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How to receive Freeview on your PC
Wednesday 19 October 2011 3:00PM

Bruce Clarke: I can't think of anything I have upgraded to Windows 7 that has had the slightest problem with drivers.

Still, you are much more likely to get better performance out of a newer machine, of course, it could be a bit of a false economy to upgrade.

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Your analogue switch off date
Wednesday 19 October 2011 3:06PM

Mick Thursfield: I'm sorry, I didn't spot that awful reply, I have deleted the user.

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KMJ,Derby: The only "local radio" I hear is the bloody awful Heart Sussex which is forced on me in the gym every morning.

I'm not quite sure how it really counts as a "local radio" station, but I suspect that it that the prattle they play between the playlist tracks might come from a studio somewhere local. Perhaps.

I can't think of an event in the area that has ever happened that I would think "I must listen to BBC local radio to find out what's going on", but it probably happens in places less well served than Brighton and Hove, as we have a good Internet news source in The Argus - News, Sport, Brighton and Hove Albion and Entertainment for Brighton, Hove and Sussex .

Perhaps Mr Hunt's local television stations will provide a better service?



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Tony Hill: The BBC only transmit programmes that have 5.1 sound with 5.1 sound, using 2.0 for everything else.

If you watch the BBC HD channel in the morning there during the previews, just before the top of the hour it will show a "testcard" which features a beep that goes Left, Right, Centre, LFE, Back Left, Back Right.

Freeview HD broadcasts BBC One and BBC HD in 2.0, Freesat HD uses 5.1 when the source is 5.1.

The BBC does not believe that the consumer is well served by making a pseudo-5.1 mix.

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