ITV Wales / West - Planned DTT Engineering Work - Starting Monday 11 July

It is planned to carry out engineering work starting today, Monday 11 July,
to bring into service the new studio equipment for the ITV Wales & ITV West
regions.

Ultimately the only difference DTT viewers will see is the re-introduction
of ITV News Channel.

You are likely to see short breaks and glitches on Mux 2 channels during the
course of the days work. It is hoped that work will be completed by
approximately 5pm.
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aa

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aa wrote:

It is planned to carry out engineering work starting today, Monday 11
July, to bring into service the new studio equipment for the ITV Wales &
ITV West regions.

Ultimately the only difference DTT viewers will see is the
re-introduction of ITV News Channel.

You are likely to see short breaks and glitches on Mux 2 channels
[snip]

Mux 2 channel Listing:

ITV1
Channel 4
ITV2
Teletext
E4
UKTV Food
ITV3
ITV News Channel
Bloomberg
British Eurosport
Teletext on 4
Teletext TV Guide
Teletext Cars
705 - E4
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aa

aa wrote:
It is planned to carry out engineering work starting today, Monday 11 July,
to bring into service the new studio equipment for the ITV Wales & ITV West
regions.

Ultimately the only difference DTT viewers will see is the re-introduction
of ITV News Channel.

And if the experience of the Meridian ITV region is repeated say goodbye to the
EPG on Mux 2 for about a week :-) (Still missing on Hannington last night, after
a brief half-hearted appearance on Saturday)

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On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 06:50:51 +0100, "aa" wrote:


| ITV1
| Channel 4
| ITV2
| Teletext
| E4
| UKTV Food
| ITV3
| ITV News Channel
| Bloomberg
| British Eurosport
| Teletext on 4
| Teletext TV Guide
| Teletext Cars
| 705 - E4

Wow, All that on one Mux, no wonder the reception is crap.
But then I watch Beeb Programs at 16QAM which come over loud and clear.

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"aa" wrote

It is planned to carry out engineering work starting today, Monday
11 July, to bring into service the new studio equipment for the ITV
Wales & ITV West regions.

Ultimately the only difference DTT viewers will see is the
re-introduction of ITV News Channel.

You are likely to see short breaks and glitches on Mux 2 channels

snip

*****

Thanks, aa. I wonder whether some precursor to the engineering work
might have been responsible for the break-ups on Channel 4 etc. at the
weekend, which we discussed in a thread above. Has it become clear
whether those break-ups were widespread (and therefore possibly
weather-related) or confined to the Mendip 'region'? If the latter, it
can't be a specific tx fault at Mendip since Bristol Ilchester
Crescent was affected as well (and their feeds are independent, as you
confirmed).

If there has been a minor cock-up with the engineering, that's
regrettable but one of those things. If it is more systematic (related
to 64QAM, or the new coders), then the outlook isn't good.

André Coutanche

In ,
André Coutanche wrote:

"aa" wrote

It is planned to carry out engineering work starting today, Monday
11 July, to bring into service the new studio equipment for the ITV
Wales & ITV West regions.

Ultimately the only difference DTT viewers will see is the
re-introduction of ITV News Channel.

You are likely to see short breaks and glitches on Mux 2 channels

snip

*****

Thanks, aa.

You're welcome. :-)

I wonder whether some precursor to the engineering work
might have been responsible for the break-ups on Channel 4 etc. at the
weekend, which we discussed in a thread above. Has it become clear
whether those break-ups were widespread (and therefore possibly
weather-related) or confined to the Mendip 'region'? If the latter, it
can't be a specific tx fault at Mendip since Bristol Ilchester
Crescent was affected as well (and their feeds are independent, as you
confirmed).

If there has been a minor cock-up with the engineering, that's
regrettable but one of those things. If it is more systematic (related
to 64QAM, or the new coders), then the outlook isn't good.

To some extent you're echoing my thoughts this morning, when I received the
news about todays planned work .

I'm not a techie and if I'm honest, am only really interested in the
technology as a means to an end in achieving the highest possible technical
broadcast standards for the viewer / listener. I've had no feedback as
such as to the reason(s) for the Mendip Mux 2 issues of yesterday and the
day before. I'm *guessing* (perhaps wrongly) that because the issues
disappeared immediately after I was informed by Arqiva that they'd made some
multiplex changes, that the reason was *not* weather related.

From reading some of the posts in here and perhaps more so in the Digital
Spy forum..

http://forum.digitalspy.co.uk/board/... 9&forumid=13

...it would seem that a number of Mux 2 issues have been noticed in various
parts of Britain in recent weeks / days. I know that major re-engineering
works affecting Mux 2 have caused a number of (most of?) the reported
issues, including the loss of EPG data in some regions.

