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> Just for comparision's sake on digital Freeview we get BBC1, 2 all say 3,
> & 4 plus CBBC and CBeebies from 7-7 (alternating slots) as well as BBC
> News 24, BBC Parliament, and a couple of extra slots for special stuff
> like news headlines or sport; not to mention the radio broadcasts.
> Commercial channels are ITV1, 2, 3, 4; Channel 4, Film4, More4; Five,
> FiveUS; Sky3, Sky News; UKTV History; plus a whole heap of others I don't
> bother with and this costs £139.50 per year per household.
Just for further information for non-UK people, all those channels come over
the air and you just need to stick up an aerial on your roof to receive
them. All modern TVs have a digital tuner inside to directly decode the
signals, older ones may need an additional box. There is no encryption, if
you don't pay the 140 quid and get caught you get a big fine.
CableTV is really not very popular in the UK compared to other countries
like USA and Germany, people who want more channels and premium content
usually bought SkyTV which is a satellite based service. From them you can
get all the channels Phil mentioned for free unencrytped, but the satellite
also transmits many more channels that you need to pay a monthly
subscription to receive. Currently you need to pay about an extra 50 pounds
a month to receive all the premium content (sports, movies, HD etc).
> Watching imported American shows on the BBC it is interesting to see all
> the scene shifts and dramatic moments where a broadcaster can stuff in a
> set of adverts.
Also fun to see hour-long shows only taking up 40 minutes :-)
> More fun on Channel 4 (a commercial channel) who are currently showing
> The Simpsons (in some bizzare loop that can't break past 15) who can't
> even do this correctly - 'But that means; d...' ad break '...oh', black,
> scene change.
On Five US reruns you can usually tell that the original had way more
adverts, because like you say the weird scene changes where I guess they cut
out the "welcome back" intro...
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