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...

We have four identical brand-new turbines clearly visible from the kitchen windows. This morning three are feathered so the blades are edgewise on to the wind, but one is turning, at 12rpm. I wonder why the one is different. Bill

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...

Out of the kitchen widow I can see the four turbines. All are turning today, at 15rpm. The sugar lumps were exposed to high humidity and then kept in a dry place. They take ages to dissolve. Could they have dissolved on the surface of each grain, then solidified again but with less total surface area? Bill

Dave Plowman (News) wrote: Yes. The supplier I use doesn't even list unswitched 13 amp in their budget ranges. But I was never a fan of them anyway. I've not known a switch on a socket to fail, so I'd guess it's pretty rare. I have one in the workshop that has failed. The socket was used for a welder and I think the switch must have melted inside. I can't move the rocker at all.

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

David Looser wrote: As for your allegation that the introduction of Part P results in an increase in the incidence of strings of trailing sockets wired with 3A cable in hazardous areas, this seems to be another example of your notion that safety rules are a bad thing because some idiot somewhere will ignore them. It's the law of unintended consequences. If safety rules cause an

Having had my Fox-T2 for a little while, I've just started exploring what else it can do - besides simply recording and replaying TV programmes. Today, I connected it to the internet for the first time in order to use the BBCi player - using a very long ethernet cable draped all round the house. This worked fine - but is a trip hazard, and installing it properly would cause a lot of...

Regulars will recall that I've been digitising all my ACs, MDs, and vinyls. I've almost completely finished this now, and as I've made some discoveries which I at least found interesting, I'll put them on record, before they are forgotten ... First a reminder of the general situation ... In various posts June 2011, Java Jive wrote: I still have some audio recordings in...

Does anyone, including Jim of course, know why his messages appear here late? They appear in the list (which is chronologically arranged) in the correct place, but they always appear between 12 and 48 hours after the time and date given. The annoyance is that when the group is busy they are off the bottom of my screen, so when I think I've read everything it says there's one or two messages...

If I access the BBC iPlayer via my PC using www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer it uses the Adobe Flash Player to show programmes. If I use my Samsung TV of the Humax HDR the initial page is different. Can anyone tell me what is the URL for this page? Does the TV and STB have the Flash Player built in, or is it not used? --

When I go to France my (analogue FM) car radio gives the title of the piece of music playing. Why doesn't this happen in the UK? Another Dave

Profiles for the path from Belmont to various locations around Howden, just north of Goole, taken from Megalithia and Mr Jive's excellent terrestrial TV calculator, show some degree of disagreement. Mr Jive's path is not obstruced whereas Mr Megalithia's is. It seems that Mr Jive has the transmission height at 434m ASL whereas Mr Megalithia has it at 376m ASL, and that makes all the...

During the storms yesterday the inlaw's aerial mast broke and was left hanging on the cables banging on the stair window so FIL was worried about the window getting damaged so went up on the garage roof, cut the cables and put the broken mast and two aerials away in the hut. Later they reported that they were still receiving some channels, the main BBC ITV channels plus some more. I couldn't...

I received the 'Frozen Planet' Blu-ray boxed set at Christmas. According to the box, the format is 1080i. However, the display data from the Blu-ray player shows 1080/50p. Is one of these descriptions wrong, or does a Blu-ray player convert from one to the other? The TV also shows 1080p, which I assume is the input received from the Blu-ray player. Just wondering. Thanks.

I quote: Dear Sir, We are a consulting firm based in Accra, Ghana West Africa, our main objective is to help the Government in Africa revamp and re-activate most of his parasitical which are performing below average into full recovery. (end of quote)

My LiteOn LVW-5405 HDD/DVD video recorder has decided to throw a wobbly, and it looks like I'll have to replace it. Anyway..... It's obvious that I need a new machine. I want something I can make the occasional archive copy to a DVD, and the LG RHT498H (which has a single freeview tuner, a 250GB hard disk and DVD drive) seems a good economical bet (£170 from Dixons).

Here's one I'm hoping to see on air very soon http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2078915/BBC-filming-Tony-Blair-obituary--PM-just-58-years-old.html