Nicam stereo
koos
satellite channels. I use my stereo VCR tuner connected to a Dolby
surround sound amplifier.
BTW the VCR does not recognize the Nicam stereo signal of theSABC
channels, the indicator on the display panel
is always lit when it is tuned to E-tv but never on the SABC even
when the program is supposed
to be
broadcasted
in Nicam
toni g.
"Bilingual" is used most of the times (i.e. mono broadcasts) and whenever SABC2 broadcast certain dubbed programs (that is Afrikaans
on one audio channel and German on the other audio channel). Nicam "Stereo" on goes "on" when the
sound engineers feel like hitting the "on" button. So you might watch a stereo program in mono just because the sound guy did not
flick a switch.
You might have noticed that on SABC2 stereo changes to bilingual during commercials and returns to stereo when the movie or sitcom
is back. SABC1 keeps Nicam Stereo running for whole length of the movie, sitcom or music program(even during commercials). But as
soon as the stereo program ends both SABC1 and 2 return to Nicam Bilingual.
E-tv on the other hand is Stereo 24 hours of the day ( even when broadcasting mono program like the classic movies). I would say
SABC1 sounds better than "e" or SABC2(IMHO).
SABC3 will never get Nicam(how ironic...99% of its programming is stereo on satellite) because it causes interference with other
commercial radio signals in the Johannesburg area. This is according to SABC.com website. What a load of bullshit!!! What are they
trying to say? The sound engineers or electronic/radio engineers are a bunch of escaped monkeys from the Joburg zoo? Or maybe not
qualified enough. Oh! another reason is cost...
We pay our TV licenses annually and this the bullshit response we get.
toni g.
koos <jsch...@masa.co.za> wrote in message news:389ca6d3...@news.mweb.co.za...
Fred
interference with commercial (two way) radio services in the JHB area. The
services effected are in an area at 250Mhz (released for private use, by the
military some time ago), and now used by the trunked radio network. Sadly
NICAM does come at some cost, and this is in the increased bandwidth used by
the signal, and if memory serves me correctly, TV2 (or maybe TV1) and TV3
did a swop in frequency some time ago, so as to replace the offending NICAM
station (TV2), with a non-NICAM (TV3), and thus remove the interference. I
doubt that TV3 will ever be in NICAM, unless they decide to move it
frequency wise, which they were unwilling to do originally. So cost is not
the issue here, the illiterate / semi-literate tv veiwers who would be
unable to change the tuning on their tv sets if TV3 moved frequency would be
more like it.
toni g. wrote in message <87mjmv$21lj$1...@nnrp01.ops.uunet.co.za>...
