Sometimes there are
long periods of nothing or little jingles playing or commercials simply repeated several times.
On 23/11/2021 10:26, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
Sometimes there are
long periods of nothing or little jingles playing or commercials simply repeated several times.
They could be test transmissions. I remember when Classics FM was due to start, there was hours of birdsong transmitted before the programmes
finally launched.
Jim
In article <sniqft$1qb$1@dont-email.me>,
Indy Jess John <bathwatchdog@OMITTHISgooglemail.com> wrote:
On 23/11/2021 10:26, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
Sometimes there are
long periods of nothing or little jingles playing or commercials simply
repeated several times.
They could be test transmissions. I remember when Classics FM was due to
start, there was hours of birdsong transmitted before the programmes
finally launched.
Jim
When the Engineering Test Transmissions for one of the London ILR services finished, there was a letter in the London Evening paper saying "For weeks
we have lovely music, apparently chosen by engineers. Please could the engineers chose all the programmes."
In article <sniqft$1qb$1@dont-email.me>,
Indy Jess John <bathwatchdog@OMITTHISgooglemail.com> wrote:
On 23/11/2021 10:26, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
Sometimes there are
long periods of nothing or little jingles playing or commercials simply
repeated several times.
They could be test transmissions. I remember when Classics FM was due to
start, there was hours of birdsong transmitted before the programmes
finally launched.
Jim
When the Engineering Test Transmissions for one of the London ILR services finished, there was a letter in the London Evening paper saying "For weeks
we have lovely music, apparently chosen by engineers. Please could the engineers chose all the programmes."
On Tue 23/11/2021 13:50, charles wrote:
In article <sniqft$1qb$1@dont-email.me>,
Indy Jess John <bathwatchdog@OMITTHISgooglemail.com> wrote:
On 23/11/2021 10:26, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
Sometimes there are
long periods of nothing or little jingles playing or commercials simply >>>> repeated several times.
They could be test transmissions. I remember when Classics FM was due to >>> start, there was hours of birdsong transmitted before the programmes
finally launched.
Jim
When the Engineering Test Transmissions for one of the London ILR
services
finished, there was a letter in the London Evening paper saying "For
weeks
we have lovely music, apparently chosen by engineers. Please could the
engineers chose all the programmes."
I would most certainly not argue with that!
On 23/11/2021 10:26, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
Sometimes there are
long periods of nothing or little jingles playing or commercials simply
repeated several times.
They could be test transmissions. I remember when Classics FM was due to start, there was hours of birdsong transmitted before the programmes
finally launched.
Jim
In article <sniqft$1qb$1@dont-email.me>,
Indy Jess John <bathwatchdog@OMITTHISgooglemail.com> wrote:
On 23/11/2021 10:26, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
Sometimes there are
long periods of nothing or little jingles playing or commercials simply
repeated several times.
They could be test transmissions. I remember when Classics FM was due to
start, there was hours of birdsong transmitted before the programmes
finally launched.
Jim
When the Engineering Test Transmissions for one of the London ILR services finished, there was a letter in the London Evening paper saying "For weeks
we have lovely music, apparently chosen by engineers. Please could the engineers chose all the programmes."
--
from KT24 in Surrey, England
"I'd rather die of exhaustion than die of boredom" Thomas Carlyle
On 23/11/2021 13:50, charles wrote:
In article <sniqft$1qb$1@dont-email.me>,
Indy Jess John <bathwatchdog@OMITTHISgooglemail.com> wrote:
On 23/11/2021 10:26, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
Sometimes there are
long periods of nothing or little jingles playing or commercials simply >>>> repeated several times.
They could be test transmissions. I remember when Classics FM was due to >>> start, there was hours of birdsong transmitted before the programmes
finally launched.
Jim
When the Engineering Test Transmissions for one of the London ILR
services
finished, there was a letter in the London Evening paper saying "For
weeks
we have lovely music, apparently chosen by engineers. Please could the
engineers chose all the programmes."
I still have my tape of the Classic FM test transmission, labelled
"Country Sounds". I also have many tapes of the Heart Radio test transmissions, which consisted of many hours of continuous pop music
(without commercials); and similar tapes of what Time Radio put out when
they were having difficulties.
--
Max Demian
Being a Samsung TV as many know there are a lot of extra online channels, from Pluto tv and others. Some are in fact quite interesting, but their commercials seem a bit ad hoc to me.
Some have a definite digital noise in the sound channel, similar to trunking radio sounds if tuned into by a scanner on fm, Sometimes there are long periods of nothing or little jingles playing or commercials simply repeated several times. Seems very amateurish.
Shame also there is nothing up there with audio description as some films would be very watchable if there was.
