All posts by Briantist
Below are all of Briantist's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
adrian: Find out how to receive Freeview and Freeview HD | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice ?
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Phil: That makes no sense at all. Cable services are fed from head-ends, not "via" streets in other towns.
I can't understand why Cable and Wireless would put in all the street ducts and then not use them to provide a service.
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Phil: They don't actually lay "cable" when they dig the roads up, they dig ducts that cables can be fitted into.
In the jargon these become "homes passed". The actual cable only gets installed when a customer requests service, usually this is dual cable - half coaxial for the TV and broadband services and half twisted pair for a phone line.
The cables go to the nearest "headend" which is usually a box in the street, sometimes a box in the ground.
The networks are "star networks" from the headend to the homes. The headends are connected back to the "central office" in the town using fibre-optic.
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DAS TV: There is the small matter of being able to play/pause/record with Freesat+HD without a subscription, which makes quite a lot of difference.
You get a radio EPG (including record) with Freesat and radio stations have the MEHG5 interactive services.
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Phil: I think when the companies consolidated they decided not to extend their network any more.
It could be that the work was incomplete and was abandoned at a point where the capital costs to provide customer service were more than the possible profits.
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ken: Yes, assuming you are using the Sutton Coldfield transmitter, you will have all the services on 21st September 2011.
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Thursday 10 March 2011 8:01AM
Phil: It was supplied by Virgin Media. I have not used it to compile the above table, which I used the Virgin Media Postcode checker system to check.