Dumbing down the digital question

On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:54:48 +0000
Ian Jackson wrote:

In message , Adrian C
writes
Ye might find this useful, I've practiced it enough this week. I
call it the minimal interaction of DSO pain method.

Them:
"I got a letter though the door, about digital TV. I'm dumb and
read
the daily mail. Do I need to go digital?"

Me:
"Do you have more than 5 channels on your TV?"

Them:
"Why, yes."

Me:
"OK, you've got digital."


And that's it. Some people don't understand the word analogue, never
mind about digital.

I've just heard of someone who has paid for a £40 visit for 'the
change' despite her daughter having previously attended to this some
time ago. I'm sure the visiting engineers are regulary coming across
this, and have to make up some switchover malary to get paid for the
visit. In this case she got a new unnecessarily supplied freeview
set top box :-(

I expect a lot of people actually have a mixture of analogue and
digital. Some are probably still watching the five 'original'
channels on analogue (maybe not realising that these are now
available on digital), but also watching the additional digital
programmes.

In particular, while they may already have a digital-capable TV set
(if necessary using a STB), they could (so far) have been content to
record the 'original five' directly on their ageing steam-powered VCR
or more-modern hi-tech analogue DVD/disc recorder. In such
situations, an additional STB will undoubtedly come in handy.

Yes it does. Yes it does again.
--
Davey.

On Wednesday, March 21st, 2012 21:39:31 +0000, Hugo Nebula wrote:

*Apart from TVs in L'pool, which still tune themselves into Welsh TV!

Significant numbers of people were watching TV in Liverpool from Moel-y-Parc
long before digital tv was conceived. The Moel-y-Parc transmitting tower is
even visible line of sight from many places with higher elevation facing westwards.

Winter Hill, although the primary choice for antennas, is more distant and
not as visible, and in fact the low lying areas have always struggled to
receive an adequate signal, which is why the Storeton relay was built.

In uk.d-i-y tony sayer wrote:
In article , J G Miller
scribeth thus
Ain't *necessarily* so.

Analog cable TV offers more than 5 TV stations.

Analog satellite TV offers more than 5 TV stations.

What analogue UK satellite TV?...

Analogue cable TV and radio are also dead... Virgin withdrew them a few
years ago (no doubt to reuse the bandwidth for new umpteen-megabit broadband
connections). I don't know if the sprinkling of local cablecos that remain
still do analogue.

Theo

On Thursday, March 22nd, 2012, at 00:48:35h +0000, Theo Markettos wrote:

Analogue cable TV and radio are also dead...
....
I don't know if the sprinkling of local cablecos that remain
still do analogue.

So in light of statement 2, how can you declare statement 1?

"tony sayer" wrote in message
...
In article , Dave Plowman
(News)
scribeth thus
Chatting to a disabled lady the other day. She is on 'benefits'
and lives
in a housing association place. Her TV is old. She received a
leaflet
suggesting she could get FreeView free when analogue stops. So
she
contacted them.

Man arrived and said she'd have to get permission from the
housing
association for a new aerial. They've said no - and the likely
reason
follows:-




Asked her how she received analogue - it then got a bit
confused as these
things often do. But there is a cable which comes in alongside
the window.
She didn't know where the aerial is, but says her picture is
fine. Just to
confuse things she has a borrowed FreeView box which works
fine...


Should think if she lives near you Dave any old bit of wet
string will
do;!)...

--
Tony Sayer



You just keep your kinks to yourself - wet string indeed!


--
Woody

harrogate three at ntlworld dot com

We were about to embark at Dover, when (J G Miller) came
up to me and whispered:

Analog cable TV offers more than 5 TV stations.

Are there any analogue cable companies left in the UK?

Analog satellite TV offers more than 5 TV stations.


Are there any analogue Sat services used by a daily mail reading stupid
person?

But, if they are in a border area, they could receive 2 different
versions of ITV.

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J G Miller wrote:
On Thursday, March 22nd, 2012, at 00:48:35h +0000, Theo Markettos
wrote:

Analogue cable TV and radio are also dead...
...
I don't know if the sprinkling of local cablecos that remain
still do analogue.

So in light of statement 2, how can you declare statement 1?

It's that quantum stuff...
Both states exist whilst transecting a dimension of inverse confusion.