Anyone know what the 'DSO-related' work was at Emley that took all muxes off the air for 2.25 hours overnight? Bill

Just noticed that the BBC continues to provide a traditional teletext service on one of its digital television services -- BBC World (Astra 19,2 East). It is also worth mentioning that the teletext services of a number of other broadcasters are also accessible even though their video and audio is scrambled eg een, canvas, NED-1, NED-2 etc.

Pubs are for drinking beer and conversation? Er, Nope. My local wetherspoon has installed 3D televisions, and last night I walked in on a twenty strong crowd watching football. It was, er, somewhat different. All were wearing oversized 3D goggles, and were present seated or standing perfectly still and with their gazes fixed on the 37" screen. It was strange. Nobody moved. No beer was being...

Marks and Spencers on line are selling bottle conditioned real ales at very reasonable prices. If you get two cases it's carriage free. I got some and the packing etc is excellent. As is/was the beer. We find it difficult sometimes to find bottle conditioned beer on the supermarket shelves. Bill

In article , Paul D Smith wrote: Not found that on either of mine. But it may well happen at the budget end. Out of interest, what make/model do you use? They're both TomToms. The first one many years old when they were quite bulky. The latest one a larger screen and slim. It also picks up traffic information and acts on that....

In article , Bill Wright wrote: It's the poor who suffer. Fuel poverty is going to be a very serious issue if we carry on like this. I can seriously envisage kids having to wash in cold water and eat undercooked food if things carry on like this. Possibly a solution would be fuel tokens. It's no good giving people more money for fuel because some of...

Was it here that someone remarked that BBC local radio via iPlayer had annoying clicks every few seconds? It was somewhere anyway. Well, I've got the Howard Leader programme on from BBC Lincs and it's clicking like mad. Anyone else noticed a fault on iPlayer with local stations? The BBC national radio channels play perfectly here, as does telly. Bill

Does anyone know what has happened to the EPG for ITV3? It has been missing off my Sony HDD\DVD recorder and a seperate set top box for a long time. However it is present if I set the guide option on the set top box to the Teletext option. I'm using the Waltham transmitter. harry

In the quest to Deliver Quality First, the management of the BBC have made public the option that viewers should be required to pay in order to access archive material. With the slow death of linear TV, this could be the start of BBC pay-per-view that the Conservative and Unionist Party of Great Britain has been proposing that the BBC should adopt for...

Live in West Yorkshire on Freesat 108 BBC1 HD getting a Newcastle version on Freesat 101 getting a Nottingham version. Usually get Leeds programs, EG Look North is from Leeds. Is this normal for this program? Regards David

I know from past posts that readers of this news group like to see photographs of signs in public places which reassures them that local taxes are being spent appropriately in order to prevent law suits for failing to warn of potential dangers, so here is another one ... https://lh6.googleusercontent.COM/-lIAfWLnCpTo/TxTusmNDzxI/AAAAAAAAA4I/u6R9s2-qqzI/s0-d/photo.jpg

I've just spent an interesting time trying to explain who is and who is not affected by digital switchover to a room full of fellow blind people. The snag you see, is that people actually are not really sure how their current telly is delivered to start with so trying to explain the differences between satellite cable and freeview has no meaning to them. sigh. Brian --

We don't normally watch this channel that late, but last night, instead of showing East Anglia News at the end of the news broadcast, we were treated to Meridian News, which told us what was happening in Kent, but not in Suffolk. Is this normal, or did somebody press the wrong button somewhere? We receive from Tacolneston. I presume that the "+1" was showing what itv had shown earlier. We might...

Problem: Fox-T2 HDR output (TS files) - how to create a DVD from them. Thanks to all responders to my earlier request but I've thus far not managed to do this - help! For example Freemake is typical - The TS file apparently doesn't contain any information about the data within it (PMTs?) so Freemake won't read them. Is there some magic step involving the other three files which the Hummy...

I was watching the countdown to the New Year on BBC (Freeview). As Big Ben struck the hour, my time pieces were indicating about 5 secs past midnight. Our clock is synchronised with the broadcast time signal (NPL MSF), and the computer is synchronised with the internet time servers. Both indicated that Big Ben was slow. So my question is does it really take about 5 seconds for the TV signal...

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I'm thinking that Blu-ray as not taken off because of the great price difference to movies on DVDs and lack of stocks in the stores. Joe Public also possibly happy with DVD quality, but for those of us wanting the quality what is on offer for seeing movies? Downloading is that giving extra quality over the DVD and is it as cheap as buying a DVD? How do you get cost effective HD...

Has anyone else noticed that the Channel 5 listings in the Freesat EPG are a mess at the moment. This is from 2 Humax HDR boxes. The Freeview version is OK and matches printed listings and the schedule on C5's website: http://www.channel5.com/schedule The Freesat EPG shows Spiderman finishing at 22:00. The Freeview EPG and the other sources show it as finishing at 21:05 and being followed...

I posted about this a while back, but having now tested quite a few receivers and boxes feel its time to re ask the question. What is the actual problem with AD in freeview. Many programmes that have it do work well without issues, but quite often one gets glitching of the AD, cut off ends or vanishing altogether until its cycled off and on again. I noticed all of the above last night on...

My friends want me to run an overhead CAT5e cable between two buildings. I can get exterior grade CAT5e easily enough, but self-supporting exterior-grade CAT5e doesn't seem to be available here in the UK. Unfortunately I've only ever erected self-supporting wires and cables (when I worked for BT). I don't know anything about using suspension wires and clamps. Have any of you run a cable...