All posts by Briantist
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D STEEL: Without wishing to appear obtuse, it is called FreeSAT because it is a satellite service, for which a dish is required.
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bernard hunt: There has never been any intention to have the same coverage area as for the "Central" service, as the power increase will not change the radiation pattern. However, as this is a state secret...
The Digtial UK service is showing a "reception change" for the service at your postcode, but that is in 2012, not 2011.
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bernard hunt: I would have thought not, the increase in ERP does not usually mean a change in the radiation pattern. The service is only intended to cover part of the Ridge Hill Service area, speicifically to match that of the analogue service it replaced.
I will see if I can find out specifically what is going to happen, but the main reason that I doubt the radiation pattern will change at all is that they will only have put up couple of panels on the mast to provde the analogue service, and it would be a waste of money to provide a larger service area.
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Nedbod: Thanks, the blue arrows and big numbers are an attempt to make the whole site as "touch friendly" as I can.
I have a Asus Transformer TF101 and fat fingers...
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Mike Dimmick: If you look at the diagram on http://www.digitaluk.co.u….pdf it shows
"Ridge Hill West - D3&4" as having an off-air feed from Mendip. It can't be a "mini mux", it has to be all the services, surely?
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Steve: It has nothing at all to do with "switching between 1080i and 1080p".
The sound on BBC HD and BBC One HD does NOT go though an audio-compression system, which is the case for all SD BBC channels.
Analogue systems do not like a lot of contrast between "loud" and "quiet" so they use "compression" (in the sense of audio-compress, and not lossless-data-compression or lossy-data-compression) to make the sound "always loud".
Because HD channels ONLY have digital distribution, the BBC feels that it can provide more contrast between the loud and quiet bits - so the volume is not always "ramped up".
This isn't a fault, it is actual quality.
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Tuesday 13 September 2011 9:29AM
Steve: Please 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 .