I want to watch Scotland Women play Spain tomorrow evening. This is
being shown on BBC Alba, which is not available in HD on Freeview. I
am wondering two things:
1. Will the iPlayer version be better quality than Freeview SD?
2. I understand the main commentary is in Gaelic with a red button
option for English. Is the red button available on iPlayer?
On Mon, 29 Nov 2021 18:47:51 +0000, Scott
<newsgroups@gefion.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
I want to watch Scotland Women play Spain tomorrow evening. This is
being shown on BBC Alba, which is not available in HD on Freeview. I
am wondering two things:
1. Will the iPlayer version be better quality than Freeview SD?
2. I understand the main commentary is in Gaelic with a red button
option for English. Is the red button available on iPlayer?
It seems the answer to my second question is yes: https://mgalba.com/expanded-bbc-scotland-bbc-alba-sports-collaboration/?lang=en
On 29/11/2021 21:25, Scott wrote:
On Mon, 29 Nov 2021 18:47:51 +0000, Scott
<newsgroups@gefion.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
I want to watch Scotland Women play Spain tomorrow evening. This is
being shown on BBC Alba, which is not available in HD on Freeview. I
am wondering two things:
1. Will the iPlayer version be better quality than Freeview SD?
2. I understand the main commentary is in Gaelic with a red button
option for English. Is the red button available on iPlayer?
It seems the answer to my second question is yes:
https://mgalba.com/expanded-bbc-scotland-bbc-alba-sports-collaboration/?lang=en
The answer to your first one is "It depends".
It could be much better, but your internet connection may not be up to
it, or they may deliberately throttle it to keep their costs down.
On 29/11/2021 21:25, Scott wrote:
On Mon, 29 Nov 2021 18:47:51 +0000, Scott
<newsgroups@gefion.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
I want to watch Scotland Women play Spain tomorrow evening. This is
being shown on BBC Alba, which is not available in HD on Freeview. I
am wondering two things:
1. Will the iPlayer version be better quality than Freeview SD? 2.
I understand the main commentary is in Gaelic with a red button
option for English. Is the red button available on iPlayer?
It seems the answer to my second question is yes: https://mgalba.com/expanded-bbc-scotland-bbc-alba-sports-collaboration/?lang=en
The answer to your first one is "It depends".
It could be much better, but your internet connection may not be up to
it, or they may deliberately throttle it to keep their costs down.
Re Q2, my Internet connection is fine but anything is possible with the
BBC. Does iPlayer show details of resolution, or do you mean the BBC
could have opted for a lower quality link from Spain to cut costs?
In article <7e86rgh852cpnlti4i5n7jt8gcpn9a7h0b@4ax.com>, Scott ><newsgroups@gefion.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
Re Q2, my Internet connection is fine but anything is possible with the
BBC. Does iPlayer show details of resolution, or do you mean the BBC
could have opted for a lower quality link from Spain to cut costs?
The level of picture quality may in some cases be limited by a copyright >holder. Hence some films, for example, may be lower resolution because the >copyright owners either refused to allow the max iPlayer 'HD' res, or >demanded too much extra payment for that compared with 'SD'.
I don't have any interest in 'sport', so can't say if that also crops up >there or not. But it may for the above reason.
The max may also be limited by the device/system you're using. Again, I
can't comment beyond that as I used gip and a Linux box for any BBC video >fetched via the net.
Thanks. An easier question then: is it possible to watch the iPlayer
in English or is it only in Gaelic?
I just noticed that BBC Alba is on Freeview all afternoon (football I
think), it does not normally start until 1600h weekends and 1700h
during the week.
I checked the EPG for a week ago and a week forward and no Alba on
Freeview on those Sundays at this time.
Am I right in thinking that it is not normally on Sunday afternoons?
Where have they got the bandwidth from?
On Sun, 16 Apr 2023 14:00:01 +0100
MB <MB@nospam.net> wrote:
I just noticed that BBC Alba is on Freeview all afternoon (football I
think), it does not normally start until 1600h weekends and 1700h
during the week.
I checked the EPG for a week ago and a week forward and no Alba on
Freeview on those Sundays at this time.
Am I right in thinking that it is not normally on Sunday afternoons?
Where have they got the bandwidth from?
Maybe there's a broadcast equivalent of 'Quantitative Easing', ie just
make it up as you need it.
--
Davey.
I just noticed that BBC Alba is on Freeview all afternoon (football I
think), it does not normally start until 1600h weekends and 1700h during
the week.
I checked the EPG for a week ago and a week forward and no Alba on
Freeview on those Sundays at this time.
Am I right in thinking that it is not normally on Sunday afternoons? Where have they got the bandwidth from?
No if you look at the various plus 1s and other things like the bbc kiddies >stuff, you often find that bbc 4 and 3 tend to be on when some of the others >are not.