Has your own reception of Mux 2 channels from been ok since yesterday
afternoon? I noticed no issues at all with DTT signals from Mendip since
about 12:30 yesterday. Let's see how todays work pans out and then
hopefully we'll better be able to assess what issues, if any, remain.
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aa

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In ,
aa wrote:

It is planned to carry out engineering work starting today, Monday 11
July, to bring into service the new studio equipment for the ITV Wales &
ITV West regions.

Ultimately the only difference DTT viewers will see is the
re-introduction of ITV News Channel.

You are likely to see short breaks and glitches on Mux 2 channels
[snip]

Mux 2 channel Listing:

ITV1
Channel 4
ITV2
Teletext
E4
UKTV Food
ITV3
ITV News Channel
Bloomberg
British Eurosport
Teletext on 4
Teletext TV Guide
Teletext Cars
705 - E4
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aa

Thanks aa, explains a lot.

"aa" wrote

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I'm not a techie and if I'm honest, am only really interested in the
technology as a means to an end in achieving the highest possible
technical broadcast standards for the viewer / listener.

Hear, hear!

I've had no feedback as such as to the reason(s) for the Mendip Mux
2 issues of yesterday and the day before. I'm *guessing* (perhaps
wrongly) that because the issues disappeared immediately after I was
informed by Arqiva that they'd made some multiplex changes, that the
reason was *not* weather related.

Right.

From reading some of the posts in here and perhaps more so in the
Digital Spy forum..

http://forum.digitalspy.co.uk/board/... 9&forumid=13

..it would seem that a number of Mux 2 issues have been noticed in
various parts of Britain in recent weeks / days. I know that major
re-engineering works affecting Mux 2 have caused a number of (most
of?) the reported issues, including the loss of EPG data in some
regions.

And many of those reports predate the high-pressure lift. All the
evidence points to the engineering work screwing things up - the
important question is whether they can be unscrewed. It's also
worrying that (a) they're still screwing up when they have previously
done other regions, so they don't seem to have learned any lessons,
and (b) they don't seem to know they've screwed up until us ordinary
punters shout. As has been said on the DS Forum - who do we now report
trouble to? And how do we know something is being done about it?

Has your own reception of Mux 2 channels from been ok since
yesterday afternoon? I noticed no issues at all with DTT signals
from Mendip since about 12:30 yesterday. Let's see how todays work
pans out and then hopefully we'll better be able to assess what
issues, if any, remain.

Well, I've just done some channel-hopping (Bristol Ilchester
Crescent). Some minor break-up on ITV1 but nothing else in the few
minutes I was on the other Mux 2 channels. But not a serious
scientific sample (and don't ask me to 'watch' more than 2 seconds of
E4 BB Live [sic]).

Thanks for your interest and useful information.

André Coutanche

In ,
aa wrote:

It is planned to carry out engineering work starting today, Monday 11
July, to bring into service the new studio equipment for the ITV Wales &
ITV West regions.

Ultimately the only difference DTT viewers will see is the
re-introduction of ITV News Channel.

You are likely to see short breaks and glitches on Mux 2 channels during
the course of the days work. It is hoped that work will be completed by
approximately 5pm.

STOP PRESS: ITV *Wales* region work is now completed. ITV *West* region
will now be carried out daytime tomorrow Tuesday 12th of July.

Source: Arqiva
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aa

In ,
André Coutanche wrote:

"aa" wrote
[snip]
From reading some of the posts in here and perhaps more so in the
Digital Spy forum..

http://forum.digitalspy.co.uk/board/... 9&forumid=13

..it would seem that a number of Mux 2 issues have been noticed in
various parts of Britain in recent weeks / days. I know that major
re-engineering works affecting Mux 2 have caused a number of (most
of?) the reported issues, including the loss of EPG data in some
regions.

And many of those reports predate the high-pressure lift. All the
evidence points to the engineering work screwing things up

Yes, I'd tend to agree.

- the
important question is whether they can be unscrewed. It's also
worrying that (a) they're still screwing up when they have previously
done other regions, so they don't seem to have learned any lessons,
and (b) they don't seem to know they've screwed up until us ordinary
punters shout. As has been said on the DS Forum - who do we now report
trouble to?

First point of contact for the public would normally be the TV stations
concerned. Posts to this newsgroup I'm sure will ultimately be noticed by
thems that need to know too.

And how do we know something is being done about it?

Good question. I'm not aware of any formal mechanism for that sort of
information to be conveyed *back* to the public other than faults actually
being rectified, or not as the case may be. Can only suggest keep up the
pressure on the TV stations and make use of this newsgroup and DS Forum to
voice your concerns.

Thanks for your interest and useful information.

Pleasure.
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aa