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handyman
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checked speed, its ok there.
just seen the freeview needs an arial, i just thought it would use the broadband..........that will be years off.
O well, need to fix the arial then 
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Hoovie
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| Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 3:28 pm Post subject: |
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It is when they put "Unlimited" in big letters on the website and it takes 20 minutes of clicking to find out what the FUP says is when I have the issue.
Nothing wrong with a FUP - when they are honest about it and the customers know up front it is there.
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Hoovie
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checked speed, its ok there.
just seen the freeview needs an arial, i just thought it would use the broadband..........that will be years off.
O well, need to fix the arial then |
I understand what you meant by "fix the ariel now"  - time to get out the little giants 
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skiking
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| Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 3:40 pm Post subject: |
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| I think I was lucky, my existing ariels (10+ years old) all work with freeview |
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Hoovie
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When I moved to my current house, the people had the sitting room on an outside ariel which had a normal ariel socket in the loft to plug in the lead headin got the sitting room. And they said "Oh, the TV in the kitchen isn't a very good signal" - turns out that one was connected to a indoor loft ariel with the ariel lead socket about 12 inches from the 'proper' ariel.
I wonder what genuis set that up for them - and how much he charged  -
Took nearly 2 minutes to plug in a splitter and rescan channels 
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Hoovie
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Just found out ....
BT Vision Box is a twin tuner Can record one Freview channel while waytching another
Can't record two programs at same time, but got the Humax for that
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skiking
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| VM V+ can record 2 whilst watching another |
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Hoovie
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| Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 6:34 pm Post subject: |
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so can my Humax 9200T Freeview PVR :tongue1:
(can't find tongue stickng out icon )
I read somewhere that if you record a film from Sky Movies 1 for example and then stop your Sky Movies 1 sub, you cannot watch your recording. Is that right?
Actually, now I have an ariel lead to my office, I can rebuild my PC Based PVR with its Hauppuage PCI and USB tuners - 4 Simulanteous recordings
Only thing is .... even though I can now record 7 programs at any one time, there is rarely even two programs worth watching at any time 
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Hoovie
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UPDATE:
I am liking BT Vison more and more
Just found out it can record two programs simuataneously (they don't say you can in the manual, but when I scheduled two clashing programs to record, it did it )
Also has a lot of the BBC On-Demand programs from iPlayer available for free
Finally - Found out the Bandwidth requirements - TV via Broadband for the BT Vision box ringfences 1.5Mb of your capacity when watching a On-Demand program and frees up the rest for 'other use' such as web surfing, downloading, etc.
So far well worth £30 of my cats inheritence
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