All posts by Briantist
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John Roberts: You can fit your own cables, or use an installer, or Sky if you want to pay the top price.
The £25 card provides Sky3, Fiver and Five USA only. Freesat+/Freesat+HD is the option you need to record/pause/play.
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Stuart: Lark Stoke's pre-switchover digital services at at 25W, about the same as single energy-saving bulb. It is amazing that anyone gets Freeview from there at the moment.
Lark Stoke will be a 1.26kW digital transmitter after switchover, that's 50 times more powerful.
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Becky: As nothing has changed on multiplex C, you should see Single frequency interference | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
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Wutty: Sorry, I should have explained better.
After switchover there are six multiplexes broadcast - three are "public services" PSB1, PSB2 and PSB3, and three are "commercial", COM4, COM5 and COM6.
They are also known by other names. The PSBs are BBCA, D3+4, BBCB, the COMs are SDN, ARQA, ARQB.
At some transmitters the commercial multiplexes switch a few months after the official switchover, to protect the analogue services in other regions that are still broadcasting.
That's why you get the 28th September 2011 date for the "COM power up".
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Stuart: The analogue channel 5 network uses different transmitters from the normal analogue one-four network.
They are generally speaking the old ITV 405-line transmitters on UK TV Frequency map - channel C37 (602.0MHz) before switchover map | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice and UK TV Frequency map - channel C35 (586.0MHz) before switchover map | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
This means the network has different power levels and characteristics from both the analogue 1-4 network and the digital network.
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Mister C: Officially you get "Freeview HD available: 13 April 2011", which is when Sandy Heath switches.
You are too far distant to receive the pre-switchover service from Crystal Palace. The signal is simply too weak to reach your location.
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Neil: What, the site that say the signal comes from the wrong transmitter?
Analogue five doesn't predict Freeview HD reception, it is the other way around, no analogue five shows you won't get it.
You might just get Freeview HD with a high-quality rooftop aerial installation, but anything else you are going to have to wait.
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Wednesday 19 January 2011 9:34AM
joe: You must use the SCART input on your TV that accepts RGB, otherwise the input will be the inferior component.