All posts by Dave Lindsay
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LV: The link I provided is to the map showing power outages. The one applicable to the postcode sector BN9 9 occured at 30-DEC-2013 13:10:27.
Perhaps, therefore, the power has been turned off to the transmitter site so as to reconnect other premises in the area, which could have been without power since Monday.
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Stephen: I don't know whether the BBC has introduced any regions for HD. It's likely to happen at some point, I suppose.
I think that the way to look at the issue is of why ITV has introduced regions rather than why the BBC has not.
ITV makes its living from showing adverts. By having macro regions it allows better targetting of advertising and therefore a better return from advertisers. Even Channel 4 and Channel 5 have different regions so as to show different commercials to different parts of the country.
Therefore macro-regional programming on ITV HD exists only because of the creation of those large regions for advertising purposes. If you think about it, this means that "regional" content accounts for maybe 25% of ITV output (the exact figure depending on the duration of commercials). Regional news content represents a much smaller percentage of airtime.
ITV sells advertising to macro regions, regions and, in some cases, micro-regions:
The new HD services from the BBC and others, which are available on Freeview on a quasi-national basis, will help drive the uptake of Freeview HD receivers.
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Marion: Where is your aerial point?
If it is directed to the main transmitter at Llandona then be aware that the Caergybi (Holyhead) transmitter is but a stonesthrow away at the fire station.
Particularly as Caergybi uses lower frequencies than Llandona then your receiver could have chosen to use it. Most receivers give information on the signal strength screen as to which signal it is tuned to. Use this to identify whether it is tuned correctly or not.
"If" your aerial points to Llandona then check that BBC One is tuned to UHF channel 57 (762MHz). Caergybi broadcasts BBC on UHF channel 21 (474MHz).
If it's tuned incorrectly to Caergybi then just have the aerial lead out for the first 30% of the scan so it isn't in during scanning of its frequencies.
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Chris Stanford: The new HD multiplex is on lower power than the rest, so perhaps your reception is marginal (touch-and-go). If your receiver has a built-in booster it might be worth turning it on for these services.
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Walt: Yes it is. Your issue is probably caused by its transmission not being as powerful as the main Freeview channels, as well as being directional rather than omni-directional (like the main Freeview channels).
See here:
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Lisa Davidson: Because payment of a TV Licence is required by law in order to view TV broadcasts. It gives no warranties as to reception, subtitles or anything else.
In any case, the Licence Fee funds only the BBC which enables it to be commercial free. Thus, Movie Mix is not a BBC service, and neither are any others which shows advertisements. It is totally illogical for anyone to suggest that the BBC should receive less revenue simply because another, unconnected, broadcaster makes a decision such as not providing subtitles.
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Duncan Hughes: Which transmitter were you previously receiving from with reliable reception?
If you had BBC Wales and ITV Wales then this must have been from Wrexham Rhos. If you did then has the degradation coincided with a development? It appears there is/was something being built on what was grass between High Street and Broughton Heights. Whilst this is close to the transmitter, and therefore where there may be a clear path over the top of new buildings, I wonder if the fact that your receive aerial is lower down could be an issue.
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Steve Shaw: I would think there is no issue now.
Prior to switchover, Taptop Hill's digital broadcast on some of the channels that Totley used for its analogue. Thus, from what you say, the transmitter didn't broadcast in your direction so that viewers of Totley didn't find their reception degraded by Taptop Hill. Basically the pre-switchover was squeezed in where it could, with compromises as to coverage such as that afforementioned.
In the days of analogue TV, why didn't you use Tapton Hill? Or did you? Was the Belmont aerial installed specifically to give you Freeview before switchover?
P.S. You should also be able to receive the new quasi-national HD multiplex (BBC Four HD, BBC News HD etc) when it comes on air later this year.
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Wednesday 1 January 2014 2:06PM
lewis, howard, GRAHAM BAGLEY, LV: Perhaps to do with the power outage?
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