What we need to ease the pain of analogue switch off...

What we need to ease pain of analogue switch off is a box that takes DTT
signal in and produces 5 RF channels out at the same frequencies the
existing analogue channels were. This would be placed in the loft (or where
ever) to provide analogue channels rest of equipment.

That way all these people that have 10 TV's and 8 VCR's etc in their homes
and have no intention of switching to digital will be all happy. They
install box and carry on using their equipment as before not noticing any
change.

Oh, this box could be installed for free by those wanting all the DTT
frequency space or if it costs cost less than just using 5 DTT boxes.

I suggested exactly the same thing on this group a while ago. I'm surprised
that such a box isn't available yet.

"Ian Middleton" wrote in message
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What we need to ease pain of analogue switch off is a box that takes DTT
signal in and produces 5 RF channels out at the same frequencies the
existing analogue channels were. This would be placed in the loft (or
where ever) to provide analogue channels rest of equipment.

That way all these people that have 10 TV's and 8 VCR's etc in their homes
and have no intention of switching to digital will be all happy. They
install box and carry on using their equipment as before not noticing any
change.

Oh, this box could be installed for free by those wanting all the DTT
frequency space or if it costs cost less than just using 5 DTT boxes.

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 16:35:46 -0000, "Ian Middleton" wrote:

| What we need to ease pain of analogue switch off is a box that takes DTT
| signal in and produces 5 RF channels out at the same frequencies the
| existing analogue channels were. This would be placed in the loft (or where
| ever) to provide analogue channels rest of equipment.
|
| That way all these people that have 10 TV's and 8 VCR's etc in their homes
| and have no intention of switching to digital will be all happy. They
| install box and carry on using their equipment as before not noticing any
| change.
|
| Oh, this box could be installed for free by those wanting all the DTT
| frequency space or if it costs cost less than just using 5 DTT boxes.

That will require 5 DTT decoders for the 5 channels, which will cost money.
Perhaps in 5 years when the cost of decoders has fallen even further.

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On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 16:35:46 -0000, "Ian Middleton" wrote:

What we need to ease pain of analogue switch off is a box that takes DTT
signal in and produces 5 RF channels out at the same frequencies the
existing analogue channels were. This would be placed in the loft (or where
ever) to provide analogue channels rest of equipment.

That way all these people that have 10 TV's and 8 VCR's etc in their homes
and have no intention of switching to digital will be all happy. They
install box and carry on using their equipment as before not noticing any
change.

Oh, this box could be installed for free by those wanting all the DTT
frequency space or if it costs cost less than just using 5 DTT boxes.


They will, however, find Ceefax and Teletext has disappeared, the picture may
freeze from time to time, or dissolve into large coloured blocks, and there will
occasionally be a sound similar to a walrus farting into a gerry can coming from
their TV's loudspeakers.

JPG

Ian Middleton wrote:

My newsreader only displays the first 37 chars of the subject, so that
it can also show author and threading information.
This gave a rather different impression of this post at first

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 16:35:46 -0000, Ian Middleton wrote:

What we need to ease pain of analogue switch off is a box that takes DTT
signal in and produces 5 RF channels out at the same frequencies the
existing analogue channels were. This would be placed in the loft (or
where
ever) to provide analogue channels rest of equipment.

That way all these people that have 10 TV's and 8 VCR's etc in their
homes
and have no intention of switching to digital will be all happy. They
install box and carry on using their equipment as before not noticing any
change.

Oh, this box could be installed for free by those wanting all the DTT
frequency space or if it costs cost less than just using 5 DTT boxes.


Since it is planned to switch off analogue services and replace them with
digital multiplexes ON THE SAME CHANNELS, I fail to see how this will work.

Arthur

Ian Stirling wrote:
Ian Middleton wrote:

My newsreader only displays the first 37 chars of the subject, so that
it can also show author and threading information.
This gave a rather different impression of this post at first

FX:Moves mouse along subject slowly

Hehehe!

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On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 18:06:24 -0000, Arthur strung
together this:

Since it is planned to switch off analogue services and replace them with
digital multiplexes ON THE SAME CHANNELS, I fail to see how this will work.

Filters.
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On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 19:28:49 +0000, Lurch
wrote:

On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 18:06:24 -0000, Arthur strung
together this:

Since it is planned to switch off analogue services and replace them
with
digital multiplexes ON THE SAME CHANNELS, I fail to see how this will
work.

Filters.

1. Read the words in upper case
2. Think again

Arthur

On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 21:10:42 -0000, Arthur strung
together this:

Since it is planned to switch off analogue services and replace them
with
digital multiplexes ON THE SAME CHANNELS, I fail to see how this will
work.

Filters.

1. Read the words in upper case
2. Think again

How are you at designing filters? ;-)
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