DAB Drops Out Again
Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:15:15 -0700 (PDT)
On Tuesday 13 October BBC Radio 4 (at least) had a complete DAB
shutdown lasting about 10 minutes during the programme 'You and Yours'
about 12.40pm BST. The programme continued being broadcast on FM. My
DAB portable still displayed 'Radio 4' for the first three or so
minutes and then it said 'Station Not Found' f ...
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Emma, BBC
Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:46:04 +0100
I have to say even though I'm a bloke the the production values and superb
HD photography alone makes this a must watch series for me. However checking
out google to see if I could find out a bit more about the Technical
background I was surprised to see that it's 'filmed'?. But then it also says
"Printed" fo ...
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Winter Hill blurro-vision
Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:42:01 +0100
Warning: This post contains TV geeking. Anoraks only.
I've long been complaining about the poor picture quality of BBC1 and 2
analogue from Winter Hill.
Before it gets switched off, I thought I'd try and illustrate this (as best
one can over the internet), with BBC2's late-night "Pages from Ceefax", by
c ...
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Philip rails against TV controls
Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:05:32 +0100
BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8300524.stm
Philip rails against TV controls
The Duke of Edinburgh has attacked the complexity of television sets and
remote controls, giving a rare glimpse of life inside the Windsor
household.
Prince Philip said the quality of design had in some areas declined, an ...
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The great switchover deficiency
Thu, 8 Oct 2009 19:05:33 +0100
Thousands of TV viewers in Copeland have lost two of their favourite
channels after they were dropped by Freeview. They say that ITV3 and ITV4
have been dropped to make way for channel 5 and HD broadcasts in the future.
Around 25,000 homes will be affected in the Copeland area supplied by the
Bigrigg relay tra ...
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Re: Switch off at the socket?
Wed, 7 Oct 2009 14:15:30 +0000 (UTC)
On Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 08:52:16 +0100, Tim Lamb suggested:
> Using waste heat for space heating only works if you have generating
> plant in the middle of towns and you don't have warm summers:-)
Metz, Lorraine has warm (compared to England) summers and the CHP there,
one of the oldest in France has w ...
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BBC Adopts IP for Audio Transit
Wed, 7 Oct 2009 08:33:41 +0100
In Radioworld
http://www.radioworld.com/article/88216
BBC Adopts IP for Audio Transit ...
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Re: Switch off at the socket?
Mon, 5 Oct 2009 09:15:20 -0700 (PDT)
On 1 Oct, 16:19, "Bill Wright" <insertmybusinessn...@f2s.com> wrote:
> "Java Jive" <j...@evij.com.invalid> wrote in message
>
> news:9bp7c5h88tbd3ooda22j98tehuibjlidtq@4ax.com...
>
> > I wonder how long it would take to repay the energy invested in
> > building it, how long it would take to silt up, and what, if ...
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Re: OT: Posting style - was: Re: Switch off at the socket?
Mon, 5 Oct 2009 13:20:22 +0100
In article <D_adnZltzMiyLVXXnZ2dnUVZ8hOdnZ2d@pipex.net>,
Bill Wright wrote:
> I met a lady called Pixie once, in a flat in Rotherham. She turned out to be
> extremely fat and tattooed, and I doubt if she had ever heard of Midsummer
> Night's Dream, or even Shakespeare.
So Puck's out of the question, then? ...
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Anyone else having problems with BBC Band II today
Sat, 3 Oct 2009 16:28:04 +0100
I wonder if anyone else is having problems with BBC Band II radio
services today or is it just the North of Scotland?
Been just about unusable since at least lunchtime with glitches, bursts
of distortion and loud buzzing noise occasionally. Seems to affecting
Radio 1, Radio 2, Radio 3, Radio 4 probably Radio Sc ...
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