All posts by Robin St.Clair
Below are all of Robin St.Clair's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
MikeP:
I'm sorry, but DVB-H was first broadcast in the UK in 1998. The technology was developed in the 1980s and during the early 90s the standards were agreed and Blue Books were developed. So it is 1980's tech, no matter what you may think.
My television is capable of 4K @ 60fps. Having to watch BBC4 in SD from a transmitter that is still configured to broadcast BBC3 is more than irritating. The BBC were planning to be broadcasting in 4K by now, but that has been shelved.
If it is worth broadcasting BBC4 HD on satellite, its worth doing it terrestrially.
MikeP, I'm sure your intention was to be helpful, but a load of waffle and erroneous information really doesn't help.
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MB
It is plain to see you are not a technologist. The local station, is, in transmission technology speak provisioned, which means configured by software.
I hope you are not representative of this web site.
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Saturday 19 March 2016 8:35PM
I just want to watch BBC4 HD. But my local transmitter - Turnpike Hill - does not broadcast channel 106.
My foreign friends cannot understand why this makes me cross. They point out that I live in Britain, where this sort of situation is normal.
I'd like to watch live television, and I'd be happy to pay for it, but not if what I receive is 1980's technology. In the mean time I just have to watch iPlayer, after the event.
Why should people living 200 metres away be able to receive a channel I cannot receive, yet pay the same licence fee? And if anybody tries to excuse this by saying the fee is a licence to use a TV, I call them something worse than a pedant.