This one time, at band camp, David Gillies wrote: > I've got near perfect reception of channel 7 and I've found that ad > detection is near useless on it. Detection on SBS and 10 is near perfect.
10 is near perfect _except_ for The Simpsons. Always seems to skip the segment after the last ad break straight to the credits. I suspect it's just something to do with the way The Simpsons is. > I've noticed from the one program that I regularly record (Better Homes > & Garden) that the way they phase in and out of ads is slightly > different to other channels. 10 and SBS from what I've noticed always > seem to have even a single frame of black between the show and the ad, > whereas 7 doesn't always seem to do that. Commercial channels are actively attempting to defeat ad skipping. Expect this to get worse. > I'm not really sure about channel 9 since only on my mythtv box the > reception is crap and I can't really record much at all. I'm not sure > whether its the cards I've got, or the frequency that the mythtv box is > picking up for channel 9 or what. Can anyone tell me what settings > they're using for channel 9 in the inner city or eastern suburbs of > Sydney (I'm in Waterloo)? Waterloo you probably want the VHF signal from Artarmon. Make sure you're not using the frequency for either the Manly or Kings Cross transmitters, which are both in the UHF range. -- Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Nerds need vacations too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ Why sir, there is every possibility that you will soon be able to tax it! - Michael Faraday 1791-1867: to Gladstone, when asked about the usefulness of electricity -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
