All posts by Briantist
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Trevor Harris: Obviously you are talking to different industry people than I am.
I think the idea that David Attenborough voiced over a documentary should be regard with the "one swallow does not make a summer". Sky have a fast marketing budget and tends to like having one-offs like that.
As you rightly point out there have been many demonstrations of stereoscopic systems over the years, but they have always fallen by the wayside due to being, as I said before, one-off gimmicks by the public.
The two above formats are the ones proposed by the broadcast industry.
I actually very much doubt if "by 2016 3D will be common place", and even if it were it is carried as I have indicated in standard HD frames, with the left and right parts having half horizontal resolution.
I think your point about higher resolutions is fair, it does seem that "full HD" is quite low resolution, as computer monitors in excess of "full HD" have been around for a long time.
It is possible that improvements in computing power and the MPEG-4 encoding algorithms will allow better-than-full-HD to be carried via DVB-T2, or that DVB-T2 could be extended to carry more bits.
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a: Please provide a full (not partial) postcode, I can't really help without one.
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Ken (NG34 8**): You will need to move your aerial to point at the Belmont transmitter, rather than Waltham.
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Trish: Sorry, 5* and 5USA are encrypted on satellite. The programme you want to watch is on Channel 5 anyway - Celebrity Big Brother's Bit On The Side | Channel 5 .
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cindy: It is very hard to know what to suggest without knowing your full postcode.
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Nick: OK, as I said, the text services would not provide any television capacity even if the law allowed such a thing.
ITV3 and ITV4 are not public service channels, and ITV2 only gets to be on multiplex 2 because the Channel 3 licensee can use the capacity for additional channels of it's own choice.
ITV1 has to provide news, and regional news as part of the "public service", and in return gets a listing in position 3 on the EPG. ITV2, ITV3 and ITV4 have no such public services.
The Channel 4 corporation is a not-for-profit public corporation, which funds itself by advertising, and as such get the other (almost) half of multiplex 2, again by law.
There is no chance whatsoever of Challenge going on Freesat, it is a Sky-owned channel.
UKTV's channels Yesterday (and Dave and Really) are contractually forbidden by their satellite encryption contract with Sky to provide free-to-air satellite versions.
It is my understanding that BBC Worldwide are happy to take Sky's (very small) shilling for their UKTV operation, as they like to "have a finger in all the pies".
Freesat does not provide any channels at all, it simply provides an EPG and promotional services to existing channels.
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Sarah: Assuming you are on Tacolneston, you probably need to do this - My Freeview box has no EPG, is blank on FIVE, ITV3, ITV4, ITV2+1, has no sound or the channel line up is wrong | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice and if that doesn't fix it, see Single frequency interference | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
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Jonathan: I think you will find that moving the aerial to the roof will provide you with stable a Freeview service. If you are having problems now, I can't see that switchover will necessarily fix it.
You are in a strong signal area already, a standard-sized rooftop aerial will be able to provide you with a reliable service.
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Friday 19 August 2011 10:27AM
Shaun: My apologies, I had miscoded this as a type 6 switchover and it's a type 7.
Thanks for pointing out my oversight.