All posts by Briantist
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ian from notts: Actually, Sky Televison Ltd and British Satellite Broadcasting MERGED into one company, Sky didn't "take over". British Sky Broadcasting always had the original BSB investors on board and they divested themselves only when BSkyB became a PLC.
The squarial was not a dish, it was an active surface of receivers that acted as the LNB, a normal "dish" is a concave reflective surface that reflects signals into the LNB.
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John Bryan: You are very kind, I am pleased to hear you find the DAB maps useful.
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Mazbar: There's a page about the device here - Squarial - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - they were a good idea, but the traditional dish and LNB proved to be a cheaper option in the long run.
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If you want more details about the Sky vs
BSB days, the best book is this one - Amazon.co.uk: Used and New: Dished!: Rise and Fall of British Satellite Broadcasting .
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Iain Davies: Basically, not a chance.
As I covered in ITV1+1, ITV1HD, BBC One HD regional services on Freeview | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice the HD services do not have regions.
BBC One HD is a "national" service, not the 15 regions in SD. Which BBC regions are on satellite? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice
BBC TWO HD will be the "England" service, not the 4 nations in SD.
ITV1 HD has four regions at the moment in HD, not even all the advertister regions, and not all the "classic" news regions.
Channel 4 HD doesn't have it's six ad regions - Macro Map | Interactive Map of Our Regions with Data .
Channel 5 HD would need it's four ad regions too - Macro Map | Interactive Map of Our Regions with Data .
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John: You have to wait until 14 Mar 12, you don't have to wait for Heathfield to close because the frequencies change at Midhurt in March there will be no clash.
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jb38: The chart is from Multi-Channel Development 1992-2011 (Homes 000's) .
I don't really mind when people point out things in a polite way, it's just when there are people who make one really offensive post because something a tiny bit wrong.
But I do have to keep an eye on a huge heap of external information that is published in many formats. Some of it I have automated, such as the radio transmitter maps, which are imported directly from a .CSV file from Ofcom's site.
Ofcom generally rather annoyingly publish huge heaps of information in Acrobat files that I can't even import from, and this requires me to sit with the PDF on one monitor and my database on the other screen checking things manually!
Some thing I have script that check other databases such as DMOL and Lungsat and supply me with lists of changes so I can do manual checks and updates at my end.
The BARB graphs are automatic from their data, some data such the the "radiation patterns" for the transmitters requires "Freedom of Information" requests to get at it.
I agree it is confusing when you have a "Dave" and another "dave" on the same page. I'll see what I can do to help differentiate these.
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Thursday 3 November 2011 3:59PM
keef: The Crystal Palace transmitter was off from midnight to 6am for testing of the post-DSO services. It's listed on the Freeview on Crystal Palace TV transmitter | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice page. The same will happen tonight.