Analogue Switch off

Marky P wrote:

So, does this mean that aerial grouping will be making a comeback?
Hope so.

It's not gone away in some areas. :-)

If the UHF channel allocations proposed get sold off for non broadcast
use we'll have:-

21-30 (Group A)

And

41 to 61 (Extended group B ?)

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On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 15:34:10 +0000, Sing a long wrote:

3. Keep plugging digital so that the punter will not notice the con.

How true, I noticed this recently in a current Vauxhall brochure for
the new Astra motor car (page 44):

"Digital audio broadcasts differ from FM in that they are entirely
immune from interference and offer a sound quality as good as a CD".

- Mike

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But that's the point ad - analogue switch off means that they _will_
work with digital, because the digital transmissions will be moved into
the right frequency group and increased in power.

No doubt, but it still do not mean it will work.
Digital signal can not cope as well as analouge.
You only have to miss a couple of these ones and zeros and that is it,
your picture is crap.
I know they got error correction, but that only works do a certain
degree.



How many people understand that analogue switch means that they _don't_
need a new aerial for digital?

At the moment they do.



There's going to be a lot of cowboys out frightening folks into
unnecessarily buying aerials just before switch off unless this
information is put across very clearly!

Yep, there normally is.



Yet putting this information out will slow digital take up in the
meantime, so maybe the government will just let people waste this
money?


That is the government for you,

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says...


How true, I noticed this recently in a current Vauxhall brochure for
the new Astra motor car (page 44):

"Digital audio broadcasts differ from FM in that they are entirely
immune from interference and offer a sound quality as good as a CD".



they should be done for that, but then, so should Freeview and any one
else that says digital has a better picture than analouge.

"ad" wrote in message
k...
In article .com,
says...


But that's the point ad - analogue switch off means that they _will_
work with digital, because the digital transmissions will be moved into
the right frequency group and increased in power.

No doubt, but it still do not mean it will work.
Digital signal can not cope as well as analouge.

Anal what?

You only have to miss a couple of these ones and zeros and that is it,
your picture is crap.
I know they got error correction, but that only works do a certain
degree.

A "couple" of missed ones and zeroes should not be beyond the error
correction kit.


How many people understand that analogue switch means that they _don't_
need a new aerial for digital?

It depends.


At the moment they do.



There's going to be a lot of cowboys out frightening folks into
unnecessarily buying aerials just before switch off unless this
information is put across very clearly!

Maybe not a bad thing if it means that people get new aerials, which need
replacing every now and then anyway.


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No doubt, but it still do not mean it will work.
Digital signal can not cope as well as analouge.

Anal what?


Analogue, see I can spell it right, when I am not in a rush. :-)



A "couple" of missed ones and zeroes should not be beyond the error
correction kit.

A couple maybe, but more than a couple will certainly be a problem.


There's going to be a lot of cowboys out frightening folks into
unnecessarily buying aerials just before switch off unless this
information is put across very clearly!

Maybe not a bad thing if it means that people get new aerials, which need
replacing every now and then anyway.


Do not be so bloody stupid, anyone who thinks that ripping off people
for any reason at all, is as bad as the person who done the ripping off
in the first place.
There is no excuse for ripping any one off.

Most aerials will last for years, my parents aerial been up for years, I
think it was put up when ITV started to broadcast, as they had to have a
new aerial then, the only reason it was replaced 4 years ago, was for On
digital.
the same here, when I moved in, there was an aerial in the loft, which
worked well for analouge, but when I got On digital it would not, I
would never have replaced it if I did not subscribe to On Digital.

"ad" wrote in message
k...
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says...

Maybe not a bad thing if it means that people get new aerials, which need
replacing every now and then anyway.

Do not be so bloody stupid, anyone who thinks that ripping off people
for any reason at all, is as bad as the person who done the ripping off
in the first place.
There is no excuse for ripping any one off.

Most aerials will last for years, my parents aerial been up for years, I
think it was put up when ITV started to broadcast, as they had to have a
new aerial then, the only reason it was replaced 4 years ago, was for On
digital.

You mean they were watching VHF/405 line TV up till then?

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Max Demian

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Most aerials will last for years, my parents aerial been up for years,
I think it was put up when ITV started to broadcast, as they had to
have a new aerial then, the only reason it was replaced 4 years ago,
was for On digital. the same here, when I moved in, there was an aerial
in the loft, which worked well for analouge, but when I got On digital
it would not, I would never have replaced it if I did not subscribe to
On Digital.

It must have been quite a nuisance putting up a band III aerial just for
ITV back in 1955, did they buy a new dual band TV (I & III) or just get
a band III STB? Still 45 years life from an aerial and its co-ax is
impressive, although not as impressive it working for UHF TV since the
405 TV close down.
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In article , ad
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Most aerials will last for years, my parents aerial been up for years, I
think it was put up when ITV started to broadcast, as they had to have a
new aerial then, the only reason it was replaced 4 years ago, was for On
digital. the same here, when I moved in, there was an aerial in the loft,
which worked well for analouge, but when I got On digital it would not, I
would never have replaced it if I did not subscribe to On Digital.

It must have been quite a nuisance putting up a band III aerial just for
ITV back in 1955, did they buy a new dual band TV (I & III) or just get a
band III STB?

A set top box? With valves? Where would you put the aspidistra?

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Max Demian

It must have been quite a nuisance putting up a band III aerial just
for
ITV back in 1955,

I was seven. I got a shilling for each ITV aerial I fixed together.
They had child labour in those days you see.

Bill