Brian
On 23/11/2021 10:26, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
Being a Samsung TV as many know there are a lot of extra online channels,
from Pluto tv and others. Some are in fact quite interesting, but their
commercials seem a bit ad hoc to me.
Some have a definite digital noise in the sound channel, similar to
trunking radio sounds if tuned into by a scanner on fm, Sometimes there are >> long periods of nothing or little jingles playing or commercials simply
repeated several times. Seems very amateurish.
Shame also there is nothing up there with audio description as some films
would be very watchable if there was.
Brian
I have a LED Samsung TV I bought in 2011. It now can't even receive the >Netflix login page due to some change Netflix made to the way their >transmission works.
On 23/11/2021 10:26, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
Being a Samsung TV as many know there are a lot of extra online channels,
from Pluto tv and others. Some are in fact quite interesting, but their
commercials seem a bit ad hoc to me.
Some have a definite digital noise in the sound channel, similar to
trunking radio sounds if tuned into by a scanner on fm, Sometimes there
are
long periods of nothing or little jingles playing or commercials simply
repeated several times. Seems very amateurish.
Shame also there is nothing up there with audio description as some films
would be very watchable if there was.
Brian
I have a LED Samsung TV I bought in 2011. It now can't even receive the Netflix login page due to some change Netflix made to the way their transmission works.
--
Michael Chare
On Wed, 24 Nov 2021 22:24:23 +0000, Michael Chare <mUNDERSCOREnews@chareDO.Torg.uk> wrote:
On 23/11/2021 10:26, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
Being a Samsung TV as many know there are a lot of extra online
channels,
from Pluto tv and others. Some are in fact quite interesting, but their
commercials seem a bit ad hoc to me.
Some have a definite digital noise in the sound channel, similar to
trunking radio sounds if tuned into by a scanner on fm, Sometimes there
are
long periods of nothing or little jingles playing or commercials simply
repeated several times. Seems very amateurish.
Shame also there is nothing up there with audio description as some
films
would be very watchable if there was.
Brian
I have a LED Samsung TV I bought in 2011. It now can't even receive the >>Netflix login page due to some change Netflix made to the way their >>transmission works.
Don't bother with the streaming functions built into TV sets. They're
never as good as separate devices.
A week or two ago I needed to replace the remote control on my old
Amazon Fire TV box and couldn't get an exact replacement, but was able
to get a new TV Stick for £16.99, and I see that their Black Friday
price for it today is only £14.99. That's a complete streaming kit
including a remote control for about the price I was expecting to pay
for a replacement remote on its own (if I could have got one). This
cheapest one only does 1920x1080 but it works very well, and there are
also 4K versions if you want to pay a bit more. At that sort of price
I've bought things out of what I call the "curiosity budget" just to
see what they can do. Go on - it's nearly Christmas.
Rod.
On Wed, 24 Nov 2021 22:24:23 +0000, Michael Chare <mUNDERSCOREnews@chareDO.Torg.uk> wrote:
On 23/11/2021 10:26, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
Being a Samsung TV as many know there are a lot of extra online
channels, from Pluto tv and others. Some are in fact quite
interesting, but their commercials seem a bit ad hoc to me.
Some have a definite digital noise in the sound channel, similar
to
trunking radio sounds if tuned into by a scanner on fm, Sometimes
there are long periods of nothing or little jingles playing or
commercials simply repeated several times. Seems very amateurish.
Shame also there is nothing up there with audio description as
some films would be very watchable if there was.
Brian
I have a LED Samsung TV I bought in 2011. It now can't even receive
the Netflix login page due to some change Netflix made to the way
their transmission works.
Don't bother with the streaming functions built into TV sets.
They're never as good as separate devices.
A week or two ago I needed to replace the remote control on my old
Amazon Fire TV box and couldn't get an exact replacement, but was
able to get a new TV Stick for £16.99, and I see that their Black
Friday price for it today is only £14.99. That's a complete
streaming kit including a remote control for about the price I was
expecting to pay for a replacement remote on its own (if I could
have got one). This cheapest one only does 1920x1080 but it works
very well, and there are also 4K versions if you want to pay a bit
more. At that sort of price I've bought things out of what I call
the "curiosity budget" just to see what they can do. Go on - it's
nearly Christmas.
Rod.
On 10:14 25 Nov 2021, Roderick Stewart said:
On Wed, 24 Nov 2021 22:24:23 +0000, Michael Chare
<mUNDERSCOREnews@chareDO.Torg.uk> wrote:
On 23/11/2021 10:26, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
Being a Samsung TV as many know there are a lot of extra online
channels, from Pluto tv and others. Some are in fact quite
interesting, but their commercials seem a bit ad hoc to me.
