TECH TIPS................................ TV Reception on the Move
If you watch TV or listen to the radio in a caravan, analogue signals and motorhome, boat, truck or any other vehicle, digital TV has anyone without digital many advantages. For a start, you’ll be able to watch reception equipment was programmes with perfect pictures and perfect sound and,
faced with a blank screen.
with the right equipment, in high-definition too. Secondly, The rest of the country will again if you have the right equipment, you’ll be able to watch be switched over from exactly the same programmes that you watch at home. analogue to digital, ITV Thirdly, you’ll get perfect radio reception as well as TV.
Fourthly - and for many people most importantly - British TV chart shows the switchover in the form of satellite broadcasts, can be received not only everywhere in the British Isles but also abroad.
ITV REGION
Many people are already watching digital TV in their vehicle or on their boat. If you’re not, it’s easy! You may have to buy a new TV aerial and a digital receiver or a satellite system but one thing you won't need to spend money on is a new television.
TVs sold for use in vehicles and boats often have both if it doesn't have a SCART Socket. Border
West Country, Granada Wales
West, STV North STV, Central
Central, Yorkshire, Anglia Meridian, London, Tyne Tees, Ulster
region by ITV region. This schedule.
SWITCHOVER HAPPENS IN 2008 - 09 2009
2009 -10 2010 - 11 2010 - 11 2011
2011 -12
analogue and digital receivers built in but practically any the broadcasting standards for both satellite and terrestrial television can be easily connected to a digital receiver even TV across the continent are the same as those being used in Great Britain. So, wherever you are in Europe, as long as
Viewers in Whitehaven, Cumbria were the first in the you have a digital TV set-up - even using an aerial and a country to “go digital”. In October 2007, terrestrial Freeview receiver - you’ll be able to access local TV & radio transmitters serving that area stopped transmitting stations just about everywhere you go.
Satellite or Terrestrial?
Terrestrial TV gets to your screen via anywhere abroad, a satellite system is a necessity. an aerial which picks up a signal from a With a wide choice of equipment, setting up a satellite land-based transmitter such as the one system can be almost as cheap and a lot easier than using at Crystal Palace in south London. TV transmitters are positioned to broadcast signals to areas with lots of
an aerial. Even in the remotest areas of the British Isles and over the whole of Europe, with the right equipment you’ll be able to watch many of the same TV stations and listen to the
viewers, mainly towns and cities. If you same radio stations that you do when you’re at home. like to visit rural areas and especially places where there aren’t centres of
There’s also a far greater number of channels available via satellite - both on TV and
TV signal through an aerial is difficult or even impossible. never have heard but special And, if you go abroad, although you’ll often be able to
population, you may find that getting a radio. Some of them you may interest programmes such as
receive local TV programmes, they will of course mostly be “The Caravan Channel” are in a foreign language. You may pick up CNN or even BBC only available via satellite.
World but other BBC channels, ITV, Channel 4 and the rest Both terrestrial and satellite will just not be available to you.
have their advantages and
Even in areas with a strong signal, a good aerial is essential which one is best for you for a reliable and consistent picture. You will probably need depends on what you want to to mount the aerial high up, perhaps with a pole. See p. 63.
TV and listen to the radio in remote areas of the U.K. and
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Although terrestrial TV has the advantage of being relatively on the move, that’s probably the best way to go. cheap and simple, for anyone who wants to be able to watch
watch and where you plan to go. More and more people choose to have the option of both systems. And, for people
It’s not only the U.K. that’s changing to digital. The switchover is happening all over Europe and, fortunately,
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