Analogue TVs no longer sold by UK retailers

On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:32:50 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:

Even without an amateur licence, you should not need a Broadcast TV
Receiving Licence to receive amateur transmissions (analogue or
digital).

Well I stand corrected then.

I based my comment on a recollection that the TV receiving licence
used to say that it was a licence for the reception of tv broadcasts
including those of amateurs.

My understanding of the TV reception regulations in the UKofGB&NI
was that a licence was required to receive any live TV transmission
broadcast to the UKofGB&NI, regardless of the medium of reception -
terrestrial, satellite, cable, or internet.

So when the goons from TV Licencing (a BBC contracted out service),
you just tell them it was only an amateur transmission you were
watching?

On Jul 7, 3:15*pm, "JohnT" wrote:
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On Jul 7, 12:31 pm, Tony wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertain...s/10535663.stm

Quote:
Analogue television sets are no longer being sold at major retailers
across the UK, ahead of the digital switchover in 2012.

2012? What? That must be in some obscure south eastern part of the UK
I guess. Prettywell everywhere else will be switched by this time next
year.

Londoncentric ******** as usual.

Bill

Pontop Pike has moved to London?
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JohnT

Yes but the point is that they shouldn't say " the digital switchover
in 2012" when a large part of the country has already switched, and
another large part will switch in 2011. It's still Londoncentric
******** even if a few non-London areas won't switch until 2012,
because the writer just assumed that because London will switch in
2012 that's the only date that matters. I doubt if the person who
wrote that even knows that there is such a place as Geordieland, and
if they do know they won't care. And as for the London Olympics I
think it's a disgrace that good causes all over the country are having
their lottery funds cut off to pay for it. If they have to have the
Olympics they have have it in a whole country not just the capital
city. There are really good facilities in Sheffield and they could
perfectly well use them. Sheffield needs the trade a damn sight more
than London, and we wouldn't rip the punters off for ice creams at
five times the proper price, like that cockney **** did when I was at
the Rolling Stones concert in Hyde Park in 1969. I've kept out of
London since then. Terrible place. We bought some fish and chips from
somewhere on the outskirts and they were horrible, and far too dear,
and I've never seen such traffic in my life.

Bill

Bill

On Jul 7, 8:01*pm, Mark Carver wrote:
Dr Hfuhruhurr wrote:
On 7 July, 12:57, "
Londoncentric ******** as usual.

Ulster, Tyne Tees and Meridian. Hardly Londoncentric Bill!

I wish Meridian were a bit more Londoncentric. Here I am 40 miles from London,
yet here in Meridianland, so we have to put up with news stories from West
Dorset, North Oxfordshire, and the Isle Of Thanet !

Going off the subject a bit, I was round at our Carolyn's tonight and
she was watching the Sky News coverage of the Geordieland gunman
problem. First I showed her that she could get Sky News HD, which she
really liked because the aerial pics looked so good, then since she
was so fascinated I said "You can put their local news on" and showed
her nine hundred and whatever it is with the NE & C Look North. We
watched it and the bird with the microphone was stood on a hill
outside Rothbury. It was so much like The Day Today we both burst out
laughing. The she introduced this woman with a gob full of marbles who
turned out to be a high-up in the National Trust (or something) with
the words "...she knows the village better than anyone else!" Ha! I
wonder if the people who have lived there all their lives would agree
with that. Journos have zero respect for local people.

Bill

That I think is often the user who gets cconfused. I thought we were over
the spec change saga now. OK so the cheap boxes do not have hd, but this
will, I think for many be a non essential item in any case.

Brian

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Brian Gaff wrote:
But their still will due to cheap set bottom side top behind boxes.

Brian


Which also might not work after switch off. At the very least some will
get confused during the switch over phase.

