I hope Bill will forgive me for reposting from uk.d-i-y the bit quoted below but it was news to me and so will possibly also be to some here. For ease of a reference Bill's email address is On 23/08/2019 04:36, Bill Wright wrote: snip

We had a good happy seven years during which Hil recovered from the series of cardiac arrests and the stroke. This year looked promising. Hil bought me a tractor from my birthday and we had a lot of fun doing it up and mucking about with it. We started to plan our holidays, and in late March we...

Logic and the breaking down of problems, fault finding etc. and writing code has been the one thing in my life where even I, the pessimist and self critic realised I was pretty good compared to others. That is until I start looking at issues in a UHF distribution system. It is as though the logic...

www.freeviewgigitaltvaerial.co.uk charged an old couple in Fife £504 for a zone 1 dish and simple installation. One of those 0845 cowboys. Even had the cheek to breakdown the price as follows Dish £185 Long arm £40 Heavy duty bracket £65 Quad LNB £130. plus VAT Just a standard dish with no...

I just realised its been over a month since I even bothered to listen to tv, despite reading the listings of the terrestrial channels, its all rubbish, well to me it is. Have I changed or is it that I'm getting a life? Brian -- ----- -- This newsgroup posting comes to you directly...

I was in Wilco yesterday and noticed their coax was 40p per metre so I snipped a couple of inches off for a closer look. It seems to have an aluminium foil shield and then some more aluminium braiding, but the core is strongly attracted to a magnet. It looks like copper but scraping away reveals...

We now have a UHD TV and the VM Tivo should offer UHD connections, but it doesn't seem to detect the UHD capabilities. Is this likely to be the HDMI cable (pre-UHD) or just the Tivo being picky? It also has problems configuring the Ethernet port for some reason but WiFi is fine. Cheers

I am getting rid of some of my old aerials that are festering away in a shed. I kept them when I had to remove them from the chimney due to work on said stack and most were not used any more in any case. Obviously they still had bits of cable attached. Looking inside the termination I...

It does seem to me that as video and audio over the web in real time takes off, that the growth of servers to allow a lot of people to use them at once is going to cost a lot of money. So do the bbc control numbers or is it big data servers belonging to third parties. Was there not a way of...

I as as it seems to me that as the internet gets more and more integrated into life, that deliving content on a sat. which will wear out and cannot be serviced on orbit is a bit redundant. Brian -- ----- -- This newsgroup posting comes to you directly from... The Sofa of Brian...

I've had a Sky+ HD box passed on to me and I was wondering why people buy them on eBay? If you want the + bit you need to subscribe. If you want the HD bit you need to subscribe. If you want Freesat then you need a Freesat box. If you want free sat from Sky then you need to enjoy scrolling...

THE RIGGERS An exciting new BBC drama for daytime TV! Starting soon on BBC1! Following on in the footsteps of ‘Doctors’, the new series will have social justice and gritty story lines at its heart. The cast members were of course all chosen on talent grounds alone, but by lucky chance the...

Why is the football being shown in 1080i? I thought 1080p was more suited to movement and 1080i to scenery. No witty comments about women's football please !!!

What's going on? It started late and finished late. Even with five minutes' padding I lost the climax (in several senses as it happens) so I had to fart about with iPlayer to avoid disappointment. Why do they do this sort of thing? Why were they running late? Why doesn't the EPG get altered?...

I have been reading today about derating factors for UHF amplifiers. Apparently the amplifier gain or the input signal level must be turned down as a function of the number of channels processed.... I had understood that the "gain control" is simply an attenuator after an amp that has fixed...

I have a bank of ten analogue modulators so that all of the CCTV cameras are viewable on all TV sets in the house. All this is combined with Freeview, Freesat, dab and fm. For sometime I had been plagued with tyre track interference of digital origin on Ch 62 and 64 regular as clockwork every late...

Anyone else seeing this? No problem with BBC, ITV, or Ch4, but nothing available on any of the Ch5 series - the EPG is blank for those on my Panasonic TV . -- Jeff

I have a Hauppauge DVB-TV T1 card in my computer that has always given good service. The signal needs boosting for a scanning and I have a plug- in pre-amp that does this, BUT I currently have messages on several channels to rescan: 20 Movies4men (Is the only one showing up now but others will...

So now we get to watch the newsreader using a smartphone to browse through the top 10 news stories on the BBC news website, and play the most popular videos ... marvellous.

I've been experiencing brief loss of signal on my TV recently. It doesn't appear to be weather/strong wind related so I don't think there are any broken connections, but I could be mistaken about that. I was wondering if the issue could be related to deterioration of the mast-head amplifier, if...