Anyone know what the 'DSO-related' work was at Emley that took all muxes off the air for 2.25 hours overnight? Bill

Diesel has gone up a penny here in S Yorks. Knock-on from the refinery problem down south? Bill

Just noticed that the BBC continues to provide a traditional teletext service on one of its digital television services -- BBC World (Astra 19,2 East). It is also worth mentioning that the teletext services of a number of other broadcasters are also accessible even though their video and audio is scrambled eg een, canvas, NED-1, NED-2 etc.

Hi all, got an old Sony Freeview set-top box. What is the code for accessing the re-tune menu? tried 0000, 1111 etc. TIA

In article , Paul D Smith wrote: Not found that on either of mine. But it may well happen at the budget end. Out of interest, what make/model do you use? They're both TomToms. The first one many years old when they were quite bulky. The latest one a larger screen and slim. It also picks up traffic information and acts on that. It's an HD Traffic

Pubs are for drinking beer and conversation? Er, Nope. My local wetherspoon has installed 3D televisions, and last night I walked in on a twenty strong crowd watching football. It was, er, somewhat different. All were wearing oversized 3D goggles, and were present seated or standing perfectly still and with their gazes fixed on the 37" screen. It was strange. Nobody moved. No beer was being...

Can anyone recommend a small 12V monitor/TV? I have a Nokia 5800 phone which has SatNav built in, and very useful it is too - but the screen is a little small. Now phone also has a TV out and with a good monitor the picture is pretty good so I thought "install a small TV/monitor in the car and use that for the screen of the SatNav". Problem is what would be a good model? It should be...

There was a recent discussion in this very newsgroup about bats and cats. Here is a animated GIF which demonstrates that cats do indeed catch bats. http://begoodnotbad.COM/bucket/catcatchesbat.gif

Does anyone know what has happened to the EPG for ITV3? It has been missing off my Sony HDD\DVD recorder and a seperate set top box for a long time. However it is present if I set the guide option on the set top box to the Teletext option. I'm using the Waltham transmitter. harry

Hi group, I want to move up to a freesat (not the free from sky version) PVR, I think I'll get the Humax FoxSat HDR. From my understanding I'll buy the box and will need a min of twin LNB to feed the Hummy that way i can record one channel while watching another, I know the old "round" dish will work with freesat IF I buy a new twin but more then likely quad universal LNB and move it to...

On Tuesday, January 24th, 2012, at 13:06:10h +0000, Bill Wright declared: mostly female dipsticks. Surely dipsticks are inherently male?

I had a call this morning to a council bungalow. Occupier was mid 80s. Moved in a year ago, couldn't get the telly to work, instead of calling the council he called in a local TV shop. They said the communal system wasn't working, communal systems never worked, so the only answer was Sky. So they took £150 off him for what turned out to be a very old Sky box and matching dish. No Sky card, no...

Live in West Yorkshire on Freesat 108 BBC1 HD getting a Newcastle version on Freesat 101 getting a Nottingham version. Usually get Leeds programs, EG Look North is from Leeds. Is this normal for this program? Regards David

Hi all, I have connection problems with my Samsung 32 inch LCD TV And my Humax HDR-FOX T2 Freeview+ HD Twin Tuner with 1TB Recorder. The TV Is a: Samsung 32 inch LCD TV bought Nov 2008

Was it here that someone remarked that BBC local radio via iPlayer had annoying clicks every few seconds? It was somewhere anyway. Well, I've got the Howard Leader programme on from BBC Lincs and it's clicking like mad. Anyone else noticed a fault on iPlayer with local stations? The BBC national radio channels play perfectly here, as does telly. Bill

Get onboard to save Environment and be a change maker….We don’t celebrate World Environment day only on 5th June but on each and every day. This year we are planning to plant 10 million (One Crore) saplings. Join us as we raise our concerns and act to save Mother Nature for better present and future. You can devote as less as one hour, a weekend or can work online from any part of the globe...

Has anyone else noticed that the Channel 5 listings in the Freesat EPG are a mess at the moment. This is from 2 Humax HDR boxes. The Freeview version is OK and matches printed listings and the schedule on C5's website: http://www.channel5.com/schedule The Freesat EPG shows Spiderman finishing at 22:00. The Freeview EPG and the other sources show it as finishing at 21:05 and being followed...

