All posts by Briantist
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michael hargreaves: It is more likely that the rather expensive cost of providing them will not increase the number of viewers sufficiently for the channel to increase the advertising revenue.
That's why Ofcom has to force channels to provide them - it's a "market failure".
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Michael: "Sky Arts" is simply a way of getting hard-to-reach Guardian readers to subscribe to the pay satellite service.
If you want the "Sky Arts" channels, it's £378 for the year - Sky Entertainment Extra+ - Get the full range of Sky entertainment channels, over 45 HD channels, Box Sets on demand, 3D entertainment .
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Dear me, it seem that people are getting "radio signals" and "radioactivity" mixed up!
Given that the 800 MHz UHF band had been used for analogue TV at high powers for, what, half a century and no-one has ever got even the slightest bit ill from one anywhere on planet Earth.
If anyone can suggest why a Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access/Multiple-Input and Multiple-Output/Single-Carrier Frequency-Division Multiple Access encoded signal should be any more dangerous than an analogue TV one then I will smile at them with my special smile that I reserve for people in shops who try to sell me 100-quid HDMI cables because it will somehow "look after the bits better".
More at Tin foil hat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ian: Perhaps they are going to use it for the extra Freeview HD services between 2013 and 2018?
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I've had another look and the channel seems to have closed.
List of former TV channels in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia lists the channel as closing on 13th June 2013.
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Brennig/Paul: The most common explanation for rain causing degradation to Freeview viewing is that rainwater is getting into the cables.
This can happen if the aerial has been moving around and opened up part of the construction, or - as is more common - the cable has deteriorated.
It's often best to use satellite-grade cable from the aerial to the receiver as this higher quality cable keeps out water much better.
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Saturday 15 June 2013 2:23PM
Dave Lindsay: As far as I know, the use of Wideband aerials makes no difference.
I will look into this, but we won't know for sure until at800 publish the trail results in full.