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Edited by Dynamic Dave on 09/11/2009 at 12:34
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Anyone found a free FTP prog for Symbian, on the E63?
Still getting to grips with the phone which will stand in as a pocket size option to the Eee pc.
I was thinking of uploading photos direct to my webspace.
thanks
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www.symbian-freeware.com/download-sic-ftp-client.h...l
Never tried it myself but it is an FTP client for Symbian.
This is on the verge of being a computer question :-) FTP and all that.
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We have a very old glowarm boiler crica 1984 which costs a fortune to run so I use a little oil electric heater in my room if it gets cold. However I am suffering a bit with some mild bug and shivering. I went to turn my heater on but then got cold and turned on both the switches so it was operating at full power. I was feeling warm then it just shut off.
The fuse in the plug is working fine.
Its been 40 minutes and now and still no power, is this a thermal fuse which will come back into life or have I broken it for good?
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Have you checked the fuse in the plug? If it was a thermal cut-out then I would have thought it would be back to working after 40 minutes.
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Yes it probably has got one - it was sending you a message (which I suppose is better than smoke signals) that you'd overloaded. I suppose it depends on the age and condition of the thing.
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Yep fuse is fine :). First thing I checked but even then the max power draw is 800watts which is at a guess 8-9amps?
Its about 3 weeks old. Looks like I might have to go back with it.
There is nothing in the instructions which says I can't use the two settings at once in fact is says press them both for maximum heat.
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Checked that the socket is powered ?
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Ray Mears would know what to do. Is there a Scout hut near you ?
You can't set fire to them any more, there's laws and that - harsh.
Edited by Pugugly on 03/11/2009 at 17:08
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Yep fuse is fine :). First thing I checked but even then the max power draw is 800watts which is at a guess 8-9amps?
Wattage/Voltage=Current
800/240 = 3.3amps.
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a little oil electric heater
First of all, what's one o' they there?
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Its a an old fashioned radiator with massive cores which are filled with oil, the element then heats the oil.
The socket is working fine :). I wouldn't be able to type this otherwise :) Yes I know its not ideal to have a heater plugged into an extension but it does have a 15 amp cable and a 13 amp fuse at the end :) and its only 2 metres long.
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How many things have you got plugged in ?
Have you RTFM ?
Edited by Pugugly on 03/11/2009 at 17:10
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Its a an old fashioned radiator with massive cores which are filled with oil the element then heats the oil.
Ah. An oil-filled radiator.
Yes I know its not ideal to have a heater plugged into an extension
Should be OK. It's possibly the thermostat on the rad.
N.B. electric heating is very expensive compared with gas, even with an old gas boiler.
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Still not working :( will give it till 7 before finding the receipt.
I know its very expensive but I usualy have it on the lowest setting which is 300w. My parents gass bills are huge. It is a combination of an old house with no heat preservation, old boiler etc.
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I know its very expensive but I usualy have it on the lowest setting which is 300w. My parents gass bills are huge. It is a combination of an old house with no heat preservation old boiler etc.
300W isn't worth having unless you sit on the thing.
Time for you to get insulating the hose for them (grants are available for loft insulation, etc.), and lessen their CO2 emissions, and take the heat off we motorists.
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We once lived in a draughty, uninsulated Edwardian House, and suffered the consequent giant gas bills.
So I set about draught proofing, insulating etc. The effect of it was to encourage Mrs A to keep on ratcheting up the thermostat, as, obviously, now the house was better insulated, we can turn the heating up further at no extra cost. She was right and the gas bills did not come down a penny.
After several years of suffering this nonsense, I finally persuaded her to abandon the period "charm" of that money pit and we are now warmly ensconsed in a much bigger, modern (70s) house, with staggeringly lower heating bills. And that's with an approximately 25 year old floor standing gas boiler, which I plan to replace for a more more efficient model soon.
Old houses are a nonsense. Knock 'em down and build proper ones with photovoltaic roof tiles.
Rattle, if your family can't bear to leave the old shack, the next time you're thinking about spending 400 unnecessary quid fettling your Corsa, put the money towards a new boiler for the folks, eh? :-)
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It might have been cheaper to abandon Mrs A.
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That would probably go for all of us, of the partnered, male, straight persuasion, AE. There are enough broken families in the world already, I am not minded to add my children to the slough of despair.
