M60 Posts: 5, Forum Member. It is down to pure economics - Freeview - available to a potential audience of 26 million households Sky - around There is no equivalent major pay platform on Freeview. M60 wrote: ». It would be great to have the channel on the platform but clearly they are happy, for now, staying subscription on Satellite. Either that or they are in a long term deal with Sky. Is it really that different?
Nigel Goodwin wrote: ». By Thomas Newton. Freesat has lots more channels than Freeview, but some of the most popular channels Freeview channels are not on Freesat, and satellite TV viewers can only see them by subscribing to Sky. TV is a business, and Sky has contracts which pre-date the launch of Freesat in , and Pick is nothing more than a showcase of old Sky shows to tempt Freeview folk into taking a full Sky subscription.
It even used to be called Sky 3. Freeview is just a marketing organisation for digital terrestrial TV in the UK. In fact, Sky is one of the founding partners in Freeview, from , so it has some say in the running of its biggest rival in British TV.
If you are using a Freeview Lite transmitter hope is not lost altogether. The Southcliff Tower or Eastbourne transmitter which is a local relay transmitter serving a relatively small audience recently underwent an upgrade as part of the 5G engineering works which sees that it now offers nearly all of the Freeview services.
Whereas it only broadcast Freeview Lite since it first started broadcasting digital TV services since the digital switch-over in I just discovered it when I was out installing an aerial one day. Another option which may be available to you is to re-align your TV aerial to another transmitter near your area that offers a full Freeview service.
This may be slightly weaker in your location but may otherwise offer a perfectly reliable TV reception. The aerial polarisation will probably need to be adjusted , your aerial may not be suitable for the other transmitter and may even not be compatible — especially grouped TV aerials.
So be prepared when employing a professional TV aerial installer to do this for you that you may require a new aerial, like a high gain version to deal with the weaker TV signals. You may also require amplification or some sort of TV aerial system adjustment to make things work properly and to retune all your TV sets now receiving signals from the new transmitter.
So, what may seem like a minute job could in fact take a few hours. You should also try to filter out your old transmitter from the system as this is likely to still be drifting in fairly strong and could cause problems, particularly with wrong TV services being stored in the tuning process which themselves could break up and pixelate.
I have on occasion when installing aerials around certain parts of Hastings where I would normally either use the Hastings transmitter or the Dover transmitter to instead align the antenna to the Bluebell Hlll transmitter to get the extra services.
They both use different broadcasting techniques, compressions and standards. Are you still with me? Going forward in time I believe more and more services will move to the DVB-T2 standard and MPEG 4 compression as it is a far more efficient compression technique and requires far less bandwidth to broadcast on, meaning that they can more services in a smaller space freeing up more room for things like 4G and 5G mobile internet.
This is also why High Definition services use this standard, its not because HD is not compatible with DVB-T but because all the extra information required to make a High Definition picture requires more broadcasting space and bandwidth, hence a more efficient compression technique to get all the information in. This meant that all subscribers needed to purchase a new or up to date set to box.
As each of the multiplexes groups of TV channels broadcast of different frequencies and from transmitters which broadcast these at differing strengths. It possible to receive some services perfectly fine with no picture break up or pixilation and others offer very poor reception or no picture at all. I will start with differing broadcast strengths. The larger the transmitter, with the biggest service area and audience will broadcast strongest and smaller local transmitters broadcasting in significantly weaker strengths.
This means that when you are very close to a local TV transmitter you could receive a very strong TV signal but the further you install your TV aerial or antenna away from the transmitter the quicker the TV signal will drop in strength when compared to a main transmitter broadcasting at a stronger strength. Using the Crystal Palace again as a reference, most of the services are broadcast are ,W or KW.
Which is around 5 times weaker! This could be the reason why some of your services are working fine and others are not. If you do find that some of the services that you are struggling to receive are being broadcast at a considerable weaker strength. Do not despair as something can usually done with your TV system to improve to reception levels of the weaker TV services like the installation of a higher gain TV aerial or the installation of a masthead amplifier.
As the TV signals and multiplexes are being broadcast on different frequencies you can receive these are different strengths at your TV aerial, even if these are being broadcast at different strengths. There are loads of reasons why this can be. One of the main reasons this is because frequencies can behave very differently when meeting with obstructions between you and the transmitter, even a small frequency change can make a huge difference in the TV reception levels.
This means that things like buildings and even the way the land lies near your property can make little to no difference on some TV services and completely ruin others. This is particularly evident with trees and can even change over time with some of the channels previously receiving good reception then receiving weaker reception at a later date as the trees grow, move and leaf.
It could be the type of aerial you have installed.
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