29-06-2022, 04:18 PM
(29-06-2022, 03:36 PM)i.h Wrote: Looks like the captions Mark mentions are now "official" - my Freeview box has a BBC Four HD on 106 here in COM7-until-a-few-years-ago land, showing "returns soon watch SD for now"
(29-06-2022, 06:19 AM)Markymark Wrote: They were actually fully compliant to DVB T standards, more so than some of the crap that was sold at the start of the Freeview era. All they couldn't decode was the proprietary 7 day EPG, which OnDigital never carried, and what killed them was the change at DSO from 2k FFT to 8k. When OnD launched 8k chip sets were not quite available, so the UK uniquely launched DTT at 2k. Every other country in the world who adopted DVB T used 8k
Not to mention that some of them were a bit pants. I don't think all the models got all the same firmware upgrades, and of course the Nokia ones were just unbearably slow. If I hadn't replaced it with Sky multiroom I'd have replaced it with a Pace DTVA or something. I'm not surprised that Carlton and Granada decided to let us keep them after all!
Yes. I had the Pace 735, it got relegated to the bedroom from about 2003 until DSO, slow, but it never crashed, and 'did the job'
It made a fantastic bedroom clock too!