I suppose there must be some dynamic bandwidth sharing going on so channels
are basically virtual in nature, but what happens on the small transmitters >where all services are not present, one assumes there is a part of the >sharing system that only shares amongst the ones everyone gets or maybe its >just a bloke with a row of buttons. That would be the British way, sitting >there eating his Marmite sandwiches and pressing buttons every so often.
Brian
Nicked it from red button?
Anyway, it always seems a strange name to use when you remember Alba used
to make Radios back in my youth.
Brian
Nicked it from red button?
Anyway, it always seems a strange name to use when you remember Alba used to make Radios back in my youth.
It goes back long before ARGOS existed.
Yoof? It was the brand name of Argos before they changed to Bush. I've
got an Alba Radio.
Nicked it from red button?
Anyway, it always seems a strange name to use when you remember Alba used to make Radios back in my youth.
Brian
On 17/04/2023 09:15, Brian Gaff wrote:
Nicked it from red button?
Anyway, it always seems a strange name to use when you remember Alba
used
to make Radios back in my youth.
Brian
i'm still waiting for ITV saisho and bbc sansui
On 17/04/2023 09:15, Brian Gaff wrote:
Nicked it from red button?
Anyway, it always seems a strange name to use when you remember Alba
used
to make Radios back in my youth.
Yoof? It was the brand name of Argos before they changed to Bush. I've
got an Alba Radio.
--
Max Demian
On 17/04/2023 14:08, Max Demian wrote:
Yoof? It was the brand name of Argos before they changed to Bush. I've
got an Alba Radio.
It goes back long before ARGOS existed.
1930s and 1940s
A. J. Balcombe Lld, 52-58 Tabernacle Street, London EC2
Daily Herald - Saturday 26 August 1933
Image © Reach PLC. Image created courtesy of THE BRITISH LIBRARY BOARD.
ONE of the new Alba receivers (A. J. Balcombe. Ltd). is a seven-valve superhet at 19 guineas. Automatic volume control and a special circuit for suppressing noise when tuning between stations are features of this model. This latter refinement can however, made inoperative when searching for really distant transmission.
Another Alba seven-valve model, also of the superheterodyne type, tunes on four wave bands, from 8-20. 20-55, 200-550 and 800-2.000 metres. Each set provides an undlstorted output of 3 watts, and Incorporates delayed
automatic volume control
On 17/04/2023 14:38, MB wrote:
It goes back long before ARGOS existed.
This is what happened to many radio manufacturers, the name bought by
people like ARGOS, Comet,Dixons etc
Liverpool Daily Post (Welsh Edition) - Friday 09 July 1982
DIGEST
Receivers called in
RECEIVERS have been appointed to the Alba hi-fi and radio firm AJ
Balcombe. A statement last night said they were now investigating the affairs of the company with a view to offering parts of the business for
sale as a going concern It was hoped that this would enable viable parts
of the business to be saved and jobs preserved
Do Hacker still exist?
On Tue, 18 Apr 2023 08:41:44 +0100, "Brian Gaff"
<brian1gaff@gmail.com> wrote:
Do Hacker still exist?
Apparently not. There's a Wikipedia page that gives all the details -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_Radio_Ltd
Once upon a time I bought a Hacker RP37 VHF only radio, because the
case was nice and big, and included some empty space where the extra circuitry would have been in similar multi waveband models, which gave
plenty of space for modifications. In my case, that meant the addition
of a stereo decoder and a pair of audio amplifiers for stereo
headphones. It worked very nicely, and as I'd also included a DIN
output before the volume control, I could also use it as an FM tuner
as part of the hi-fi system, which I did for several years.
Hacker had a well deserved reputation for quality of manufacture, but
were not especially well known, which was probably the cause of their ultimate downfall.
Rod.
On Mon, 17 Apr 2023 09:20:21 +0100, "Brian Gaff"
<brian1gaff@gmail.com> wrote:
No if you look at the various plus 1s and other things like the bbc
kiddies
stuff, you often find that bbc 4 and 3 tend to be on when some of the >>others
are not.
I suppose there must be some dynamic bandwidth sharing going on so
channels
are basically virtual in nature, but what happens on the small
transmitters
where all services are not present, one assumes there is a part of the >>sharing system that only shares amongst the ones everyone gets or maybe >>its
just a bloke with a row of buttons. That would be the British way, sitting >>there eating his Marmite sandwiches and pressing buttons every so often.
Brian
Is it not a case of entire multiplexes 'missing' from the relay
(Freeview Lite) transmitters? I thought main transmitters carried six multiplexes and relays three. I cannot see any difficulty in setting
up a relay transmitter to broadcast three multiplexes only.
On 17/04/2023 09:15, Brian Gaff wrote:
Nicked it from red button?
 Anyway, it always seems a strange name to use when you remember Alba
used
to make Radios back in my youth.
 Brian
i'm still waiting for ITV saisho and bbc sansui
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