[Closed] Freeview HD

Did you type in your postcode? If so just type in a neighbouring postcode? Just a thought as I am sure the telly doesn't have GPS 😉

I did. the houses 100 yards down the road can get it according to the site, but not me.

Anyone getting it? Have the Telly but the site tells me the service isn't avalible in my street alone! Nearby streets are fine. Just confused.

when they do the tests - they have to have a boundary somewhere so I guess it's your street, it's not an exact science

Why not just try it & see if it works?

+1 what uplink says 🙂

I guess I can't get it. Perhaps a new Aerial might help.

I guess I can't get it

why?

freeview hd..........dont believe the hype 😆

I still can't believe they're going to find enough bandwidth for it

Our house/village hasn't even got all the channels on normal freeview yet 😆

will not be 1080

i cant get hd freeview but this extra bit is a bit weird...

"Well there's good news and bad news...

You should be able to receive all of the Freeview channels now, but based on the current information we have it looks like you'll lose them when your region switches to digital in 2012. Find out more about the digital switchover at digitaluk.co.uk."

so when digital starts transmitting in my area it will wipe out freeview?

cool freeview is monkey ass in this area anyway

Freesat is better in most cases IMO

Freesat would be great but they don't seem to have Dave (or at least they didn't when I last checked) 🙁

we have a stack of hd ready aerials and a stack of freeview hd receivers.

i can nearly write my name in the dust on them............. 😆

we have a stack of hd ready aerials

I'm going to risk falling for this one

apart from 'nothing' what's the difference between a HD aerial & a standard wideband yagi?

more moola for the manufacturer 😆

apart from 'nothing' what's the difference between a HD aerial & a standard wideband yagi?

I was a huge skeptic but I've just fitted a 'digital' one and the picture is much better.

I was a huge skeptic but I've just fitted one and the picture is much better.

What I'm trying to say is there is no difference
You put a better antenna up & it gave you better pics but there's nothing HD [or even digital] specific in it

and for everyone thinking of buying a new bigger better 'digital' or 'hd ready' aerial................

dont. just wait a while, cos when they knock the power up on emley moor, you little old bent aerial will bang 'digital hd super picture' in no problem........... 8)

"freeview hd..........dont believe the hype"

Which bit of the hype shouldn't we believe? Currently torn between springing for a Foxsat box or waiting for the humax Freeview HD. Though I am also contemplating a daliance with a the Panasonic Freesat Blu-ray combo thingy.

Which bit of the hype shouldn't we believe?

As I said above - I can't figure out how they'll find the bandwidth for what they say is planned
Unless they change their mind over frequency allocation they'll simply run out of space to expand

hd thru a aerial does not work.

the band width has not been compressed enough.

I've just fitted a 'digital' one and the picture is much better.

Surely with digital TV the picture is either there and right or not - the quality shouldn't be variable depending on reception?

mmm - freesat is sounding like the answer then.

Surely with digital TV the picture is either there and right or not

you often get a lot of blocking & pixelation with marginal signals

👿 I'm still waiting for normal freeview!

Had it, but it's all dissappeard over the last couple of years, and useless contacting 'freeview.co.uk' is a waste of time cos no one replies ... yes I've done resets and updates ... freeview = useless (imho) grrrr 👿

Oh yeah, another thing, why can I get BBC4 perfectly but nothing else? Doesn't make sense, if I can get one channel I should get them all, no?

no, it is complicated.......but where are you kojak

weird aint it, i get some chanels crystal clear but others are always breaking up and seem very susceptable to interference

My Mums just had a big tv with freesat. Nice picture but the picture we get on std channels on virgin cable on our CRT TV is not far shy of it.

Oh yeah, another thing, why can I get BBC4 perfectly but nothing else? Doesn't make sense, if I can get one channel I should get them all, no?

My pace digibox is like that after the re-tune. After some googling I've found out its too old and not 8k compatible so all the low number channels have disappeared. Fine on the rest but that's not much use.

I'll have a go at explaining why some people can only get some channels & why there seems to be a need for a 'digital' aerial

UHF bands IV & V are used for UK terrestrial TV 471MHz to 847MHz [give or take]
These bands are split into channels & given numbers 21-68

Before all this digital malarkey, when we had 5 channels - they had to try & stop adjacent transmitters interfering with each other so they grouped the channels & made sure that adjacent main transmitters used different groups & different channel number within them
Group A - Ch 21-37
Group B - Ch 35-53
Group C/D - Ch 48-68

[i]there are others but I'm ignoring them as irrelevant[/i]

Aerials were made to tightly adhere to these groups - so if you were in a group A area you'd have a group A aerial fitted etc.

with me so far ?

OK - along comes digital & a lot of transmitters didn't have the room to fit in the digital multiplexes within it's group so they simply put some of them out of group meaning a lot of the aerials rejected the signal & created the need for a wide-band aerial in a lot of areas
What was often the result was that the aerial would pick up some of the muxes that had been kept in [or close to] group but rejected the others or have some that are marginal & pixelate
Pretty much every area is going to be different so a universal solution is impossible other than make sure you have a suitable aerial.
Hence was born the myth of the digital aerial - all it is, is a wide band [group W] UHF aerial

virgin cable on our CRT TV is not far shy of it.

That's digital too