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| Thread ID: 69881 | 2006-06-15 04:37:00 | Free to Air Digital TV - will it make a difference? | Rutherford (10399) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 463280 | 2006-06-15 10:30:00 | TV will soon be going the way of the dodo. | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 463281 | 2006-06-15 10:47:00 | I remember years ago when i was younger people moaned their ass off cause their wasnt enough channels on tv now we get all these new channels and people moan that theirs nothing on either they are very fussy about what they watch or cant find anything else to moan about. | Hitech (9024) | ||
| 463282 | 2006-06-15 11:00:00 | Sky can be installed for $99 with decoder and dish so why not $75. thats totally incorrect. you do not pay an install fee, its just a "connection fee". part of the monthly subscription fee is for the install. the decoders are ~$800 the last time i checked (don't loose it otherwise you will be billed for it) the lnb alone is over $100, the mounts can be $100 on there own, the actual dish is the cheap part. labour.. 1 hour on a real quick one, 2 hours norm (sky allows 2.5 hours, icluding teaching cust how to use it), hard install....4-8 hours. your looking $40-$50 an hour + travel costs. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 463283 | 2006-06-15 11:02:00 | Anyone know if prime will be broadcast over this new system? As for whose going to make use of it? On the news they claimed approx 90 000 existing Sky customers were on Sky for the single reason that they have no other ways of recieving TV. For me, I'll get it just for C4 and the better picture accros the board., Granted its 90 percent crap but its only money.Last time I checked they were still printing it. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 463284 | 2006-06-15 11:11:00 | Just wait till it rains heavily :badpc: Muahahaha;) |
bob_doe_nz (92) | ||
| 463285 | 2006-06-15 11:27:00 | yes prime will be broadcast on the new freeview system. | Hitech (9024) | ||
| 463286 | 2006-06-15 11:30:00 | Heres a link that goes for 37 mins this will tell you everything you want to know. http://digital.tvnz.co.nz/ |
Hitech (9024) | ||
| 463287 | 2006-06-15 21:21:00 | I just hope they make at least one channel for those of us who aren't interested in seeing Fat self absorbed americans either losing weight swapping spouses or living on a desert island (actually combine all three, and you have a sure fire hit "Swinging Fitness Survivor" i wonder if i can pitch the idea to fox) Actually what i want is a british channel replete with shows that don't contain odious amounts of canned laughter, things like Time team, Have i got news for you, Never mind the buzzcocks, The complete works of David Attenborough, anything that doesn't involve reality TV or canned laughter I do notice one station does have "later with Jools Holland" on which i must admit I do watch ocasionally simply because it has variety in it, and it doesn't have butt-licking pretty bimbette presenters, but someone who actually has been there and done that in the music scene And of course when i become Fascist dictator of the world, any show that uses Canned laughter, will be banned, i mean if you have to tell your audience when to laugh what does that say about your show?? Ok Rant finished i have to drop the Kids at school Cheers |
Morgenmuffel (187) | ||
| 463288 | 2006-06-15 21:35:00 | Lets see if I understand this correctly... For those of us with good free-to-air reception at the present time, Digital TV will make no difference. Correct? Unless of course more free-to-air channels are added. Eventually analogue transmission will stop but until then why would anyone bother paying all the extra $$ to get digital TV ????? |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 463289 | 2006-06-15 21:41:00 | Lets see if I understand this correctly... For those of us with good free-to-air reception at the present time, Digital TV will make no difference. Correct? Unless of course more free-to-air channels are added. Eventually analogue transmission will stop but until then why would anyone bother paying all the extra $$ to get digital TV ????? And when that analog signal is turned off and you still have 4 old TVs and a VCR, DVD recorder at home you will have to go and buy a set top box for all of them to get the same tuning function and you have now.. |
paulw (1826) | ||
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