"YES!
FREEVIEW covers your area for the postcode **** ***.
You should be able to use your existing rooftop aerial and wiring provided they are in good condition but you may need to get them checked to ensure good quality digital reception.
Your local electrical retailer should be able to arrange an aerial survey and aerial upgrade if you need one and advise you of any related charges."
― Mooro (Mooro), Wednesday, 28 December 2005 18:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 29 December 2005 22:35 (eighteen years ago) link
I've been looking at some of the Hauppage ones but the write-ups on them are very varied.
― Porkpie (porkpie), Sunday, 1 January 2006 15:20 (eighteen years ago) link
Good info here:
http://forum.digitalspy.co.uk/board/forumdisplay.php?f=119
― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Sunday, 1 January 2006 16:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mooro (Mooro), Monday, 2 January 2006 12:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― the bellefox, Monday, 2 January 2006 13:07 (eighteen years ago) link
Yesterday I pressed the red button hoping for all the goalmouth action, but all I got was a load of souped-up Ceefax reports.
PF, go on, take the plunge.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 09:09 (eighteen years ago) link
I am intrigued to see which way you go on Saturday afternoons, PJM - to BBCi's Score Interactive with Stubbsy or Sky Sports News with Stelling(sy). Or out, to the shops.
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 09:31 (eighteen years ago) link
Incidentally, I think they must have those laptop gadgets. Or is that just my imagination getting the better of me?
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 09:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 3 January 2006 17:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 22:05 (eighteen years ago) link
I ask because I am having difficulty training my family to switch it off when they switch the telly off and I need to get just the right level of psycho dad-ness.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 09:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 11:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 11:19 (eighteen years ago) link
One piece of information that has been mentioned which is true is that there is little difference in power consumption etc between the on and standby modes of a Sky box. All standby does is switch off the video output, the box is otherwise completely functional.
Is a Sky box the same as a Freeview box, only with different channels?
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 11:28 (eighteen years ago) link
But then I'm the sort of person who's convinced that all this talk of the oncoming "energy crisis" could be solved by everyone switching off their computers when they leave work at night.
― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 12:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Johnny B Was Quizzical (Johnney B), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 12:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 12:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 12:45 (eighteen years ago) link
(the tivo has real problems with grass, smoke, fire, tv static and especially water on lower qualities)
― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 12:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 12:57 (eighteen years ago) link
There's the Little People inside mine.
I switch my computer off at night and I have recently started going round switching off lights.
Do I really have to wait until March for a choice of two football matches?
grass, smoke, fire, tv static and especially water
I wish to make a poor quality joke out of this.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 13:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 13:35 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1573979,00.asp
― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 13:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 4 January 2006 14:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 13:52 (eighteen years ago) link
Not the fridge.
I can't believe some people don't even turn their computers off.
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 10 January 2006 13:58 (eighteen years ago) link
I read years ago that modern computers have very low power consumption, so don't feel too guilty about leaving it on. Is that correct?
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 14:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 14:15 (eighteen years ago) link
i fear that if i switch off my tv or vcr at the mains, they will forget all their presets. is that insane?
― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 14:25 (eighteen years ago) link
If that is not true, though, then I think Alba is being rather impatient. Surely you can switch it on and use it a minute later, and save power, rather than leave it on the whole time. But again, what do I know? When I try to put my computer on standby it basically shuts down - it returns to life frozen and unusable, and must be, I think, Reset.
Why a laptop computer is not using power, I don't know. But again - what do I know?
― the bellefox, Tuesday, 10 January 2006 14:43 (eighteen years ago) link
I have erased Community TV and Teachers TV and Bloomberg. Perhaps I am becoming reckless. I am tempted to erase the pop video channels too.
I think the VCR will forget the time if you switch it off at the plug.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 15:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mooro (Mooro), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 15:49 (eighteen years ago) link
i unplug it, it uses battery power while asleep.
― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 15:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 16:07 (eighteen years ago) link
Back in the days when I had an attention span.
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 17:43 (eighteen years ago) link
ITV3 has been superceded in our affections by More4 and ITV4 (all yr ITC/RAI needs).
They're talking about debut hat-tricks on Sky Sports News. I bet they don't mention Tony Cottee OR if they mention Ian St John they neglect to point out that Everton beat Liverpool 4-3 in that match.
