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Have you gone to digital TV?

Postby ozzy72 » Mon Jan 16, 2006 10:30 am

If so you might want to worry about your box.....
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Re: Have you gone to digital TV?

Postby cspyro21 » Mon Jan 16, 2006 10:36 am

Well that's good, isn't it?

Seeing as the UK is going entirely digital in the forseeable future, I can see things like this becoming very common indeed.

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Re: Have you gone to digital TV?

Postby Woodlouse2002 » Mon Jan 16, 2006 10:37 am

Now that really is odd.
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Re: Have you gone to digital TV?

Postby flyboy 28 » Mon Jan 16, 2006 11:53 am

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Re: Have you gone to digital TV?

Postby Katahu » Mon Jan 16, 2006 12:14 pm

Imagine, switching to hit TV show America's Most Wanted and seeing a SWAT team busting through your front door. ;D
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Re: Have you gone to digital TV?

Postby Fozzer » Mon Jan 16, 2006 12:23 pm

The only digital objects I have got are 10 fingers and 10 toes... ;)...!

Paul...;D...!

Does installing "Digital" Television mean that you can obtain programs which are twice as naff as they are at present...?
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Re: Have you gone to digital TV?

Postby ozzy72 » Mon Jan 16, 2006 1:09 pm

Well Paul what digital TV really means is it is all 1's and 0's, a bit like the button on the front of the telly either On or Off ;D
Personally I'm happy to be able to pick up Croatian TV here as it means I can sometimes get to watch classic English comedies in English (the Hungarian TV always does ye olde crap voiceover!).... but as you officially don't own a telly Paul I don't think this will affect you all that much. Unless you want the SAS to abseil through your ceiling and pinch all your grub ;D
Of course if you want a gas just pick up a SARBE and leave it on emergency transmit and listen to the airwaves light up and go mental... no mention of any officers who I have had the misfortune of working with who once did this and left it in his locker ::)
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Re: Have you gone to digital TV?

Postby Mehdi » Mon Jan 16, 2006 1:47 pm

Imagine, switching to hit TV show America's Most Wanted and seeing a SWAT team busting through your front door. ;D


That would be good.  ;D
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Re: Have you gone to digital TV?

Postby Fozzer » Mon Jan 16, 2006 3:01 pm

Well Paul what digital TV really means is it is all 1's and 0's, a bit like the button on the front of the telly either On or Off ;D


"Off", I like...;)...!

I buy the Radio Times every week to view the radio programs...
...occasionally I browse through the Television program section....
I can't believe people pay good money in Television Licence fees to watch the dross on the British Terrestrial stations...most of it is mind-numbing in the extreme..!!!
Geees... :o...!

Paul...cats whisker radio, headphones, and a long wire aerial.... 8)...!
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Re: Have you gone to digital TV?

Postby ozzy72 » Mon Jan 16, 2006 3:57 pm

Thank goodness for DVDs leading to the re-release of quality entertainment eh Paul? I'm just about to put my feet up and enjoy something cultural..... now should it be Porridge, Yes Minister/Prime Minster or It Ain't Half Hot Mum tonight? ;D
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Re: Have you gone to digital TV?

Postby Saitek » Mon Jan 16, 2006 5:15 pm

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Re: Have you gone to digital TV?

Postby Fozzer » Mon Jan 16, 2006 5:45 pm

[quote]Paul, if you pay
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Re: Have you gone to digital TV?

Postby Saitek » Mon Jan 16, 2006 5:48 pm

Paul - you make me smile. - but I know that the TV that was turned into a goldfish bowl/flowerpot, urinal etc etc, has since been reinstalled in the living room. ;)
You couldn't do without the ol' box really. ;)
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Re: Have you gone to digital TV?

Postby H » Tue Jan 17, 2006 1:55 am

The only digital objects I have got are 10 fingers and 10 toes... ;)...!
And I expect they've had, and will have, the occasion to send off distress signals... ;) ;D 8)
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Re: Have you gone to digital TV?

Postby Omag 2.0 » Tue Jan 17, 2006 4:51 am

Belgium's idea of digital TV...

First step... remove several stations to make room on the cable ( CNN, BBC world, Arte, ...)

Step two... offer a "digibox" at 200,00 euro's... this give you... the old stations back... everything else has to be paid extra for...

Step three... hey... nobody wants it!

Step four... reduce the price of the box... now 150,00 euro's

Step five... still no-one buys it!

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It'll all go digital over time, I'm not against that, but scams like these really bug me... I'll just wait a bit longer, thank you very much...

Oh yeah, and judging the brilliant minds behind these providers, they'll offer like 1 really good channel for an outrageous price, combined with 354 other crappy ones...

PS: what the heck is wrong with the euro-sign... yabb still doesn't like it! Must be a British thing...  ;D
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