Fortunately, due to "fashion", a smaller Edwardian house is often of a similar value to a very much larger house of more modern construction. We are not substantially out of pocket on the deal and we no longer have to fight for parking space thanks to our double garage (I'm still get a buzz of excitement to think I own such a thing). I prefer to set trends, rather than follow. ;-)
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>>Old houses are a nonsense. Knock 'em down and build proper ones with photovoltaic roof tiles.>>
Our three-bedroomed semi-detached Victoria property, thanks to free PowerGen arranged loft and cavity wall insulation plus central heating supplied via WarmFront, is as snug as the proverbial bug in a rug and the StayWarm scheme ensures fixed prices for dual energy supplies.
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Have you tried turning it off at the socket, then turning it back on again, to reset the cut-out?
EDIT wall socket
Edited by Focus {P} on 03/11/2009 at 17:11
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>>max power draw is 800watts which is at a guess 8-9amps?
You still working on 110V (DC perhaps)?
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Working now. It was the thermostat :).
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Rattle - are you sure your "cut out" for this line of work?
I mean, are you "switched on"? "emPOWERED"?
Edited by Altea Ego on 03/11/2009 at 22:15
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OH My goodness , AE, the lad's got watt it takes, he's got ample skills !
Ted
Edited by Dynamic Dave on 04/11/2009 at 00:28
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What on earth did he do with all that plasticine afterwards?
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The garden is on display in the foyer of the royal festival hall.
Now you remember what plasticine smells like? Imagine several gazzilion tons of it and what that smells like.
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>>The garden is on display in the foyer of the royal festival hall.
Has it moved recently? I saw it at Sudbury Hall in Derbyshire on 26 September.
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It must be moving around then, I saw it at the festival hall before that. It must be traveling the country, but I cant find a schedule.
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The garden was apparently on show at Sudbury Hall until early October.
Doesn't seem to be any other venue at present. See: tinyurl.com/ylob7nt
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I didn't watch last nights episode as I thought it would be boring. Is he supposed to be doing something on Scalextric one week?
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I didn't watch last nights episode as I thought it would be boring. Is he supposed to be doing something on Scalextric one week?
Yep, see:-
tinyurl.com/kozvhl
More detail on the series:-
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_May%27s_Toy_Stories
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The flowers underwent metaMORPHosis.
Sorry, I'll get my coat.
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BT (via Openreach) are in the process of deploying fibre to street level cabinets for broadband (and more probably) with only the connection from cabinet being over copper. Speeds are said to be up to about 50Mbit/s down and limited to 2Mbit/s up. Although it does support upto 100Mbit/s down and easily 10Mbit/s up.
My area is being done now with lots of fibre being deployed and it will be available soon. Just wondered if anyone on here knows about the likely cost. This is currently being run as a trial in two areas but it looks like my area will be finished soon (Didsbury in Manchester too)... and the cables with the fibres in them are quite thick when I saw some today - so lots of fibres!
So if anyone is in Muswell Hill or Whitchurch and on this trial (for free) from August 2009 until March 2010, what have you been told about future costs.
Note the BT home hub for fibre is different and you also need a new fibre modem but fibre stops at the cabinet level (like Virgin Media cable).
Sky are also interested in this fibre to cabinet for TV services - so I also don't want to pick the wrong solution when I move house (hopefully soon) and end up with a 12 month contract I don't want.
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Plenty of info on C21N at:
samknows.com/broadband/21cn_overview.php
including potential pricing; check via the Exchanges link to find your exchange's planned starting date.
www.btplc.com/21CN/BTcustomers/Residentialcustomer...m
Edited by Stuartli on 04/11/2009 at 19:37
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Thanks Stuartli. I just used Google earlier today (and phoned BT).
The openreach contractors knew I spoke to around the corner from home knew more.
But what BT are going to be doing is better than described in the links you give.
Edited by rtj70 on 04/11/2009 at 22:46
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>>But what BT are going to be doing is better than described in the links you give.>>
That sounds interesting...:-)
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This gives them infrastructure similar to cable companies - so TV on demand is possible. This will be why Sky are very interested. They do not have a fast link back to them to offer video on demand via satellite. Maybe they will offer something via broadband. They already do a service for XBOX but imagine what would be possible with a 40Mbit/s connection.
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but imagine what would be possiblewith a 40Mbit/s connection.
I am hoping its possible to get the full benefit of the speed advertised and paid for.
