CAI News

The misuse of the CAI logo as reported in the recent Feedback seems to have thankfully declined. 

Viewers in Scottish regions Skye, Harris, North Uist, Benbecula, South Uist and parts of Barra, have completed the first stage of the switch to digital television. 

Five HD, a simulcast of the standard definition channel, has launched on the Virgin Media and Sky platforms.

Following the termination of the InView data service on Freeview Mux D, a small number of older models of digital TV recorders will no longer function with a 14 day Electronic Programme Guide (EPG).

An article in the last CAI journal, ‘Feedback’ has resulted in members asking if it now possible to bond multi-dwelling units (MDU) systems to a ring main earth.  The answer is an emphatic no.

Scotland’s switch to digital-only television continued this week across parts of the Highlands and Islands.

The latest news from DUK suggests analogue TV sets are now almost extinct as viewers opt to share their homes with flat-screen models.

Bristol-based Ocean Blue Software have worked with STMicroelectronics to produce Arion satellite and Freeview receivers with built-in text-to-speech functionality. 

A 250GB recording facility is the selling point of the latest Grundig SD Freeview recorder. 

NME TV has begun broadcasting on Freesat.

After eight years of free-to-air broadcasting the Sky Sports News will move to pay only later this year. 

The onslaught of complaint regarding BBC’s HD quality finally won through with a raft of picture quality improvements following weeks of campaigners taking their grievances direct to the channels’ hierarchy.

Visitors to the CAI Trade Show in June may have attended a seminar presented by OFCOM’s Head of Technical Regulation, Peter Madry.  Peter had the awesome task of telling the aerial trade just how the UHF spectrum may get divided up to make room for uses other than that of TV and radio channels.

The latest multiplex channel line-up has been published by Digital UK for the benefit of installers needing to identify channel availability in the areas they work.

It is highly possibly I gave the wrong impression in a recent 'Are your Boxes Ticked' article we published in the CAI's 'Feedback' just before our Trade Fair in June. 

Ofcom has just published transmitter frequency details for digital switchover in the Anglia, London and Meridian regions.

All TV services from the Oxford mast at Beckley were restored at 9.30pm yesterday following a fire near the top of the mast.

Some viewers contemplating satellite reception do so with anxiety on where the dish has to be located in order to facilitate reliable reception, but now Astra is providing advice. 

With just three months to the start of digital TV switchover in Angus, Dundee, Perth and parts of Fife, Digital UK is urging viewers to get ready for 4 August 2010 when analogue television will start to be turned off.

Digital UK has announced the dates for digital TV switchover in parts of the Anglia and Central TV regions. T