong one to which your aerials face.
A quick look on Google Streetview of your area shows most aerials on Midhurst (234degrees horizontal).
What transmitter is your aerial pointing at? If you don't know, then the direction should help work out which it is.
What UHF channel has your TV tuned to? This information is probably given on the signal strength/quality screen. Based on the Digital UK predictor, it will be either 31, 34, 45, 52 or 56. Having found this, we then need to see if this is the same as that used by the transmitter to which your aerial faces.
What BBC and ITV regions do you normally get (on analogue)?
What UHF channel is ITV1 on (same procedure as above)?
This will help finding out what transmitter your receiver is picking up incorrectly (if this is the case).
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trevor long: See also this page:
Digital Region Overlap | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice
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trevor long: If your aerial is not on Midhurst, is it on Hannington which is 276 degrees?
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Dave Harrison: There are a number of relay transmitters of Tacolneston south of The Wash.
See here:
http://stakeholders.ofcom….pdf
You might be able to receive from one of these and use Belmont to get the rest of the commercial channels. This will require a second aerial.
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Bill Bullock: I've just had a look at BBC One HD on the EPG on the HD television in my house and at 18:30 instead of Look North it says "This is BBC One HD".
Next Monday at 19:30 it is Inside Out (same as BBC One) which varies by region. The synopsis for the HD edition is different to that of BBC One (standard definition). I wonder if the Inside Out on BBC One HD is the London one.
I would say that the reason that you get the message will be to do with feeding the signal into the transmitters.
Think about BBC One. Most of the time the pictures fed to all transmitters come from London. During regional programming, each area has different a programme fed into its transmitters. I remember when we had analogue you could tell on BBC One when a regional programme was coming up (the local news) because a few minutes before there was a momentary blip in the picture (e.g. during the weather at the end of the Six O'Clock News). That would have been so that the local BBC region could insert its own programming into the transmission system.
Now, it stands to reason that in order to do the same with BBC One HD that there would have to be the equipment to input these many different variations. That is, each region would have to have its own. It probably doesn't warrant the cost because it would be a waste if local news programmes aren't filmed in HD.
The reason you see BBC London News momentarily is because of what I said. That is that the feed comes from London. If they were not to display the red screen, and show London News, then it stands to reason that it would be shown all over the UK. This is because in order to show London News in London and the red screen everywhere else there would need to be an opt-out, i.e. two feeds for BBC One HD and I don't think that they would go to such expense, particularly when it's already been decided not to go with regional programming on HD anyway.
Is the BBC One HD slot showing "This is BBC One HD" in the London area as it is here in Yorkshire?
I'm surprised that they don't just replicate what's on the BBC News Channel between 18:30 and 19:00 Monday to Friday. Same goes for other regional news bulletins.
BTW, 101 probably refers to satellite.
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Ian: Nope, not likely. See here:
Will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice
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Harleen: Are you using a set-top aerial? As you're in a flat, have you tried using the roof-top aerial provided?
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P T Chapman: Payment of the licence fee does not guarantee receipt of signals at all.
In any case, the channels Dave, ITV3 and ITV4 operate on a commercial basis whereby they only put up transmitters where they wish. In order to broadcast from over 1,000 relays, including Combe Martin, it would roughly double the cost of transmission whilst only giving them another 6% of the population to watch the adverts.
See here for a fuller explanation:
Will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice
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Monday 28 November 2011 12:36PM
Dave Pearsons: It looks like you will have to wait until 27th June 2012 to get Film4 etc.