[opendtv] Re: I have installed DVB-T

Hi, 

John Willkie: 
> By ?free? porn channel, does that mean it?s advertiser-supported versus 
being pay-TV? 

No, I mean free as in gratis. It is included in the ?10/month 
basic subscription fee (I think it's ?8/mo for loyal KPN 
customers). For that fee I get the 23 programs, only for the 
2 soccer programs do you need to pay some more. And of those 
23 programs 4 are public broadcasters that are also available 
without any subscription at all, so I actually pay for 19. 
Of those 19, 2 are Belgian public broadcasters, for free in 
Belgium, and 2 are BBC Prime and World which are available 
for free on satellite. So I guess that my ?8 or ?10 really 
goes to the remaining 15 programs which are not available 
otherwise. Still a good deal, I think. 

> If so, I?ve never heard of such an offering over the air, at least 
outside of some early Italian ?pirate? channels.

This is definitely not a pirate channel. What's more, I expected 
it to be rather softish, with censored single-X-rated material. 
But the contrary seems to be true, it is very explicit. 
It was protected by a pin code: "1234", and on request you can 
have it blocked permanently. But default it is open. 


Bert Manfredi: 
> Hi Jeroen. I hope you had a nice vacation. We'll be going too.

Very nice, especially for the children. The hotel staff was 
very friendly for children. This is typical of italians. 

> How far are you from the towers, in a straight line? 10 KW is 
> a low power level for indoor reception.

I haven't measured, but the whole city is only like 10x10 km2 
and the tower is within the city limits. So my guess is 6 km. 

> Over here, for whatever reason, broadcasters have so far decided to use
> 4:3 when they transmit SDTV and 16:9 when they transmit HDTV. So almost
> everything I watch is 16:9, but in terms of percentage of what's
> actually transmitted, 4:3 is still the most common.

Over here HDTV is hardly available, but a very decent part of 
the SDTV content is real 16:9 (as opposed to letterboxed). 
And with good PixelPlus (TM) processing and a reasonable screen 
size the difference with true HDTV is not so large that people 
would be screaming for more. 

Greetings, 
-- Jeroen

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