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Welsh Vote for Analogue Switch-Off

"DAB sounds worse than FM" wrote in message
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98% voted to turn the analogue TV signal off:

http://tinyurl.com/4s6nz

Is this the Welsh area which was on the TV News the other day?
They had been GIVEN the equipment for ALL thier Tv sets to recieve digital
transmissions.
The rest of us will have to BUY ours, so a vote of the rest of UK would be
completely different.
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DAB sounds worse than FM wrote:
98% voted to turn the analogue TV signal off:

http://tinyurl.com/4s6nz

As pointed out this is just within the small service area of the
Ferrryside transmitter that is taking part in the DTT experiment.

However AIUI BBC 2 analogue is still being transmitted, because the only
version of BBC 2 available on DTT in Wales is the low budget opt-out
service, BBC 2W and not the pukka network version? So in fact analogue
TV has not quite been fully abandoned yet ?

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Mark
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On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 12:40:08 GMT, "David" wrote:

"DAB sounds worse than FM" wrote in message
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98% voted to turn the analogue TV signal off:

http://tinyurl.com/4s6nz

Is this the Welsh area which was on the TV News the other day?

Yes.

quote
The analogue TV signal was turned off in the first area of the UK last week
after a three month trial of digital TV in Carmarthenshire, Wales, ended
with 98 per cent voting to go totally digital.

“When the public was asked if they wanted to keep analogue and switch the
digital off, or switch the analogue off and leave the digital on, then 98
per cent said ‘leave the digital on, it’s great’,” said Paul Harfoot, head
of services, Rohde & Schwarz. “It’s been a very positive trial.”
/quote

They had been GIVEN the equipment for ALL thier Tv sets to recieve digital
transmissions.
The rest of us will have to BUY ours, so a vote of the rest of UK would be
completely different.

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Peter Duncanson
UK

Mark Carver wrote:
DAB sounds worse than FM wrote:
98% voted to turn the analogue TV signal off:

http://tinyurl.com/4s6nz

As pointed out this is just within the small service area of the
Ferrryside transmitter that is taking part in the DTT experiment.

I couldn't fit "The Welsh Villages that had their analogue TV switched
off a couple of weeks ago have voted for analogue to be switched-off"
into the subject title line, if you know what I mean....

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"DAB sounds worse than FM" wrote in message
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98% voted to turn the analogue TV signal off:

Well... not really!

They gave the whole village a bunch of Freeview boxes at no charge and with no
upper limit on the amount per household (the hotels are pleased apparently),
they also received as much free support as they'd like along with free upgrades
if there was reception problems.

The consultants then did a survey which basically said "Would you like to keep
all those boxes we gave you for FREE, or would you like us to come back and take
them all away?" (amazingly 2% said yes). The result of the survey was then
construed as desire for 98% to see the end of analogue.

Anyway, BBC 2 Wales analogue is still operating due to the variations with 2W
digital.

It's a nice PR stunt, a fine piece of 21st century Keynesianism but a pretty
worthless study to be honest, there are no parallels to what would happen if
they attempted to transition a major city away from analogue without unlimited
free boxes, support and upgrades, there was no attempt to see how the market
would operate during the switch over

If they're interested in recovering spectrum for some crazy 3G style dividend
then recovering tiny blocks of spectrum from really low power relays in remote
parts of the country is a pretty bizarre strategy (lots of free UHF channels out
those parts anyway)... they need see what would happened if major sites
disappeared, that's where the money is.

Az.

In article , DAB sounds
worse than FM writes
98% voted to turn the analogue TV signal off:

http://tinyurl.com/4s6nz

What a load of ********!. Give people the equipment free and they'll say
whatever you want them to.

And I see that article was written by a man from Rohde & Schwarz who
supplied the equipment.

And to borrow from Mandy Rice-Davis " He would say that wouldn't
he!".....
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Tony Sayer

If they're interested in recovering spectrum for some crazy 3G style dividend
then recovering tiny blocks of spectrum from really low power relays in remote
parts of the country is a pretty bizarre strategy (lots of free UHF channels out
those parts anyway)... they need see what would happened if major sites
disappeared, that's where the money is.

I bet U as much as you like that some consultants (bull****ters) have
told the government a load of porkies and the government have followed
them like partially sighted sheep.....

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Tony Sayer

On Wed, 06 Apr 2005 12:30:31 GMT, "DAB sounds worse than FM"
wrote:

| 98% voted to turn the analogue TV signal off:
|
| http://tinyurl.com/4s6nz

Well I would vote for analog switch off if asked.

I would only need one extra Freeview box to record the big 5 while watching
$ky. Also scart sequence for a TV, VCR and to use a Freeview box with a
$ky box and probably a DVD player/recorder.

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Dave F
Flight is right

In article , David says...

The rest of us will have to BUY ours, so a vote of the rest of UK would be
completely different.

Are you so poor you can't afford £50?

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