Getting UK TV outside the country

[Dave Liquorice]

WTF has DSO got to do with DSAT signal strengths?

[Bill]

For the average Joe Public probably quite a lot. An otherwise intelligent neighbour of mine was convinced that DSO meant that there was no longer a need for people a UHF TV aerial on their chimneys as everything was now coming via satellite. The fact she still had a UHF aerial and no dish hadn't occurred to her.

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[The Other Mike]

Well engineer a worse fade margin then by installing a smaller dish, and an LNB with a higher noise figure.

[Mark]

unless you are one of the unlucky ones that gets clobbered by.

[Martin Brown]

phrase below and wonder exactly which planet they are living on?

"In these cases, expected to be in rural areas, up to £10,000 per household will be provided to fund alternative solutions to receiving television - such as having fibre cabling installed"

The nearest fibre optic cable is at least 10 miles away. £10,000 per household would not scratch the surface of providing BT Infinity services here. I don't have enough bandwidth on ADSL for one channel of HD - a few on the exchange side of the beck do. The unlucky folk in the neighbouring village would get better internet speeds with bonded ISDN!

If I am affected I will be building a 4G jammer and visiting London.

[tony sayer]

Doubt it will do you any good at all..

Here is some interesting reading on the problem;)....

might have to copy and paste!..

[Mark]

Yes thats the situation im in, dont get particularly good digital terrestrial reception and a nice line of very mature scots pines at 28.2°E, was hopeful it would improve after switch-over then read about the 4G ;(

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[Jules Richardson]

Hmm, 10 grand handout for finding a solution which results in not bothering with TV because it's all crap anyway? Sounds like a pretty good deal to me...

[Timothy Murphy]

I thought you had to have a telephone line connected to your Sky box?

[Andy Burns]

Only for the first 12 months, I have some friends who live abroad and use my UK address for correspondence.