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<blockquote data-quote="Fisty McB" data-source="post: 1081926" data-attributes="member: 389824">The main disadvantage of relying on SATBACK is that the only regional variations it carries is the BBC One opt outs for Scotland, Wales &amp; NI, therefore for viewers relying on the Brunerish relay there's no BBC Scotland (and prior to that, BBC Two Scotland), STV is SD only (HD is ITV London) as is BBC One Scotland (the English BBC One feed instead). However considering the population amount covered I'd say those slight inconveniences are better than putting up with the mercy of the RBL. As a side note, there surely must come a time quite soon when the likes of the BBC, ITV C4 etc. Will be looking to reduce transmission costs and decide that at least a small amount of relay stations either serve very few users directly these days, or that they are now surplus to requirements e.g. Relays installed in the days where the main TX suffered issues of ghosting, which is not much of an issue for DTT. Anything between say 100 to 200, many of whom might have no other services on the tower or mast. The likes of Bruernish must be a good example given that those in such less-populated locations are more likely to use satellite as their primary TV source. The 700MHz clearence programme could have been a good chance to verify wherever some of these very small PSB muxes only relays were worth keeping going with any affected viewers offered a free or subsidised Freesat installation, or a new UHF Aerial aligned at an alternative DTT source (where possible) where most if not all of the funding could be recouped by the lower resulting transmitter network fees paid to Arqiva. Alas, that was a wasted opportunity.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Fisty McB, post: 1081926, member: 389824"] The main disadvantage of relying on SATBACK is that the only regional variations it carries is the BBC One opt outs for Scotland, Wales & NI, therefore for viewers relying on the Brunerish relay there's no BBC Scotland (and prior to that, BBC Two Scotland), STV is SD only (HD is ITV London) as is BBC One Scotland (the English BBC One feed instead). However considering the population amount covered I'd say those slight inconveniences are better than putting up with the mercy of the RBL. As a side note, there surely must come a time quite soon when the likes of the BBC, ITV C4 etc. Will be looking to reduce transmission costs and decide that at least a small amount of relay stations either serve very few users directly these days, or that they are now surplus to requirements e.g. Relays installed in the days where the main TX suffered issues of ghosting, which is not much of an issue for DTT. Anything between say 100 to 200, many of whom might have no other services on the tower or mast. The likes of Bruernish must be a good example given that those in such less-populated locations are more likely to use satellite as their primary TV source. The 700MHz clearence programme could have been a good chance to verify wherever some of these very small PSB muxes only relays were worth keeping going with any affected viewers offered a free or subsidised Freesat installation, or a new UHF Aerial aligned at an alternative DTT source (where possible) where most if not all of the funding could be recouped by the lower resulting transmitter network fees paid to Arqiva. Alas, that was a wasted opportunity. [/QUOTE]

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