All posts by Briantist
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SeeMoreDigital: you mean "Freeview boxes"... The most popular way digital radio is used today?
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SeeMoreDigital: Let me answer that a bit more now I have a proper keyboard in front of me. My mobile phone answers are a bit... terse.
There are several issues in using Freeview (DVB-T) reception for radio.
1) Freeview (DVB-T) signal output levels are designed to be captured by a rooftop aerial. Robust indoor reception is not possible in most places, whereas DAB is supposed to offer most homes reception with a small indoor aerial;
2) Freeview bitrates and encoding systems means that the power consumption for decoding requires a mains-connected box. DAB reception is possible using batteries.
3) Freeview is generally a MFN (multi-frequency network) where as DAB is a SFN (single frequency network). DAB signals add together to provide better reception.
4) Freeview doesn't work if you are moving a "motorway speeds", DAB is robust enough to deal with reception whilst moving;
5) DAB is designed for mobile reception (such as in-car) as the SFN signals can be used all over the UK. A Freeview radio would, if it could get the signals, need to keep retuning.
6) The configuration of Freeview means that most of the multiplexes are UK wide (only two DAB multiplexes are UK-wide) and the services break down, at best, into regional services. The system isn't designed for local radio, whereas DAB is configured for local radio, as well as overlay regional services (such as "Yorkshire" or "London 3").
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"I notice that UKFree was very quiet about the abandoment of the FM switch off. "
The postponement of the inetivatble was here Read this: Radio Today - Reaction to DAB Switchover announcement | ukfree.tv - 11 years of independent, free digital TV advice and here Read this: Radio Today - No switchover date for DAB, Vaizey says | ukfree.tv - 11 years of independent, free digital TV advice amongst others.
Just saying...
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trevorjharris: "Using a mobile phone as a remote control would be a much easier way to control a television."
I can't agree more.
Chromecast
is a rather wonderful thing.
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SeeMoreDigital: "I'd be interested to know if there's any year on year statistics for people listening to digital radio stations via DVB-T TV and DAB. "
The figures are in here http://stakeholders.ofcom….pdf
Everything you could ever possibly want to know!
Page 222 "Figure 3.11 Devices used to listen to radio Television 31%"
Figure 3.13 Listening to radio via internet, television, mobile phone and DAB
How often, if at all, do you access the radio via Digital radio via: TV, Internet, DAB radio, mobile phone?
UK2013 Digital TV 27%, Internet 22%, DAB 25%, Mobile phone 20%.
Figure 3.18 Digital radio's share of radio listening: Q1 2013
Internet 5.0%
Digital unspecified 1.8%
DTV 5.0%
DAB 22.5%
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Denis Allen: Hi.
Can you explain what it is you do normally to "video programmes"?
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G Bryant: Not using Freeview , the broadcast is specifically a local one.
The channel is on satellite, but only to Sky subscribers with cards registered in London.
And you can watch online, follow this link: Watch Live | London Live
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Stan: The problem is, surely, that 90,000 people is a very small number, given that there are 63,230,000 people in the United Kingdom.
As the cost of transmission is fixed, the cost-per-listener-hour goes up and up as the number of users diminish.
Sadly, the BBC can't really be expected to provide a "special service" for the 0.14% of the population who for some reason can't use DAB or DVB-T or DVB-S or DVB-C or IP or even FM to listen to ONE radio service.
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Denis: By "video recorder", I'm guessing you mean a Freeview+ box, rather than something using video cassettes?
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Tuesday 15 April 2014 7:58AM
"in Section 2 we set out our proposals for including provisions within the Technical Codes for the DAB+ encoding system;"