All posts by Briantist
Below are all of Briantist's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Bill: See the Switchover starts in East Sussex and Southwest Kent on Wednesday 30th May | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice page - don't forget to wait until 9am!
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Mark Fletcher: I note that all seven posts - All posts by xander | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice - are utter drivel. I was going to delete them.
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Bill: Sorry to jump in here, but one cause of Freeview pictures not looking as good as from an external box is the use of the "sharpening" setting on the TV. If you can find such a thing in the TV's picture settings, you will need to turn it off to get the best possible Freeview pictures.
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Mark: Please see Northern Ireland "mini multiplex" (NIMM) | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice for the full details.
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Robert: Just noting in passing you wrote
"The transmitter has, at the very top the aerials which were used to transmit the 4 channel analogue TV service below are the array of digital pods,"
Your tense is incorrect. The top of the mast WAS used for digital services, but this part of the transmitter was upgraded about a year ago for DSO and then was used for the analogue four until DSO happened. Since DSO the new equipment at the top of the mast is used for digital output.
The "pods" as you call them - the usual name is "panels" are no longer in use. On some site they are being retained in case the main stuff fails, on others the equipment is being stripped.
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Rog: It's a shame you missed out what people say "PAL" stood for: People Are Lavender.
BSB wasn't PAL, of course, it was D-MAC. Which sorted out the colour problems, BSB pictures were technically the best by a country mile.
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Mark Barden: Freeview HD switches between 1080i, 1080p automatically. Some 720 and 576 content is used for legacy reasons at times.
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michael: It's not *state* secret, but it is a commercial one.
If you become a member of the DTG - Joining the DTG - you get all the details.
However, I don't have a spare ten thousand pounds...
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Sarah C: You can now see Freeview news | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
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Tuesday 29 May 2012 7:30PM
Steve: PAL is an analogue standard and is no longer used to broadcast TV in your area. You are using DVB-T (or DVB-T2) if you are lucky.
You have not said which software you are using, but the good ones (Windows Media Centre) uses the correct channel numbers, cheaper ones ignore it.