The sky has turned from the usual dark grey to a strange blue colour and there’s something round and really bright that seems to be giving off heat. Nice to be working without waterproofs and thermals today down at sunny Newgale… Removing a rusty old sky dish and tall rusty TV antenna in favour of […]
Panasonic has announced that it is ceasing production of plasma screen televisions in December. From Digital Spy The Japanese electronics giant will withdraw from the sector entirely in March next year, citing “rapid, drastic changes in the business environment” as the reason for the shift. Plasma screen displays remain competitive against their LCD and LED counterparts, […]
The BBC has highly ambitious plans for iPlayer. Described by Director-General Tony Hall as a “primary entertainment destination”, it is set to become the BBC’s main focus for all its digital offerings.So how exactly is iPlayer going to change? The BBC has outlined a vision for the streaming service which sets it apart from pretty much everything else […]
Freeview TV reception interuptions this week.Over the next week, the Preseli main transmitter is undergoing essential engineering work which may affect your viewing. There’s no need to adjust your TV or have anyone in to find a fault on your TV aerial this week. Preseli […]
There’s to be a bit of TV service interruption this week. The Haverfordwest relay mast near Spittle was off this morning until after lunch. This may reoccur during the week. The main Preseli mast is due for FM and DAB radio interruptions this week and this ‘may’ also affect TV services in the short term […]
Great news for ‘Film 4‘ fans from 1st of August… From the 27th of August, Film 4 (+1) returns to freeview where it has been sorely missed. The +1 channel allows viewers to catch a film an hour later which helps with viewing and recording scheduling. Those of us using Freeview that receive our signals […]
Great news for Freeview-ers everywhere as UKTV announced a brand new channel featuring Britain’s most high profile dramas. Aptly named ‘Drama,’ the channel with launch on 8th July on channel 20 and will be packed full of famous faces and critically-acclaimed shows. GOLD will move to channel 26 and HOME will move to channel 54 If you need any assistance […]
From today, there are a couple of channel changes for the the BBC Red Button services. If you equipment does not automatically take the changes, you may need to retune. The Red Button channel listed as ‘301’ will now become BBC RB 301 The Red Button channel listed as ‘302’ will move to 308 A […]
On a day so foggy that you couldn’t see fifty yards, I was on the castle roof wondering where the beach had gone! Following on from the upgrade of the TV system at Penrhiw in St Davids, Roch Castle was next to have sky TV added to the guest rooms. With the benefit of being onsite during […]
Freeview is to see a change next week when the BBC-HD channel changes full time for BBC2-HD to compliment the already popular BBC1-HD. It’s a sign of things to come as channels slowly but surely start to move over to High Definition broadcasting. On the whole, you won’t need to retune your digital equipment as it is more of […]
Freeview could get up to ten more high-definition channels under a proposal put forward by Ofcom to reuse existing radio spectrum.[Source – Digital Spy] The regulator said that the 600 Mhz band freed up by the analogue TV switchover could be temporarily used to enable two new digital terrestrial television (DTT) multiplexes. According to Ofcom, […]
TV reception in Solva has always been a challenge. None more so than keeping the long cable runs intact!I have found five TV aerials on the Gribbin and they all seem to have had numerous cable replacements over the years. Mainly because of rodents eating through them, storm damage where they are hung from trees […]