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Some radio returns when BBC alba on
Alix Pryde has blogged http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/abouttheb...ew-in-Scotland
On all the time. Now BBC Radio Scotland BBC Radio 1Xtra BBC Radio 4 BBC Radio 4 Extra BBC Radio 5 live BBC Radio 5 live sports extra BBC Radio 6 Music BBC Asian Network Five radio stations continue to be unavailable on Freeview in Scotland while BBC ALBA is on-air in the evening: BBC Radio 1 BBC Radio 2 BBC Radio 3 BBC Radio nan Gàidheal BBC World Service |
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Good. I can start recording Radio 4 comedy at 6.30pm again
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Yes, here in England I've grown used to timeshifting in stereo from R4 & R4X. Unfortunately, if you read the article, the "restored" stations are at a lower bitrate and in mono. That is the same or lower quality than DAB. An improvement, but must try harder.
I can see the same happening in England if the DG gets his BBC One+1 unless the BBC either buy bandwidth from another supplier or are allowed to re-engineer the BBC Mux to broadcast at 27Mbps (I think - as in SDN/ARQ muxes) rather than ~24Mbps. Last edited by EEPhil : 03-12-2013 at 09:13. Reason: Yet another typo |
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The TV channel audios have not changed to 192kbit/s yet.
Here's the details of audio bitrates in Scotland now, checked just after 18.00 today BBC1, BBC2, CBBC, CBeebies : 256 stereo + AD BBC News : 128 JS Parliament : 128 JS Alba : 128 JS 301 : 192 JS + 128 JS R1X : 128 JS R4 : 80 mono R4X : 80 mono R5 : 80 mono R5SX : 64 mono R6M : 128 JS Asian : 80 mono R Scot : 80 mono |
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Yes, here in England I've grown used to timeshifting in stereo from R4 & R4X. Unfortunately, if you read the article, the "restored" stations are at a lower bitrate and in mono. That is the same or lower quality than DAB. An improvement, but must try harder.
I can see the same happening in England if the DG gets his BBC One+1 unless the BBC either buy bandwidth from another supplier or are allowed to re-engineer the BBC Mux to broadcast at 27Mbps (I think - as in SDN/ARQ muxes) rather than ~24Mbps. But if you want HD radio then you will have switched to the AAC internet streams ages ago. |
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Just listened to Radio Scotland at the midnight juncture. A smooth transition to stereo on my Vestel PVR
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Here are the daytime audio bitrates for reference
TV channels - same as above Radios 1-4 : 192 JS R1X, R4X, R6M : 160 JS RScot, RnG, Asian Net : 128 JS R5L, R5SX, WS : 96 mono ------------- Total daytime radio bitrates : 1920 Total evening radio bitrates : 720 Difference 1200 Recently added evening stations : 384 Old difference : 1584 (i think) |
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Having just checked, I can state that the 4 main BBC channels in Scotland now have 192 Joint Stereo audio.
This is while BBC Alba is off air. |
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I just asked about this in a new thread, had not noticed they were back.
Strange that they have decided to still not carry Radio nan Gaidheal in the evening even though BBC Alba is on during that period. |
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Rather strange that they broadcast radio four and radio scotland- both of which are available on FM- but not the World service which isn't. ...
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Rather strange that they broadcast radio four and radio scotland- both of which are available on FM- but not the World service which isn't. ...
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