Digital Terrestrial - DTT - Now known as "Freeview" (Was Called On-Digital, then ITV-Digital)
18 Same Channels which are also Free to View and Free to Air channels on Sky :-
1 BBC ONE
2 BBC TWO
3 ITV 1 / GMTV (FTV on
Sky)
4 Channel 4 (FTV on
Sky)
5 five (FTV on
Sky)
6 ITV2 (FTV on
Sky)
7 BBC THREE
10 BBC FOUR
16 QVC (Shopping)
17 TV Travel Shop
23 Bid Up (Shopping)
30 CBBC
31 CBeebies
34 ITV3
40 BBC News 24
41 ITV News Channel
42 Sky News
45 BBC PARLIAMENT
46 Community Channel (limited hours)
(RADIO - ch70 Radio 1, ch71 1Xtra BBC, ch72 Radio 2, ch73 Radio 3, ch74
Radio 4, ch75 Radio 5 Live, ch76 BBC Five Live Sports Extra, ch77 BBC 6 Music,
ch78 BBC 7, ch80 BBC World Service, ch81 Smash Hits, ch82 Kiss100, ch83
Kerrang!, ch84 Jazz FM, ch85 Oneword)
Plus the following 7 channels which you don't get for free on Sky :-
11 Sky Travel (Pay
Channel on Sky)
12 UKTV History (Pay
Channel on Sky)
18 The Hits (Pay
Channel on Sky From emap the makers of Smash
Hits etc)
19 UKTV Brightideas (From
UKTV similar to UK Style - Started Jan 2003)
20 f tn (From
Flextech who make Living -
Challenge - Trouble - Started Jan 2003)
21 TMF (Pay
Channel on Sky From MTV)
43 Sky Sports News (Pay
Channel on Sky)
1. Can I receive DTT in my area without changing my Aerial ?
It depends, you might be lucky and the range of frequencies used by Digital
TV in your area might be close to the range of frequencies used by analogue, or
you might be unlucky and you have to change the Aerial or you may be really
unlucky and your local transmitter is a relay not broadcasting digital tv, or
is not transmitting it in your direction.
Look your transmitter up by your postcode here
http://www.dtg.org.uk/retailer/coverage.html
Click on more details and it will tell you what you local transmitter is, then
have a look here at the details
http://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/tv_transmitters/tv_digit.shtml
(old link no longer works http://www.itc.org.uk/uk_television_sector/reception_advice/index.asp)
or if you prefer use the link below to Click on the map to find near transmitters
http://www.wolfbane.com/articles/ukdmap.htm
Can check line of site here
http://www.megalithia.com/elect/terrain.html
and you can find out your National Grid Reference for your location using
There are different types of aerials (Group A,B,C/D, E etc) to pick up different bands of frequencies, your current one might or might not be suitable for the range of frequencies used by digital
http://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/factsheets/docs/channels.pdf
|
Channel |
21
- 37 |
35 - 53 |
48
- 68 |
35
- 68 |
21
- 48 |
21 – 68 |
|
Group |
A |
B |
C/D |
E |
K |
W |
|
Colour |
Red |
Yellow |
Green |
Brown |
Grey |
Black |
Easiest way to be sure is to buy a wideband aerial (Group W), but being a compromise it probably won't perform as well as an aerial for a specific band
2. What is a MUX ?
Multiplex, several digital channels (and data services and radio) are carried on one frequency.
6 MUXs :-
http://www.dtg.org.uk/retailer/dtt_channels.htm
Multiplex 1 16 QAM (BBC Operator)
BBC One ch1 24 hours
BBC Two ch2 24 hours
CBBC Channel ch30 7am - 7pm
BBC Three (BBC Choice) ch7 24 hours
BBC News 24 ch40 24 hours
BBCi ch51 (Data) 24 hours Multiplex 2 64 QAM (3 and 4 Operator)
GMTV ch3 6am-9.25am