I live in the centre of a town with a population of 100,000 and over half the digital channels are not available, such as ITV1,2,3 C4, M4. Ironically when before I moved the 8 miles to live here I was able to get ITV and C4 on digital.dirtydog said:
Why are they turning off Analogue TV?
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dirtydog said:
I dunno, to be honest. But given that all new tvs can either get Digital straight out of the box, or with a 20 quid freeview box, that percentage is only going to rise.
Whats the average life of a tv? 5-10 years? And for about 3 years now tvs have been modern enough for digital tv, so its entirely reasonable that by 2010 the percentage of TVs that can get digital broadcasts will be pretty high.....
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of course the real reson that they are turning off analogue is so that the govmnt can sell that bit of the EM spectrum to the highest bidder and make a load more cash + some backhanders to ensure that the right company wins the austion.
I agree with what most have said, if you don't have digi TV yet, go and buy a STB and get it sorted.
HT
I agree with what most have said, if you don't have digi TV yet, go and buy a STB and get it sorted.
HT
AndyBorzi said:I live in Peterborough and freeview is not available on my post-code.
Although a neighbour across the road paid for a new aerial to be fitted for around £120 and gets it fine!
I may go freeview if they do HD broadcasts for free- is that possible?
i live in peterborough and cant get it either
happytechie said:
Just what I was gonna say!... Its all for the Government Coffas!... They just want more money!...
But on the up-side!... according to the freeview website we cant get any channels!... howcome I've been recieving all 40(odd) TV channels and the Digital radio channels for the last 8 months with only a few hic-ups!... (got nice FULL signal on the Sagem's signal meter!!)
Once you get a decent television (especially one that upscales digital television to its native HD resolution) you start to notice the terrible quality of the current freeview broadcasts. MPEG blocking artifacts and terrible detail on faces.
I've noticed that they crank up the bit rate on some broadcasts, for example the Planet Earth series looks absolutely fantastic, nearing DVD quality.
Maybe once they turn off the analogue broadcast there will be room to have permanently increased bit rates on the major 4 channels and in all film broadcasts.
I've noticed that they crank up the bit rate on some broadcasts, for example the Planet Earth series looks absolutely fantastic, nearing DVD quality.
Maybe once they turn off the analogue broadcast there will be room to have permanently increased bit rates on the major 4 channels and in all film broadcasts.
IMO picture quality on Freeview is crap (and this is well recognised), so is Sky TBH , I defy anyone to say they cant see 'blockiness' when watching football on Freeview or Sky, Its all about bandwidth, more bandwidth - better PQ BUT squeeze more channels into the available bandwidth = more money............ IMHO the advent of digital TV is a wasted opportunity. Analogue for me is still way better PQ.
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i think that problem is compounded, or maybe even largely due to, cheap STB's. The low cost LTB's you find everywhere arent low cost for nothing. With digital satellite there was much less pixelation and blockiness before they started adding truck loads of extra features into the software.
I cant resist posting a link to the article I always post when talking about HDTV/Digital.
The Great HDTV Swindle
Not only is that article depressing enough, look at how old it is and how little we've moved since
It's an interesting read anyway. Hopefully it wont be as bad over here with channels wanted to start up with HDTV.
It also explains how you can fit about 6 digital channels into the same spectrum (i think thats the right term) of 1 analogue channel. Hence why theyre gonna eventually get rid of analogue. More channels = more adverts = more money. :\
The Great HDTV Swindle
Not only is that article depressing enough, look at how old it is and how little we've moved since
It's an interesting read anyway. Hopefully it wont be as bad over here with channels wanted to start up with HDTV.
It also explains how you can fit about 6 digital channels into the same spectrum (i think thats the right term) of 1 analogue channel. Hence why theyre gonna eventually get rid of analogue. More channels = more adverts = more money. :\
I'd hope that the closer we get to switchover, the more Sky will do about 'multiroom'. The current situation of having to pay £10/month per extra card isn't really much use to us. £10/month for up to 5 extra cards would be more helpful.
We have 1 extra box... but when they turn it off, we'll have a few useless tvs. I'd rather have extra sky boxes than have to buy freeview.
We have 1 extra box... but when they turn it off, we'll have a few useless tvs. I'd rather have extra sky boxes than have to buy freeview.
E1mo said:
I agree
I cant believe people cant see how bad the quality of Sky pictures are, I noticed this from the start. IMO we now have more expensive TV with less picture quality, how did that happen?......
Maybe once we have high capacity DVD's these will reproduce decent results, cant see the TV moguls providing a service that will do justice to the potential of digital transmission.
