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Emley Moor (Kirklees, England) transmitter
Saturday 6 August 2011 5:45PM

David: Sky and Freeview don't work in the same way. Freeview is just the name of the publicity for the DVB-T service. The makers of the Freeview equipment are not associated with this company, or the broadcasters, in any way.

Basically, Freeview works like this:



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All transmitters page | Blogs
Saturday 6 August 2011 5:51PM

Mark A.: I'm not sure what you mean, on the All UK TV, DAB and radio transmitters | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice the "tv" "radio" and "dab" are links to the appropriate page.

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Saturday 6 August 2011 7:56PM

Mark A.: I'm still confused. Those links are all on the All UK TV, DAB and radio transmitters | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice and there are cross-ref links on any transmitter page that has more than one service, see the bottom of the Another beta - FM, LW and MW radio transmitters section | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice article.

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Tam Whitelaw: Try looking in the 800-899 (usually 803) channel number range for an alternative STV.

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Bizman: They seem to be place-holders for an IPTV service - see VISION TV network .

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John Clemence: I had the information about cable from a reliable source.

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John Clemence: That's confidential, sorry.

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shaun: NICAM 728 was never a candidate for inclusion in MPEG. Companding is a poor compression scheme and the very high bitate - 728kbps (hence the name) does not result in better audio quality than the FFT-based modern computing-based schemes.

NICAM is good in comparison to PAL audio, but that's not saying much.

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