Rumour - some ITV & C4 channels to be encrypted

[Markjose]

you still see around some houses a ittle ariel for london and sum big ariel for other transmisssions

 

[Markjose]

The old analogue days shame i missed them

 

[Analoguesat]

Ah good old analogue - Down at my parents house I had an old 10 element tv aerial which I hung out of my bedroom window on a couple of frayed lengths of washing line during high pressure. Down in Staffordshire I regularly used to pick up the Anglia transmitters at phenominal strength - abosolutely perfect. Once I managed Granada from Winter Hill, and on one unforgettable evening whoops of delight greeted a Dutch TV ceefax type page

 

[rolfw]

and on one unforgettable evening whoops of delight greeted a Dutch TV ceefax type page

LOL, used to get that page walking over BBC2 I seem to recall in high pressure conditions once a year, wasn't greeted with whoops of delight though.

 

[Markjose]

untill analogue satellite got cheaper then it was dish at astra 1

 

[petert74]

If ITV and channel 4 sign up with Sky, (as they want to do), then this will be the end of freesat.

Freesat never really took off in the way Sky did in the early 90's and if they loose Itv2,3,4 and E4, film4 More4 etc then what is the point of it continuing???

Beware of buying expensive panasonic LCD and freesat receivers as four rubbish bbc channels and an even worse ITV channel is hardly moving forward with the times.

)(-red)(-red)(-red)(-red)(-red

 

[Lazarus]

Not likely to happen, IMHO.


Bit of sabre rattling to try to stir bottoms and get an acceptable way ahead for funding.

 

[petert74]

Lets hope your right.

There are millions of Brits here in southern spain that rely on UK channels, and dont have a sky sub.

maybe one day we will have television without frontiers as promised by the EU years ago!!!

 

[Expat]

Freesat is doing quite well, considering the current climate. Don't forget they said Freeview would be a flop years ago, it is now the biggest digital platform in the UK.

Those who spread these rumours, want to kill off the competition, now who could that be?

There is room for both, $ky (if you want to pay) and Freeview or Freesat for those who want the free channels.

What does suprise me is, that $ky never took up the challenge of Freeview with Freesat from $ky.
They could have added some more channels such as Virgin 1 and Dave and taken viewers (and potential $ky subscribers) away from DTT.

 

[fixerman]

you still see around some houses a ittle ariel for london and sum big ariel for other transmisssions

"Ariel" is a washing powder:-Nooo Check Wikipedia for definition of "Aerial"

 

[portly]

Does it mean we arnt getting the same amount of adverts on these channels then:-Nooo

 

[johnneyboy]

hi guys ,yes good old days 405 when people on east of ireland could watch HTV with rabbits ears ,now its pay pay pay ,times are hard ,i am not great fan ITV 1 as for ppy non starter ,that only my opinion for what its worth, ps open up beam for spain

 

[Analoguesat]

hi guys ,yes good old days 405 when people on east of ireland could watch HTV with rabbits ears ,now its pay pay pay ,times are hard ,i am not great fan ITV 1 as for ppy non starter ,that only my opinion for what its worth, ps open up beam for spain

If you look at the first post you will see that ITV1 is not affected by these proposals.

Its all gone very quiet on this, and with a new MD to be appointed in the near future its anyones guess as if to this will be proceeded.

 

[johnneyboy]

good old 405 great days

 

[eejay]

I have noted a recent signal strength reduction from TTon4 transponder.

Significant?

 

[woborny]

not noticed any difference here....still nice an strong on my 80cm dish like it has been for the past few weeks...