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On 30 Mar 2007 06:28:31 -0700, "hdtvexpert"
wrote:

In terms of TV, have we really moved a long way forward from those
dark (quite literally once the last evening broacast ended) days? For
the price of our TV licence, our aerials now bring us 4 or 5 channels.
Any more than that requires extra equipment (a Freeview box, cable box
or satellite receiver). For a good variety of channels we also need to
pay a subscription fee, to a choice of - erm - now there's a thing.

For the one-off purchase of a relatively cheap extra box and no
subscription at all we have all the existing channels in widescreen,
Film 4, BBC4 and News 24. That much is an improvement on its own.
Admittedly there's a load of rubbish as well, and if it had been
properly organised we could have had it several years sooner and
probably with better picture and sound quality, but at least we've got
it.

Rod.

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On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 23:02:42 +0100, Roderick Stewart
wrote:

On 30 Mar 2007 06:28:31 -0700, "hdtvexpert"
wrote:

In terms of TV, have we really moved a long way forward from those
dark (quite literally once the last evening broacast ended) days? For
the price of our TV licence, our aerials now bring us 4 or 5 channels.
Any more than that requires extra equipment (a Freeview box, cable box
or satellite receiver). For a good variety of channels we also need to
pay a subscription fee, to a choice of - erm - now there's a thing.

For the one-off purchase of a relatively cheap extra box and no
subscription at all we have all the existing channels in widescreen,
Film 4, BBC4 and News 24. That much is an improvement on its own.
Admittedly there's a load of rubbish as well, and if it had been
properly organised we could have had it several years sooner and
probably with better picture and sound quality, but at least we've got
it.

The "load of rubbish" being the key phrase. Think of all the carbon
stuff being produced by all the Txs carrying rubbish, and all the
"extra boxes" and big-screen tellies casually tuned in to them,
switched on all day/evening...

Once upon a time, people would switch on their telly to watch a
programme, then switch it off afterwards.

--
Frank Erskine

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Mike Henry wrote:

... I think TVs without any
tuners at all are fine, perfectly understandable. But Spanking new,
9-years-after-DTT-launch HD-TVs with analogue tuners but not DTT tuners
are bonkers.

Yes. And the people most technically disinclined and most likely to be
caught out by the digital switchover are the people with the least money
and who buy TVs in supermarkets. I've just checked my local Sainsbury's
in Cheltenham and there were 14 TV models on sale -- 4 DTT and 10
analogue-only.

It'll be interesting to see what happens when the first analogue
transmitter closes down later this year. Chain-stores don't "localise"
their products because that puts up the logistics costs, so will they be
still be selling analogue-only TVs in the DTT-only area, I wonder.

--
Dave Farrance

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On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 23:18:03 +0100, Frank Erskine
wrote:

Once upon a time, people would switch on their telly to watch a
programme, then switch it off afterwards.

I still do. Mine spends more time off than on.

Rod.

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In article , Roderick
Stewart writes
On 30 Mar 2007 06:28:31 -0700, "hdtvexpert"
wrote:

In terms of TV, have we really moved a long way forward from those
dark (quite literally once the last evening broacast ended) days? For
the price of our TV licence, our aerials now bring us 4 or 5 channels.
Any more than that requires extra equipment (a Freeview box, cable box
or satellite receiver). For a good variety of channels we also need to
pay a subscription fee, to a choice of - erm - now there's a thing.

For the one-off purchase of a relatively cheap extra box and no
subscription at all we have all the existing channels in widescreen,
Film 4, BBC4 and News 24. That much is an improvement on its own.
Admittedly there's a load of rubbish as well, and if it had been
properly organised we could have had it several years sooner and
probably with better picture and sound quality, but at least we've got
it.


Yes anything better than what currently passes for digital TV in the
UK;)....

--
Tony Sayer

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In article , Roderick
Stewart writes
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 23:18:03 +0100, Frank Erskine
wrote:

Once upon a time, people would switch on their telly to watch a
programme, then switch it off afterwards.

I still do. Mine spends more time off than on.

Rod.

Same here.. Thats why despite being 10 years old it still looks
excellent, the tube hasn't been burnt out being left on all day...
--
Tony Sayer

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On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 12:08:42 +0100, Roderick Stewart
wrote:

|!On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 23:18:03 +0100, Frank Erskine
wrote:
|!
|!Once upon a time, people would switch on their telly to watch a
|!programme, then switch it off afterwards.
|!
|!I still do. Mine spends more time off than on.

Same here!
--
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"tony sayer" wrote in message
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In article , Roderick
Stewart writes
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 23:18:03 +0100, Frank Erskine
wrote:

Once upon a time, people would switch on their telly to watch a
programme, then switch it off afterwards.

I still do. Mine spends more time off than on.

Rod.

Same here.. Thats why despite being 10 years old it still looks
excellent, the tube hasn't been burnt out being left on all day...
--
Tony Sayer

I saw screenburn on a telly yesterday. I could clearly read the words 'BBC
Radio 1'. Someone had left the monitoring telly at a system head end turned
on. It was on when I got there. Curiously the DTT box feeding the video
signal to the box refused to change channel or produce any audio or do
anything at all in fact until I rebooted it.

Bill

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"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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"tony sayer" wrote in message
...
In article , Roderick
Stewart writes
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 23:18:03 +0100, Frank Erskine
wrote:

Once upon a time, people would switch on their telly to watch a
programme, then switch it off afterwards.

I still do. Mine spends more time off than on.

Rod.

Same here.. Thats why despite being 10 years old it still looks
excellent, the tube hasn't been burnt out being left on all day...
--
Tony Sayer

I saw screenburn on a telly yesterday. I could clearly read the words 'BBC
Radio 1'. Someone had left the monitoring telly at a system head end
turned on. It was on when I got there. Curiously the DTT box feeding the
video signal to the box refused to change channel or produce any audio or
do anything at all in fact until I rebooted it.

Bill




Last time I was in Broadcasting House, all the BBC's plasma screens are
burnt by their own DOG excrement. It's even more obvious where the BBC keeps
moving their DOG faeces around the screen. Still that is what the ****tards
want, isn't it. ;-)

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In message , Bill Wright
writes
I would think that the very common installation consisting of a wideband
masthead amp and a wideband aerial would be very susceptible to interference
from a passing UHF transmitter on a vehicle or whatever.
That's what they're designed to do, you'd need a band pass or band stop
filter to be able to present the dodgybox with just the required
signals.
--
Clive.