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Clare Shepherd wrote: > On 13 Mar 2008, at 09:04, Neil Williams wrote: > >> On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 08:38 +0000, Tom Potts wrote: >>> I've been down here a couple of years now (only 58 to go to be >>> accepted as >>> possibly human!) and over that period (especially during high >>> pressure) the >>> picture quality on our analogue boxes has gone down enormously. >>> I put this down to the attempt to lever people on to digital - has >>> anyone else >>> noticed this or is just my health paranoia? >> It's not an attempt to push people onto digital because the effects of >> the same problem on digital TV are far, far worse. >> >> Analogue problems just add a bit of fuzzy or snowy inconvenience to >> the >> display. >> >> Digital problems drop the entire channel and usually 5 or 6 either >> side >> for as much as an hour. >> >> Taking into account the average "quality" of digital TV, that means >> that >> I can easily lose all watchable TV at random intervals and for >> indeterminate durations. >> >> -- >> > > This is all true, but the Government has assured us that it'll be all > so much better when we go totally digital, as the signal will be > boosted. If you can believe them. I've been digital for about 2 to 3 > years and my reception is better than Neils, but not much. During the > summer we're plagued by break-up and loss of vision, and it's always > when I want to watch the Proms on BBC 4! However, we can all rejoice > at the Government being able to sell of the analogue bandwidth. It > completes my joy, coming at the same time as Torquay Council is > attempting to sell off our green spaces. End of rant by grumpy old > woman. > > Clare > Having a decent quality aerial and good quality digital grade coax cable also makes a difference. I'm in Chelston and get a rather good signal with my digital aerial attached to a booster box and the kids get a fairly good signal on the non-digital grade aerial in the loft with just one Freeview box attached. My dad on the other hand in Teignmouth gets a signal good enough for one TV (although funnily enough not good enough to drive his HDTV with built in Freeview). Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html