[Gllug] [OT] TFT displays

[M.Blackmore]

On Sat, 2005-09-24 at 21:49 +0100, Tethys wrote:

> I get completely the opposite. I'm also in a poor reception area.
> Analogue signals mostly work OK, and degrade nicely when they don't
> (a bit of snow here and there, slightly fuzzy sound occasionally).
> Digital signals on the other hand are full of glitches, and have
> terrible degredation characteristics.

Same here out in the wilds of Charlbury - edge of the Cotswolds about
11-12 miles out of Oxford. Analogue mostly OK with a high gain amplified
antennae on top of a 16' pole!

Surely they will be filling in a few smaller transmitters (or boosting
power significantly, Channel 5 won't work at all in digital or analogue)
for those areas which are a bit shadowed ... surely?

They can't just chop off the analogue leaving large chunks of the
country without a proper reception (unless they expect us all to go
satellite. I'm now wishing I hadn't spent the money on the fancy aerial
and had just gone for the basic Sky freeview box...).

Even when we were in London (north Croydon) we got a bit of bad
reception at times due to our position at the edge of the downslope of
the hill which had the transmitter bang on top of it! I always was
amazed at that. Perhaps we were "too close"??
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