Some have a definite digital noise in the sound channel, similar
to
trunking radio sounds if tuned into by a scanner on fm, Sometimes
there are long periods of nothing or little jingles playing or
commercials simply repeated several times. Seems very amateurish.
Shame also there is nothing up there with audio description as
some films would be very watchable if there was.
Brian
I have a LED Samsung TV I bought in 2011. It now can't even receive
the Netflix login page due to some change Netflix made to the way
their transmission works.
Don't bother with the streaming functions built into TV sets.
They're never as good as separate devices.
A week or two ago I needed to replace the remote control on my old
Amazon Fire TV box and couldn't get an exact replacement, but was
able to get a new TV Stick for £16.99, and I see that their Black
Friday price for it today is only £14.99. That's a complete
streaming kit including a remote control for about the price I was
expecting to pay for a replacement remote on its own (if I could
have got one). This cheapest one only does 1920x1080 but it works
very well, and there are also 4K versions if you want to pay a bit
more. At that sort of price I've bought things out of what I call
the "curiosity budget" just to see what they can do. Go on - it's
nearly Christmas.
Rod.
I have a couple of Fire tv sticks and use them for almost all viewing. >However they can get laggy, despite all the tricks and tips on web
pages.
To reduce this in future I would get as powerful a stick as you can
afford rather than the most basic model.
Or an Nvidia Shield, as long as you don't want to watch All4, because
there isn't an app for it. It's possible using a browser, of which
several are available, but it's a fiddly process, which is why I keep
an Amazon device just for this one channel.
The quality of what you *can* watch on the Shield is superb though,
and even if the resolution of the material is lower than your TV, it
does a very good job of upscaling it so it looks sharper.
Rod.
On Sat, 04 Dec 2021 14:34:51 GMT, Pamela
<pamela.private.mailbox@gmail.com> wrote:
On 10:14 25 Nov 2021, Roderick Stewart said:
On Wed, 24 Nov 2021 22:24:23 +0000, Michael Chare
<mUNDERSCOREnews@chareDO.Torg.uk> wrote:
On 23/11/2021 10:26, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
Being a Samsung TV as many know there are a lot of extra online
channels, from Pluto tv and others. Some are in fact quite
interesting, but their commercials seem a bit ad hoc to me.
Some have a definite digital noise in the sound channel,
similar to
trunking radio sounds if tuned into by a scanner on fm,
Sometimes there are long periods of nothing or little jingles
playing or commercials simply repeated several times. Seems very
amateurish.
Shame also there is nothing up there with audio description as
some films would be very watchable if there was.
Brian
I have a LED Samsung TV I bought in 2011. It now can't even
receive the Netflix login page due to some change Netflix made to
the way their transmission works.
Don't bother with the streaming functions built into TV sets.
They're never as good as separate devices.
A week or two ago I needed to replace the remote control on my old
Amazon Fire TV box and couldn't get an exact replacement, but was
able to get a new TV Stick for £16.99, and I see that their Black
Friday price for it today is only £14.99. That's a complete
streaming kit including a remote control for about the price I was
expecting to pay for a replacement remote on its own (if I could
have got one). This cheapest one only does 1920x1080 but it works
very well, and there are also 4K versions if you want to pay a bit
more. At that sort of price I've bought things out of what I call
the "curiosity budget" just to see what they can do. Go on - it's
nearly Christmas.
Rod.
I have a couple of Fire tv sticks and use them for almost all
viewing. However they can get laggy, despite all the tricks and tips
on web pages.
To reduce this in future I would get as powerful a stick as you can
afford rather than the most basic model.
Or an Nvidia Shield, as long as you don't want to watch All4,
because there isn't an app for it. It's possible using a browser, of
which several are available, but it's a fiddly process, which is why
I keep an Amazon device just for this one channel.
The quality of what you *can* watch on the Shield is superb though,
and even if the resolution of the material is lower than your TV, it
does a very good job of upscaling it so it looks sharper.
Rod.
I looked at the Nvidia Shield after your recommendation but at about
�130 it's many times more than a 4K Fire Stick.
For an ordinary viewer (no fancy games or ten-speaker home cinema) I
can't see what it provides that's not on the Fire stick.
On 05/12/2021 13:45, Pamela wrote:
I looked at the Nvidia Shield after your recommendation but at about
?130 it's many times more than a 4K Fire Stick.
For an ordinary viewer (no fancy games or ten-speaker home cinema) I
can't see what it provides that's not on the Fire stick.
A much more sophisticate version of Android and the ability to mount
several USB devices. I have a 2tb HDD attached and a whole bundle of
movies - quite a few in 4k.
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