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So would I. But it's only copper cable from street cabinet to house and fibre to the exchange (for data). Voice continues as copper to the exchange although I'd expect that to change over time.
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>>..so TV on demand is possible>>
Isn't this what BT Vision provides and, in delayed form, BBCi Player?
Ironic isn't it that BT conceived and developed TV on demand around 15-20 years ago, yet eventually through lack of support from those that matter sold the idea to Time-Warner; the company ran initial trials in an US city and gradually built up the service. Prestel was another BT development.
In addition, according to Wikipedea: "In 1998, Kingston Communications became the first UK company to launch a fully commercial VOD service and the first to integrate broadcast TV and Internet access through a single set-top box using IP delivery over ADSL."
Edited by Stuartli on 05/11/2009 at 12:16
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In addition according to Wikipedea: "In 1998 Kingston Communications became the first UK company to launch a fully commercial VOD service and the first to integrate broadcast TV and Internet access through a single set-top box using IP delivery over ADSL."
Broadband in 1998? Who do you know in 1998 that had Broadband?
ISDN and multiple ISDNs tied together were as good as most commercial companies had installed -
BB was still a few years off for most companies far less punters!!
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Kingston serves only Hull and surrounding areas.
For the history of broadband in the UK from the nineties see:
tinyurl.com/yj9bmac
www.top10-broadband.co.uk/guides/broadband_history/
www.cable.co.uk/guides/broadband-history/
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Prestel was another BT development.
And quite correctly, best forgotten by all.
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>>And quite correctly, best forgotten by all.>>
Probably true. But, as with most innovations, it probably seemed the bee's knees at the time.
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I thought BT Vision downloaded programmes for you to watch later. VOD would allow streaming of content in real time. BT Vision cannot be expected to work in real time for showing video due to the speed of some ADSL connections to the Internet.
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As a Virgin customer who has had VOD for some time, I hadn't realised that Sky doesn't have it. It is really useful.
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As a Virgin customer who has had VOD for some time, I hadn't realised that Sky doesn't have it. It is really useful.
As a Virgin Media (originally C&W) customer with multi-room TV and broadband since around 2000 I am realising I have to go for something else! And V+ is better than Sky+. But our potential new house was built after Nynex cabled this area.
So BT putting in fibre optic cables might resolve good internet access. But who to go for? BT might not do fibre broadband for months but with the fibre going in it might be foolish to opt for LLU.
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Maybe I've been lucky, but my VM broadband (been on 20mb) has been extremely good - reliable and fast.
I'm currently managing some work in schools in the West Country and from what I see, whoever you might choose to pay your bill to depends at the end of the day on BT somewhere along the line, except VM of course.
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The building i work in has about 8 radio controlled clocks. When the "clocks went back" most of them re-set themselves as usual, 3 of them went all peculiar, stopping and starting but refusing to re-set. As there were 3 playing up i assumed there wasn,t a fault with all 3 simultaneously. Has anyone else had the same problem with their radio controlled clocks.
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I find that if removing and re-fitting the battery doesn't cure it, then a new battery does.
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My assorted radio controlled timing gadgets all reset ok, including one mobile phone which suprised me a bit. My experience is that most of them (watches, clocks etc) have a button or mode selector where you can force them to re-search for the signal. In the normal run of events they should do this once every 24 hours anyway, usually about 2am if left to their own devices. Hope this helps
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One of my radio controlled clocks works off the German transmitter and sometimes gets confused at changeover time. I have to force an update and change the time zone to minus one hour.
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Zey haf veys of making you tock......
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Remove power source. Replace power source. Wait.
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We bought a Zeon Tech portable about ten years ago. A great little clock - always does what its supposed to do.
Clk Sec
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I bought a radio controlled clock and it was so disappointing. It wouldn't fly at all and the second crash wrote it off.
Taxi!
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>>It wouldn't fly at all and the second crash wrote it off.>>
Didn't you try it on the local pond?
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Well you did want something that would prove timeless...:-)
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Is your work based at Bedford by any chance, with another branch at Worcester?
I did a 'Driver as Ambassador' course yesterday at Braintree and Katy and Diana were there from this firm.
It made me wonder:)
Pat
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Not based there Pat, though i daresay we'll meet at some point.
Good luck with teaching us lot to be ambassador's, you'll need it:-)
Seems to be lots of training and courses for this career shift of yours, i hope it's going well.
