All posts by Briantist
Below are all of Briantist's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Richard: You probably need your aerial looking at, or possibly just the cable from the aerial to your set.
You live in a very good signal area, and if you are missing the two multiplexes, then some part of your equipment is faulty.
I would see what your analogue signal looks like (for the moment) as a guide.
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Steve Harper: Yes, the two Arqiva multiplexes are on low power until 23 November. You didn't provide a full postcode so it hard to comment, but if your reception is just slightly poorer than your neighbours, these two multiplexes will be "over the digital cliff" and unavailable to you until the end of November.
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steve: Please try the three methods on the What can I do when my Sky Digibox says 'No Signal' or 'Technical fault'? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice page.
It *could* be that one of the LNBs is not able to change the polarity, restricting it to half of the channels. If this is the case, and "Method 2" on the link about does not sort it out, you might have to change the cable on the dish to use a different LNB output - there are four and you will be using only two of them if you have only a Sky+ box.
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Debbie: Yes, as long as the dish has not been moved and the cables still connected.
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Mike Dimmick: Your figures make me cross. It's a bit like a newspaper charging the journalists to have their copy printed. Every other business has to PAY to use data, not CHARGE when they use it.
I can't help noticing that the cuts from the BBC FOUR budget could easily be made up by refusing to pay the highwayman.
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Mike Dimmick: I might pop into Tesco's in a bit and when I get to the checkout demand that they pay me to take their good from the shop. I wonder where that will get me?
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Nick Wilcock: The thing I most remember about BSB, aside from the excellent picture quality, was The Power Station, which was actually quite a good music channel.
At the time MTV Europe was just a "video jukebox", but The Power Station had shows, presenters and live music. It was a shame it didn't continue.
Going from D-MAC to Sky analogue was quite a strain, given that there was quite a while between the closing (sorry merging) of Galaxy and the start of UK Gold.
Another thing of note was BSB News which used to appear as 60 second bulletins on Galaxy (and the rather unfocused Now).
I always get cross when BBC three claim to have invented this particular idea.
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Les Nicol: This highlighs another problem, that Sky is allowed to get away with saying to the consumer:
"Free dish and box offer"
With the implication (well, contract to say) that the consumer is BUYING THE the box OUTRIGHT under a subsidy. In particular if you brake or have stolen your box you have to BUY A NEW ONE AT FULL PRICE. Also, Sky has never asked for box back.
But Sky tell the channel providers (and have gone to court with Rapture about this) that "the boxes are owned by Sky". That's how they get away with making the "per viewer" charges.
In reality, it doesn't matter for the provision of the EPG if Sky has ten or ten million boxes out there. The price of operation is FIXED and it is LOW. Sky incurs no "per user" charge for the operation of the EPG.
It is, after all, only a couple of hundred kilobytes of data broadcast on a continuous loop (as most Sky boxes have almost no RAM). The sort of thing you can do on-line at such a low marginal cost that I can't even estimate a price to do it, as it would be undistinguishable from "free".
It's a bigger con than UK SMS charges, which somehow cost more per megabyte to use than the Hubble Space Telescope.
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George Buchanan: It's not really offensive, just inaccurate, "gobbledegook" means "jargon", not "foreign".
It reminds me of when I was in Athens looking at the ancient amphitheatre and some loud-mouthed American was going on about "decoding" the wording - it wasn't encoded information, it was just Ancient Greek and required either reading or translation.
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Sunday 28 August 2011 7:30PM
MRS CLAIRE EVANS: You are predicted to have, and to continue to have a perfect reception from the Crystal Palace transmitter.
Given you have been provided this service by the Digital Help Scheme, I would get onto their complaints people and demand that they come and sort it out for you.
You live in a very good signal area and there should be no problems with a competent installer providing your with a stable, working installation.
Switchover will not make much difference to your reception, the problems can be sorted out right now.