just got digital

[brancho]

My girlfriends parents live in Seaham (not far out of Sunderland) and they can't get a single freeview channel. Pretty mad considering the analogue switch off is just around the corner and already happening in some areas.

The switchover will not happen fully until 2012 I think.
It started in our town last november but my house does not lose the analogue signal until 2009.
The town (the affected part) went from no digital signal to no analogue signal in 4 weeks we were guinea pigs due to a bad location.

You can still buy a telly etc that will not work with digital .

 

[Jodie]

Switch -

Jared - which make have you gone for and does it have a port for you to connect up a
regular aerial if you're using the computer at home? I take it the supplied aerial will
work if you're travelling on a train or something?

I have been thinking of getting one for the ridiculous idea of 'trying it out', though I have
a perfectly adequate television. Maplin catalogue is calling me

Brancho - even TVs without a SCART socket can be made Freeview ready via the
video channel (using the VHS scart) or a Freeview box that can 'broadcast' a modulated
signal to the television - http://www.radioandtelly.co.uk/connect.html#modulator

As long as the TV has an aerial socket (you'd hope!) it should work - as long as
there's a signal being broadcast of course, that does help

 

[Jared]

Switch -

Jared - which make have you gone for and does it have a port for you to connect up a
regular aerial if you're using the computer at home? I take it the supplied aerial will
work if you're travelling on a train or something?

http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/pages/products/data_novatdstick.html

Its one of them. Has two aerials as it can be used as a dual tuner, record one channel & view another.

Yeah, it can take a standard rooftop aerial(s). The one connector on the USB thing is a standard connect, the other is smaller but has an adaptor to convert it.

Don't know if they'd work on a train, obviously the journey would have to be in a freeview covered area.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jared.williams/_dave_20080104_211357.mpg (3.5Meg) sample recording did when I got it.

 

[dave k]

Still don't get any digital TV down in Bournemouth / Poole area. There is a transmitter within eyesight of my house, but I have to have a 15ft aerial and a signal booster to pick the signal from the Isle of White about 20 miles away!!
I think they are delaying switching on digital TV because it disrupts french signals on the other side of the channel. I'd rather watch french TV however than the bunch of trash they put on these days.

 

[Dave Budd]

My wife really like the top that Linda wore in the Wild Food episode she was in. Any chance of asking where she got it from please!

One of the top basket makers in the country and you want to know about her top

I can'r be sure, but I think it's one of the ones that she sells in her shop in Chagford (Wood and Rush). She has a variety of stuff by local craftspeople including my tools/knives, carved bowls and spoons, turned bowls, leatherwork, handmade soap and a good selection of essential oils, she also has some hemp tops by a former local resident (Ioni I think her name is).