Woolacombe Bay

"CD" wrote in message
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On Thu, 14 May 2009 01:32:22 -0700 (PDT), Mike
wrote:


Lovely place Woolacombe. I love that part of the coast, Hartland,
Colvelly, Westward Ho......
Good luck with the reception

Ah, yes, I remember trying to tackle Clovelly with a pushchair against
the advice of the woman in the shop at the top, but the tourist info
woman had given us a free pass. The offspring is now walking so may
well take another visit. Indeed a lovely place.

Had a great holiday a few years ago in a cottage on the top of the cliffs
above Woolacombe towards Mortehoe. Fantastic views for miles, but yes, the
climb from the beach was a killer!

The cottage had Caradon Hill romping in on a contract 10A aerial, but we
were pretty high - looking down on the Woolacombe relay in fact.

"J G Miller" wrote in message
news
... And any chance of an answer as to how interactive services can be on
a
different multiplex and still provide the same on screen interactivity?

My understanding is that it has always been possible to perform cross mux
linkage in the mheg5 applications. Take the news multiscreen as an example.
The video and audio for this is hidden inside the MuxB 305 service but you
can enter it from services on Mux1 like News and BBC1.

In the early days of the news multiscreen, when it shared the video frame
with 1/4 Parliament there was a problem when a BBCi application instigated a
service jump to a different mux. It was found that the first thing a STB
did with the new service was to launch the video & audio decoders, followed
a second or so later by the mheg engine. This caused the
Parliament/multiscreen video to appear before the mheg got going. I think
this was initially fixed buy creating service 303 as a cross mux entry
point. This service did not have any video or audio but had an mheg
application that could index the video or audio components of other services
on MuxB. Later this was reinforced by hiding the multiscreen video and audio
components, by signalling them as private data, on 1/4 screen Parliament
(which became 305 with the introduction of a separate full-screen Parliament
service). On pre-DSO muxes 303 is also used as a cross linkage to allow
access to Cbeebies games from services on Mux1. [Using 303 as a cross mux
linkage service has also created the popular illusion that the news
multiscreen video and audio is in 303 when actually its in 305]. With DSO I
believe that the opportunity will be used to remove service 303 and the
cross mux linkage will be performed entirely in 305. This is intended to
free up valuable EPG and LCN capacity.

I also believe that the commonality of red-button content across Mux1 & MuxB
is achieved by some duplication of some applications and content (not
including the video & audio) on both muxes.

I retired from specifying mux configurations last summer so proposals may
have changed and my memory has got a bit fuzzy over the older details but I
think the principals are probably still true.

I hope this makes sense,

Glyn

On Fri, 15 May 2009 14:32:12 +0100, Glyn Morgan wrote:

I hope this makes sense

Yes -- thank you for your detailed explanation.

On Wed, 13 May 2009 21:11:45 +0100, Mark Carver
lid wrote:


You will be sorted, because the *post* DSO version of Mux 1 carries all the
digital BBC TV channels including Cbeebies and BBC 4. The *pre* DSO version
does not, those two channels are on Mux B.

But come on, surely you're going to be out there on that fabulous beach all
day, forget about the poxy old telly :-)

http://www.digitaluk.co.uk/when_do_i...huntshaw_cross

Cheers for the info. The telly is for backup when the great british
weather kicks in. Came in handy last week near Porthmadog, dreadful
weather.

Well, whilst the rest of the UK had a heatwave, the SW was bearable
lat week.
Digital TV wise, this was the first park I've stayed at (except
Butlins) that had a TV distribution system, no aerial on the chalet &
no DTT found. Then when Wimbledon came on the BBC1 analogue had a
"press red" logo on it. 1-4 were obiously fed by DTT or Sky boxes.
There were also 2 movie channels on analogue, fed by DVD players,
which the staff obviously forgot to press play on from time to time.

DSO wise there were lots of banners on lamposts telling folks to
retune on the 1st & 29th & a freeview trailer was spotted in
Ilfracombe Tescos car park on the hottest day of the week.

I can recommend the park - Golden Coast, 1 of 4 run by these folks
www.woolacombe.com. Paid just under £100 with The Sun, brochure price
was over £500! Sun hols start again today, think I may be going back.

Oh, as MC pointed out the beach is fantastic.

"CD" wrote in message
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On Wed, 13 May 2009 21:11:45 +0100, Mark Carver
lid wrote:
Well, whilst the rest of the UK had a heatwave, the SW was bearable
lat week.
Digital TV wise, this was the first park I've stayed at (except
Butlins) that had a TV distribution system, no aerial on the chalet &
no DTT found. Then when Wimbledon came on the BBC1 analogue had a
"press red" logo on it. 1-4 were obiously fed by DTT or Sky boxes.
There were also 2 movie channels on analogue, fed by DVD players,
which the staff obviously forgot to press play on from time to time.

The players should be on repeat play.

Bill

On Sat, 4 Jul 2009 15:07:54 +0100, "Bill Wright"
wrote:


The players should be on repeat play.

Bill

They managed it a couple of times, they also must have hit "play all"
on one occasion when I saw all of the DVD extras playing from the
Wallace & Gromit rabbit film.