Another retune?
 

"Davey" wrote in message
...
SWMBO, who watches a lot more TV than I do, reports that she has been
seeing warnings recently about another re-tune being needed this week.
We receive from Tacolneston.
Is she right, and if so, what's this one for?

There's another one on 17th Oct (possibly) as the supposed regulatory body
has ****ed up:
http://www.a516digital.com/2012/09/f...shuffle-q.html

This will run and run with trivial commercial whinges allowed to prevail.

--
Max Demian

Another retune?
 

"Max Demian" wrote in message
...
"Davey" wrote in message
...
SWMBO, who watches a lot more TV than I do, reports that she has been
seeing warnings recently about another re-tune being needed this week.
We receive from Tacolneston.
Is she right, and if so, what's this one for?

There's another one on 17th Oct (possibly) as the supposed regulatory body
has ****ed up:
http://www.a516digital.com/2012/09/f...shuffle-q.html

This will run and run with trivial commercial whinges allowed to prevail.

What a mess. Why couldn't DMOL and their predecessors who allocated LCNs do
the job once and do it right, instead of doing it piecemeal over the years?

Does anyone go through the channels sequentially until they find the one
they want, instead of keying the digits for the desired channel? In other
words, does Shopping Channel's argument for wanting a low LCN actually hold
water?

Another retune?
 

"Mortimer" wrote in message
o.uk...

Does anyone go through the channels sequentially until they find the one
they want, instead of keying the digits for the desired channel?

Yes my wife does.
Regards
David

Another retune?
 

On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:39:52 +0100, "Mortimer" wrote:

"Max Demian" wrote in message
...
"Davey" wrote in message
...
SWMBO, who watches a lot more TV than I do, reports that she has been
seeing warnings recently about another re-tune being needed this week.
We receive from Tacolneston.
Is she right, and if so, what's this one for?

There's another one on 17th Oct (possibly) as the supposed regulatory body
has ****ed up:
http://www.a516digital.com/2012/09/f...shuffle-q.html

This will run and run with trivial commercial whinges allowed to prevail.

What a mess. Why couldn't DMOL and their predecessors who allocated LCNs do
the job once and do it right, instead of doing it piecemeal over the years?

There are channels coming and going and channels being renamed all the
time.

Does anyone go through the channels sequentially until they find the one
they want, instead of keying the digits for the desired channel? In other
words, does Shopping Channel's argument for wanting a low LCN actually hold
water?

If I can't remember the number of a channel I press the button that
displays the channel list. I can scroll through that until I see the one
I want. It's not necessary to go through the channels sequentially in
the sense of "tuning" to each one to see what it is. My Samsung TVs
display the channel list as a series of tables with 24 channels in each.




--
Peter Duncanson
(in uk.tech.digital-tv)

Another retune?
 

Davey wrote:


Yes, national retune, Wednesday am, EPG reshuffle.


Groan! Thanks. Will it ever end?

Yes, as myself and others firmly believe, DTT (in its present DVB-T* form)
will be dead sometime in the next decade.

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

www.paras.org.uk

Another retune?
 

"Mark Carver" wrote in message
...
Davey wrote:


Yes, national retune, Wednesday am, EPG reshuffle.


Groan! Thanks. Will it ever end?

Yes, as myself and others firmly believe, DTT (in its present DVB-T* form)
will be dead sometime in the next decade.

So do you believe the only option will be for every house then to get a
satellite dish with as many LNBs as they want devices connected to it - or
else to get cable or internet feed (and pay for the vast amount of data that
TV-over-internet will generate)?

Terrestrial TV has the advantage that it is reasonably unobtrusive: an
aerial on the roof is less noticeable on the wall of the house (why are
dishes rarely mounted on a chimney, clear of house walls etc?). It is also
fairly tolerant of alignment errors so it can be used while mobile (eg in a
caravan) without spending a long time aligning it at the satellite.

Another retune?
 

Mortimer wrote:
"Mark Carver" wrote in message
Yes, as myself and others firmly believe, DTT (in its present DVB-T*
form) will be dead sometime in the next decade.

So do you believe the only option will be for every house then to get a
satellite dish with as many LNBs as they want devices connected to it -
or else to get cable or internet feed (and pay for the vast amount of
data that TV-over-internet will generate)?

Terrestrial TV has the advantage that it is reasonably unobtrusive: an
aerial on the roof is less noticeable on the wall of the house (why are
dishes rarely mounted on a chimney, clear of house walls etc?). It is
also fairly tolerant of alignment errors so it can be used while mobile
(eg in a caravan) without spending a long time aligning it at the
satellite.


I broadly agree. However I didn't say it was necessarily a good idea to ditch
DTT in its present form, I'm just predicting what will happen to the UHF
broadcast bands, they will be sold to the 'Telcos'.

Ofcom and their cohorts can only think in terms of 'bits per hertz'.

Comparing DVB-T* with 4G LTE etc, it's no contest.

However, if you'd said to me 10 years ago that I'd have a 29 Mb/s internet
feed by 2010, when at the time BT said my line couldn't even support 512k, and
in 2011 I'd be watching 720p HD TV programmes on it, I'd have called you mad.

Things have changed, and improved, and will continue to do so.

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

www.paras.org.uk

Another retune?
 

En el artículo , Davey
escribió:

Is she right, and if so, what's this one for?

http://www.reghardware.com/2012/09/1...tune_tomorrow/

--
(\_/)
(='.'=)
(")_(")

Another retune?
 

On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:27:22 +0100, Mike Tomlinson
wrote:

En el artículo , Davey
escribió:

Is she right, and if so, what's this one for?

http://www.reghardware.com/2012/09/1...tune_tomorrow/

My Humax PVR hasn't nagged me about this.
--
(\__/) M.
(='.'=) If a man stands in a forest and no woman is around
(")_(") is he still wrong?

Another retune?
 

On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 09:59:20 +0100
Mark wrote:

On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:27:22 +0100, Mike Tomlinson
wrote:

En el artÃ*culo , Davey
escribió:

Is she right, and if so, what's this one for?

http://www.reghardware.com/2012/09/1...tune_tomorrow/

My Humax PVR hasn't nagged me about this.

Why would it, it's not due until lunchtime, would it know in advance?
--
Davey.