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Which is the best free English-English Dictionary application -that works offline- for Windows 7 64-bit? From where can I download it? Joseph 09:42, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

This page has a review of three such programs. Of them, WordWeb seems to be the most favoured one. Hope this helps, --Yellow1996 (talk) 16:22, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

Can different digital television broadcast formats, such as ATSC and DVB-T, be used indepdently and simultaneously for the same channel at the same place and time?

This is just a theoretical question. Is there any conflict between different formats? Czech is Cyrillized (talk) 10:55, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

As long as the analog bands (the sections of the radio spectrum) used by different services don't interfere with one another, you can broadcast in whatever form you want on one band and the other and there's no interaction. In practice you'll find the same kinds of services in different countries often use the same sections of the spectrum, because they have the same requirements (antenna configuration, terrain diffraction, ionospheric interaction, etc.). -- Finlay McWalterჷTalk 12:33, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

As a practical example, consider List of digital television deployments by country#Central America, where you see that Panama chose DVB-T (like its continental neighbour Columbia), and but Guatemala chose ISDB-T, unlike its continental neighbour Mexico (which uses ATSC). There's other ATSC and ISDB-T deployments in the area. So this means people living on e.g. the Mexico-Guatemala border are in range of both services. If they point their antenna at a Mexican tower, and use an ATSC-capable TV set, they can watch Mexican ATSC; if they point the antenna at a Guatemalan tower, and use a ISDB-T set, they can watch Guatemalan TV. The respective radio authorities of the two countries will already have gotten together to divide up the frequencies assigned to those border-adjacent towers, so they don't interfere with one another. -- Finlay McWalterჷTalk 13:06, 19 July 2013 (UTC)

In France we made the transition to DVB-T. In the begging DVD-T(called TNT) was launched: during years the fist 6/7 (the 5 channels was time sharing: from 7h to 19h it was FRance 5. It was arte during the remaining time) channels were available both in numerical and analog. When TNT was lunched, it bring many new channels and arte had it's own channel (the 7th). From 2011 to 2012 Analog antenna was progressively chuted down. Users who still hadn't bought a compatible receiver need to buy an adaptator.

For more information see Télévision Numérique Terrestre#DTT_transition 2A02:8422:1191:6E00:56E6:FCFF:FEDB:2BBA (talk) 15:56, 20 July 2013 (UTC)

Infrared cellphone remotes

One of my friends has a Galaxy S4 with which he is able to control the TV via infrared. I still have a old Nokia that has infrared, so I want to know is it possible to do something similar with this old phone? Romeo Kilo 14:41, 19 July 2013 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Proudly RSA (talk • contribs)

Which model do you have? There appear to be methods for many of them. --Yellow1996 (talk) 16:24, 19 July 2013 (UTC)