All posts by Briantist
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Paul burn: There is my take on what you need at Upgrading from Sky+HD to Freesat+HD | Freesat | ukfree.tv - 11 years of independent, free digital TV advice ...
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peter: If you have a BT YouView box you may be able to get the BT Sport channels using the IPTV services, which don't rely on the broadcasted channels.
However ... you need the BT Infinity the "fibre to the street" service.
Looking at
Superfast Broadband – Get Fibre Optic Broadband with BT Infinity
You get
"BT Infinity isn't currently available to you.
Can I get fibre optic BT Infinity in the future?
Getting BT Infinity at your property depends on a number of factors including whether or not your telephone exchange currently supports BT Infinity and whether your street cabinet and line have been enabled.To find out more you can look up your telephone exchange on the Openreach website.
Your property is connected to WEMYSS BAY telephone exchange.
Take me to the Openreach postcode checker
More on the fibre optic rollout
You can also register your interest and we'll be in touch if you're able to receive BT Infinity."
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N smith: Film4 is now aviliable to everyone in the UK, not just those who got the full Freeview service.
However.. you need to retune (as per the on-screen message).
If you don't retune.. no Film4.
So.. do a first-time-install OR My Freeview box has no EPG, is blank on FIVE, ITV3, ITV4, ITV2+1, has no sound or the channel line up is wrong | ukfree.tv - 11 years of independent, free digital TV advice please.
Film4 is gaining viewers, not the opposite.
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Clive Porter: I would suspect that your best option is to put a dish up and get a Freesat box.
The Freesat service is specifically made for locations such as this.
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MikeB: I remember looking at one of these sets.
There is an HD tuner in it, but it's MPEG4/DVB-S2.
As Freeview HD uses MPEG4/DVB-T2, which became a standard after the TV came out, and not MPEG4/DVB-T, the set can only do HD from satellite only.
Given that there are no extra channels in HD on Freeview, this is hardly a problem, unless you've not got a dish connection.
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David: this is about the 800Mhz 4G services not the 1800MHz ones. Thus the mentions of 800 lots of times above.
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Ian from notts: Right..
The maximum zone that it has been shown than "any effect at all" can happen from a 4G mast is about 1.5km.
In theory, the Ofcom Sitefinder system should carry details of 4G services. In practice, it may not as the system is not mandatory.
Sitefinder Mobile Phone Base Station Database
You can see your existing mobile phone masts by clicking on "Reception map" and then "Zoom in to home to see mobile phone masts" - see My Freeview | ukfree.tv - 11 years of independent, free digital TV advice .
There won't be a "postcode checker" because at800 don't think that they can produce a system that will be of any use.
The don't want people coming to a checker, putting in the postcode, being told "it's OK" and the next day getting data from the operators doing the "eight week notification thing".
Postcode zones (like your NG16) are too large compared to mast locations and even full postcodes - each covering 15 properties) in rural areas are too large to decent predictions for 4G issues.
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Monday 19 August 2013 2:54PM
Paul Hancox: https://ukfree.tv/kmla.php has the data in Google Earth (KML) format.