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PE
Pete Founding member
May I whore that fab video I found around the forum a bit
http://newsfilm.bufvc.ac.uk/article.php?story=2005100819530312 if you haven't already seen it.

Namely because I'm wondering. What is the land based satellite transmitter talked about during the "house of the 1990s" segment?
SP
Spencer
Neil Jones posted:
These days of course you can buy TVs that support up to 99 UHF channel slots, but they'll never all be used.


I've never understood that, considering most of them are only capable of receiving UHF channels 21 to 69. So even if something different was broadcasting on each UHF channel, the maximum number of services receivable would be 48.
OV
Orry Verducci
Spencer For Hire posted:
I've never understood that, considering most of them are only capable of receiving UHF channels 21 to 69. So even if something different was broadcasting on each UHF channel, the maximum number of services receivable would be 48.

I thought those 99 channels were also for VHF and in some countries, cable.
ST
stevek
Hymagumba posted:
May I whore that fab video I found around the forum a bit


you found whores hanging round the forums Shocked

what sort of forums have you been reading Wink
NJ
Neil Jones Founding member
Spencer For Hire posted:
Neil Jones posted:
These days of course you can buy TVs that support up to 99 UHF channel slots, but they'll never all be used.


I've never understood that, considering most of them are only capable of receiving UHF channels 21 to 69. So even if something different was broadcasting on each UHF channel, the maximum number of services receivable would be 48.


Its not the same thing. Perhaps I didn't make this very clear in my previous post.

When I said that modern TVs support up to 99 slots, I was referring to the programmable memory on the TVs themselves. It is of course correct that the UHF spectrum for TV broadcasts only runs from channels 21-69, but there's nothing to stop the end-user storing the channel frequency for Channel 5 in TV slots 5, 27, 74 and 96 if that's what they want.

In fact many TVs, when set to UK broadcasting mode, will only scan channels 21-69. Some, especially models that are sold in various European countries, are cross-standard and insist on scanning three or four different transmission systems when you fire them up for the first time.

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