All posts by Brian Wright
Below are all of Brian Wright's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Hi David,
Once you have tried the coax lead when plugged into RF 1 o/p to your known good set don't do anything except transfer it to the RF 2 o/p. If it does'nt work then the RF 2 o/p is faulty.This check test illiminates any retuning and its obviuos complications of addad unknowns at an early stage.
I hope this helps
Brian
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Quote by Briantist= DAB is intended to provide a choice of listening with reasonable sound quality for mobile and indoor use.
That's not the statement we were all led to believe intially by the Government and the Broadcasters.
But we all know its true.
Personally I now listen to radio on line vie a decent 24bit D/A decoder. £300 in the UK but purchased from China £52,Terrific.
The problem is that you need a good broadband otherwise it keeps buffering.
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Briantists reply to
R Gagen:
No one has to pay anyone to retune a set-top box, it is almost as easy as changing channels.
Not when an old age pensioner has a reasonably picture via his old analogue setup and then finds that his aerial signal is not good enough for his cheap little Freeview box and the picure breaks up crashes.No amount of retuning will fix this problem.!
He then calls in a dealer and finds he needs a new aerial?
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Jonny: The Magic Eye device will only work on a one-to-one basis. You can plug a single magic eye using a single RF cable to the RF2 output.
If you have a loft distribution amplifier
to other rooms & send one coaxial feed from RF 2 o/p of the Sky Box to the input of the loft box combined with the TV aerial feed . I just think the best way to control the Sky Box is using the Marmitek Pyramid.You can have as many senders from the rooms of each TV to the one Pyramid controller at the Sky Box.The Sky remote works with the Pyramid controller.Also if you have your DVD player in the same stack as your Sky Box you can controll the DVD with its own remote from your bedroom as well.Now thats luxury?
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Kai: You should be able to receive the BBC & most of the ITV programms free. Some of the ITV channels are only available as are many of the other providers of "Free" ones with the basic Sky card.
Speak to SKY and get them to confirm what you can and should be able to receive free.
That way you can check your box is decoding correctly
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Quite frankly the HD on freeview is a marginal improvement to most people except probably the much improved motion quality .
Its obvious to most shops that they will never sell purely on HD unless they display a DVD blue ray film.
My own subjective viewing of the HD brodcasts is that the transmitted programs are not as good as when the services were first introduced. As usual they have gone for quantity at the expence of the technical quality. Its good but not excellent
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NottsUK: Keep this under your hat!When Murdoch finds out the GRTS Gambia uplink will be cut thats for sure.
Brian
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As far as I can see the HD TV debacle will cary on and on and in the end becuase of the multi platform duplication of the programming of HD broadcasts the public justs looses interest.
Freeview was the answer to the masses as an alternative to all of the other pay TV platforms but there is not one platform (except for SKY that has all of the HD channels available,at a price.
ITV 2,3 & 4, CH 4 & CH5 are not available in HD on Freeview.
Virgin does not have SKY Sports 3 & 4 available in HD. So we have a monopoly in the UK that SKY is the only platform if the public want's a decent picture on their 42 inch plus large screen TV.
Watching standard Freeview on a large screen TV is not a good experience but as usual we have gone for quantity rather than quality for our mass TV broadcasting.
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Ian ,not quite.
Any quality transmitted on the HD system will be better quality than the transmitted poor bit rate on Freeview SD. The motion smoothness and the edges when panning shots are present is so much better especially human faces.
Older Film & VT programs recorded the last 20 years which are classified as SD when it leaves the studio will look great when transmitted on HD but when viewed on Freeview SD large screen TV quite poor.
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Wednesday 26 January 2011 9:57AM
I think The Pan means Re-scan for the receivable networks available.
Brian