All posts by Petrev
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Hi
Won't tune in on my SkyStar USB2 HD CI !
Tried with DBBViewer Pro4 and 7MC
:( Thanks
OK - So BBC1HD, BBC-HD and ITV1HD are not S2 ? Just C4HD
:( Great ! ? !
More new kit needed . . .
Any suggestions welcome
and thanks for the info - at least I know what is going on now. Hi Brian
Sure this has been mentioned before but . . .
Can someone please get Freeview to rejig the Channel Numbers for HD when BBC2 HD starts so that my ageing mother doesn't continue to get confused !
51=BBC1 HD
52=BBC2 HD
53=ITV1 HD
54=Channel4 HD
Current numbering is just daft
50=1
51=3
52=4
54=2/7/9/HD Hi Brian,
Off Topic and on the subject of 5.1 on BBC HD as mentioned by Tony Hill and replied to by you earlier
"Tony Hill: The BBC only transmit programmes that have 5.1 sound with 5.1 sound, using 2.0 for everything else.
...
The BBC does not believe that the consumer is well served by making a pseudo-5.1 mix."
I noticed the other day that during the HD Chanel Preview Loop there was a section of "Top Gear" in 5.1
I happened to have that episode recorded and checked back to find it was in 2.0 as I recalled ! So either BBC are pseudo-5.1 mixing for the loop or they are downmixing for the broadcast !
Also "Later ... With Jools H" is being broadcast in 5.1 while "Later Live ... With Jools H" is in 2.0
Immediately following the 2.0 "Live" edition was an HD Channel Promo
'Lovingly Crafted For High Definition' : "How does Surround Sound affect Later With Jools Holland in High Definition ?"
Hmmm 
Hi Brian
My observations are from Freeview. They are probably legally OK as they say
"How does Surround Sound affect Later With Jools Holland in High Definition ?"
and the 2.0 programme is of course differently titled as "Later Live ..." it is however misleading to follow the 2.0 program with this promo (in my opinion!)
The Preview Loop is 5.1 on Freeview via my system as we type . . .
Keep up the good work. Hi Brian,
For HD Audio Freeview uses HE-AAC (5.1/2.0) and provides AD within the encoding when required. It is up to the Receiver/PVR to transcode HE-AAC to DD for output although not all machines released to market before April 2011 do so as this transcoding was not mandated until that date. Some still only output downmixed LPCM. Sorry that should of course be "Receiver" in line one !
Just had to retype everything as first attempt got lost in the digital void. Please excuse any other typos !!! Hi
from the BBC Blog
"However to help manufacturers develop products sometimes it is necessary to mandate certain features only after a suitable period has elapsed after publication in the D Book. So transcoding will become mandatory in all product launched after April 2011. In the meantime some manufacturers have already shown the capability of uploading this into existing deployed designs."
BBC - BBC Internet Blog: Questions around surround sound on Freeview HD
Hi Brian,
Your New Look Freeview Transmitter page, eg. Freeview reception at BA1 XXX, now only shows my predicted "Best" TX (Bath) and not all available at my Location as it used to.
This may be clearer and simpler for most, but it is no use to me as I have my aerial pointed at the Main (more distant but still 100%) TX at Mendip and not the Bath Local Relay.
You used to show all transmitters at a location, with the "Best" first, and even those that appear to be out of sight. This was very useful as on occasions I did get odd tuning events where a much more distant and normally out of sight TX (Stockland Hill) would be tuned due to atmospherics and I could tell what it was and why this was happening (much further away but in exact same direction as my aerial pointed at Mendip).
The DigitalUk site still lists Bath and Mendip as alternatives for me (Bath first of course - They have dropped Box which is now only given as a possible on the BBC page). Maybe you could add a Tab or Option (?) for ALL as well as the current BEST (set as default) Transmitter, so that we can get back the excellent Tuning and Terrain info for all, not just the supposed "Best" which in my case, and no doubt many others, is not the best ! Hi (again)
Just looked at some others info, from above posts, and they do show alternatives that are presumably definite line of sight transmitters - My address must be erroniously returning that Mendip is not visible.
It would be good to add back the presumed "out of sight" transmitters as per your old method, but maybe you could put them below a big red line to point out that they may not be visible/useable at the current location. I think they used to have a different Icon ?
Keep up the good work
Cheers
Pete Thanks Stephen - Very useful. 
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