Digital vs Analogue TV?

Mine is great, unless it rains (when i lose ch5 and the associated frequency stuff) In bad weather the only thing that works is News24, not enough signal for anything else.

Problem is the arial is on the back of the flat facing towards the back of the main building, need another 15' pole to get over the blockage :(
 
Whappers said:
Is it just me of have the dates for switch off been brought forward by a year in most places? I thought 2012 was the year of switch off for Ulster and have seen it stated as that several times :confused:
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I thought everywhere was 2012. But yea i heard we get changed over on 2012 too.
 
Digital has the potential to be great. Unfortunatley they seem hell bent on destroying it by using massive compresion and stupidly low bitrates :mad:
All so that they can waste bandwith on stupid shopping channels and bid-up-tv tripe :mad::mad:
 
Analogue signal is hugely inefficient.
If you were too allicate the same bandwith to a digital channel that an analogue one used you would be able to transmit Hi-Definition digital ! Thus seriously out-performing the analogue..
 
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't freeview transmitted as a standard MPEG2 stream, so you either receive it and it looks how it's supposed to, or you get noticeable break up as the stream is interrupted? Shouldn't it be much like the HDMI cable discussion, ie there is a very fine line between receiving enough signal to display the image properly and not being able to display it at all.
 
Jolly_Jason said:
Analogue signal is hugely inefficient.
If you were too allicate the same bandwith to a digital channel that an analogue one used you would be able to transmit Hi-Definition digital ! Thus seriously out-performing the analogue..
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Hi Def is a totally different matter, we're talking about standard def here.
 
Feek said:

Hi Def is a totally different matter, we're talking about standard def here.
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Not really, you said an analogue signal is better than a digital one. BUT if they were too both use the same bandwith then the digital picture and sound would be miles better.... FACT. So in a FAIR test and comparison the digital signal is FAR better than an analogue one hence why we are changing from analogue too Digital


bam0 said:
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't freeview transmitted as a standard MPEG2 stream, so you either receive it and it looks how it's supposed to, or you get noticeable break up as the stream is interrupted? Shouldn't it be much like the HDMI cable discussion, ie there is a very fine line between receiving enough signal to display the image properly and not being able to display it at all.
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Exactly, it's digital so it either displays the signal or not. However as I said they seem hell bent on destroying the quality of digital by over compressing and using very low bitrates, they do this so they can squeeze more tripe channels on the bandwith they have bought!!
 
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There was some interesting discussion on BBC R4 programme you and yours yesterday http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/youandyours/ kind of exposed a lot of the ignorance out there (from the public, the BBC and the guy from UK Digital) about the technology and the impending switch over - or if you live in Whitehead in Cumbria it's already happened.

If you listen, check out the bit from Sally and Doreen Fowler at about 13 minutes in. Radio Gold!
Presenter - "from your point of view how has the whole process been working"

Sally from Whitehaven - "Well I think really there's enough channels with 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. I mean nowadays you can just go to your TV switch over what channel you want and there's no complications. When they're gonna be switchin over to digical you're gonna need new scart sockets in the back sets,then they're gonna have another scart lead to go onto the scart sockets because there's DVD's nowadays and videos that they could get them cheap with..."

Listen through til about 16 minutes in... it's worth it!
 
EVH said:
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Look at that, change over getting later and later as it closes to the londoners, change them over last, give them more time to adapt. While the rest of us get the move it or lose it treatment and have to change very soon. Awful.
 
Tom0 said:
Look at that, change over getting later and later as it closes to the londoners, change them over last, give them more time to adapt. While the rest of us get the move it or lose it treatment and have to change very soon. Awful.
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Are you serious?
 
Tom0 said:
er.. yes? and how can you argue, the information is right ther on the map! Scotland/Wales/North England 2008 - 2010, London/South England 2011+

go figure. ;)
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I was more getting at the fact that you seemed to be saying the whole schedule of the roll out of digital only transmission was some kind of conspiracy to favour "the londoners".
 
lordrobs said:
I was more getting at the fact that you seemed to be saying the whole schedule of the roll out of digital only transmission was some kind of conspiracy to favour "the londoners".
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oh, no lol :p

Im just saying, good old goverment looking after the Londoners first... as usual
 
A bit more from the radio yesterday :

"Could I just asked a question? They said about the younger generations and the computers but yet its all the jobs. At the end of the day people are wantin' jobs and yet all this digical thats comin' in its gonna be less people for jobs for, you know what I mean, for people."
 
Tom0 said:
Look at that, change over getting later and later as it closes to the londoners, change them over last, give them more time to adapt. While the rest of us get the move it or lose it treatment and have to change very soon. Awful.
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I heard it was something to do with the european signals and our transmitters interfering with them? Could be bull though?

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Nope, its not...

http://www.digitaluk.co.uk/en/when/wales.html said:
Switchover is a complicated process, and needs to be done in stages so that everyone in the UK will be ready for it. The Wales TV region will be one of the first because it has minimal signal interference with other countries, such as France, who are also switching over to digital. Welsh viewers will be among the first to receive the benefits of the digital switchover.
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FAO Samsung TV owners who can't get Freeview -

Last week I setup a 50" and 22" Samsung tv's in a blokes house and we couldn't get freeview.
The rule of thumb is that if you can get CH5 analogue then you should get a decent freeview signal.
It wasn't until I read the manual that I saw you had to press the D.MENU button on the remote and then go into an Autoscan Menu.
Both TV's working fine and he lives in the middle of nowhere.
 
I love old people and technology.

"It's costly isn't it? I've spent £80 now because I've got one main television in the lounge and one in each bedroom."

"I'm quite annoyed about the cost," agreed Brian O'Hare, 48. "I had to buy four digiboxes. It's quite a bit of money to spend at £25 each."
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So you can afford FOUR televisions (and the leccy bill) but not a one off of cost of £25 per telly :p

Fellow Whitehaven resident Elaine Mathers said the cost was "not so bad" but said she "hadn't a clue" how to install her newly purchased equipment.
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RTFM! :p

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7048817.stm

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