BBC Confirmation of new HD services

Posted this morning

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/posts/CBBC-HD-CBeebies-HD-BBC-Three-HD-BBC-Four-HD-and-BBC-News-HD-to-launch-on-Tuesday-10-December-2013

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Yawn.
Really, how nice.

I only get sd stuff, seems no real point to getting an hd system for me!


Brian

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Posted this morning

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/posts/CBBC-HD-CBeebies-HD-BBC-Three-HD-BBC-Four-HD-and-BBC-News-HD-to-launch-on-Tuesday-10-December-2013

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On 09/12/2013 10:52, Brian Gaff wrote:
Yawn.
Really, how nice.

I only get sd stuff, seems no real point to getting an hd system for me!

No there's not, but actually it's not mandatory to reply to any posts
that have no relevance or interest to you as an individual, confirming
that. rolls eyes


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Posted this morning

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/posts/CBBC-HD-CBeebies-HD-BBC-Three-HD-BBC-Four-HD-and-BBC-News-HD-to-launch-on-Tuesday-10-December-2013

Good. Those satphone news uplinks will look so much better in HD.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/posts/CBBC-HD-CBeebies-HD-BBC-Three-HD-BBC-Four-HD-and-BBC-News-HD-to-launch-on-Tuesday-10-December-2013

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Good news, especially re the news.

Might invest in a Freeview HD recorder (TV already does Freesat HD)

On 09/12/2013 10:18, Mark Carver wrote:

Posted this morning

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/posts/CBBC-HD-CBeebies-HD-BBC-Three-HD-BBC-Four-HD-and-BBC-News-HD-to-launch-on-Tuesday-10-December-2013


Annoying choice of UHF channel for Emley Moor users. Group B for
everything, except BBC4HD, which is stuck on CH32, firmly in Group A,
and on a much lower power. I strongly resisted a wideband aerial at the
time I had my TV aerial installed a couple of years back, going for a
grouped aerial. That in hindsight, looks like a distinct mistake,
although at that power level it's unlikely that I'd receive BBC4HD on
channel 32 at my location. Grrrr. Nicely thought out. Not.


Clem

On 09/12/2013 15:15, Clem Dye wrote:
On 09/12/2013 10:18, Mark Carver wrote:

Annoying choice of UHF channel for Emley Moor users. Group B for
everything, except BBC4HD, which is stuck on CH32, firmly in Group A,
and on a much lower power. I strongly resisted a wideband aerial at the
time I had my TV aerial installed a couple of years back, going for a
grouped aerial. That in hindsight, looks like a distinct mistake,
although at that power level it's unlikely that I'd receive BBC4HD on
channel 32 at my location. Grrrr. Nicely thought out. Not.

Emley Moor is carrying Mux 7 at 50kW, so only 5.5dB down on the other
muxes at 174kW. You might be OK,

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On 09/12/2013 15:21, Mark Carver wrote:
On 09/12/2013 15:15, Clem Dye wrote:
On 09/12/2013 10:18, Mark Carver wrote:

Annoying choice of UHF channel for Emley Moor users. Group B for
everything, except BBC4HD, which is stuck on CH32, firmly in Group A,
and on a much lower power. I strongly resisted a wideband aerial at the
time I had my TV aerial installed a couple of years back, going for a
grouped aerial. That in hindsight, looks like a distinct mistake,
although at that power level it's unlikely that I'd receive BBC4HD on
channel 32 at my location. Grrrr. Nicely thought out. Not.

Emley Moor is carrying Mux 7 at 50kW, so only 5.5dB down on the other
muxes at 174kW. You might be OK,

True, but there's still the thorny issue of having a grouped aerial in
play. I think that the aerial might be an Antiference TC18/B. Oddly,
it's good at picking-up Bilsdale group A stuff off the back of the
aerial, so it'll be interesting to see what a re-tune brings. Still
annoying though.


Clem

On 09/12/2013 10:18, Mark Carver wrote:

Posted this morning

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/posts/CBBC-HD-CBeebies-HD-BBC-Three-HD-BBC-Four-HD-and-BBC-News-HD-to-launch-on-Tuesday-10-December-2013

I note the comment "It’s constraints around spectrum and costs that mean
that this new HD capacity won’t cover the whole UK...". We'll be
missing out with Rowridge on BBC4, BBC News, and CBeebies,
unfortunately. I see we'll be getting Al Jazeera in HD, though!

Do you happen to know if it's spectrum or costs with Rowridge which
limits HD capacity? Is interference to/from France a contributory factor?

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On 09/12/2013 16:32, Jeff Layman wrote:
On 09/12/2013 10:18, Mark Carver wrote:

Posted this morning

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/posts/CBBC-HD-CBeebies-HD-BBC-Three-HD-BBC-Four-HD-and-BBC-News-HD-to-launch-on-Tuesday-10-December-2013


I note the comment "It’s constraints around spectrum and costs that mean
that this new HD capacity won’t cover the whole UK...". We'll be
missing out with Rowridge on BBC4, BBC News, and CBeebies,
unfortunately. I see we'll be getting Al Jazeera in HD, though!

Do you happen to know if it's spectrum or costs with Rowridge which
limits HD capacity? Is interference to/from France a contributory factor?


Rowridge is down to carry Mux 7 (and therefore AL Jazz, and BBC 4, and
News HD) in 2014, sometime before the summer. Ch 31, at 23kW, where did
you see it wasn't ?

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