Analoguesat's rant(or not)

colinp

Just read A/S in latest wotsat and I must say I am dissapointed.I was sure we were promised blood!I think he has been bought off by Ofcom as it was quite a toothless article.Only joking bud keep up the hard work

Analoguesat

If you read the comments from the local retailers on page 11 they agree with me! .

(One or two of the more caustic comments have been edited out, although I have to say the eds done an interesting job with the items from the bloke from Digital UK edited into the article - even if he thinks everythings gone more or less 100% smoothly and the locals disagree with him!)

Analoguesat's message to the world Analogue forever!

colinp

More power to your elbow m8.Don't let them get you down

guest

Not being a Wotsat reader, this is over my head!

Anyone care to elucidate?

rolfw

Likewise, a little background would be interesting.

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Analoguesat

I wrote a digital switch over diary for when ITV Border Scotland DSO'd last November. From my point of view technically it was a huge success - the Arquiva engineers got the Selkirk main transmitter and the 11 relays up and running with no obvious problems.

Publicity wise it was a complete bloody shambles. (This comment was cut from my article ) The twin switch over dates (BBC 2 off on Nov 6th the rest on Nov 20th) caused major confusion. Both myself and the 3 retailers interviewed agree that people knew DSO was coming, but didnt UNDERSTAND what it actually meant to them, and that was a critical failing.

The local radio station adverts were dreadful - being worded "Digital Switch over happens on November 6th" and were still being aired on November 19th which to me would just make people think of sloppy timetabling for the playouts. After BBC 2 had gone the adverts should have been changed to "The second phase of DSO etc...."

The captions played out over the analogues were also worse than useless - and could be interpreted in many ways - most of them wrongly. They also were far too infrequent and could easily be missed - I looked hard for them in the days before final DSO - and when I eventually found one was appalled by it.

The retailers interviewed inGalashiels Selkirk & Kelso were left to pick up the pieces of the confusion. After DSO Digital UK rapidly disappeared from the region and left the installers to sort out the mess.

Digital UK have to sharpen up their act before DSO hits a heavily populated area - ITV Borders DSO only affected 52000 households, god help the people of a heavily populated area if they dont.

Analoguesat's message to the world Analogue forever!

guest

Ah, Digital UK: I might have guessed.

I have taken issue with them on several occasions over their incorrect publicity regarding Digital Satellite options.

Perhaps it isn't too surprising that they get everything else wrong too!

Thanks for the explanation

irart

Thanks for the explanation Analoguesat, interesting. We, here in Cornwall, have all that to look forward to in August this year I believe.