[opendtv] Re: A view from the UK
- From: jeroen.stessen@xxxxxxxxxxx
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 12:13:51 +0200
Hello,
I was delighted to see this posting by Alan Roberts:
> I've been monitoring this list for some time (years) but have not yet
posted
> because I didn't want my affiliation to mar discussions. I've just
retired
> from 36 years working for the BBC in R&D, much of it in developing DTV
and
> HDTV.
A very warm welcome to you, Sir Alan ! ;-)
We've often had discussions off-line about what we had read in
OpenDTV, but he has always refrained from posting any messages.
I hope that from now on we may enjoy some brilliant contributions
from you, dear Alan.
I have only recently returned to OpenDTV, because due to a glitch
at Topica I stopped receiving messages and I was thrown off the
web access too. I have enjoyed the break, hehe. I hope that this
message will make it to the list, after such long time.
FWIW, I too can now receive BBC in digital quality, through DVB-S
reception from Astra 2. The bird is aimed at the UK, but it also
illuminates all of NL and B, and a part of France. The signal is
no longer encrypted. No complaints about the quality from me.
I still intend to prove that I can receive Astra 2 with a regular
Triax TDS88 dish with the extra LNB at 12 degrees off-centre.
They want to sell you an expensive multi-focus dish for receiving
two or more positions, but I think that that is not necessary.
(I am interested in Hotbird @ 13deg, Astra1 @ 19deg, Astra2 @ 28deg,
but in my 2nd dish the monoblock is centred and fixed at 16deg.)
Professionally I am doing rather interesting things about signal
processing for LCD TV. As always near the back-end = the display.
Best regards,
-- Jeroen.
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