Posts by Steve Barnes
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Cracker: Send in the Clowns, in reply to linger,
National: we put the N in cuts.
You bet your sweet ASS ets
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Cracker: Send in the Clowns, in reply to Islander,
o fuffing EGGS!
Language Dear, language ;-)
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Whisky and More
Even more money for the satellite set-up ;-)
I was just looking at the DVB-T transmitter sites, I always thought that when they launched Freeview they told us that it would cover 95% of the country. This now is “rephrased” as 75% of “New Zealand Homes" which equates to less than a quarter of the country. I feel ripped off again, thank you National. C**ts -
This one is only $109 but that is still the price of a decent bottle of Scotch ;-)
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Cracker: Send in the Clowns, in reply to Islander,
Yeah! Local electronics store!
Well, I was being a bit tongue in cheek there, I know where you live ;-)
This is what you need, The ultraplus-900hd-micro-digital-satellite-receiver/pvr to get Freeview down there. For $379.95 you can order it on line. And it records too.
Worth looking into.
:-)ETA
Have a look at the FAQ if you still doubt you can get Freeview down your way. -
Rural customers are to be served by a different set-up, the Rural Broadband Initiative, the RBI. This has also been handed to Telecon, with a dash of Vodafone thrown in to show it's all above board, yeah right.
It's all a sham anyway, Telecom and National are bosom buddies. -
TVNZ 7 is without a doubt less popular than those other channels. It has almost zero promotion and a budget to match. It doesn’t appear in listings in newspapers or The Listener. And the programmes aren’t your usual commercial fare.
Says it all really, like planned to fail because "It just wont work" I despair of this country sometimes.
I've not been watching TV recently, being up north in the bush and the satellite dish not being high on the priority list. I got a DVB-T dongle for the laptop but can pick up bugger all here and DVB-S devices just don't seem to exist so I'll have to wait for the dish to get Freeview.
And Islander, I still claim that you can get freeview down your way, it's just that it has to be a DVB-S Freeview box, for which you can use your Sky dish. Ask at your local electronics store, chur. ;-) -
Hard News: Perverse Entertainment, in reply to Kracklite,
Here’s a question, what would be your favourite aquarium pet?
One of these would go down a treat.
It was a terrible, indescribable thing vaster than any subway train—a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and unforming as pustules of greenish light all over the tunnel-filling front that bore down upon us, crushing the frantic penguins and slithering over the glistening floor that it and its kind had swept so evilly free of all litter.” (At the Mountains of Madness, 1931)
On the subject of ’Baiter. I have always thought of the rantings of the far, ignorant, right as being nothing more than the manifestation of resentment, they resent paying for anything and resent those those that can’t.
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Hard News: Chasing the Trans-Pacific Express, in reply to Paul Campbell,
you could just take that old PC you were going to recycle, add a couple of tuner cards and load up MythTV.
I tried Myth TV but settled for GBPVR in the end, much nicer UI and the EPG problem was easily overcome.
Only Freeview certified boxes have access to this EPG, so they can determined what they are able to do, e.g. no, or limited, ad skipping, no transferring of recordings etc.
Got the ad-skipping feature working too and as for transferring you can set it up to do that automatically, it can also transcode to other formats like DivX or Xvid.
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Slightly off topic but well worth looking at.
Zeitgeist 3 - Moving Forward (Trailer)