Martin963 Posted November 29, 2011 Share Posted November 29, 2011 I wonder how many people have woken up this morning to find their Atlantic Bird 3 *analogue* reception has (almost) gone....Self explanatory Fransat promo on France 2, TF1 still on last time I looked, as is C+. But France 3 and 5/Arte have gone, transponder actually switched off.I shall miss SECAM, under ideal reception conditions it actually works slightly better than PAL in my view.And of course the last analogue terrestrial region (Languedoc-Rousillon) also went all-digital last night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pachapapa Posted November 29, 2011 Share Posted November 29, 2011 For integrated fluent french speakers the ""news"" was reiterated yet again on france bleu poitou based in poitiers on the wake-up radio.The date coincided with GPS navigators giving accurate location of radar speed traps becoming illegal.In france.P.S. Been on "numerique" now for a long while already AND waiting with alacrity for the adjudication of the 6 new TNT channels early next year. All in DVB-T with 4 of them in DVB-T/MPEG4/HD, supercallifragilistic no less. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salty Sam Posted November 29, 2011 Share Posted November 29, 2011 [quote user="Martin963"]I wonder how many people have woken up this morning to find their Atlantic Bird 3 *analogue* reception has (almost) gone....Self explanatory Fransat promo on France 2, TF1 still on last time I looked, as is C+. But France 3 and 5/Arte have gone, transponder actually switched off.I shall miss SECAM, under ideal reception conditions it actually works slightly better than PAL in my view.And of course the last analogue terrestrial region (Languedoc-Rousillon) also went all-digital last night.[/quote]France was scheduled to close down its analogue channels on Atlantic Bird 3 sometime during November. The last remaining German analogue TV channels can be found on Astra 1, but these will go on April 30th, 2012 at 03:00 hrs. German efficiency allows them to be a bit more specific with an actual time and date for a shut down, rather than a "sometime in November, but we'll let you know once it's happened".[:)]PPP - Care to share with us the actual date when the use of GPS with speed camera databases, becomes illegal ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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