[opendtv] Re: Why Freeview succeeded
- From: "Alan Roberts" <roberts.mugswell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 15:46:53 -0000
I don't want a satellite dish. No-one in my village has one, my house looks
better without.
From about 3.5m viewing distance (28" tv) Freeview usually looks ok, but at
1.5m analogue is better.
----- Original Message -----
From: <jeroen.stessen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 2:53 PM
Subject: [opendtv] Re: Why Freeview succeeded
> Hello,
>
> Alan Roberts wrote:
> > Freeview pictures are clearly inferior to the analogue pictures I get at
> > home, but I'm in a minority because I have a decent aerial and can see
> CP
> > mast, so I get a good strong clean signal (21mV on BBC ONE analogue).
> > (...)
> > But the biggest single selling point for me is that the channels are,
> for
> > the most part, 16:9. The second biggest selling point is that I can get
> BBC
> > FOUR and THREE.
>
> I can get all of that here, hundreds of kilometers away, from
> the Astra2 satellite ! And in perfect quality too. For free !
> If you think that the terrestrial signal is inferior (the same
> is said of the DVB-T signals in NL and Belgium), then I don't
> understand why you just don't get a satellite dish and get it
> over with. They compress more lightly, and you will be happier.
> I can send you a photo of my dish with 3 LNBs, and Triax don't
> even recommend this dish for 3. But it works anyway, haha.
> BTW, I will consider Digitenne (Dutch DVB-T) for a third or
> fourth TV, but my first and second will stay tuned on Astra !
>
> Best,
> -- Jeroen
>
>
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