Two stations - True entertainment and True Movies allegedly moved channels on the muxes. One says 'rescan now', and the other simply doesn't work.
After rescanning
Wots up?
Whereas Movies4men HAS moved and is found 'elsewhere'
Sudbury transmitter doesn't have the (dubious) benefit of a local TV mux, so those channels will no longer be available
Ah.
Can you explain what a 'Local TV MUX', in fact, is?
a low power, low bitrate mux, sometimes only beamed in a particular direction from the transmitter, the main contents of the mux being a city-specific TV channel, along with a few other dross channels
it's the one on which you get the waste of time "local" channel, which was designed to show new content of local significance
but in reality just shows a load of reruns (sometimes with local significance) and a couple of slots for local news
tim
well as TE and TM have just moved there, but QVC and GemsTV remain on a normal MUX, I can't accept that as a genuine description of the content
tim
Subscribe to the NG uk.tech.digital-tv, and find the thread: They've done it again - not updated the EPG
There is a full discussion there. I have the same problem, but from Tacolneston, the big one of the area.
Actually true movies and true entertainment ahd a lot of old movies in them that were quite fun
That is not the point, its the decision of the powers that be what there is room for if there is no such multiplex to put them on. I expect it all has to do with money as usual. If enough money was there they would soon enough shove up another transmitter for more channels. Brian
That is a little unkind, but then again, I do often wonder what is the point of a lot of the Freeview channels just shoving out dross most of the time in any case. Maybe the adult ones do have a place, but some of the regurgitating el cheapo crap from around the world channels seem to have no redeeming features whatsoever. Who views them? Brian
Which have been on everywhere else and will be again. Brian
shuffling channels between COM5/COM6 and LTV is just from one commercial mux to another, who is willing to pay most gets the best coverage, not so much to do with any powers that be ...
As I have said before (at least two dozen times)
one person's dross is another person's gold
who is it who gets to make that call?
Why should I be denied the possibility of watching wall to wall MASH, because someone else thinks that Eastenders isn't shown often enough (or in high enough definition)?
tim
quantity of channels is bandwidth limited (and requires taking into account the need to avoid cross contamination from adjacent Transmitters)
And TV bandwidth is being "stolen" to make more room for Mobile Phones.
Physical infrastructures is not the limiting factor
Improved compression can get more channels into the same (or less) bandwidth, but that requires everyone to buy new receiver boxes, which (simple descriptions) doesn't go down well if you don't give everybody a decade (or so) notice
tim
Sudbury IS the big one if you live in Essex or S Suffolk
tim
The ~37% of people that voted to screw everyone else in a referendum?
Ignoring satellite, and just considering terrestrial, given that HD is a reasonable proxy for DVB-T2, I wonder how many viewers don't already have a "new" TV/STB?
I don't see that a program having been show "elsewhere" is a reason to not show it again
There are a couple of programs on my "want" list that when I ask about them being shown on a rerun channel elicits the response
"ITV showed that when it was still ITV Digital"
so that's all right then. No one needs to show it again because everybody who has DDTV now had ITV Digital 25 years ago, didn't they
Um, no they didn't
tim
I still have two usable boxes and a second TV that can't receive HD
tim
More to the point why does my Freeview box need rescanning every so often when they change things, but my Enigma 2 satellite box just keeps working?
SteveW
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