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Maurice Leakey
Film God

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From: Bristol. United Kingdom
Registered: Oct 2007

posted November 30, 2017 08:21 AM

From today Talking Pictures TV will be available on Freeview NATIONWIDE to 90% of the UK. If you can currently watch the Yesterday Channel no.19 or the Home Channel on no.25 you will be able to receive Talking Pictures TV with no need for any special TV or HD box equipment .

They will still be on Channel 81 but now the channel will be available into 10 million more homes.

Note that a retune of your equipment is necessary.

http://www.a516digital.com/2017/11/talking-pictures-tv-to-reach-more.html

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Brian Fretwell
Phenomenal Film Handler

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From: London, UK
Registered: Jun 2014

posted November 30, 2017 03:44 PM

The HD box I have re-tuned by itself, the TV with an SD only tuner needed a manual re-tune. Now I don't need the box on for TPTV.

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Maurice Leakey
Film God

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From: Bristol. United Kingdom
Registered: Oct 2007

posted December 01, 2017 10:44 AM

I must stress that it is now not necessary to have HD equipment to receive Talking Pictures TV.
Most Freeview receivers should now be able to access Channel 81.
However, a re-tune may be needed if you don't see it in your channel list.

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David Hardy
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Johnshaven Village , Montrose, Scotland
Registered: Jan 2015

posted December 03, 2017 05:57 PM

This was great news for me. At long last I can now watch this channel.

I have had it on for the past couple of days now and its brilliant to see those long forgotten British and American films you no longer see these days on other channels.

I really like those shorts and fillers they show plus the original trailers with that vintage Standard 8mm Projector
supposed to be projecting them.
Also the way they use the theme from the film The Glass Mountain.

Those Castle films are great. I just watched The Night Before Christmas which seemed to be a 16mm sound print.

GREAT STUFF !

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Maurice Leakey
Film God

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From: Bristol. United Kingdom
Registered: Oct 2007

posted December 04, 2017 02:24 AM

It's amazing how well the old films have obviously been stored all these years. Some have a poor sound-track, but visually they are OK, even some of the old colour films have held their colour.

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David Hardy
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Johnshaven Village , Montrose, Scotland
Registered: Jan 2015

posted December 04, 2017 08:14 AM

Maurice I was surprised how good some of those vintage films looked too. I like the fact some of them have not been digitally remastered. Its good to see those reel changeover cues still intact and even a wee bit of wear at the start and end of reels. It is a truly great channel for me and not even a Stereo sound print to be heard. Good old mono is fine by me.
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