All posts by Andy
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Wooburn (Buckinghamshire, England) Freeview Light transmitterSunday 1 April 2012 12:41PM
High Wycombe
Dave: Thanks for your reply, and the link. Very informative.
I do think it's a pity that the third MUX (the ITV one) could not be better populated. It seems such a waste to give "relay viewers" those +1 channels, when they could have been given, say, ITV3 and ITV4. I have no problem with +1 channels when the platform has sufficient spare capacity, but that situation doesn't exist on Freeview.
Makes me glad that I went Freesat, and didn't wait for Freeview Lite !
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Wooburn (Buckinghamshire, England) Freeview Light transmitterWednesday 23 May 2012 9:50AM
High Wycombe
tony: I cancelled Sky and got Freesat when it started because I had read about the Lite service on the relays. I have no regrets !
Having said that, one of my neighbours in Wooburn Manor Park gets a fair signal from Crystal Palace from his chimney-level aerial and is considering getting a better one installed. Wooburn is quite variable in it's CP reception, but there ARE locations where it works reasonably well.
So, if you can get ANY sort of signal from CP, you might want to consider an aerial upgrade.
Otherwise, since you already have a Sky dish, you could consider Freesat.
Compare the full Freeview channel list with Freesat's and see what you think.
Hope this helps.
And YES, the Freeview adverts don't make it clear that Lite relays offer a very limited channel line-up !
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Sunday 1 April 2012 10:44AM
London
When I first heard thst the Wooburn relay would only provide a minimal number of Freeview channels, I decided to get Freesat.
Now we are only days away from DSO, and there is still no hint of anything more than the basic PSB channels, I'm wondering if there is ANY hope of ever getting more channels than we will have on April 18th ?
I suspect there are going to be a lot of disappointed viewers of relay transmitters when they realise in a few days time that they are not getting all the channels that Crystal Palace viewers receive. Will they ever ?