FLAT STANLEY wrote:
... Where i live the Sky dishes point towards a known mast in the Trafford Park area.
LIAR!
All Sky dishes there point to the same place in the sky as all Sky dishes in the rest of the UK!
You do tell some absolute corkers!
FLAT STANLEY wrote:
.... just to prove the terrestrial TV signal is still analogue fed, when the digital switchover happened nobody had to switch aerials.
Sadly, history records that the government switched off the last analogue TV signal on 23 October 2012. It just did. This is a simple and uncontroversial fact.
The reason many upgraded their aerials when the original switchover happened was simply because the original digital signal were transmitted at reduced power, precisely so as to not interfere too much withe analogue signals. Nobody said you had to get a new aerial (well, scaremongering vendors and salesmen excepted) - if you were in a good signal area, you certainly wouldn't. But due to the reduced power initial broadcasts, some people did have to, to get decent reception. Again, all simple historical fact.
FLAT STANLEY wrote:
. The Digibox or your in built in Freeview TV transforms the analogue to Digital exactly the same with Sky. Simples[/i][/b].
In your head it probably does, but sadly in real life the digital terrestrial broadcasts work by what's called multiplexing, so that instead of one channel, one station, they could squeeze multiple channels into a single UHF slot. This meant instead of the 5 analogue channels we had, suddenly we moved to (initially) 6 Digital Terrestrial multiplexes. Each one could carry maybe 8 broadcasts, and those comprised the initial 50 or so Freeview channels.
Simples, as you like to say. Fact, as it is.
The analogue TV broadcasts really do not exist any more, and for basic simple reasons, could not carry the number of channels you can get from your terrestrial aerial, so that is proof enough. (Well, no proof at all for you, obviously, but I don't count you).
Both the old analogue and the current digital terrestrial broadcast in UHF that is, 470-890 MHz
Here's a list of some of the main
microwave band allocations. Sadly, these are the only frequencies that the satellites work, not UHF, and you need a line of sight and a suitably aligned dish. Sorry to burst your bubble, but the electromagnetic spectrum is a very crowded, and highly regulated and policed, place an there is no room for any mystery or secret signals like the ones you claim magically enter your Sky dish. It's all just in your head.
If these band allocations aren't to your liking, see the government, not me -I'm just quoting them. I am not in charge of allocations!
But aren't the actual facts tiresome, eh?
