All posts by Briantist
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paul: To add to what Ian from notts says, another cause of such problems has been faulty street or "emergency" lighting.
It's clearly NOT 4G as that is on all the time.
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David Bayliss: You won't get any English channels - the Freeview DTT signals don't reach beyond the UK's borders.
There are about 25 free-to-air channels on French DTT, most of which are in MPEG2.
So, if you have a Freeview HD box, you will get a few more channels.
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Iain Davies : Except it's not.
The telecoms companies want the 700MHz band next.
Looks like they will get it from 2019, so in five years time there will have to be a whole new set of changes.
Le plus ca change, as they say.
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James Kerr: you can use Freeview HD for now, or manual tune to one of the ITV England regions.
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Paul Scott: Sorry, but there's no one to complain to, as you signed a bit of paper with this:
on it. Of your own free will.
More here Upgrading from Sky+HD to Freesat+HD | Freesat | ukfree.tv - 11 years of independent, free digital TV advice
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MJ Ray: Thanks.
The "offical" maps bt ITV for Anglia http://www.itvmedia.co.uk.pdf shows the split thus:
The maps here - ITV, UTV and STV regions - overview map - more or less match. The border is produced using the "strongest signal" rule.
The region maps - ITV Anglia (East micro region) and ITV Anglia (West micro region) show the overlap.
Of course, Sky and Freesat use postcodes which means you can put the border where you like.
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MJ Ray: I don't mean to sound "defensive", but I am just going to quibble about the use of "overestimates" in your comment.
The maps on UK Free TV are computed, not hand-drawn. Taken into account is the best information about the transmitter heights, the output power and radiation patterns.
This is combined with OS mapping data and, much computing later (I use a 20 CPU instance on AWS) the maps are produced.
The computations used what I understand to be that industry standards and used internationally.
The only things I don't have is ground cover (ie, forest) information that would make winter/summer calculations better, and urban buildings data.
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Tuesday 30 July 2013 3:49PM
Jade: Some of the stations will move to the new more local DAB multiplexes.