All posts by Charles Stuart
Below are all of Charles Stuart's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.Something for people to note. I have found that it helps the retune on some older equipment if one first clears the currently tuned channels. On my Humax PVR-9200T I went to "Edit Channels" selected "All" and pressed delete and save. Then I did a reinstallation. I got all the channels in all the right places.
My YouView box from Talktalk updated itself without me having to do anything.
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I note that there seem to be some extra channels on an extra multiplex. These channels are duplicates of channels from more than one multiplex but not duplicates of a whole multiplex, thus I don't think I'm receiving an additional multiplex from another transmitter. Also the extra multiplex has a low channel number but its channels are ending up in the 790s. Is this a test of MUX8, which I think is the lowest channel number from Mendip?
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Use the Knoweldgebase to find answers to your technical problemFriday 10 October 2014 10:50PM
Bristol
With the technology for 4K TV broadcasts developing and the ever increasing demand for radio spectrum by the mobile phone industry, I was wondering whether it may be possible to develop hybrid terrestrial/IPTV transmissions, where the terrestrial transmission provides a standard 1080p HD channel that can be optionally synchronized with an IPTV feed to take it up to 4K. Would it be possible to do something like this, either using DVB-T2 as a base or a completely new transmission standard?
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Use the Knoweldgebase to find answers to your technical problemSaturday 11 October 2014 10:54PM
Bristol
MikeP, I understand your point but wouldn't it be possible to store the faster transmission until the slower transmission arrived and then combine them? I mean this as a standalone question, regardless of whether or not my original idea is feasible.
On a separate subject, just how many channels have they got onto COM7? I seem to make it 6 full-time equivalent HD channels plus two SD channels. If that's right, could the BBC add Red Button services and maybe another channel or two to PSB3?
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The next 50 things on UK FREE TV. What would you like to see?Tuesday 21 October 2014 12:06AM
Bristol
When you have time for a bit of fun, I think that it would be interesting to speculate about how easy or not it would be to decipher extraterrestrial television broadcasts. Imagine that we received alien transmissions. How easy would it be to determine that they were television? Are there some fundamentals about television transmissions that means any civilization developing TV broadcast technology must use these and another TV using civilization would recognize the footprint? Or could the technology be so different that we might never know that it's a TV broadcast? If we were to receive such transmissions, do you think that everyone could find themselves glued to the box watching an alien soap opera? (Imagine that we successfully receive many months of transmissions.)
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Been missing the Digital Switchover? Good news! There is goinFriday 21 November 2014 11:11PM
Bristol
I think that my view on this decision is that I'll vote for any party that promises to overrule Ofcom and cancel this plan, even if it means withdrawing from international agreements.
All these retunes are thoroughly annoying. They're usually not difficult to carry out but I think that most people are fed up with retunes and just want to settle down with what they already have.
If this does go ahead, I think that the mobile broadband providers and/or the government should pay ALL the costs of switchover for all consumers, regardless of how much they are.
If Ofcom were instead to sell off the 600MHz band and retain the 700MHz band, that might be an acceptable compromise. In the meantime, I would like to raise consumer awareness of this plan and start a campaign to get the decision overturned.
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Been missing the Digital Switchover? Good news! There is goinMonday 24 November 2014 7:23PM
Bristol
I have created an epetition. Though I've focussed the title on a desire to keep the extra HD channels, the meat of the petition is to get the government to stop another retune: Keep extra Freeview HD Channels - e-petitions .
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This evening there seems to be reduced power/interruptions on MUX 7. Currently your faults page is not showing any for Mendip. Other MUXes seem OK.
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Sunday 27 July 2014 10:16AM
Bristol
For some reason this site doesn't like the symbol for pounds sterling and it came out as a question mark.