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(February 2012)

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MA
Markymark
Inspector Sands posted:
noggin posted:
Yep - but it is a pretty soft news story - so would have sat very oddly in the sub-regional chunk, which is usually pretty hard news?

Yes I suppose so. In that case a better solution would have been to get Oxford just to do a bit longer just this once


I was surprised to see it in the pan regional section. Equally odd, that they said Hannington and Midhurst had DSO'd (although Midhurst only partially so far) but didn't mention that Oxford also had !
Last edited by Markymark on 7 March 2012 6:31am
GE
thegeek Founding member
Inspector Sands posted:
I've just watched it on iPlayer and it was a very good item which explained it well.... but the odd thing is that it went out in the second half of the programme despite being totally pointless to viewers up in Oxford


http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b01cyz72/?t=14m14s until around 6pm tonight, for anyone who wants to see it...
BU
buster
thegeek posted:
Inspector Sands posted:
I've just watched it on iPlayer and it was a very good item which explained it well.... but the odd thing is that it went out in the second half of the programme despite being totally pointless to viewers up in Oxford


http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b01cyz72/?t=14m14s until around 6pm tonight, for anyone who wants to see it...


Not sure if the bit about "how to continue watching South Today" bit really helps, kind of muddies the water a little if you're already confused about the switchover...
WP
WillPS
A good piece, but isn't it the case that a handful of old Freeview boxes (including the ONdigital boxes) do break at DSO?

Also, wouldn't Virgin Media continue to carry both with one somewhere in the deep 800s? In the former Diamond Cable area (fed from the Nottingham headend in Diamond Plaza) 101 (and 103) is correctly allocated to the East Midlands region but I think you can get the Hull based Look North as well (for viewers in Lincolnshire).
NG
noggin Founding member
WillPS posted:
A good piece, but isn't it the case that a handful of old Freeview boxes (including the ONdigital boxes) do break at DSO?


All 2k-only boxes (First gen ONDigital boxes were 2k only and won't cope with 8k broadcasts AIUI) will cease to work at DSO, when the SD muxes switch from 2k/16QAM and 2k/64QAM to 8k/64QAM. However I think many boxes broke with some changes a while back to the way other Service Information was handled? I think the Pace DTVA (which was the first non-ONDigital box sold ISTR) also stopped working a while back - or was supposed to?
Last edited by noggin on 15 March 2012 2:54pm
JO
Jonny
This has started popping up on DTT in the Tyne Tees region:

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w191/2007TopGearDog/tellow.jpg
NW
nwtv2003
Ah the T ellow button.....

I remember Winter Hill having something similar on DTT at the time.
WP
WillPS
nwtv2003 posted:
Ah the T ellow button.....

I remember Winter Hill having something similar on DTT at the time.


Didn't notice anything when Emley Moor and Sheffield changed - but then I only use my DTT box to mitigate clashes which occur too often on Sky (in a flat with only a single feed in).

8 days later

TT
Tumble Tower
DSO Stage 2 happened at Rowridge and Whitehawk Hill transmitter groups overnight. With such a large area affected, I'm surprised this thread is so quiet. Don't tell me no-one receiving from those two main transmitters, or any of their relays, have been without problems.
MA
Markymark
Tumble Tower posted:
DSO Stage 2 happened at Rowridge and Whitehawk Hill transmitter groups overnight. With such a large area affected, I'm surprised this thread is so quiet. Don't tell me no-one receiving from those two main transmitters, or any of their relays, have been without problems.


BBC South Today didn't even mention it, either last night, or this morning.

It's all working OK, according to Digital Spy posts.
IS
Inspector Sands
Tumble Tower posted:
DSO Stage 2 happened at Rowridge and Whitehawk Hill transmitter groups overnight. With such a large area affected, I'm surprised this thread is so quiet. Don't tell me no-one receiving from those two main transmitters, or any of their relays, have been without problems.

I would have thought that everyone on this forum is tech and telly savvy enough not to have any problems, or rely on sat or cable... and by this stage the switchovers must be pretty routine for the engineers working on it.


Incidently I know there was a bit of fuss in the early days over wrong regions being recieved when one area switched and others hadn't yet but there doesn't seem to have been much fuss kicked up in the media over DSO or many major snags.
MA
Markymark
Inspector Sands posted:


Incidently I know there was a bit of fuss in the early days over wrong regions being recieved when one area switched and others hadn't yet but there doesn't seem to have been much fuss kicked up in the media over DSO or many major snags.


Only two problems that I'm aware of:-

Oxford's antenna bursting into flames during the high power proving tests (a year or so before DSO)

Hannington's upper and lower halves of the antenna getting fed anti-phase on the morning of DSO 1, with hilarious reception consequences !

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