Hello Martin On 21 May 2012, at 17:53, Martin McCormick <[email protected]> wrote:
• That is more or less true here. The only analog TV still on the air here is a handful of "low-powered" community television stations which were granted exemptions from the hard and fast rule that all analog systems had to go off the air by June 12 of 2009. There are no such things as community TV channels over here. All of the broadcasters are large companies and even the regional independent channels have now disappeared to all intents and purposes. We used to have a local service called "Tyne Tees Television" just as in Yorkshire the equivalent was Yorkshire Television, Greater Manchester and the North-West was served by Granada Television, London was Thames Television, and so it went on. Now, all of those services have been amalgamated into a national service by the name of ITV1. There are others owned by the same company which runs ITV1, like ITV2, ITV3 and ITV4. I think they own others under different names as well; but you get the picture, (pardon the pun). • We had a low-power station here in Stillwater which is still alive on cable but whose analog output appears to have gone away and now there is not one analog signal on air here at all. For some reason we keep getting irritating messages popping up on our TV at the moment telling us to retune our box or TV after the analogue transmitters are switched off in August, (in our area). That's probably when we'll be able to see the HD channels on Free-view. • You couldn't have told from the outside, but until flat screen televisions began to show up maybe 10 years ago, they all had at least one valve, the CRT or Cathode Ray Tube or picture tube. Televisions up to the sixties were jungles of valves of every shape and size. They threw off lots of heat and broke down constantly and were full of lethal voltages. That's probably true. Our solid state TV's have been around quite a while now. But yes I do remember a TV we had where you had to wait about 30 to 40 seconds after powering on the machine for the sound to pop up. Then the picture about 20 seconds later. Lynne ======================================= The Techno-Chat E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit for forum's dedicated web pages located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/techno-chat You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Techno-Chat group at either of the following websites: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/techno-chat/index.html Or: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> ---------------------------------------
