All posts by Briantist
Below are all of Briantist's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
MJ Ray: It's not a question of the EPG listing charge for most of the not-on-Freesat channels.
The main culprit is UKTV, which is half-owned by the BBC and half by Scrips.
According to "people who know", the BBC doesn't wish the UKTV channels to be on Freesat, because UKTV is supposed to keep a "foot in each bucket" so to speak.
Thus, UKTV is subscription on Sky and Virgin, but has free-to-air channels on Freeview.
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Mark Heselden: I am really pleased you like the "advanced mode".
It's certainly true that you actually need a line-of-sight to get a signal in all circumstances, due to the Fresnel_zone (
Fresnel zone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ).
The prediction system backend uses Fresnel zone calculations, but I left them off the line-of-sight diagrams as it just adds another layer of complications.
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John Robinson/PJH: I have done diagram with the channel numbers - Which BBC regions are on satellite? | ukfree.tv - 10 years of independent, free digital TV advice .
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chris: It's not "a lot" of people... less than 7.5% use IE8 on XP...
You can always use XP with Firefox, Chrome, Safari or Opera.
See:
http://support.google.com…5411
Mozilla Firefox 20 System Requirements
Opera system requirements
Safari 5.1.7 for Windows
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Let's not be silly. This site uses International System of Units - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia as it is the best way not to make mistakes when doing scienfitic calculations.
In addition, of course, the terrain data was provided Ordance Survey in meters using the British National Grid ( Ordnance Survey National Grid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ) which is based around km squares.
And it has nothing at all to do with my never being taught "imperial" measurements at school (nor did we do money in LSD either).
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Jonathan: As it says in the article at the top of the page
Section 134 of the Communications Act 2003 sets out the principle "that no person should unreasonably be denied access to an electronic communications network or to electronic communications services."
The notes for this Act are at Communications Act 2003
If you signed a covenant, then you are usually bound to the provisions of the contract, as your agreement was "reasonable".
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Anthony Easom: The whole point of Pick TV, as a channel, is to provide a "barker" for the channel's owner, British Sky Broadcasting plc.
I suspect you will find that whoever promotes the most, gets promoted.
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peter: Thank you. It's always nice to hear that the work is appreciated.
I'm a bit of a hellenophile, so I tend to think that everything scientific goes back to Pythagoras, Archimedes, Plato, Ptolemy, Euclid and Aristotle (see BBC - Radio 4 - In Our Time - Archive by Era: Ancient Greece - page 1 )
Interestingly, speaking of ancient geometry (literally geo- "earth", -metron "measurement" - ), Eratosthenes got the measure of the earth's circumference about right (39690 km, about 2% out) in about 200 BC.
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Wednesday 8 May 2013 4:30PM
Pete Green: Please see Want EVEN better ADVANCED aerial to Freeview transmitter terrain plots? | About UK Free TV | ukfree.tv - 10 years of independent, free digital TV advice - there is now an "advanced options".