All posts by Tony Hill
Below are all of Tony Hill's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Like others, despite being told that we have a wideband aerial, BBC4 HD cannot be tuned on channel 56. So, either our aerial is not wideband or we are being given the runaround by Freeview/BBC.
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Channel 4 HD on Freesat: I have tuned it in manually on my Freesat receiver under "Non-Freesat channels":
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I have always noted - and continue to find - that subtitles on ITV on FreeSAT, flash on and off erratically but on FreeVIEW they do not. I am assuming that it may have something to do with distance travelled up to and down from the satellite. Is this so?
Consequently, we (who always have subtitles on for drama and most documentaries) always watch ITV on Freeview.
Also do agree about so-called music/noise. Get rid of it.
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Mine is a Manhattan and have had it for some time, always with subtitle issues. ITV the worst by a mile. Interestingly, there are no subtitles on the ITV Hub - so useless for us.
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Monday 29 January 2018 6:18PM
We use subtitles virtually all the time - absolutely compulsory with drama. BBC subtitles are, in the main, very good when the programme is pre-recorded but those added on in live broadcasts are, in my view, pretty useless as they can't, obviously, keep-up with the speech. More troublesome is ITV where we find they just flash on and off in a random way and are completely useless. Channel Four's are pretty good but Five is hit and miss.
So, if you say subtitles are mandatory for ITV (especially) and Five, how are they allowed to get away with such a poor performance.
A slight worry/thought is that there is, perhaps, a difference in the subtitle reliability between viewing on Freesat and Freeview. I just have a feeling that Freeview is better than Freesat. Although we receive both, our viewing is 99% on ultra-reliable Freesat.