All posts by Briantist
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shirley: I presume you mean you have done 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 - can you check the Freeview signals: too much of a good thing is bad for you | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice page?
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Ron: Please see Will there ever be more services on the Freeview Light transmitters? | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
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LEE: The TV Licence pays for BBC services only, and all transmitters provide all BBC television and radio channels.
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Mark: If you have a communal aerial system, then it quite possible that it contains an separate amplifier for each frequency used, and as C55 was not used before switchover then there will be no amplifier tuned to it.
Whoever manages the system should be able to get the equipment recalibrated to match the new broadcast parameters.
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NottsUK: Yes, indeed BBC - About the BBC: 75 years of BBC TV - but I think it's the 3rd.
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Peter: When 625-line television was introduced (ok, it's really 576i25) that too was called "high definition".
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mrdtv: There is no engineering information showing any planned or actual downtime on any relay of Crystal Palace. There's no red on any of TV regions overview map | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice .
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Stuart O.: Let's go thought those points.
First, there are plenty of places where BOTH S4C HD and Channel 4 HD can be received, so they have to separate channel numbers.
"But what is the point though in allocating channel numbers in threes?"
Two reasons. First that there can be two other versions of the channel on the following numbers, such as "+1" and "HD". Second, it means that the channel number don't end up having either even numbers (every 2 or 4), or "0" and "5" (every 4).
The gaps in the numbers are intended to be there, Sky didn't want the numbers to be allocated sequentially.
Radio stations, when they were moved to "0000" format numbers, were allocated in the order the channels launched.
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Tuesday 1 November 2011 9:17PM
KMJ,Derby: I used to go on like that.
If we had the same with telephone numbers, each company would have a different dialling code for each city...