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It is going well, and I'm only doing extra courses because I don't want to be a 'one trip pony':)
I'm helping to develop this particular course from a drivers angle and advising on content and how to deliver it.
I've never forgotten the words of my old boss in my first ever driving job at the tender age of 18 yrs old. He took me for a test drive in an old Moggie 1000 van.
When we got back he told me I'd got the job but made me read the words on the side of the van out loud.
Trist Draper ....Top Dog Brake Linings.
'Whenever you drive this van YOU are a representative of this conpany and YOU are the first person the customer sees, always remember that'
And I have:)
Pat
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I'm in Bedford.
Katy and Diana sound interesting.
Can I buy them a coffee in the Bankers?
Ps. I can only afford one as I can only get one free coffee on my Wetherspoon's card. ;>)
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We have just found an unusual spider. Its body is a little larger than that of a ladybird. It is light brown in colour and has an intermittent white stripe down its back. Its legs are also of intermittent colouring...black/brown/black/brown.
Please can anyone identify it (no, it has not got a ring around any of its legs). Might it be an illegal immigrant which came into the country aboard a banana boat?!
TIA
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Can you post a picture somewhere?
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Sorry...I have no idea how to do that...I'm a silver surfer :o)
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This is an American site James, but have a butchers anyway ~
www.termite.com/spider-identification.html
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is this it?
tinyurl.com/yklcrx3
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I don't think that's it bb but I do wonder who the woman in the photo is.
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I don't think that's it bb but I do wonder who the woman in the photo is.
Dear Old Crocks,
That's Diana Prince...
Whoops I've just given away Wonder Woman's secret identity!
John R
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Thanks for those links. It appears to be nothing special so I will set it free now...outside!
I can't wait to get my free spider identification chart :o)
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It's probably just a foreign bug. Try dropping it in a glass of champagne and getting back to Plenty. ;-)
Edited by old crocks on 06/11/2009 at 15:16
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I can get the BBC Iplayer to play its picture back through the TV, but the sound continues to come from the laptop - is this avoidable ?
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I bought a wildly expensive RS232 (?) cable and it would only transfer what was on the lap top screen but not the sound. Rats! You might be able to do the sound via an audio cable but it depends on the TV and lap top output/source plugs/connections/ports.
Edited by Armitage Shanks {p} on 06/11/2009 at 17:15
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you need to feed a seperate audio cable from your headphone socket on the laptop to the TV
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Let me re-phase the question.. :-)
I have in the past been able to get the bbc iplayer to play pictures through the TV from my laptop. When I come to try it this evening, what happens is I get the laptops boot up screen and the windows start-up screen displayed only through the TV, then once Windows is up, all output is through the laptop
what gives please, I'm totally confused
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you need to direct the ouput to the external monitor (what are you using the 15 pin analogue VGA connector?)
Its usualy done by pressing alt and a keytop with a picture of a screen on it
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AE - your infallibility is almost Papal
fn f5 directs the output to the TV - a combination of keys I have no memory of having to use in the past, that are not mentioned in the documentation, and it's not something swmbo has to do when playing iplayer content back from her laptop, but there you go.
One less thing to keep me awake tonight
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Depending on laptop, it may previously been setup to output to the LCD screen and the external VGA connector. Toggling throgugh fn F5 may change from laptop, to external, to both, and then back to laptop only again.
Also you might be able to set this up via Display Properties in Control panel. But it depends on laptop and the display adapter in it. You can also set it up to output a different desktop on the external monitor and the laptop screen.
My current work laptop will only allow you to change to the external display when it detects one is plugged in.
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Ive tried this with one of my home computers via an s plug? but the quality of the picture is a little poor,would an upgrade graphics card help or would i be wasting my money?
Thanks
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More likely your bandwidth. Blame it on the Bellboy is on Sky 303 at 11.00 am !
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Or, to put it another way, your graphics card will make no difference at all (until you are looking for HD output, and even then I don't think the card will help). PU is right, likely to be bandwidth.
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Hi,
Thinking about a PVR, perhaps the well rated Humax 9150 or 9200.
Q/ Do these or any other PVRs handle Freeview HD and accordingly will they drive an HD TV via HDMi etc?
Many thanks.
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Those Humax boxes won't handle Freeview HD. They may upscale to a HD resolution.
