All posts by Briantist
Below are all of Briantist's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
josh: Can you check What does "Full HD Ready" actually mean? | UK Free TV - News | ukfree.tv - 11 years of independent, free digital TV advice ?
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Nigel: "please provide a full (not partial) postcode (or preferably enter it in box at the top right) "
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KEVIN GARDINER: I thought I'd sent you an email about this information.
I've got to be careful that I don't upset Digital UK because the information is copyright to them, unless I get the same data though Ofcom, as Ofcom is a public body and hence the information is then in the "public domain".
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Aerialman: The "Co-allocation" allocations of frequencies are listed on the Winter Hill (Bolton, England) transmitter | ukfree.tv - 11 years of independent, free digital TV advice in the How will the Winter Hill (Bolton, England) transmission frequencies change over time? ection.
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Ian: It is an interesting discussion point to wonder if direct-to-home satellite distribution of AV content will remain viable in the longer term.
Certainly there isn't the pressure to share the frequencies with other services that you have with DTT vs 4G.
Given that the current "time-frame" for thinking about services is in the 2015-2025/30, it seems quite possible that by 2025/30 that all services that are currently on FTA and pay DTH satelite will have migrated online.
That would certainly be true of the "minority" channels (those that don't score 0.1% in the BARB tables) and it seems quite likely that in this timeframe most of the content on the re-purpose channels (like UKTV) or "imports" channels (say Sky 1) will have move to on-demand type services.
That leaves "mass audience" channels (BBC One, ITV) being watch "live" plus specialist sports service.
You might find that there is a "legacy" service being run on DTH satellite by 2025, or that it will be online with DTT used for a few remaining "live" channels.
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It's worth remembering that Freeview is used by 75% of UK homes, so
Freeview still has government support, says Ed Vaizey | Media | theguardian.com
Ed Vaizey, the communications minister, has moved to allay fears that Freeview faces a threat of "switch off by stealth", saying the government will not "take any chances" over the service being squeezed off the airwaves it occupies.
Access to free-to-air television [on Freeview] is essential," said Vaizey, speaking at the Digital TV Group Summit on the future of television. "Caroline [Thomson] is doing her job raising industry concerns. I can assure the industry that we are not going to abandon it, we are going to support it."
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KEVIN GARDINER: I'm guessing you are refering to https://www.itu.int/rec/d…tems the High efficiency video coding?
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Ian: Putting the "being fair" hat on for a moment:
a) we are taking some years ahead;
b) buffering isn't something most people have had for years due to the use of CDN (content delivery networks) and the use of technologies such as edge-caching;
c) the DTG have a working group to deal with the issues of perfect video delivery on 4G. The discussion yesterday said that a lot of this was down to software rather than network issues;
d) wireless internet (as pointed out in the same session) is still a radio transmission and never immune from interruption.
e) it remains true that for mass audience programmes (millions of viewers), broadcast technologies remain highly cost-effective.
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Mike Dimmick: Very good points.
I did mention the WRC-15 process above, I have always carried the projected future transmitter frequency allocations to deal with the suggestions that grouped aerials are a good investment.
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Saturday 17 May 2014 3:58PM
JAMES: Have you had a look at the Freeview intermittent interference | Freeview Interference | ukfree.tv - 11 years of independent, free digital TV advice page?