I posted about this a while back, but having now tested quite a few receivers and boxes feel its time to re ask the question. What is the actual problem with AD in freeview. Many programmes that have it do work well without issues, but quite often one gets glitching of the AD, cut off ends or vanishing altogether until its cycled off and on again. I noticed all of the above last night on...

I'm thinking that Blu-ray as not taken off because of the great price difference to movies on DVDs and lack of stocks in the stores. Joe Public also possibly happy with DVD quality, but for those of us wanting the quality what is on offer for seeing movies? Downloading is that giving extra quality over the DVD and is it as cheap as buying a DVD? How do you get cost effective HD...

I know from past posts that readers of this news group like to see photographs of signs in public places which reassures them that local taxes are being spent appropriately in order to prevent law suits for failing to warn of potential dangers, so here is another one ... https://lh6.googleusercontent.COM/-lIAfWLnCpTo/TxTusmNDzxI/AAAAAAAAA4I/u6R9s2-qqzI/s0-d/photo.jpg

With only a small (32") TV we have not seen much benefit in having Sky+ HD so we are now considering downgrading our SKY subscription back to SD. Since we've had SKY HD for well over the required 12 month contract I can't see any problem doing this to save the extra £10 (or so) per month subscription. Our main TV is already an HD one with Freesat and Freeview and we certainly do take...

Marks and Spencers on line are selling bottle conditioned real ales at very reasonable prices. If you get two cases it's carriage free. I got some and the packing etc is excellent. As is/was the beer. We find it difficult sometimes to find bottle conditioned beer on the supermarket shelves. Bill

My friends want me to run an overhead CAT5e cable between two buildings. I can get exterior grade CAT5e easily enough, but self-supporting exterior-grade CAT5e doesn't seem to be available here in the UK. Unfortunately I've only ever erected self-supporting wires and cables (when I worked for BT). I don't know anything about using suspension wires and clamps. Have any of you run a cable...

"Bill Wright" wrote in message ... A really cold day here in Yorkshire. Everyone is turning their heating up I suppose. I've been for a little ride around S Yorks and N Notts this afternoon, and to my dismay the wind turbines appear to be out of order on this day of very high demand. They are all either turning very slowly or not at all. What bad luck that they should all be short of...

Hello wise ones (and the others) I will be spending time intermittently but up to 4 months at a time in Andalucia Will make very few calls but do need up to around 50Mb per month data. Anyone got any PAYG SIM suggestions please. Will be used on an Android phone which is unlocked.

We don't normally watch this channel that late, but last night, instead of showing East Anglia News at the end of the news broadcast, we were treated to Meridian News, which told us what was happening in Kent, but not in Suffolk. Is this normal, or did somebody press the wrong button somewhere? We receive from Tacolneston. I presume that the "+1" was showing what itv had shown earlier. We might...

Well at least that is what it seems to be. Last night on E4 and their plus 1 thee info on the show currently showing was always the previous one, at least it was on my box. Sometimes also, the program guide info said no info available. another Freeview thing which seems to be happening more often on all channels on all sorts of different hardware, so one assumes its the fault of the...

Yes, I'm sure we're on Hannington. The aerial points that way, and I've even checked the mux frequencies. And yet the dates match Crystal Palace! Andy

J G Miller's thread has been hijacked with politics, but *personally* I wouldn't object to paying a modest fee for a podcast of "quality" archive material like some of the recent Dickens serialisations. Maybe £1 for an hour? When I'm sitting at the PC I am normally working, so don't want to listen to a play it again and it's a PITA to record stuff to put on the MP3 player for listening to...

BBC Alba Tues 17th January 22.00 to 23.00 Reidio Coimhearsnachd Bill

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vm5pDpa2h4&feature=youtu.be

In preparation for the analogue switchoff in April we've invested in a Humax Foxsat HDR (500GB ), and have already taken over the Sky dish with a 2nd feed. Until we get round to (soon!) replacing the Sony KV-28FX68U, however, we've struck a couple of annoyances: (1) Trying to map the TV's commands onto the Humax remote, less than half of the 3-digit codes given in the Humax manual would...

Problem: Fox-T2 HDR output (TS files) - how to create a DVD from them. Thanks to all responders to my earlier request but I've thus far not managed to do this - help! For example Freemake is typical - The TS file apparently doesn't contain any information about the data within it (PMTs?) so Freemake won't read them. Is there some magic step involving the other three files which the Hummy...

