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"Mark Carver" wrote in message
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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!

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

You have to look over a longer period than a week

I bet you series of about 30 Bergman films that they ran about 6 months ago
will never make it to C4 (as just one example)

tim

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"J G Miller" wrote in message
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On Saturday, June 16th, 2012, at 14:38:36h +0100, Yellow pondered:

And Film4.

Film 4 and Film 4 +1 are both available free-to-air from Astra 1N
on transponder 41 frequency 10,714 GHz Horizontal polarisation

If you live in a council house :-)

tim

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tim.... wrote:
"J G Miller" wrote in message
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On Saturday, June 16th, 2012, at 14:38:36h +0100, Yellow pondered:

And Film4.
Film 4 and Film 4 +1 are both available free-to-air from Astra 1N
on transponder 41 frequency 10,714 GHz Horizontal polarisation

If you live in a council house :-)

Yawn.

What is it about the UK and satellite dishes, no other country in the world
has the same silly irrational hang ups about their use ?


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tim.... wrote:
"Mark Carver" wrote in message
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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!

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

You have to look over a longer period than a week

I bet you series of about 30 Bergman films that they ran about 6 months ago
will never make it to C4 (as just one example)

OK, fair enough, I'll pay more attention to F4's schedules in future


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Yellow wrote:

Just after my Mum's switchover,
Is he happy in his new life now?

Bill

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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 that would be Sky, because the public doesn't know about Freesat.

Bill

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On Sunday, June 17th, 2012, at 17:33:29h +0100, Mark Carver asked:

tim.... wrote:

If you live in a council house :-)

Yawn.

It was a funny comment though as he did include a smiley.

What is it about the UK and satellite dishes, no other country in the world
has the same silly irrational hang ups about their use ?

In fact you may find that some other European countries have tighter
installation laws than those in the UKofGB&NI but in practice these
are rarely enforced.

In the 1990s and into 2001 a number of Belgium municipalities even
charged an annual tax per antenna installation which the ECJ eventually
ruled as improper and residents were required to submit applications
for refunds of taxes paid if they wanted to get their money back.

http://merlin.obs.coe.INT/iris/2002/1/article5.en.html

My recollection may be in error, but I think up until some point
in the 1990s or 2000s, it was actually illegal to install a
satellite dish on a residence in Austria, where civic regulations
have always had quite an authoritarian streak eg if you wanted to form
a club (gardening, stamps whatever), then you must first register it
with the local police.

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J G Miller wrote:
On Sunday, June 17th, 2012, at 17:33:29h +0100, Mark Carver asked:

tim.... wrote:
If you live in a council house :-)

Yawn.

It was a funny comment though as he did include a smiley.

Acknowledged, but I did spend the night in my garden shed.

I'm sure Tim's fine with dishes, but the general stigma in this country
irritates me, when so much other 'clutter' goes unnoticed.

What is it about the UK and satellite dishes, no other country in the world
has the same silly irrational hang ups about their use ?

In fact you may find that some other European countries have tighter
installation laws than those in the UKofGB&NI but in practice these
are rarely enforced.

Well, very strictly speaking don't you (didn't you ?) need planning permission
in the UK to even erect a small UHF yagi ?


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Mark Carver wrote:

Well, very strictly speaking don't you (didn't you ?) need planning
permission in the UK to even erect a small UHF yagi ?

See
http://www.wrightsaerials.tv/albertsattic/090.shtml

Bill

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On 17/06/2012 16:03, Scott wrote:

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?

It might be more accurate to say that for /some/ of the area served by
relays they are no longer required. They will however still be required
for those parts of their coverage area where the main transmitter still
doesn't reach.
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