All posts by Bill Bullock
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Hello Brian, this follows a previous question I sent on the subject of HD on locaL broadcasts when you said there was no immediate prospct of it.
Today around 0900, the Breakfast show came to that part where they say "and now for the news where you are" and for about 1 second before the red screen came up we saw the presenter for London, my local channel. If they can display that on freeview channel 50, why don't they just leave us on 50 to avoid constantly changing channels even if it's not in HD.
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Dave Lindsay:
Yes Dave, I thought the whole of BBC1HD went to a red screen during local news broadcasts.
When I say a red screen, it's not just plain red and there's a caption saying They are not able to broadcast local news in HD and to retune to ch1/101 (don't know what 101 is) for local news.
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Dave Lindsay:
I think I follow that Dave, I'm not as technical as you seem.
Yes I remember those synching signals, "cue dots" I think they called them, usually a small shimmering square at the top right of the screen. I think they appeared for about 10 seconds then off for 10 then back on for 10 and the switch was synched to the end of that last on time.
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What is the reason for the upcoming freeview retune that we are currently being advised of
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I live in Surbiton postcode KT6 6 and for the past few days I've noticed the loss of BBC news HD on channel 107 with the words no signal. Channels 106 and 108 are also missing. I have retuned several times and 106; 107; and 108 are completely missing. I'm in a block of flats with a communal aerial. Could this be caused by 4G coming on line
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Bill:
Regarding my previous post, I forgot to mention that I did a complete rescan of all channels without an aerial connected to delete all currently saved channels.
I then did a full rescan with aerial to find 106 BBC 4 HD, 107 BBC NEWS HD and 108 still missing. Any ideas?
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Wednesday 10 August 2011 10:26AM
Is it known yet when the London BBC local area will be transmitted on Freeview HD to avoid having to change back to channel 1