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- SAY GOODBYE TO DUTCH-STATIONS:

>Something tells me RTL are going to win. There is no legal
>requirement for any channel to broadcast in analogue, or that
>their signals must be recievable by all of the population.

RTL 4, RTL 5 and Veronica will now cease analogue transmissions on
August 19th 1996.

- AMERICAN FOOTBALL WITHOUT SKY:

 (Mogens Poulsen) wrote:

>>Do any channels show live NFL football aprt from SKY.

>>Thanks

>TV3 dk+sw+no use to show superbowl live and an one hour program of
>each round - however this may change  now when  Sportskanalen is on
>air (on old TV-Sat2). And afair Premiere was showing NBC's Monday
>Night Football live last year - maybe a reson to get hold of one of
>the new syster-pirats?

>Mogens

The German DSF (Astra) shows a lot of American Football , and other
professional sports.


From John Donkersley

- ADVICE ON NOKIA 16:9:

Chris Howell wanted advice on the 16:9 Nokia he'd just bought.

I've got an earlier Nokia 16:9 (no 14:9!) - I presume that some
 of it is similar and that it is PAL PLUS.

1.  16:9 works when there is a MAC 16:9 broadcast - try France
 Supervision on 8 deg west if you have a multi-satellite set up.
This works to stretch the picture left and right, crudely speaking,
but keeps the same line definition.

2.  16:9 with MCM is, I think, in Pal-Plus. With Pal-plus the 'letterbox'
in the middle gets blown up to fit the full screen (as per zoom.
Normally this would mean that the 300 or whatever middle lines (?)
would simply be bigger and there would not be any increase in
 definition (as with standard 4:3 zoom).  However, Pal-Plus sends
helper signals in the black lines above and below the 'letterbox'
picture.  Your set then uses these to imcrease the number of
lines in the  16:9 picture giving it higher definition.

So, Bob's your uncle, and you have a better picture.

If anybody knows a cheap source for a Nokia add on box for Pal-Plus,
please let me know - as I'd like to have the facility myself.

Good viewing.

John Donkersley, Sheffield, UK.
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