All posts by Dave Lindsay
Below are all of Dave Lindsay's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Pete Green: They were encrypted and BT subscribers had access to them, along with those of Top Up TV. So BT was definitely involved, whether directly or indirectly. It stands to reason that, ultimately BT (and Top Up TV) were providing finance for these services to be carried.
The BT Sport services are on DTT in lieu of the Sky Sports. BT has clearly put a lot into its BT Sport project, having secured the rights to high-profile sport and having hired high-profile presenters.
As the old saying goes "money talks", I should imagine.
Search the internet for information. Sky Sports is still available to BT customers, but streamed via their broadband connections (rather than over the air like a "normal" television channel). Customers whose connections aren't fast enough aren't happy.
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Neil: The answer must be that something's changed. As you are in the area, you are better-placed than anyone to give a more definitive answer. We can only speculate on here. Some possibilities are trees growing - perhaps when the leaves fall off the signal will return - or perhaps someone has built an extension or changed their roof tiles.
The point of all this is that in a situation such as yours you are relying on things not to change (to the degree which your picture will be affected). Usually this isn't possible so you are at the liberty of factors outside your control.
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Stephen: Because the aerial you are using (the Moel-y-Parc one) is pointing at 90 degrees to where the signal is coming from. Maybe at times the signal is being reflected onto the front of the aerial by some other object, or some other effect caused by moving/changing objects such as trees. Maybe even, because you are low down, a motor vehicle on ground that is higher and perhaps nearer the height of your aerial is reflecting the Winter Hill signal.
There is no reason why you can't keep the other aerial with a separate downlead to your lounge. Or just turn it to face Winter Hill, retaining the diplexer as it is.
We have already seen channels 61 to 68 cleared for use by 4G mobile operators. In future, channels 60 and below may be cleared, such as for 5G.
This will obviously affect those viewers using Group C/D aerials (on Group C/D transmitters). C/D channels are officially 48 to 68.
If Winter Hill's channels are moved downwards further then they may go onto Group B channels (35 to 53). Moel-y-Parc uses Group B channels, so presumably your MyP aerial is Group B (if not wideband). For this reason it might be wise to keep it because it might be of use in the future, if your Winter Hill aerial is a C/D one.
See:
Aerials, TV Aerial and Digital Aerial
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Nobby: Have you replaced your aerial with a wideband one?
Also, do you have a second aerial pointing to the King's Lynn transmitter at Sandringham?
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Duncan: Maybe you are receiving from the Wenvoe transmitter, near to Culverhouse Cross.
A wideband aerial isn't necessary for Wenvoe so that point probably isn't relevant.
See whether there are any trees that your aerial may be sitting in the shadow of. The leaves growing may make reception worse because there will be less signal getting through.
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J.Tremlett: Because the Commercial (COM) channels broadcast by Beacon Hill aren't tuned in.
If you are wishing to receive the COM channels from Beacon Hill then your aerial should be directed to it and not to the Dartmouth relay, this being to give you the best chance of reliable reception.
Have you tried manually tuning the three COM channels: 42, 45, 51?
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franky: It's only a prediction and therefore not a forecast of what "will" happen.
There must be a reason that the prediction changes, but the Digital UK predictor doesn't give anything away on that score.
I don't think it's anything to be concerned about.
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Ian Young: Is this on all six channels (five it isn't a HD receiver)?
Those channels being:
BBC One
STV
BBC One HD
ITV3
Pick TV
Film4
If you are using an amplifier try bypassing it.
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Ray Clarke: Satellite receivers, including Sky, require a separate feed from the dish for each channel that is being received. So a recorder allows one channel to be watched on the TV whilst recording another. This is the reason for there being two feeds from the dish. As you don't have a Sky subscription the recording part of the box is disabled and therefore there is actually no need to have two feeds from the dish.
The purpose of the terrestrial aerial in on the Sky box is so as to loop the aerial through the Sky box in order to allow it to place an analogue signal onto it so that it may be viewed in a different room. If you are viewing the Sky box only in the room which it resides then connect the TV to it using a scart lead (or HDMI if both devices have it) and don't connect the aerial lead via the Sky box.
The Sky box does not have anything to do with Freeview. The only reason for feeding the terrestrial aerial into a Sky box is as outlined above.
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Wednesday 3 July 2013 2:35PM
rob newton: Yes.
Gold is not on Freeview, but is on digital terrestrial television (DTT). It is encrypted and can only be viewed by subscribing to a service such as Top Up TV.
If Drama were to be a subscription channel then it couldn't be on "Freeview", as stated at the top of this page.