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11 May 06 - 01:30 PM (#1738162) Subject: BS: SKY is not cricket From: Mr Red or is wall to wall cricket if you subscribe. BUT worse - I have no subscription and need that satellite box to get Ch 5. In order to record Ch5 programmes I have to leave it switched on because at 5 am it refuses to switch on automatically even though it will happily at 10 pm. The bloody box wants to dial out at 5 am and tell SKY what I am watching. But it is clever enough avoid programmes innit? No! it insists on trying trying trying trying to dial-out on thin air. OK so I leave the bastard box on & set to Ch5 (er if I remember to) and set the video but what happens after a few days - switched off automatically and when switched-on channel 998 THE BLOODY "ISN'T SKY WONDERFUL AND THIS IS WHAT YOU GET" bloody channel. Big Brother is not watching me but should I be forced to watch it? 1000 channels and 500 of them total pap. the other 480 duplicates. For this I became an electronic engineer? I need a high horse quick....... |
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12 May 06 - 03:49 AM (#1738758) Subject: RE: BS: SKY is not cricket From: Paul Burke Sod the test. Back to roots- get out and watch live cricket on the village green or in the park. Mutter things like "It's a funny game is cricket" and "Aye, 'appen", and shout "York 'im in the block'ole!" now and again. You never know, there may be warm beer and even an old maid cycling through the mist... |
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12 May 06 - 07:37 AM (#1738864) Subject: RE: BS: SKY is not cricket From: Mr Red Er the problem is not with cricket, or even the preponderance of mass interest on a mass medium. It is the insistence of Rupert Merde OK that outlyers should be forced to watch his channels or failing that be forced to not record what they want. Like Folk programmes on BBC4 or Garrison Keillor on BBC7 I have the answer and it is £300 or £150 from ebay. It is a remote control with timers and woebetide Sky if it countermands that device. FWIW outlyers are merketing speak for individuals that do not represent the bulk. ie folkies &/or people with intellect. |
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12 May 06 - 11:44 AM (#1739064) Subject: RE: BS: SKY is not cricket From: Les from Hull If you can get digital coverage through an aerial (freeview), you could use a digital recoder, like a freeview box with a hard disc recorder. Mine works great. They're called Personal Video Recorders and you can read about them here. click I don't think they do them in red, though. |
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13 May 06 - 08:56 AM (#1739751) Subject: RE: BS: SKY is not cricket From: Mr Red Thanks Les I wish I had known that when I ordered my DMR 85EX. (Available in July) Now all I gotta do is bolt a terestial digital high gain aerial to the side of my house about 30-40 feet above the apex. And hope that ch68 Ridge Hill / Woolhope (home of Roger Whittaker BTW) is not only pointing towards Stroud but Ch 5 is not killed by the side lobes. Satellites do not suffer from intervening tumullii (invisible behind the railway embankment). Unless they were iron age alien celts! No! the answer is a remote control with timers. And use most of the timers to switch on the same channel just in case Sky want to tell me something I already know and tell me I can connect to the telephone. Les - 250 Gbyte HDD, DVD recorder, Dig & Analogue tuner, SD card, IEEE 1394 ............ er - enough PVR for you? Red is a bit low in the priority for things wot stay at home. |
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14 May 06 - 07:38 AM (#1740422) Subject: RE: BS: SKY is not cricket From: GUEST,Jon We got this box a few weeks ago. Seems to work well for us and the twin tuner is quite handy. |