In the quest to Deliver Quality First, the management of the BBC have made public the option that viewers should be required to pay in order to access archive material. With the slow death of linear TV, this could be the start of BBC pay-per-view that the Conservative and Unionist Party of Great Britain has been proposing that the BBC should adopt for...

I've just upgraded from a non-HDMI AV amp to an HDMI one, the main input is my mythTV PC via HDMI (still using audio over SPDIF temporarily) ... it's nice to have switching on the TV automatically power up the amp too, and the TV's remote control the amp's volume and input selection. I have the amp's surround mode set to "auto". When watching a normal programme (i.e. not a film) the amp...

I just saw a new advert - or at least I hadn't seen it before - on the BBC promoting the DSO help scheme for the elderly. The ad had a song playing in the background: "Everybody's Talking at Me." The next line after the title is "I don't hear a word they say". I thought how appropriate those two lines were for a "public service" announcement that many are likely to ignore. I don't suppose...

(See previous post on 07/01 for background) Only the last 3 minutes were recorded last night. Monday - Thursday programmes were fine. What is it about the Friday GBRJ that the BBC or the Hummy doesn't like? Other Friday progs on series link also recorded without problem. It will be interesting to see what happens next Friday. --

Has anybody tried one of these yet? It's for pole mounting a MK4 dish. I'm having a few "fitment" issues and according to Blake I'm the only one. Just wondered if there is anyone else who's tried these!

It appears in someone's infinite wisdom that the designers of the Freeview box decided to split the audio output from the box in such a way that the 3.5 jack and Scart audio outs are different. This in effect gives the box an added 'feature' I don't want. So if you plug in a dvd in the back, it will switch the audio and video off from the box to the tv scart when the dvd plays, but the jack...

Our Thomson Sky+ box (3 years old) has been been responding more and more slowly to the remote and over the past week channels have been disappearing: Sky One 106, Sky News 501, Disc 241, Disc 242 and many others. After Googling, I decided with some scepticism to try replacing all the capacitors in the PSU. An hour with the soldering iron and normal service is resumed. Out of the 15...

Are we now seeing the end of the end of SONY in the TV consumer market? From http://www.digitaltrends.COM/home-theater/sony-abandons-oled-tv-for-the-consumer-market/ QUOTE Sony abandons OLED TV for the consumer market

I've just spent an interesting time trying to explain who is and who is not affected by digital switchover to a room full of fellow blind people. The snag you see, is that people actually are not really sure how their current telly is delivered to start with so trying to explain the differences between satellite cable and freeview has no meaning to them. sigh. Brian --

My sister lives in Guernsey and I go over to see her about twice a year. Last time I was there was in the summer and at that time they told me that they could not pick up all the freeview channels that should have been available to them ie the 15 or so I can get in Jersey not the countless others available to mainland UK residents only. They are not massive tv addicts so they have done...

Anyone know how many films the freeview channels are sharing amongst themselves this winter - is it a dozen, or less?

My SKY + HD box shows a signal strength of zero on certain potentially troublesome channels such as CBS Reality and has done every since I got my 1TB Sky HD box about a year ago. CBS Reality one of the first to go if the dish needs aligning and as far as I am aware I have no problems with the picture quality and its not breaking up or reporting satellite signal not being...

Anyone tried this yet? I noticed it come up on the guide the other day - 907 on my Humax - it seems to be only available on Humax at the moment. -- David Kennedy http://www.anindianinexile.com

I know it's a common moan when programmes overrun & mess up recordings. Well this afternoon the darts underran by about 10 minutes, so they stuck on a short bit of Coast to fill. After watching this I flicked open the guide & Coast had appeared in there, right before Jason & The Argonauts. Is there a bloke somewhere updating the guide data? I was impressed by how quickly this happened, it wasn't...

Right now I'm using an old Humax 9200T which feeds me with Freeview which as a rule is OK, all i watch on it are the usual BBC 1 & 2 ITV 1, 2, 3 & 4, Ch4 & Ch5 as well as the +1 on these sometimes and Quest that's about it as a rule I was thinking of moving to Freesat (not Sky) as this seems to offer me more +1 options, you see I'm very sad I like to program the PVR for the whole week with...

Not recorded tonight (Humax 9200T) although on series link. No problem recording all other nights this week, and still in the recording schedule for next week. Midhurst transmitter. Hummy or BBC problem? -- Jeff

Couldn't resist posting this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh0CMcLiRkw&feature=share

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