Radio, TV, Digital radio & TV, music
& video
This page
was written by Christopher Spry.
Public broadcast Radio
Amateur radio
Public broadcast TV
Channel 4,
British TV home page.
DigiGuide
UK free TV program listing service, off-line. Reviews
and library of UK TV programs.
EXN: The
Exploration Network, a service of the Discovery Channel Canada.
Open
University programs on BBC2.
Sky
and Sky Digital TV. 'BSkyB' TV newsgroup
TV
Guide Entertainment Network
TV schedules of the World
Digital radio & TV. Satellite broadcasts
- The Digital
Television Group, DTG UK resource for digital television professionals.
It has a guide
to the complexities of digital TV broadcasting and receivers in the UK.
- World
DAB forum with many links to DAB radio and other broadcasts
- 'What
Satellite TV online' magazine. Printed copies are available from newsagents. It
provides an overview of how to get started, what is new on the 'satellite' scene with
advertisements from local and mail order suppliers. Note that occasional posts to news:rec.video.satellite.europe and news:alt.satellite.tv.europe have criticised some
of the technical articles. The annual 'Tests' special articles usually have clear DIY
instructions.
- 'Tele-Satellite
International'. Order printed copies online. This is directed towards the trade and
technical readers.
- SATCO DX
lists radio & TV channels on geostationary satellites.
- The Lyngemart
'satellite chart' provides technical data for all satellite TV & radio channels in
the world in the Ku, C and S bands, including links to home pages, teletext services,
footprints maps, address info and logoshots.
- Spreadsheets to help set up
satellite dish mounts are also available from David A White's site.
- Digital TV: UK coverage, BBC digital programs, 'ON Digital', 'BSkyB' and 'Sky digital'. With links to news, sport and
movies.
- How
to add Sky extra ITV1 regional channels to Sky Digibox settings and
other questions about Sky digital TV.
Music
Classical music and events
Popular music, download tracks and events
Music software
- MPEG3 software: MusicMatch and RioPort.
- 'Musicware'.
Music education software. For example, learn to play the piano.
- 'Napster'
music file sharing resources.
- Notehead's 'Igor
Engraver' music notation software US$195 for students.
- 'RadiSpy.com'
web site with streaming audio.
- 'Rosegarden suite' A free musical
notation editing and sequencing system for a variety of machines running Unix and X, in
particular SGI. workstations and PCs running Linux.
- 'Shoutcast'
web site with streaming audio. It also has 'free' audio server software. It enables Windows or UNIX computers, with Nullsoft's 'Winamp'
audio player and an Internet connection, to broadcast streaming audio. It includes links
to audio servers.
- Sibelius
music notation software: 'Sibelius' v 2 @ £595, 'Sibelius Teaching Tools' @
£57.57, 'PhotoScore Professional' program for scanning printed music @
£199 and 'PhotoScore MIDI' program for documenting output from MIDI
sequencers such as 'Logic', 'Cubase' and 'Cakewalk'. @ £149. SibeliusMusic,
publish, download and pay for printed music on-line.
Video
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Department of Biochemistry & Immunology, St. George's Hospital Medical
School, London SW17 0RE, UK. Phone +44 20-8725 5819; fax +44 20-8725 5821.
This page was last updated on
10 June 2002 09:13:55.