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Tony

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Going off the subject a bit, I was round at our Carolyn's tonight and
she was watching the Sky News coverage of the Geordieland gunman
problem. First I showed her that she could get Sky News HD, which she
really liked because the aerial pics looked so good, then since she
was so fascinated I said "You can put their local news on" and showed
her nine hundred and whatever it is with the NE & C Look North. We
watched it and the bird with the microphone was stood on a hill
outside Rothbury. It was so much like The Day Today we both burst out
laughing. The she introduced this woman with a gob full of marbles who
turned out to be a high-up in the National Trust (or something) with
the words "...she knows the village better than anyone else!" Ha! I
wonder if the people who have lived there all their lives would agree
with that. Journos have zero respect for local people.

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/s...-201007072887/

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Tony wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertain...s/10535663.stm

Woopeee!

Pity lots of people bought TV's before that then, probably expecting
them to work for a good few years.

Like some of these, perhaps?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/gall...ough-the-years .

André Coutanche

"J G Miller" wrote in message
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On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:32:50 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:

Even without an amateur licence, you should not need a Broadcast TV
Receiving Licence to receive amateur transmissions (analogue or
digital).

Well I stand corrected then.

I based my comment on a recollection that the TV receiving licence
used to say that it was a licence for the reception of tv broadcasts
including those of amateurs.


There certainly are some amateurs broadcacsting TV...

"André Coutanche" wrote in message
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Tony wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertain...s/10535663.stm

Woopeee!

Pity lots of people bought TV's before that then, probably expecting
them to work for a good few years.

Like some of these, perhaps?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/gall...ough-the-years
.

André Coutanche



http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/gall...638729&index=8

I still have a working "Bush" Rangemaster black and white TV set in my
kitchen connected to the building's RF circuit so it can receive output from
our PC, DVD player, digital hard disk and CCTV.

It was given to us in 1995 as not wanted.

To tune it, it has a lovely simple "analogue" dial which one turns to the
desired RF channel!

Power consumption wise, it's probably cheaper to run than most modern TV's!

Her-in-doors uses the CCTV channel to view the front door, cat sitting
there, cold callers, and tell when I've arrived home.

I wonder how old the set is: Early 1980s at best.

In message , Light of Aria
writes

"J G Miller" wrote in message
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On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:32:50 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:

Even without an amateur licence, you should not need a Broadcast TV
Receiving Licence to receive amateur transmissions (analogue or
digital).

Well I stand corrected then.

I based my comment on a recollection that the TV receiving licence
used to say that it was a licence for the reception of tv broadcasts
including those of amateurs.


There certainly are some amateurs broadcacsting TV...

The standard UK amateur radio licence is not a broadcasting licence. It
is a licence specifically for amateurs to establish 2-way communications
with other amateur stations. It is irrelevant how many 'eavesdroppers'
might be listening!

One of the notable exceptions is for operation using a special licence
(held by the Radio Society of Great Britain) which allows the
transmission of news broadcasts about items concerning the Society and
amateur radio in general.. Most of these broadcast use mainly just
radio, but there are a few using TV signals, and you can watch the
newsreader reading the news (just like 'the real thing'!).

These news broadcasts are transmitted from ordinary amateur station
around the country, on certain specifically approved, normal amateur
frequencies (usually on Sunday mornings). For these broadcasts, all of
these stations use the callsign GB2RS. See
http://www.rsgb.org/news/

When the stations are operating under the GB2RS callsign, they are not
licensed for 2-way communication (something which is specifically stated
by the news readers at the end of every news broadcast). After a news
broadcast is completed, the readers revert to 2-way operation using
their own callsigns, usually in order to be able to receive calls and
discuss any reports from other radio amateurs who have been listening,
and who want to call them to give any reports about the reception of the
news broadcast.
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Ian

On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 13:17:12 +0100, "Light of Aria"
wrote:


"J G Miller" wrote in message
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On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:32:50 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:

Even without an amateur licence, you should not need a Broadcast TV
Receiving Licence to receive amateur transmissions (analogue or
digital).

Well I stand corrected then.

I based my comment on a recollection that the TV receiving licence
used to say that it was a licence for the reception of tv broadcasts
including those of amateurs.


There certainly are some amateurs broadcacsting TV...

Channel 5?
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