digital switchover

What do they do in the two weeks between Steps 1 and 2? It seems a clunky
way of doing the job - bet they didn't do that in other countries (we seem
to be amongst the last)..

On 02/06/2011 16:27, Geoff Pearson wrote:
What do they do in the two weeks between Steps 1 and 2? It seems a clunky
way of doing the job - bet they didn't do that in other countries (we seem
to be amongst the last)..


It's more a case of what do you do. Between 1 and 2 you still have
analogue TV on BBC1 ITV Ch4 and 5. Stage 1 provides the BBC mux to
enable you to set up your equipment before they switch off the analogue
at stage 2
--
Phil Cook

On Thu, 2 Jun 2011 16:27:30 +0100, "Geoff Pearson"
wrote:

What do they do in the two weeks between Steps 1 and 2? It seems a clunky
way of doing the job - bet they didn't do that in other countries (we seem
to be amongst the last)..

If you look at the list of countries that have completed the transition
you will see that it is shorter than the list of those still in
progress:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital...ound_the_world


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

Geoff Pearson wrote:

What do they do in the two weeks between Steps 1 and 2?

Sit back and watch the queues at Tesco/Aldi of people wondering where
BBC2 has gone ;-)

On Thu, 02 Jun 2011 17:11:09 +0100, Phil Cook wrote:

On 02/06/2011 16:27, Geoff Pearson wrote:
What do they do in the two weeks between Steps 1 and 2? It seems a
clunky way of doing the job - bet they didn't do that in other
countries (we seem to be amongst the last)..


It's more a case of what do you do. Between 1 and 2 you still have
analogue TV on BBC1 ITV Ch4 and 5. Stage 1 provides the BBC mux to
enable you to set up your equipment before they switch off the analogue
at stage 2

OK but it means everything has (or in our case had) to be rescanned twice.

Once upon a distant time (when C5 started), armies of blokes with
screwdrivers were paid to go and sort things out. Nowadays, granny is
expected to manage those countless mysterious buttons and screens on her
own or find some poor mug to help her.

Not to mention, of course, all the other periodic shifting around of
stuff meaning that several rescans a year are required.


--
Steve Hayes, South Wales, UK - remove colours from address

On 02/06/2011 16:27, Geoff Pearson wrote:
What do they do in the two weeks between Steps 1 and 2? It seems a
clunky way of doing the job - bet they didn't do that in other countries
(we seem to be amongst the last)..

Pensioners calls their local cowboy rigger (are there any other types
these days?) and tells them BBC2 has gone, cowboy comes out, tells them
they need a "digital" aerial and charges them 300 quid to put one up.
They then return weeks later to do a retune and charge a further 30 quid.

That's what happened to a pensioner I know.

In article ,
Steve Hayes wrote:
On Thu, 02 Jun 2011 17:11:09 +0100, Phil Cook wrote:

On 02/06/2011 16:27, Geoff Pearson wrote:
What do they do in the two weeks between Steps 1 and 2? It seems a
clunky way of doing the job - bet they didn't do that in other
countries (we seem to be amongst the last)..


It's more a case of what do you do. Between 1 and 2 you still have
analogue TV on BBC1 ITV Ch4 and 5. Stage 1 provides the BBC mux to
enable you to set up your equipment before they switch off the analogue
at stage 2

OK but it means everything has (or in our case had) to be rescanned twice.

Once upon a distant time (when C5 started), armies of blokes with
screwdrivers were paid to go and sort things out. Nowadays, granny is
expected to manage those countless mysterious buttons and screens on her
own or find some poor mug to help her.

when there were "the Great Wavelength Changes" in 1978 - the Scouts
provided the necessary help.

--
From KT24

Using a RISC OS computer running v5.16

On 02/06/2011 18:12, Silk wrote:
On 02/06/2011 16:27, Geoff Pearson wrote:
What do they do in the two weeks between Steps 1 and 2? It seems a
clunky way of doing the job - bet they didn't do that in other countries
(we seem to be amongst the last)..

Pensioners calls their local cowboy rigger (are there any other types
these days?) and tells them BBC2 has gone, cowboy comes out, tells them
they need a "digital" aerial and charges them 300 quid to put one up.
They then return weeks later to do a retune and charge a further 30 quid.

That's what happened to a pensioner I know.
If you know any more, then help them understand how not to get ripped
off on paras:

www.paras.org.uk

If they're over 75 point them to the £40 help scheme.
http://www.helpscheme.co.uk/

Richard

On 02/06/2011 18:25, Dickie Mint wrote:
On 02/06/2011 18:12, Silk wrote:
On 02/06/2011 16:27, Geoff Pearson wrote:
What do they do in the two weeks between Steps 1 and 2? It seems a
clunky way of doing the job - bet they didn't do that in other countries
(we seem to be amongst the last)..

Pensioners calls their local cowboy rigger (are there any other types
these days?) and tells them BBC2 has gone, cowboy comes out, tells them
they need a "digital" aerial and charges them 300 quid to put one up.
They then return weeks later to do a retune and charge a further 30 quid.

That's what happened to a pensioner I know.
If you know any more, then help them understand how not to get ripped
off on paras:

www.paras.org.uk

If they're over 75 point them to the £40 help scheme.
http://www.helpscheme.co.uk/

I've helped out a few myself as I saw it coming - none needed any more
than 5 minutes pressing buttons. Unfortunately, I missed this particular
chap until it was too late. He had a telly that already had Freeview
built in and 5 minutes would have had him sorted.

My mum's a pensioner. She has an old portable in a spare room. I bought
a Freeview box from a car boot sale for a couple of quid and had it all
working in no time at all.

Of course, legally, these cowboys have done nothing wrong, so there's
not much can be done. They've quoted a price and supplied the equipment.

I'll certainly have a look at that website. Thanks.

Phil Cook wrote:
On 02/06/2011 16:27, Geoff Pearson wrote:
What do they do in the two weeks between Steps 1 and 2? It seems a
clunky
way of doing the job - bet they didn't do that in other countries (we
seem
to be amongst the last)..


It's more a case of what do you do. Between 1 and 2 you still have
analogue TV on BBC1 ITV Ch4 and 5. Stage 1 provides the BBC mux to
enable you to set up your equipment before they switch off the analogue
at stage 2

Curiously it was all done the same night on the Channel Islands last year.

I think Whitehaven and/or Selkirk had a one moth gap between DSO 1 and 2
stages, too long ago to remember now ?

--
Mark
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