Broadcasts for Freeview HD won't be starting until December for Manchester and London. And even then the channels will be limited. We get some HD channels now via cable - don't assume all channels will be in HD :-) I'm sure you're not. But BBC HD and ITV HD don't always broadcast the same content say on BBC1/ITV1 as the HD channels.
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Thank rtj, yes we have gone through the switchover so should get HD, I cant find which PVRs and digital boxes are HD compliant rather than HD upscaling though.
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There are currently no true Freeview HD set top boxes (or TVs as far as I am aware) at present. See:
www.radioandtelly.co.uk/freeviewhd.html
Following the first stage of the switchover in the Winter Hill area (November 4th), which ended the BBC2 analogue service, the full switchover occurs on December 2nd.
Since November 4th, the BBC has been experimenting with high definition transmissions on Freeview Channel 302 in the region.
As already pointed out, on Freesat, the BBC doesn't always transmit a current programme in HD; this is to vary the type of productions available to the public because of the present limited HD service.
Edited by Stuartli on 09/11/2009 at 06:52
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Hi folks, can I do a little thread hijack? I am going to bin Sky as we don't really get value for money and want to go to Freesat. Is it just a case of unplugging the Sky box and plugging in a Freesat box? Possibly slightly complicated by our box being in a different room to the TV, so we can't for instance record one channel and watch another.
When we last looked at Freeview we were in a 50/50 area and our terrestrial coverage used to be rubbish due to living in lee of a hill hence wanting to go down Freesat route.
Thanks
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can I hijack it even further, given I know several of the contributors live in the 'granada' area ?
Retuned all freeview receivers last wednesday, no problem. Yesterday (sunday) morning, no signal or very poor signal on all BBC channels - all others fine. Retuned the eceiver, no difference, went to gym, came back an hour later, everything fine.
Got up this morning, BBC channels all duff again. No mention of specific engineering works at Winter Hill. Is anybody else having issues, is it a swithcover related thing or are the woodpigeons in the attic messing about with my aerial ?
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dont know about Granada, but there were severe intermitant quality issues on certain multiplexes on Crystal Palace.
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I use Winter Hill and BBC okay here... in fact before the switchover we got hardly any digital channels via our aerial and those you could were poor. Now the picture quality (same aerial) are excellent.
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Hi folks can I do a little thread hijack? I am going to bin Sky as we don't really get value for money and want to go to Freesat. Is it just a case of unplugging the Sky box and plugging in a Freesat box?
Yes, no problem.
However, you will not receive Fiver, Five US, or Sky 3 on a Freesat box. Fiver and Five US should appear somw time in the near future.
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>>.. and plugging in a Freesat box?>>
You could obtain a quad LNB and feed both the Sky and Freesat boxes from the dish; you will/should then be able to retain Sky's Free To Air service. See:
packages.sky.com/see/FreeAirChannels.aspx
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Or just use the Sky box for the free Sky service?
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As already pointed out, on Freesat, the BBC doesn't always transmit a current programme in HD
Same as on Virgin Media and Sky. I don't look at the HD channels for this reason. I suspect ITV and Channel 4 HD don't show all the SD programmes in HD.
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I have a Humaxc Foxsat HDR pvr, hitched via HDMI to an HDTV. For convenience, I only use the 19 Foxsat channels listed in the Radio Times although there are another 120 or so available. In theory, there are, for the time being, only BBCHD (Channel 108) plus an occasional ITV HD transmission. In practice, I am often offered an HD alternative when reserving recordings but I haven't noted on what channels. However, SD is still very good and sometimes as good as HD. There are also numerous radio channels available.
The setup will record two separate channels at once while a third is being watched. However, Humax do not claim this because, if the recordings are on separate multiplexes (I don't know what multiplexes are!), the third channel may be blocked.
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I should have added that the Foxsat will not support the very highest HD standard my TV can accommodate, but it can stiil be startlingly good. I believe the TV is 1080i, the Foxsat 1080p, but I am not much into techicalties.
Edited by rtj70 on 09/11/2009 at 11:36
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bintang, if your HD TV is not 1080p then there is little point feeding it a 1080i picture. Better to use 720p as the native resolution of the TV will be only 1366x720. If it was 1920x1080 it would be 1080p.
Your TV might of course be 1080p :-)
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The Humax FOXSAT PVR usually indicates when setting the timer if a programme or programmes will also be transmitted in HD and give you the choice.
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