Thanks to open data law, the website irail.be was created to give the public open access to rail schedules and routes. The site is no longer reachable… at least not for me. Not sure if this is permanent or a temporary glitch.
I also posted this to !opendata@lemmy.sdf.org but can’t see my own post ATM, so could not use the crosspost function, perhaps because SDF is down.
Related:
https://fedia.io/m/opendata@lemmy.sdf.org/t/2724091/Why-is-train-data-shared-with-the-Belgian-gov
(crossposted to !right_to_unplug@sopuli.xyz)
Krefel and Electro Depot have TVs on display, but they have no ability to demo TV tuning ability. Electro Depot even sells indoor and outdoor antennas. Sales people said they actually are /not allowed/ to show anything on the screens other than the OEM demo video. WTF? Sales people are actually micromanaged by this constraint that prevents them doing their job.
I’m like: “sell me this TV… show me that it has a working tuner.”
Sales: “can’t do that”
Electro Depot should be embarassed because they sell antennas too. Yet they cannot show that they actually work in their showroom.
Then I went to Vandan Borre. Same situation, but even more embarrassing: their demo radios are not powered. So you cannot even see whether a DAB radio decodes the album art and shows it. You cannot even hear how it sounds.
Vanden Borre staff: go see the FNAC showroom.
LOL. Are you fucking kidding me?
Also Vanden Borre staff: “broadcast TV does not exist in Belgium. It was eliminated. You have to subscribe to a provider (Telenet, Proximus, etc).”
This seems to explain my problem. But then why is Electro Depot selling antennas? The antennas cover both TV and radio ranges, so it could be for radio, but it’s obviously a bit off that they have no sign posting or disclosure to say TV tuning is impossible in Belgium.
I have tried two TVs with tuners. One is an old pocket device with DVB-T. The tuner for the other more recent TV has these specs:
Tuner/Reception/Transmission
• Aerial Input: 75 ohm coaxial (IEC75)
• TV system: PAL I, PAL B/G, PAL D/K, SECAM B/G, SECAM D/K, SECAM L/L
• Video Playback: NTSC, SECAM, PAL
• Tuner bands: Hyperband, S-Channel, UHF, VHF
• Number of Preset Channels: 100
• Tuner Display: PLL
I’m surprised this TV is only a few years old yet there is no mention of DVB-T/2. A powered DVB-T2 antenna is connected to it. Neither finds any signals when autotuning. Is that expected? Wikipedia mentions a long list of stations for Belgium and some seem to be Brussels based.
Can anyone confirm or deny terrestrial TV broadcasts in Brussels?
It would be useful if all radio topics could be hosted and discussed on a dedicated fedi instance. The lemmy.radio description is constrained to amateur radio:
“A lemmy instance for amateur radio enthusiasts and communities.”
There are no communities anywhere in the fedi for FM or AM radio apart from !radio on LW (a Cloudflare-centralised instance). And that community is strangely constrained (tech support/user inquiries unwelcome according to the sidebar). DAB radio has one community strangely placed on a “UK centric” instance: !dabradio@feddit.uk.
