All posts by Briantist
Below are all of Briantist's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Phil: The cable companies didn't do themselves any favours when they did their installations. They dug up pavements, killed trees and blowing up the odd old lady's house.
Having local cable companies against a national satellite provider was never really going to work, and the rise of mobiles undid the ideas of profit from telephony.
Even in cities that "have cable" there are huge holes in the provision to this day.
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krups: No, it is because you have not selected 16:9 in the Pictures Settings Menu. Why has my widescreen TV just made everyone look fat? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
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Mike Dimmick: Good point, I've never rewritten it to take that into account. Let me take a look at it.
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Mike Dimmick: Try it now - Find a Freeview transmitter by frequency | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
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david: The comparisons made were not specifically about the US market, it was just the rather pleasing election rhetoric of "Birmingham Alabama 8, Birmingham UK 1".
There are any number of comparisons that can be made around the EU.
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DAS TV: Yes, the point of this page was to answer the "what happens when I stop subscribing to Sky+/Sky+HD" question that comes up every five minutes.
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woodface: I've updated the map with a larger image - it is from Ofcom DDR Annexes page 183.
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Mike Dimmick: I've fixed the link bug.
Yes, the code has to look at two different types of list for pre- and post-switchover lists.
You can see the maps by clicking on the channel numbers in the list.
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Thursday 10 March 2011 1:52PM
John: Wednesday 13th April 2011