All posts by Briantist
Below are all of Briantist's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Steven Oliver: Again, it was Digital UK's claim not mine. They have picked the names of several relay transmitters.
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Big C: See Will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice please.
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Mike Dimmick/Alan Hewitt: I have to make manual changes to the code to make them display these little extra changes, and the problem is that the rest of the site is data-driven and doesn't see the bit of code that drives these pages, which then makes it inconsistent.
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Wendy: Is the "vhs/dvd player/recorder" one device, two or three?
What sort of Virgin box is it?
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Nicholas: Do you mean this Find out how to receive Freeview and Freeview HD at LU14EH | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice ?
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Steve: Yes, that's true. I don't know if the normal BBC channels will continue to use compression once everything is digital by the end of next year.
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Peter: You can't get Freeview at all until 13th June 2012, when Heathfield will provide the best service. The relay transmitters have no digital services until switchover.
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Tuesday 13 September 2011 3:13PM
Steve: It has nothing at all to do with "switching between 1080i and 1080p".
The sound on BBC HD and BBC One HD does NOT go though an audio-compression system, which is the case for all SD BBC channels.
Analogue systems do not like a lot of contrast between "loud" and "quiet" so they use "compression" (in the sense of audio-compress, and not lossless-data-compression or lossy-data-compression) to make the sound "always loud".
Because HD channels ONLY have digital distribution, the BBC feels that it can provide more contrast between the loud and quiet bits - so the volume is not always "ramped up".
This isn't a fault, it is actual quality.