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Steve Baker: The channels most people miss from Freesat are the UKTV ones (Dave, Drama, Yesterday, and Really) plus Quest and 4Music.
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Mike Davison: From what I recall they could produce a great bass sound, but as they didn't actually sit on the floor you wouldn't get the effect of a wooden speaker.
I guess that you would probably use a sub-woofer if you wanted the floor to shake.
Someone stole mine, so I only have fond memories: especially of them taking up a lot of space.
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Mike Davison: One thing I do remember from being a child in the early 1980s and going to "hi-fi shows" to see my god father.
QUAD would get their one pair of speakers and one amp out and demonstrate it with a range of music from classical.
Then you would go around the show and see other stands. Wharfedale would have their "laser" speakers and they would demonstrate them in turn, with the same music (I recall the BBC Radiophonic Workshop's "The Astronauts") and you could hear the inferiority of each.
Then I would see say KEF with their silly "bounce the sound around" speakers (that looked for all the world like K-9).
Explore KEF - Reference Series Model 105 - KEF United Kingdom
To this very day there's brands I don't trust because of their poor performance in Harrogate in 1981!
I've mostly got B&W speakers: a main pair of studio monitors, and the "Blue Room minipods".
I friend had some of these B&W speakers
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Edward50: BBC Radio 5 Live is broadcast on Medium Wave from current sites.
There is no chance whatsoever of the BBC expanding the network. None. At all.
I'm sure you can get a good DAB signal: ukdigitalradio: Coverage says so.
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Riv-dogg: Thanks... mostly sorted now healthwise.. just physiotherapy.
I've done a quick diagram to show the a 44 minute "hour" in the UK and US.
The UK version is for the "max 12 minutes". Any additional time tends to get moved into promos, rather than content.
The US format has 12 national and 4 local ad minutes per hour.
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Mike Dimmick: I just checked with "Screenwriters University" and here's the details about a "5 Act, 1 Hour Drama" - The Five Act 60 Minute Drama Script - Screenwriters University
"The timings are also affected by the programme running 4% fast. " - I'm not sure where you've got this from. I suspect you're coflating 24fps film with US TV standards. ATSC uses a 30fps.
Conversion of 30ftp to 25ftp means dropping 5 from every frames. This means there is no speed change, or sound pitch change.
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MikeP: Most programming is created at 1920x1080 "full HD" these days.
It's interesting to note that for MPEG standards the 25fps system ("625 line") are 720x576 pixels and 30ftp systems are 720x480 ("525").
The conversion is specified in the MPEG documents somewhere.
480i/30->576i (X=frame drop)
0 1 2 3 X 5 6 7 8 X 10 11 12 13 X 15 16 17 18 X 20 21 22 23 X 25 26 27 28 X
576i->480i/30 (frame holds)
0 1 2 3 4 4 5 6 7 8 9 9 10 11 12 13 14 14 15 16 17 18 19 19 20 21 22 23 24 24
The resolution is the same horizontally, so it's just a question of dropping (or anti-aliasing) the 1:1.2 ratio when converting either way.
Of course, we all use the same HD frame resolution these days.
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I has pointed out to me that the 5-Act stuff is true for "network TV" - say "The Mentalist", but not necessarily so for show on subscription cable shows say "Game of Thrones".
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Wednesday 15 January 2014 11:10AM
Steve Baker: You do get a couple of extra HD channels on Freesat, both from foreign news services (RT and NHK World).
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