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Your local Freeview transmitter is a small relay. It fills because there's a shadow from some geographical feature (hills, valleys etc) that blocks the signal from the main transmitter. Many of these fill-in transmitters carry a reduced service. The channels you get on Freeview Lite are the core...

You can stop the requirement to retune by turning off the 'auto update' or whatever your TV manufacturer happens to call it. After that, you can manually scan the other region transmitter's muxes and add those to your main region channels. This 'not getting your local BBC' was a bugbear of the...

For the UK the range of channels available via subscription service (Sky satellite or Virgin cable) is much larger than the UK's Freeview and Freesat national broadcast platforms. That's the whole point of subscription TV. It's to have something that isn't on the free-to-air platforms. For...

No one-off payment. Just buy the gear to receive it - a Freesat receiver or recorder. or a TV with Freesat as well as the normal (for the UK) Freeview service provision. Freeview and Freesat are two sides of the same coin. They're the UK's national broadcast platforms. The only payment is the...

Likely that there are some bits missing, so the signals are interrupted. One possibility is that the sat receiver's RF out fed a TV amp so that the same channel could be viewed in several rooms.

You have the advantage of being there, so you can prod and poke about. The first photo could have been board - and something like Aquaboard does have a mesh coating. In fairness, you did say that your builder said the mesh was there to help the lime render stick, but that still leaves a question...

The thing on the end of the arm of a satellite dish isn't really the LNB. It's simply the housing. What's inside the housing is the important thing. It can have one, two, four or eight LNBs inside it. That's possibly the simplest and lowest cost way to feed multiple satellite receivers, so yes...

It is possible to distribute a single LNB signal, but you're going to end up with the TVs fighting for control of the LNB.

I'll second that, @RandomGrinch If it's solid brick with a plaster finish and not just a skin of plasterboard, then resin anchored are my go-to for heavy duty installation work. You'll end up with bolt threads (studs) sticking out of the wall. Washers and nylock nuts finish the installation...

That's another outstanding track. As soon as I read "the revolution will not be televised" I heard the song playing in my head. I didn't know about the Tango thing though. His voice got a lot deeper over the decades. Compare and contrast the lyrics of that song to most that have come after...

BIB: Then you haven't got a good understanding of the issues they create in schools. Regarding the question of an outright ban for children owning smart phones, at this stage it's one of a number of suggestions. That's all it is. Personally, I think it's an unworkable idea.

I hope you both/all got thoroughly drenched. Good activity, and lots of positive memories for little kids. Regarding the use of tech in classrooms, I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss books. You're correct that the language has changed. Living languages do that. The language in Mee's...

I think you're overreaching in a few areas here. I haven't seen any suggestion that computers are to be removed from classrooms. This applies to calculators, too. The discussion regarding smart phones stems from the announcement by the UK Government in February that new guidance would be issued...

Opinions change quickly, certainly. Facts, not so much, unless of course your name is Donald Trump :LOL: I doubt anyone is proposing a Luddite approach. Information technology is a valuable resource and should be used in schools. I spent most of the 2000s enabling exactly that as UK classrooms...

I think it's really easy for kids to look up information and come away with poorly referenced or just plain inaccurate data. Some parts of education in the past used to be about learning facts. Now it's more about learning how to find good information. Using the school's computers - where...

Optical is just the same quality as HDMI ARC. The only difference is that ARC can also pass the signal for Dolby Atmos (DD+). To answer the question then, yes, compared to a not-so-good headphone socket connection, Optical would be significantly better. Just make sure to set the TV audio out...

'Aux' isn't a connector type. It's simply the shortened version of the word 'auxiliary' which is another way of saying spare / other / extra. An auxiliary input could be a jack plug, or XLR, or RCAs, or any other signal carrying connection. However, in consumer gear the two most common...

BIB: Also known as 'asking the question until someone gives the answer you want to hear, rather than what's correct' ;):D:LOL::LOL::LOL: Sorry, just teasing.

They say that the p0rn industry was one of the first to capitalise on 4K video resolution. If 8K ever gets to be mainstream, you can be sure that p0rn has a big part in it. (Especially on Arsene's telly. Chortle Chortle. Fnar Fnar) ;) :giggle: :ROFLMAO:

Insulation tape doesn't provide that effective a seal against moisture. It also has a tendency to go brittle when exposed to the UV from the sun. That makes the water barrier even less effective. I use insulation tape when installing aerials as a method of securing the cable to the aerial mast...