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Come Inside... => The Sports Bar => Topic started by: Snoopy on November 25, 2008, 06:51:33 PM

Title: What to do?
Post by: Snoopy on November 25, 2008, 06:51:33 PM

The Arsenal are on ITV4 and Man U are on ITV1 ~ both live at the same time. Which to watch or shall I drive SWMBO up the wall by channel hoping every few minutes to check the scores?  eveilgrin:

Title: Re: What to do?
Post by: Nick on November 25, 2008, 08:41:48 PM

Get a second telly and watch both

Title: Re: What to do?
Post by: Darwins Selection on November 26, 2008, 09:51:54 AM

Quote from: Nick on November 25, 2008, 08:41:48 PM

Get a second telly and watch both

Do you know anyone with an unused spare TV?

Title: Re: What to do?
Post by: Nick on November 26, 2008, 09:58:49 AM

He'd have to collect

Title: Re: What to do?
Post by: Snoopy on November 26, 2008, 10:48:58 AM

I have three sets now Banghead

Title: Re: What to do?
Post by: Uncle Mort on November 26, 2008, 11:02:52 AM

I watched Star Trek Voyager on Virgin 1 instead and flicked over during the many advert breaks. 

Title: Re: What to do?
Post by: Snoopy on November 26, 2008, 11:18:06 AM

I refuse to pay to watch Virgin or any other channel unless compelled by law (ie having a TV licence)

Title: Re: What to do?
Post by: Uncle Mort on November 26, 2008, 11:19:15 AM

Virgin 1 is free.

Title: Re: What to do?
Post by: Snoopy on November 26, 2008, 11:21:31 AM

Then why does my TV (FreeSat from Sky) demand that I pay to watch it? ~ I just checked.
Nah ~ don't bother, I wouldn't want to watch Star Trek Voyager anyway ~ utter crap IMHO.

Title: Re: What to do?
Post by: Snoopy on November 26, 2008, 11:24:46 AM

Have now checked the other set (running on Freeview) and that does not receibve it either.

The third set is purely a small portable that picks up only three channels anyway (this is Wales thus C4 and C5 are NOT available)

Title: Re: What to do?
Post by: Uncle Mort on November 26, 2008, 11:27:10 AM

No idea ~ channel 20 on my TV.

Perhaps a rescan is required.

Title: Re: What to do?
Post by: Snoopy on November 26, 2008, 11:31:15 AM

If we are talking Freeview we are on the fringes of signal areas and are one of those parts of the country that will NOT be guaranteed a picture come the big change over ~ at least according to the Government web site dealing with the matter. We are lucky, so they tell me, to get any Freeview reception. Cross the street and they cannot receive it at all. Mountain in the way. Radio signals bounce up but do not come down again apparently. They do undulate but the slope is too much for that effect to work.

Title: Re: What to do?
Post by: Nick on November 26, 2008, 11:34:00 AM

So how do they get back to their home quadrant? I missed the end of the series

Title: Re: What to do?
Post by: Snoopy on November 26, 2008, 11:35:34 AM

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Oh dear, how sad, never mind!

Title: Re: What to do?
Post by: Uncle Mort on November 26, 2008, 11:49:14 AM

I haven't seen the end either but I understand thay hitch a lift through a Borg wormhole.

Title: Re: What to do?
Post by: Nick on November 26, 2008, 11:51:21 AM

I had been wondering.Do the Borg make wormholes then?

Title: Re: What to do?
Post by: Darwins Selection on November 26, 2008, 12:09:55 PM

Quote from: Nick on November 26, 2008, 11:51:21 AM

I had been wondering.Do the Borg make wormholes then?

No silly, they outsource.

Title: Re: What to do?
Post by: Grumpmeister on November 26, 2008, 12:23:54 PM

Quote from: Snoopy on November 26, 2008, 11:21:31 AM

Then why does my TV (FreeSat from Sky) demand that I pay to watch it? ~ I just checked.
Nah ~ don't bother, I wouldn't want to watch Star Trek Voyager anyway ~ utter crap IMHO.

There is your answer Snoop. Virgin have to pay to show sky one on their cable service so the same would happen with the Virgin channels .