All posts by Briantist
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ian winter: It really depends where your aerial points.
Sutton Coldfield will go from being "marginal reception" to "full power" on 21st September 2011.
Waltham will go from "poor" to "full power" by 12th October 2011, and be good on 5/6 services by 31st August.
Nottingham offers "good" reception, but this will not improve and you will only get the public services with a decent signal.
I'm not sure what you mean by "aerial of latest spec", but you don't need anything special as long as it is roof mounted.
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Joe Pavitt: I've answered that one on the DAB - Digital Audio Broadcasting | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice page.
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Stuart O.: The consultation expects at least one hour of local news broadcast per day. The licences will go to those with the best ideas.
The capacity will be running for 24 hours a day, I would expect that they will run their local news on a loop in most instances.
I would expect that the use of the frequencies for "home-shopping" would be specifically excluded, but as Ofcom point out the implementation of this system requires an Act of Parliament.
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Mike Dimmick: Jeremy Hunt, speaking on the Media Show, said that the cost per local TV station would be about £500,000 per year. This could be covered by £10,000 a week of advertising (or other) income.
The cost of the transmitters is being bankrolled by the £25m a year "earmarked" BBC money - see BBC licence fee held at 145.50 until 2016 | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
The Ofcom figures - where there is a single transmitter in the proposed scheme, "gross" in the households in the "target" area and DPSA is the number of those households using that single transmitter.
Where there is more than one transmitter in the proposed scheme, "gross" is still the number of households in the "target" area, households are not counted twice if they are in the reception area of transmitter A and transmitter B. It's not the coverage area of the "biggest transmitter". In this configuration the DPSA is the households that use transmitter A or transmitter B, and will be less than if there is another transmitter than is used by the households in the target area.
I get 2.41 from the UK population -
http://www.google.co.uk/p…tion - divided by 25652174 which is the Ofcom figure for "total UK homes".
So, Ofcom document page 11, "Reading gross population (households)" 360,000 multiplied by 2.41 gives 867600.
I think you have missed the "hh" standing for Households. I sense checked this with the London figure which is 3.2m households x 2.41 = 7712000 which is almost the figure of 7,753,600 on Greater London - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia .
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P.JONES: If the set has any "enhancement" facilities, in particular, "sharpening" please turn it off on the set.
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Stuart: I don't think it a problem of "poor coverage", perhaps I could have found a better phrase. It is "poor coverage from the proposed transmitters", because 62% of the households in the area covered by the IF are actually using another Freeview transmitter.
This is because the local service is show as being Angus and the Tay Bridge relays, but Craigkelly and Durris also cover the "target area".
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Angus has been a TV transmitter since 13th October 1965. Durris has been on air since 30th September 1961.
Craigkelly is a UHF-era main transmitter.
Tay Bridge is a UHF-era relay.
So, this means that the area has had 45-50 years of multiple-transmitter coverage, so you would expect the coverage to be split - it seems quite reasonable that 38% would be using Angus/Tay Bridge.
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Thursday 11 August 2011 9:56AM
stacey: If you can't find the manual, please do this "generic" procedure - My Freeview box has no EPG, is blank on FIVE, ITV3, ITV4, ITV2+1, has no sound or the channel line up is wrong | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .