Posts by Russell Brown
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Anyway Paul, shouldn't you be answering phones in a bid to reduce the horrendous waiting times at your call centre? ;)
You know how you can get past voice-prompt systems by repeatedly saying "operator"? I've taken to repeatedly barking "Brislen!" ...
(Actually Paul, that is a joke ...)
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someone needs to do a similar venn diagram for Labour and its acolytes and their scandals, and those of their support parties
I'm sure it'd be fun, but really ... I think you'll find no one was tortured or died, dozens of judicial officers weren't illegally sacked for political reasons, illegal surveillance wasn't permitted ... you get the picture.
OTOH, who'd bet against Murray McCully turning up as the Gonzales in a National version of the exercise?
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Damian, I should also note that your niece is right.
Water is more interesting than an elephant. We have simply become jaded.
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Seriously, your daughter has flown down to Dunedin ...
That would be 'Damian Christie in Secret Love-Child Surprise', then ...
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I saw Vincent Ward's new film and was quite overwhelmed by it - it's really sad, really interesting and you are certainly right that as many of these stories must be recorded before the very last of them fade out.
Paul Reynolds once described the Treaty claims process as "a story machine". Basically, in the course of collecting written and oral evidence to advance a claim, you get this hugely useful spin-off of people's stories going on the record.
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I bought a very interesting book by Nicholas Thomas on Cook's voyages and his interactions with the people he met at the airport last week.
There were airports back then? And Cook was meeting people at them? It makes you wonder why he bothered sailing all that way.
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Questions ...
There doesn't seem to be much info on the sky website.
Do they use the satellites for Sky HD or terrestrial?
Does one have to sign up for other sky services to get?It's via satellite and yes, you have to be a Sky subscriber to get it. There's an initial set-up cost of $500+ (but Sky still owns your decoder) to get the HD PVR, then $10 per month extra for the HD channels. MySky users can switch for $50, and I'm guessing there'll be new pricing for pre-loved MySky boxes sent back by upgrading customers. You can also elect to keep your MySky as a second decoder for a small fee.
Oh yeah -- and when they take your MySky away, you lose all the stuff you had on the hard drive. For some reason, that didn't occur to me till after it had gone ...
A technical question then, that I haven't been able to figure out. If you want to have Sky channels, and Freeview as well, and be able to schedule recordings of any of them, what's the solution? Do you need to have a media PC or is there another way?
The Sky PVRs -- either the MySky or the new HDi -- will record everything except TVNZ 6 and 7, although the EPG information for Stratos was sketchy last time I checked, because Sky is just taking the Freeview signal and rebroadcasting that with permission. You can't do anything with the files it records apart from watch them or play them out to a DVD recorder. Also, the HD programming on both platforms is "protected" with HDCP, which is DRM on your TV. It downconverts the signal to SD.
Freeview PVRs are a couple of months away. They'll have a proper Freeview EPG, which should make them better than the generic Topfield PVR I've been trying out. And the Freeview people have made it clear they're happy to bless PC card-type solutions for either satellite or terrestrial. There may be some going through approval now.
Russell, a question about the instalation, did sky provide you with an HDMI cable to connect to your telly, or did you have one?
Actually, they used the one that was there already. I presume they'd have to provide one if that wasn't the case.
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What about those for whom their putative birth culture just doesn't interest them that much? Are the alienated? Or just making a decision?
I am just a little wary of this sort of essentialist approach.
It's a soap opera! But yeah, I think it'd be fair to say that Scotty has been a bit alienated ...
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Ahhh, the really whizzy one I couldn't afford then... the LG 100 hertz was an option but a knowledgable friend suggested it was not worth the price premium (and then confused me with techno-babble) but tried to convince me to buy the Bravia...
It really pays to shop around. The Appliance Shed Outlet Store in Glenfield was $500 cheaper than some of the major chain stores -- $1850, from memory, which was less than some places wanted for the next Bravia down.
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At the risk of starting a conversation I'll struggle to follow, are you watching HD TV on a 50 or 100 hertz TV?
It's a Bravia D series with the 100MHz "motion flow" technology which is reckoned to be a good thing for watching sport and other fast-moving pictures. It's not full 1080p, but I think those sets start at 40" and ours is only 32". It looks pretty good to us.
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