National Mass Retuning Day

A National Mass Retuning Day has been proposed.

And DVB-t2/MPEG-4 boxes are to be priced at GBP 200 (claims The Grauniad)

http://www.guardian.co.UK/media/2009/may/20/digital-tv-freeview-retuning-world-cup

"J G Miller" wrote in message
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A National Mass Retuning Day has been proposed.


I'm a protestant will it affect me?

On Thu, 21 May 2009 22:19:41 +0100, "Ivan"
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"J G Miller" wrote in message
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A National Mass Retuning Day has been proposed.


I'm a protestant will it affect me?


smile

J G Miller wrote:
A National Mass Retuning Day has been proposed.

And DVB-t2/MPEG-4 boxes are to be priced at GBP 200 (claims The
Grauniad)

http://www.guardian.co.UK/media/2009/may/20/digital-tv-freeview-retuning-world-cup

Nearer £300 with a hard drive I suspect?

(kim)

J G Miller wrote:
A National Mass Retuning Day has been proposed.

And DVB-t2/MPEG-4 boxes are to be priced at GBP 200 (claims The Grauniad)

http://www.guardian.co.UK/media/2009/may/20/digital-tv-freeview-retuning-world-cup

With ITV and C4 thinking very carefully about whether to commit to DTT
HD (AIUI ITV's 'Future Technology' staff were sacked yesterday), DVB-T2
might well stall. With only one HD service looking possible, T2 won't be
needed yet. You could transmit BBC HD within the 64QAM DSO'd version of
Mux B (aka PSB 3) keeping it at DVB-T1. Of course existing receivers
would not be able to receive the HD service, but the clearing of PSB 3
of existing SD services would not be necessary.

Just a thought.

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"J G Miller" wrote in message
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A National Mass Retuning Day has been proposed.

And DVB-t2/MPEG-4 boxes are to be priced at GBP 200 (claims The Grauniad)

http://www.guardian.co.UK/media/2009/may/20/digital-tv-freeview-retuning-world-cup

These morons have got to be out of their minds. You can get a Sky+HD box,
which includes a built in hard drive for only £49, and installation is free.
On top of that the bitrate on satellite is considerably higher than the
6mbps that each channel is going to be broadcast at on DVB-T2. 6mbps is
barley adequate for SD quality on DVD let alone HD.

And to pay for this rubbish, are these ******* are going to cram the
existing 5 terrestrial channels, plus BBC3/CBBC, BBC4/Cbeebies, BBC News,
BBC Parliament, 3 BBC interactive streams and 12 BBC radio stations and the
text service into 24mbps, averaging less than 2mbps each? And if not where
are the other 8 channels (counting the radio stations as one channel) going
to go?

You know it always amazes me that when all of this was being designed, the
need for a transmitter commanded retune was not seen. It was obvious to me
from the very start that the evolving standards and the fact that at the
outset transmissions would need to share with analogue, that this function
would be tremendously useful.

Brian

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"J G Miller" wrote in message
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A National Mass Retuning Day has been proposed.

And DVB-t2/MPEG-4 boxes are to be priced at GBP 200 (claims The Grauniad)

http://www.guardian.co.UK/media/2009/may/20/digital-tv-freeview-retuning-world-cup

And if nobody buys them they will keep reducing the quality of standard
freeview until they do..
Brian

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"kim" wrote in message
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J G Miller wrote:
A National Mass Retuning Day has been proposed.

And DVB-t2/MPEG-4 boxes are to be priced at GBP 200 (claims The
Grauniad)

http://www.guardian.co.UK/media/2009/may/20/digital-tv-freeview-retuning-world-cup

Nearer £300 with a hard drive I suspect?

(kim)

On May 22, 9:09*am, "Brian Gaff" wrote:
You know it always amazes me that when all of this was being designed, the
need for a transmitter commanded retune was not seen. It was obvious to me
from the very start that the evolving standards and the fact that at the
outset transmissions would need to share with analogue, that this function
would be tremendously useful.

I agree, even the Freesat platform (only a year old) doesn't seem to
have fully transparent handling when new channels arrive, you are
prompted to perform a scan. Yet Sky's platform, has always been able
to automagically add, remove, and shuffle its channels and services
without any viewer intervention required. If a service moves
transponder (the equivalent of a DTT mux change, it is silently
remapped within the EPG, with zero fuss).

Agamemnon wrote:

"J G Miller" wrote in message
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A National Mass Retuning Day has been proposed.

And DVB-t2/MPEG-4 boxes are to be priced at GBP 200 (claims The Grauniad)

http://www.guardian.co.UK/media/2009/may/20/digital-tv-freeview-retuning-world-cup


These morons have got to be out of their minds. You can get a Sky+HD
box, which includes a built in hard drive for only £49, and installation
is free.

£49, plus minimum of £26.25 per month for minimum of 12 months. So
absolute minimum cost over the 12 months = £364.

They give you the box for peanuts, because they hope you'll stay for
longer than 1 year - each subsequent year they get another £315 off you.
They probably recoup their costs in the first year, but hope you'll
stay on for longer.

Do you still lose the ability to record, or play back recorded
programmes ones you've cancelled your subscription? If so, then you
just end up with a glorified FreeSat box.

D