News for SONY fans: Cymro-American Howard Stringer has announced he is "stepping down" as President and CEO of SONY in April, 2012, and be replaced by Kazuo Hirai. From http://betanews.COM/2012/02/01/howard-stringer-steps-down-sony-looks-to-kazuo-hirai-to-stop-the-bleeding/ QUOTE

Anyone managed to stream MP3s to a Fox HDR T2? I'm using Twonky as the media server but although I can see the media server, none of the MP3s show up. I thought it was because the Humax didn't support them but the instruction book claims that it does. Thanks, Paul DS

Hi all, I am going to give my present Samsung TV to my son and buy a new one for myself. What does anyone think of the "Toshiba" 40inch LCD HD TV 40BV70140 It is the only set in the price range of £350.00 that has 4 HDMI sockets which I can use. I am not bothered about it not being a "Smart" TV as my Humax Freeview recorder can do all that.

Lunch time news. Struggling electricals chain Comet is poised to cut 450 jobs in a drive for the "significant savings" needed to safeguard its future. Regards David

I have owned a Humax PVR - 9300T for over a year now and so far downloading of EPG programme details has been successful, though sometimes it takes a short time to get all the details on screen. However, this morning only limited information is being downloaded. I have tried on several occasions and have left the EPG Guide page on screen for several minutes to no avail. I suspect this is due...

We've just been watching the BBC news from Hannington on BBC1. At the end of the main channel Huw was joined by a guy from News 24, instead of BBC South. So we got the national newspapers instead of the local news. Switching channels away and back showed the correct BBC South channel ID - so WTF? Andy

I am looking for a new TV, with a full HD tuner and LED display. We currently have a PVR9200T digital recorder, which I want to keep for the time being for budgetary purposes. This only has scart output. Most of the TVs that I have looked at appear now to only have HDMI input facilities. I see that you can buy conversion boxes for around £50 - is this really the only way forward? Samsung...

On a ham radio band last night. I got me new freeview box last night from switchover folk. Second ham. Does it work? back to first, no I have no aerial, so I'll let you know, Seconnd one. Mine is very picky. I bought a set top digital one from the high street and it was all lop sided so we cut them poky out things all the same length as the wife said it looks silly like it was, but its...

On Thu, 2 Feb 2012 18:53:15 -0000, "Mortimer" wrote: I suppose the element had developed a pinhole in the outer metal sheath which would have tripped an RCD in a modern house long before the fault worsened to the point that it blew a 30A fuse and left black stains all over the fuse box. I'm now inclined to wire immersions through their own RCD or RCBO, for exactly that...

Last night a couple of times and only for a few seconds, less than a minute certainly, all the channels went off air then came back. Just enough time to hear, there is no signal check aerial, get out of chair, almost get to set top boxand on it comes again. Obviously I cannot say this was on every channel as it onely did it twice but certainly all those I tried the second time were off. No...

You may have seen my earlier thread relating to Media Center getting in a pickle with 167Khz offsets with my new DVB-T2 card. I have found a bit of info relating to this, seems MS added support for this a few years back. I am toying with switching to MediaPortal which may have improved since I last tried, or just weeding all the wrong 'uns out manually. Had no response on the TBS forums, so...

Last night (7-8 Feb) I was watching a recording. When it finished at about 2 am I switched to Freeview to check the news on BBC1 via teletext. BBC1 was not there. The TV said "No signal". I looked at some other channels - similar. Freesat channels were fine. My initial thought was that either there had been a total failure at the Divis transmitter (Northern Ireland) or that the distribution amp...

Been looking at satellite charts and they are too much information for me, I'm after chart that will give a list of clear TV stations receivable in the UK on say an 85cm movable dish, not necessary in English. Regards David

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

Anyone hear PM tonight on the subject of very low musical notes? I happened to be in a vehicle that has a sub-woofer and I could hear the tone they played with it turned on, but not at all with it turned off (I was quick). Presumably it was from an audio signal generator. Bill

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...

I have had a bit of trouble with E! Entertainment this evening whereby the picture would breakup along with no satellite signal being received. The signal strength on that channel would show 0% signal strength and 0% signal quality intermittently. I only noticed because I accidently tuned into E! Entertainment whilst the phone was in use. All the usual suspects seemed to be OK ie CBS Reality...

Received this afternoon: "...and we have warned the tenant that if there is no fault with the TV system and it is her equipment that is at fault she will be boiled." Bill

http://www.channelonline.tv/channelonline_jerseynews/DisplayArticle.asp?ID=498013 Not that it matters much to me as I have Sky. ITV4 would be good as that is the channel which shows Europa league still ITV3 is good for poirot reruns.

Turn your Samsung Smart TV into a two way telescreen just like in the 1984 Big Brother society with an add on camera. http://www.leconcepts.COM/products/lcd-tvs/1216-samsung-cy-stc1100-smart-tv-skype-camera.html?source=Froogle Remember, if you have something to hide from the camera, you must be doing something wrong. And if the government do not take advantage of the camera in the room, why...