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In article ,
lid says...

Yellow wrote:

Depends on your taste in films, but Film4 show loads of unusual and hard
to gets that are never shown on C4.

That was certainly true before Film 4 went FTA, and was a premium subscription
service on Sky, but nowadays is that really the case ?

Yep. Evening stuff is mainstream but afternoon and late nights can be
hard-to-sees.


Tonight's film at the 'flagship' 21:00hrs slot, is 'Assault of Precinct 13'
hardly esoteric, and at 01:20hrs, Predator, (yet again); yawn.

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In article ,
lid says...

We were about to embark at Dover, when (Yellow) came up to
me and whispered:

Quite a few of the relay transmitter (including my mother's
which is how come I took an interest) were never converted to
show C5 so the 4 channels was it.

Even if the relay was not converted, more than 70% of the population was
in reach of a C5 analogue transmitter, just many of them had neither the
time or inclination (or money) to put up a second aerial for the out of
band (90% of the time) and different direction of the weaker C5
transmitter.

Bit of a Homer Simpson "doh" moment here because the reason for these
transmitters were put up in the first place was because the people
served could not receive a satisfactory service from other transmitters,
regardless of the aerial used.

Interestingly, I can prove this point in my Mum's case. :-)

Just after my Mum's switchover, the Rowridge VP came on line and
according to the web info, she should have been able to receive from it.
Got a man round but he said that would be a waste of time and instead
set up the kit to point to the main, local transmitter.

It was a complete dead loss. Break ups a-go-go and then she lost one MUX
completely.

He came back and tried Rowridge and, with the help of a mast amp, it
work perfectly.


To be fair, I've been lucky. When C5 launched, I was 7 miles from
Croydon,
and now I'm 7 miles from Hannington.

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In article ,
lid says...

Paul Cummins wrote:
We were about to embark at Dover, when (Yellow) came up to
me and whispered:

Quite a few of the relay transmitter (including my mother's
which is how come I took an interest) were never converted to
show C5 so the 4 channels was it.

Even if the relay was not converted, more than 70% of the population was
in reach of a C5 analogue transmitter,

Indeed, and once DSO is complete 90% of the population will be served by
transmitters carrying all six Freeview muxes. That's 81 sites.

The remaining 1070 relay sites that only carry three muxes, serve between them
less than 10% of the remaining UK population.

And after all, 10% of the population is only 6 million people.

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Yellow wrote:

The remaining 1070 relay sites that only carry three muxes, serve between them
less than 10% of the remaining UK population.

And after all, 10% of the population is only 6 million people.

I wonder how many of those 6 million gave up waiting for DSO, and got
themselves satellite ?

--
Mark
Please replace invalid and invalid with gmx and net to reply.

www.paras.org.uk

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On Sun, 17 Jun 2012 15:47:35 +0100, Yellow wrote:

In article ,
says...

We were about to embark at Dover, when (Yellow) came up to
me and whispered:

Quite a few of the relay transmitter (including my mother's
which is how come I took an interest) were never converted to
show C5 so the 4 channels was it.

Even if the relay was not converted, more than 70% of the population was
in reach of a C5 analogue transmitter, just many of them had neither the
time or inclination (or money) to put up a second aerial for the out of
band (90% of the time) and different direction of the weaker C5
transmitter.

Bit of a Homer Simpson "doh" moment here because the reason for these
transmitters were put up in the first place was because the people
served could not receive a satisfactory service from other transmitters,
regardless of the aerial used.

To bring the thread back on topic, AIUI because digital signals are
more robust than analogue, some people who could not get acceptable
service from the main transmitter before can now. Maybe some of these
relays are no longer required?

I live in an area with a relay transmitter (which must have been built
because of reception problems) but now enjoy perfect reception from
the main transmitter.

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On Sun, 17 Jun 2012 16:01:08 +0100, Mark Carver
wrote:

Yellow wrote:

The remaining 1070 relay sites that only carry three muxes, serve between them
less than 10% of the remaining UK population.

And after all, 10% of the population is only 6 million people.

I wonder how many of those 6 million gave up waiting for DSO, and got
themselves satellite ?

And how many can get digital from the main transmitter on account of
digital being less prone to multipath interference?

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On 6/17/2012 11:01 AM, Mark Carver wrote:
Yellow wrote:

The remaining 1070 relay sites that only carry three muxes, serve
between them less than 10% of the remaining UK population.

And after all, 10% of the population is only 6 million people.

I wonder how many of those 6 million gave up waiting for DSO, and got
themselves satellite ?

That's what I, and a number of my neighbours, did.

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On Sunday, June 17th, 2012, at 15:36:04h +0100, Yellow wrote:

That does not help people who have aerial based Digital TV equipment,
not satellite.

So what help do you want?

What you say is like saying that it does not help people with antenna based
systems that they cannot receive BBC Radio London but it is available
on satellite.

The simple fact of the matter is that the commercial service broadcasters
decided not to make their services available from all transmitter sites
just like many other TV and radio services.

So if you really want to watch Film 4 and cannot get a signal from
a main transmitter site, then you can avail yourself of satellite,
cable if in a serviced area, maybe IPTV, as well as
Internet film4od.film4.COM

Alternatively mount a national campaign to get Channel 4 corporation
(owned by the government) to drop Channel 4 +1 from multiplex PSB-2
and replace it with Film 4.

Have you brought this matter to the attention of your elected
representative at the Westminter Parliament, or a member of
either house who is also a member at your gentleman's club
(usually the best way of getting results)?

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On Sun, 17 Jun 2012 15:34:07 +0100, Mark Carver wrote:

Anyway, if you are a milkman, be careful:-

Do you still have a poet under the stairs?

Or were they removed during privatization?

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On Sunday, June 17th, 2012, at 10:39:00h +0100, Paul Cummins explained:

I've just been appointed to my new job by the American MD.

Congratulations.

Do you always compare tangerines with tomatoes?