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Then this little video may help.

 

 

:lol:

 

You learn something new every day :smartass:

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Posted

That's one way around the problem.

 

I moved house last year so I just got a new Freesat aerial/box/TV at that point in time.

 

Of course if you enjoy the wireless that must be going over to digital only soon. So that will either mean a new car radio or singing to myself on long trips.

 

I tried to paste in the video embed code with the YouTube tags but couldn't make it work. Does that have to be enabled in this forum?

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That's one way around the problem.

 

I moved house last year so I just got a new Freesat aerial/box/TV at that point in time.

 

Of course if you enjoy the wireless that must be going over to digital only soon. So that will either mean a new car radio or singing to myself on long trips.

 

I tried to paste in the video embed code with the YouTube tags but couldn't make it work. Does that have to be enabled in this forum?

 

No it works, you just have to paste the code right. Post one like you did and i'll tell you what's wrong with it.

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[YOUTUBE]

<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="

name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>

[/YOUTUBE]

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Posted (edited)
[YOUTUBE]

<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="

name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>

[/YOUTUBE]

 

Don't post the whole link, post just the video id, e.g. Rd6j9cBc6fI&hl=en_GB&fs=1 with the youtube tags wrapped around yields this:

 

 

capiche? ;)

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Posted

Ah ha!! Mystery solved. Thanks Sobek.

 

There's a tutorial on the forum if you search 'embed video'

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Lol, we had our switch in the US a year ago... Problem solved by Grandfather buying flatscreen for me and me getting cable... Trust me. Get cable. You'll find you like it.

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If you lived where I lived for two years down in Hastings old town then you'll need to get sky [ there's no cable] cos you can not get any digital recpection there......

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They did this over here in Sweden I think 3-5 years ago. There was a lot of fuss about it,

and I still think the new system is rather mediocre.

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And why is that I wonder?

Is that the voice of Hastings?

 

In what way.....

 

Hastings Bourgh Co. need to do sometrhing about it before alot of their residents start complaining.

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Am up to date on TV switchover where I live and (more importantly as they'll need a bit more help) where my elderly parents live.

 

Hadn't thought about radio. When is that gonna be? Can't live without radio in my car!

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They did this over here in Sweden I think 3-5 years ago. There was a lot of fuss about it,

and I still think the new system is rather mediocre.

 

Well, my understanding of the changes they did here with the switch was that it was mainly about decreasing the operating costs of the infrastructure, and all the talk about making it better for consumers was just hype to defend the change.

 

For me it's made no difference though: I don't watch TV, I don't have Cable, I don't have a dish, and I don't have an antenna. (My house literally doesn't have one.) But I still have to pay license fee since I own a "TV" (If the manufacturer had listed it as a "monitor" it would have been something else) that I use once a month for playing Xbox with friends. So for me everything is unchanged - I still neither can nor want to watch TV, and I still have to pay for it. :P

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Hastings,- birthplace of TV, can't get digital reception...

 

If you lived where I lived for two years down in Hastings old town then you'll need to get sky [ there's no cable] cos you can not get any digital recpection there......

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The old town can't but the rest can... Some places even have trouble with Anolog.

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Posted
Well, my understanding of the changes they did here with the switch was that it was mainly about decreasing the operating costs of the infrastructure, and all the talk about making it better for consumers was just hype to defend the change.

 

Don't know about the UK but in Austria the main driving force behind this was that digital TV is more efficient bandwith-wise, that means you can transmit the same data over a channel with less bandwith, therefore opening up room for more channels or selling some of the bands to the mobile communication lobby, e.g.

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