needed: a 'fault' DVD
 

It would be very useful to have a DVD showing various fault conditions for
analogue and digital TV reception. Still photographs don't really do the job
because of the dynamic nature of many fault conditions.

Bill
http://www.wrightsaerials.tv/index.html

It would need a "TV Guru" to set up some sort of rig to simulate the faults.
But we don't know anyone like that, do we children?


"Bill" wrote in message
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It would be very useful to have a DVD showing various fault conditions for
analogue and digital TV reception. Still photographs don't really do the
job
because of the dynamic nature of many fault conditions.

Bill
http://www.wrightsaerials.tv/index.html

"Bill" wrote in message
...
It would be very useful to have a DVD showing various fault conditions for
analogue and digital TV reception. Still photographs don't really do the
job
because of the dynamic nature of many fault conditions.


Can you not carry a small digital video camera around with you, and make
little movies as you discover faults? I think a few of the digital cameras
that take still images will also do short movies of a few minutes, perhaps
that would do? Then you could download them, and put them on your website
or burn them onto a DVD. All fairly straightforward, I'd imagine, providing
you've got the time ;)

You could also have some moving pictures of rogue-installed aerials swaying
in the breeze for your site.

Ian

Can you not carry a small digital video camera around with you, and make
little movies as you discover faults?

I don't think that would give anything like the quality needed, and it would
introduce a lot of unwanted variables -- the programme material, the TV set,
the ambient lighting, and so forth.
I think this needs doing in 'laboratory' conditions.

You could also have some moving pictures of rogue-installed aerials swaying
in the breeze for your site.


This is a delightful idea, and will provide a new interest in my sad obsessive
anorak-clad so-called life.

Bill
http://www.wrightsaerials.tv/index.html

That made me think of the old floppy 45s that used to come with
Practical Wireless in the 'sixties. They simulated all the possible
audio faults you were likely to get, but the most realistic one was that
of an eccentric, creased, scratchy, floppy 45 slipping on the turntable
mat.



The Private Eye ones were the best. I've still got one of John Wells as Arthur
Negus discussing 'Edmundo Varicosi', the Renaissance craftsman responsible for
furniture with 'fluted legs'.

Bill
http://www.wrightsaerials.tv/index.html

"Bill" wrote
| You could also have some moving pictures of rogue-installed aerials
| swaying in the breeze for your site.
| This is a delightful idea, and will provide a new interest in my
| sad obsessive anorak-clad so-called life.

There's probably the germ of an ITV2 programme idea in there somewhere ...

TV Antennae From Hell
World's Worst Rooftop Erections
When Good Reception Turns Bad
How Bent Is Your Dipole
SignalDrop.tv

Owain

"Bill" wrote
| You could also have some moving pictures of rogue-installed aerials
| swaying in the breeze for your site.
| This is a delightful idea, and will provide a new interest in my
| sad obsessive anorak-clad so-called life.

There's probably the germ of an ITV2 programme idea in there somewhere ...

TV Antennae From Hell
World's Worst Rooftop Erections
When Good Reception Turns Bad
How Bent Is Your Dipole
SignalDrop.tv

Owain

TV Antennae From Hell
World's Worst Rooftop Erections
When Good Reception Turns Bad
How Bent Is Your Dipole
SignalDrop.tv

I love it!

Bill
http://www.wrightsaerials.tv/index.html

TV Antennae From Hell
World's Worst Rooftop Erections
When Good Reception Turns Bad
How Bent Is Your Dipole
SignalDrop.tv

I love it!

Bill
http://www.wrightsaerials.tv/index.html

"Bill" wrote in message
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TV Antennae From Hell
World's Worst Rooftop Erections
When Good Reception Turns Bad
How Bent Is Your Dipole
SignalDrop.tv

I love it!


And on BBC 2 tomorrow

Mendip Behaving Badly
Top Labgear
Arrays That Shook The World
Match Of The Day Special (Balun v Coax Stub)

--
martin

Moray