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Is You View set to continue?

26/5/2014

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Will You View go the way of the dinosaur?

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Having problems with your you view box? Then our not alone. When ever we as 'Aerial & Satellite Engineers' have attended a property where the home owner has a you view box, invariably the frustrated customer is pretty unhappy with the functionality of the you view box and the service received from either BT or Talk Talk. However, this is not to say that this is the beginning of the end for the problematic platform as a report published just the other day reveals...

A report published today welcomes YouView’s implementation of accessibility features for viewers with visual and cognitive impairments but says not enough progress has been made in delivering a full text-to-speech solution.

However, in its response to the Trust’s review, BT said the service’s accessibility features “would not have developed as quickly as it has without BBC involvement.”

All seven shareholders recently signed a new funding agreement for YouView.

Today’s report reveals that the one condition of the BBC’s continued involvement, is that text-to-speech functionality providing remote control functionality and the ability to browse the EPG “must be implemented in 2014/15.”

One initial condition the Trust imposed was that the BBC must not favour YouView in its on-screen promotion of TV platforms.

Today’s report say there’s no evidence that this condition has been broken, nor of the BBC’s involvement “affecting the decisions of other public service broadcasters to make their programmes available to other platforms.”

Some stakeholders, including Channel 4, suggested the BBC was being overly cautious and “could do more to promote the platform across its different services”.

It also calls on YouView to “promptly” ensure channel owners can deliver content direct to users without having to go through BT and TalkTalk, two of the projects other shareholders who both use the service as the basis of their pay-TV services.

Such functionality is already planned and, in its submission to the Trust’s review, Sky confirms its intention to offer channels direct to consumers via its NOW TV brand.
Want to talk through your options for free to air TV such as Freeview or Freesat, then call our Aerial & Satellite Engineer for the best advice tailored to you.
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New 24 hour Free to Air Channel added to Freeview

21/5/2014

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New Freeview Channel coming soon!

With the popularity of Freeview TV platform, there are more and more channels being added very year. As reported on DTG, there is a new free to air channel being launch over the next few months, with some pay to view to arrive after that. 
TruTV, part of Turner Broadcasting, will air as a 24-hour channel in the coming months on free-to-view services with Pay-TV services likely to follow.

Already a hit channel in the US (with 93m homes tunning in) and some of it's shows already available on UK TV, TruTV is home to shows like Container wars, Fear Factor and the US version of Impractical Jokers. As well as existing programming, the channel is expected to buy distribution from the likes of Endemol and Zodiak rights.

Turner UK general manager Anthony Lukom said "TruTV shows real-life comedy featuring incredible characters in real-life situations, a formula that is enjoying ever-increasing popularity worldwide," he added.

Will I need to re tune to get new channels on Freeview?

Depends, sometimes the freeview system will automatically be updated , and fairly regularly, if left on standby rather than turning it off at the plug socket. Otherwise you may need to rune a retune to update your epg list. A TV retune, and software update can be performed by any reputable TV engineer for a small fee.
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BBC move towards internet TV

12/5/2014

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The BBC will boost its coverage of local and European parliament elections this month by using video-over-IP device Stagebox.

The BBC R&D-devised camera-mounted IP connectivity unit is going to be used at 15 local authorities working in london as ballots are counted.

“It allows one production team inside a studio to pay for 15 locations remotely, which wouldn't be achievable or economically possible when we needed to distribute 15 outdoors broadcast trucks,” described Mark Scott-South, business development director for Stagebox sole licensee L2Tek.

Stagebox will convert the recording, audio, genlock, timecode along with other camera control information into IP packets for transmission to BBC Elstree within the Public Services Network, a government initiative hooking up local government bodies having a wide-bandwidth network and cloud.

“Local election counts can be quite boring, but there's always an opportunity that the high-profile politician for example Nigel Farage might show up. Now we are able to exist to capture the outcomes,Inches stated Scott-South.

Stagebox is really a core area of the BBC’s intends to migrate live production to IP (ip address), that is considered less costly and much more flexible than conventional transmission by HD-SDI.

We've got the technology was utilized for Red-colored Button coverage of last year’s Glastonbury festival and will also be recycled in the Commonwealth Games in This summer.

US tv stations will also be testing the package. Within an approaching lab demonstration, 4K Ultra HD content is going to be moved over IP using four genlocked Stageboxes, using the 1.5Gbps feeds sewn right into a single image using special software.

This is viewed as medium difficulty key to 4K over IP, with HEVC encoders needed to compress the stream for native 4K work.

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Sky Installation for Park Homes & Caravans

1/5/2014

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Sky installation on Lodge in Preston

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I enjoyed doing this satellite dish installation at a holiday park near Preston. The sky dish was a zone 2 dish which is slightly larger than the standard zone 1 sky dish. We used a slightly larger satellite dish because where the lodge or park home was situated there were trees which interfering with a clear line of sight. As you can see in the picture we installed the dish near the front of the caravan, due to this being the only place we could get a good enough signal. Normally we would install the satellite dish in a more discreet location, but there was no other option at this particular site in Preston.


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