All posts by Briantist
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Mike Dimmick: Sorry, I should have said "main UK events" and put an "except Derby".
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donnydave: Bit hard to say without a full postcode, but see Digital Region Overlap | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice for general information.
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Kay: Hi. You don't need an HDTV to use with a Freesat+HD box, there just are no "SD" Freesat+ boxes. You can watch the HD channels on an SD television without problems, but they will only look a little better than the normal channels.
You will need to use your two existing links for the "+" box, you will need to have two more cables fitted for the other two boxes.
Yes, Fresat has red button accesses.
I don't recommend boxes as I unable to test them all and it would be unfair.
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Christina: Are you saying that Digital UK didn't know about this Tacolneston retune event? It is on their website - Digital UK Retail - Tacolneston retune - 17 August 2011 .
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ellen jones: The transmitter was off-air from from 09:52 yesterday to 18:39 yesterday.
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Nick: Freesat was never set up to "challenge Sky's monopoly", it was set up to market existing public service channels (BBC, ITV, Channel 4) without having to use the Sky EPG.
Sky OWNS Challenge, they will hardly put one of their subscription satellite channels out free-to-air. They only did it on Freeview because it better from their point of view to fill the slot they bought from Virgin (it was Channel One/Virgin One) than sell it to a competitor.
As I said Yesterday, Dave and Really belong to BBC Worldwide and the contract they have with SSSL to provide them with encryption (and a little subscription revenue) for their ten channels FORBIDS them to put the same channels out free-to-air on satellite. If they want to put them all free-to-air on satellite, they could do that, but if they want any single channel to have a encryption/subscription model then they all have to.
You can compare the channels on Freeview with Freesat here - Compare Freeview and Freesat TV | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
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steve: You only remove the recordings if you choose that particular option in the menu, nothing above will remove anything from the hard drive.
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Jenny Ward: Perhaps you have a booster or amplifier? If you do, remove it from your system. If you don't you may need to fit an "attenuator", as you are in a strong signal area and may have an overload.
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David: Ofcom issues the licences.
As pointed out elsewhere it is your responsibility to operate your equipment to choose the correct service if you live in an area served by more than one transmitter: Digital Region Overlap | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
The overlaps are 100% intentional and have existed for over 50 years.
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Tuesday 23 August 2011 2:58PM
Mike Dimmick: It's not on the other page...
The Ofcom documentation says "Chesterfield ArqA and ArqB restricted to 40W until 12 October 2011", it makes no mention of SDN.
There are no UK switchover events between 28th September (Oxford end) and 9th November (Tacolneston), so quite why there should be a change in the power levels at Chesterfield on 12th October, I don't know.