On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 18:58:48 -0000, "Tumbleweed"
wrote:


"JP" wrote in message
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On 19 Nov 2003 15:11:56 -0800, (Gaz) wrote:

Just over 3 years ago I bought a sky card 'off a man in a pub' that
gave me all the sky channels (all sport, all movies, all the
educational, music, the full hit).

In September this year, all the educational channels, Sky Sports 2
(but not 1 and 3) and some of (but not 1,2,3 and 8?????) the movie
channels went off along with Sky One, UK Gold, Paramount etc (but not
e4, ITV2).

Now yesterday these remaining channels have gone, leaving me with just
the BBC channels.

I'm not complaining as I've have a good run for my money but I can't
understand why some sport and movies channels were left on in
September through until now? Why were they all not switched off then?

Any ideas?

cheers

Gaz


I had the same. My card was a legit sub from Sky, but I cancelled
about 3 years ago. They turned all the channels off for about a
month then they all came back on again.

I'm not bothering with Sky anymore. I can download all my US TV
from suprnova.


Cheers,

John.

Dont you have to watch it in a screen size about 3 inches by 2 though? AT
least much of the stuff Ive found there is severely compressed


I've got a decent graphics card with S-Video output - Hercules All In
Wonder 9800 SE.
I can watch the output on either my 36" Sony Wega TV or on a 96"
screen from my Panasonic projector.

The quality of the files out there does vary, but the widescreen
HDTV files are easily as good as Sky broadcasts.

John.

"JP" wrote in message
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On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 18:58:48 -0000, "Tumbleweed"
wrote:


"JP" wrote in message
.. .
On 19 Nov 2003 15:11:56 -0800, (Gaz) wrote:

Just over 3 years ago I bought a sky card 'off a man in a pub' that
gave me all the sky channels (all sport, all movies, all the
educational, music, the full hit).

In September this year, all the educational channels, Sky Sports 2
(but not 1 and 3) and some of (but not 1,2,3 and 8?????) the movie
channels went off along with Sky One, UK Gold, Paramount etc (but not
e4, ITV2).

Now yesterday these remaining channels have gone, leaving me with just
the BBC channels.

I'm not complaining as I've have a good run for my money but I can't
understand why some sport and movies channels were left on in
September through until now? Why were they all not switched off then?

Any ideas?

cheers

Gaz


I had the same. My card was a legit sub from Sky, but I cancelled
about 3 years ago. They turned all the channels off for about a
month then they all came back on again.

I'm not bothering with Sky anymore. I can download all my US TV
from suprnova.


Cheers,

John.

Dont you have to watch it in a screen size about 3 inches by 2 though? AT
least much of the stuff Ive found there is severely compressed


I've got a decent graphics card with S-Video output - Hercules All In
Wonder 9800 SE.
I can watch the output on either my 36" Sony Wega TV or on a 96"
screen from my Panasonic projector.

The quality of the files out there does vary, but the widescreen
HDTV files are easily as good as Sky broadcasts.

HD rips of 24 in xvid format are 350mb and do look vgood on a tv, much
better than VCD which is over 400mb for the same episode.


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File sizes that small display as about the 1/4 of my 17" screen, or maybe
less.
Stretch it larger and you are creating artifacts, its only DVD quality-ish
at that native size (ie whatever size it has been created).


It really is very high quality and the stretching creates very little
artifacts. The quality may not be dvd however its practically as good as say
the output from a dttv card.

Jaime