Recent content by Rodders53

Thumbnail directories, containing .tac files, are hidden I believe? Even those in series folders. My foxsat has one other hidden folder in Video: /mnt/hd3/Video/.@__thumb which is empty according to Filezilla. I run Newk, fixfilenames and fixfilepaths and haven't (as far as I can recall) seen...

BBC / Arqiva tests from 27 June 2008. Demo broadcasts from Guildford transmitter and shown at IBC that year with the encoder-decoder designs from BBC R&D available for licensing around the same time). Receiver manufacturers started to have prototypes available quite soon after for testing and...

Sony used to build pan-European sets: Quite likely that DVB-T full HD screen had a H264 decoder inside so worked for HD in France and elsewhere but that -T2 tuner availability at time of design was just not there for the smaller UK market.

Well so it is! Just swapped mine for a 2A RS Components one from the 1980s held in my Stores. On my one it is 2x0.75 sq.mm cross-sectional area 'light duty' cable. That cross-sectional area is rated to 6A so the 5A protects the cable fine. Manual says "protected by internal fuse" so that's...

I'd get an existing HDR-Fox-T2 user another of the same in order to avoid the pain of the 'other platform' box(es) - even the Foxsat-HDR with CF. There's too many remote control button mis-placements and UI dissimilarities between the HDR-Fox-T2 and Foxsat-HDR that cause me frustrations when...

Enigma boxes and the required special firmwares to emulate freesat via the interweb are not my field of expertise. If / when my -HDRs and -T2 give up the ghost I'll need to investigate them in earnest: assuming Broadcasting from terrestrial transmitters and satellites don't end (or I expire)...

^^^^^ Or another 2nd user Humax Foxsat-HDR and install CF/nowster patch. (Allegedly circa £20 on CeX from another forum). Your sig says 2x -T2 and one -HDR already. Or fix the problematic -T2 box / buy another 2nd user one? Enigma 2 type receiver/hdd to record unencrypted and stream around...

Studio-based production. 1971. Earliest episodes recorded at Rediffusion Studios in Wembley (aka Fountain Studios and still used for TV today) then moved to the brand-new London Weekend Studios on the South Bank (now demolished). Former was likely B&W equipped the latter would naturally be...

They're back!!!!

All OK on satellite ($ky, Freesat and FTA receivers), I believe. Also the LOcal TV versions are OK. Some speculation of reasons on DigitalSpy forum. It may be significant that only the Arqiva-encoded/owned muxes are affected. Local TV being Comux and Thats3 on the troublesome D3&4. That's...

Antenna power is only useful if there's an amplifier that can be remote powered in the path to the antenna. Some are designed to work at 5V (e.g. Optima by Vision - 5-12V rated), although most are 12V rated and either may not work at all or potentially give lower gain. With no amp you should...

Thanks Adrian. I've had no SMB access to my Foxsat-HDR since a Win 11 update (it was OK initially) and have wondered why exactly. You've explained that for me very clearly. I may as well disable SMB1 on this laptop. Makes using MediaInfo to determine if a recording is in 5.1 more painful...

Report today on AVForums that it has been fixed - at least ex Belmont. Any confirmation from people here?

PSB2 aka D3&4 is now C&M in the cloud by BT for the companies concerned... https://www.mediaandbroadcast.bt.com/case-studies/coding-and-multiplex.html Complaints to the Broadcasters (ITV, C4, C5) would be the correct route -- plus Everything TV (aka Freeview) and maybe Ofcom. I would be...

Waltham doesn't broadcast on frequency ch48. AFAIK adjacent channel DTT is not the issue it was with analogue either. 5G 700 MHz filters will have insertion losses and lose some not entirely insignificant amount (up to 3dB?) at ch48 probably. Not that all of us have (or need) such filtering...