All posts by Briantist
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KMJ,Derby: We are talking about considering this move in 2025. Plenty of time for Freeview Connect to be worked on. BBC, ITV gang up on YouView with 'FreeView Connect' • The Register
Interestingly enough, not much seems to have changed since my January 2012 article A brief history of Internet Protocol Television | Connected TV | ukfree.tv - 11 years of independent, free digital TV advice
I also note with interest TV viewing figures show Brits prefer traditional sets over smartphones | Media | The Guardian
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Tuhel Hussain: According to News - DVB
"Digital Terrestrial Television will be started soon on an experimental basis probably in the cities of Dhaka, Chittagong and Khulna, according to the BTV website.
Last year Bangladesh Television invited Tenders for the supply, installation and commissioning of a VHF Band III (174-230 MHz) DVB-T solid state 3.5kW rms transmitters and the related services for the establishment of a development digital channel.
Four Digital studios are also under construction and the country plans to complete its switch from analogue to digital terrestrial broadcasting by 2015. "
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Mark Agius: As MikeB points to, Arqiva were offered the frequencies to extend the commercial multiplexes, for no extra charge.
They declined to ask for them because expanding the coverage for these multiplexes in terms of viewers would not allow them to charge the channel providers any more - the marginal cost per extra viewer was too high.
They would have had to - at least - double their costs to gain an extra 10 percentage points of viewers.
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Rob dumgal: The whole reason that the BBC (and others) services are on multiple platforms (satellite, cable, terrestrial and on-line) is that no system can deliver perfectly to 100% of homes.
There are plenty of people in buildings or locations where satellite reception is not possible.
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Colin Swan: God alone knows where you get the idea that the BBC has anything to do with "Christian morals of the population" either now or in the past. If you have a reference I would like to know it, but the current Royal Charter makes it clear that the BBC serves everyone, whatever their faith or - as is more likely in the UK - lack of it.
Given that the BBC was the ONLY broadcaster until the 1950s for TV and the 1970s for radio, it used to not just have 'big audience' programmes - it had 'all audience' programmes.
The British definition of PSB is that it provides a service for everyone. That means 'big audiences' (thus BBC One) and 'minorities' (such as BBC Four for people with an education, and BBC three for those still obtaining one).
"The TV licence is a very unfair compulsory TAX and needs to be abolished" - I think Ishot that particular duck on Does the BBC or BSkyB spend more on programmes? | About UK Free TV | ukfree.tv - 11 years of independent, free digital TV advice . No one is making YOU pay the TV Licence. You can choose to not own a TV, it's not compulsory.
"BBC should be subscription only and people who wanted their programmes could pay for them." is an opinion.
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MikeP: The main reason for having cable AND satellite AND terrestrial AND internet platforms for TV is that none is suitable to provide blanket coverage.
Thankfully, the places were DTT does not reach (or only reaches with PSB) are usually rural and suitable for satellite reception.
Also, cable is a good choice in urban areas where satellite dishes can't (or won't) be fitted.
And the multiplicity of IP services (from fibre-optic to ADSL to Wifi and 3G, 4G) provide more coverage.
I don't think the "White Spaces" are intended to help areas not covered by DTT or DTT/COM.
The point - if there is one - is that is it possible to use UHF channels that can't be used for high power (ie, 200,000W) TV signals, but can be used and re-used for networks of Wifi hubs which are limited to 20 dBm (100 mW).
Yes, yes, they might get taken off air when there's Troposcopic Ducting.
Rural communities sometimes have excellent TV reception, as TV transmitters are located in the countryside.
It is generally the hilly and mountainous areas that are hard to serve with signals.
"Freeview Light" is not intended to provide 100% coverage, only 98% of the population. The remaining 2% are expected to stick up a dish.
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michael: Ah yes, the 89/552/EEC of 3 October 1989 http://europa.eu/legislat….htm :
The "Television Without Frontiers" Directive (TVWF Directive) is the cornerstone of the European Union's audiovisual policy. It rests on two basic principles: the free movement of European television programmes within the internal market and the requirement for TV channels to reserve, whenever possible, more than half of their transmission time for European works ("broadcasting quotas"). The TVWF Directive also safeguards certain important public interest objectives, such as cultural diversity, the protection of minors and the right of reply. In December 2005 the Commission submitted a proposal to revise the TVWF Directive.
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rob: Thanks. It's certainly a non-trivial amount of time to do all this.
It's good to hear that people like it. Makes it worth the time.
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michael: I wonnder if you've ever heard of διαίÃÂει καὶ βαÃίλεÅε? Divide and rule - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia .
To be honest, it seems a poor idea to me. But if you're happy to be bought out, I'm not able to stop you.
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Monday 17 February 2014 7:57PM
Michael Walker: "Shutting down Freeview and giving us a choice of subscription-based satellite, cable or Internet-based alternatives surely would run against this obligation to PSB. "
You have missed the bit about the FREE PROVISION of internet services to compensate for the loss of Freeview.