Hang on, I have email, they have email...
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 20:42 (eighteen years ago) link
I have taken to watching National Geographic's rubbish list programmes (Top 10 "when bears fall out of trees onto trampolines", that sort of thing - seriously, the other night I watched a bear fall out of a tree onto a trampoline. It bounced off the trampoline and fell head first onto the ground. Then they followed it with some people who nearly drowned trying to rescue a cow off a cliff. Do you even get National Geographic on Digibox?
I still haven't watched anything on ITV4. Too many channels!
― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 21:13 (eighteen years ago) link
An old-fashioned valve amplifier would definitely last longer if it was kept switched on all the time - valves are really just a sophisticated sort of lightbulb, and valve failure nearly always occurs at switch-on.
― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 21:25 (eighteen years ago) link
Middling? Vehicle?
It's a terrific picture!
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 10 January 2006 21:44 (eighteen years ago) link
I'm now watching a Snow show on one of the normal channels about land ownership. Pam is getting quite angry.
(I shamefully have left my CD player, phono pre-amp, line-level pre-amp, and monoblocs switched on for weeks at a time. The CD player has a class A output stage so it's probably sucking power from the wall like nobody's business 24 hours a day. It's the only concession to audiophile lore I make thesedays. I accept I'm also killing the planet).
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 21:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 21:57 (eighteen years ago) link
Seeing as we are picking on your writing, you also made 'thesedays' into one word. Is that a new usage, like Morrissey's 'Everyday' meaning ... 'every day'?
I suppose I can meet you halfway on Quick Change.
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 10 January 2006 22:02 (eighteen years ago) link
The MOD owns 600,000 acres of land in the UK - cor! The mods own only a few promenades.
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 22:17 (eighteen years ago) link
Another parallel is 'Inbetween Days', where I am not sure the first word is quite a proper word.
It is only now that I understand what you meant by 'Snow show'.
The rockers, I suppose, own only a red guitar, three chords and the truth?
― the pinefox, Wednesday, 11 January 2006 13:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Vicky (Vicky), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 13:52 (eighteen years ago) link
See http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/terrestrial/mux/
If you can't get BBC3 (Mux1), you probably can't get BBC1, BBC2 or News 24 either?
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 16:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Vicky (Vicky), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 16:21 (eighteen years ago) link
I call serial commas, "the Oxford Comma". Sounds much posher.
This morning: red button goals galore action from the likes of EVERTON.
In the near future:
Friday 20 January - 1900-2030 GMT, BBC THREEGroup A: Egypt v Libya
Saturday 21 January - 1900-2110 GMT, BBC THREEGroup A: Morocco v Ivory CoastGroup B: Cameroon v AngolaGroup B: Togo v DR Congo
Sunday 22 January - 1900-2100 GMT, BBC THREEGroup C: Tunisia v ZambiaGroup C: South Africa v Guinea
Monday 23 January - 1900-2100 GMT, BBC THREEGroup D: Nigeria v GhanaGroup D: Zimbabwe v Senegal
Tuesday 24 January - 1900-2100 GMT, BBC THREEGroup A: Libya v Ivory CoastGroup A: Egypt v Morocco
Wednesday 25 January - 1900-2100 GMT, BBC THREEGroup B: Angola v DR CongoGroup B: Cameroon v Togo
Thursday 26 January - 1900-2100 GMT, BBC THREEGroup C: Zambia v GuineaGroup C: Tunisia v South Africa
Friday 27 January - 1900-2100 GMT, BBC THREEGroup D: Ghana v SenegalGroup D: Nigeria v Zimbabwe
Saturday 28 January - 1900-2100 GMT, BBC THREEGroup A: Egypt v Ivory CoastGroup A: Libya v Morocco
Sunday 29 January - 1900-2100 GMT, BBC THREEGroup B: Angola v TogoGroup B: Cameroon v DR Congo
Monday 30 January - 1900-2100 GMT, BBC THREEGroup C: Tunisia v GuineaGroup C: Zambia v South Africa
Tuesday 31 January - 1900-2100 GMT, BBC THREEGroup D: Nigeria v SenegalGroup D: Ghana v Zimbabwe
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 19 January 2006 11:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― the bellefox, Wednesday, 25 January 2006 21:05 (eighteen years ago) link