Freeview area problem!
Now with the looming digital switchover (ok not till 2011/12) i've been looking into problems that i might come across.
i have vm at the moment so not really a problem but if i couldn't afford it for any reason then what would i do. now to start with when i put my postcode into freeview it say's that i connot get freeview now nor will i get it in the future (i take it's because i live in a valley not in wales!!) i can't have freesat as we are in protected area and not allowed to have a dish. and bt have said they canot supply bt vision or bb to us as we are too far from the exchange (not sure if this correct as i don't know how it works) so my question is how am i supposed to get digital tv once it is switched over ?? |
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move house?
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i have said that if i do move house again it would be to new zealand you never know i might have more luck getting some sort of freeview out there. i would probably pick up the uk's freeview with a coat hanger from there:D |
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Could you not have a dish and put it somewhere hidden or disguise the dish.
I'm also having the same issue with Freeview. I'm in an area where the street next door will get it but I'm just off the map and will only get a few channels. I'ts the same with standard TV, I'm in the East midlands however I receive west Midlands news however much I wave my aerial about. I wonder if when I get virginmedia TV installed I will be able to choose my regional channel as I don't want to get Birmoingham news, I want East Midlands news. |
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I wouldn't use the freeview checker, it is not particularly accurate (it did after all used to say I could not get freeview for many years which was cobblers). Use a more sophisticated checker such as wolfbane http://www.wolfbane.com/cgi-bin/tvd.exe? and post the results.
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If you can;t get freeview due to location and nothing to do with antenna restrictions then there's always freesat
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Your only way at the moment is to stick with Virgin Media. :( |
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as i said i can't have a dish as the area im in is protected plus it is a listed property and the council round here won't allow it. Quote:
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Sat dishes do NOT have to be on the side of the wall, quite a few people have them at the bottom of the garden which is protected areas is acceptable if not visible
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Saabmania2, could you please try out wolfbane or some similar site. I've had plenty of people repeat local urban myths that they can't get freeview and the majority of them turn out to be untrue. I've only met 1 person who can genuinely not get freeview (they only get 1 multiplex as they are in a deep hollowed out valley). I'd be interested to know what it said .
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Transmitter 1: BBC 2: Digital 3 & 4 A: SDN B: BBC C: NG Wireless D: NG Wireless Gp Pol OS grid ref. OD m Field dBµV/m Distance miles Bearing degrees Antenna (suggestion) UHF ERP W AOD m UHF ERP W AOD m UHF ERP W AOD m UHF ERP W AOD m UHF ERP W AOD m UHF ERP W AOD m Brighton Whitehawk Hill 66 200 172 50 400 169 55 200 172 48 1k 172 58 400 172 61 400 172 CD V TQ330045 121 29 5 109 Amplified extra hi-gain as for the sat dish in the window we live in a bungalow and the last thing i want to sit and look at is a disgusting dish (there bad enough on the outside let alone in your living room) anyway i might look into putting a dish up down the garden, as our garden is hidden from everyone that might just be a way of getting round it. |
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How about this THREAD
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Analogue bearing does not have complete correlation to digital services at all. In all of the places I've ever lived there has been a poor, snowy analogue picture on some channels. Why not borrow a friend's digibox and see if it works? Is your aerial pointing at the primary transmitter or the local one?
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I believe the Freeview predictors which say there are no future plans are referring only to the period ahead of digital switchover.
If you are in a valley, then your analogue terrestrial reception will be coming from a relatively low-powered repeater, or fill-in transmitter. Most of these transmitters don't have the capacity to carry both Freeview and analogue signals, so they will have no Freeview until digital switchover actually occurs in your area, at which point they will lose analogue and gain Freeview at the same time. So you don't need to worry, you will be able to get digital TV at your home, you may just have to wait a while. |
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