good idea..

They shouldn’t even be selling boxes in most parts of Anglia region without telling people about the risk of bad signals, TBH There is only freeview coverage in Norwich city area and the other Anglia TX’s aren’t going to be digital for 2 years (there is no money to do the work any quicker, ITV fucked up big time with ITV digital a few years ago and lost all the money)

Tescos should have refunded that without quibbling..

that and also interference from the cops new radios which use a similar same band of frequencies…

Behind the scenes the British TV industry is held together with string and gaffer tape…..

I had no probs wi ma freeview box in Glasgow but since i moved to Edinburgh there must be stuff in the area on a similar frequency ( we are just across the road from local police station)

Coz from time to time the channel changes of its own accord.. usually in a critical part of CSI which i am not usually impressed with.. :crazy:

freeview in my area is shite, but then again so is my sky. keeps goin black and white and sorts of wierd pixels blocks appear and mutate the image on the screen. and if you wanna watch tv during a thunderstorm or heavy rain then you can think again.

maybe for auntie’s regions but aren’t you going to get ITV Border region? I had freeview in Reading and its not like sky (or old cable) where you can watch neighbouring regions areas…

incidentally the actual video quality of transmitted digital TV is less than analogue; it has been done to save costs rather than as a quality improvement. Some of the channels (particularly the lower budget ones) are heavily compressed and transmitted at half-resolution…

yeah I was working for one of the broadcast industries largest suppliers (a susprising lot of studio infrastructure work is outsourced) I remember a phone conversation with a certain Senior Engineer of what was then LWT (now Granada)

this was around 2001 – he basically said that a lot of companies weren’t bothering any more with production quality (other than when Ofcom make them comply with various rules) as neither the morale nor the money was about any more due to various pressures…

and he said “don’t buy that ITV Digital, it will look like crap, all the bandwidth is being compressed as much as it can to save on the money paid to BT” (they link all the TV companies) plus the cost had been achieved by closing down the content divisions

(I was made redundant a few months afterwards as fewer TV studios were purchasing kit as so many were closing the second hand market cannibalised the new equipment market)

I think freeview is merely an attempt to salvage the investment put into ITV digital..

ISTR the people in Border region being interviewed and they said “well if its too difficult we will just give up watching telly and find other ways to occupy ourselves” :laugh_at:

My mum and dad are the same they can’t get channel 5 in the area that they live in and they can’t use freeview either or cable the only way they can get extra channels is to subscribe to Sky an they ain’t gonna do that..

Instead they call me or Shorty and ask us to record things on channel 5 etc..

Hehehehe.. aye totally they should be out catching real criminals.. lol

Thats cool babes hope u feel better soon we’ll have to get you round again sometime soon for some mischief….:groucho::groucho::groucho:

Hugz
xx

it was field tested here….:groucho:

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at least their f*ing radios work everywhere now :laugh_at::laugh_at::laugh_at::laugh_at:

before the officers were ‘lost’ for ages when they went into black spots [bet they get less donuts now though:groucho:]