The analogue switch-off -- issues of public perception

For those who think I'm being cruel, it would be cruel to inflict the
digital world on them any sooner than necessary, and especially before
suitable cheap products are available to do the job of their 3 VCRs
simply and conveniently. Every time our Pace Twin crashes, I think "Mum
wouldn't think much to this!"

Cheers,
David.

It's comments like that which mean I don't own a hard-disk PVR. Cheap PVRs
still seem to be in the "Windows 95/98/Me" phase - when they reach indows
NT/2000/XP" stability (pause for chants of "Linux, Linux" from the
sidelines) then I'll consider opening my wallet.

And note I said _cheap_ PVRs before chant of "Topfield/Humax" break out.
Remember I'd be replacing a perfectly functioning £50.00 video recorder!

Paul DS

Paul D.Smith wrote:
It's comments like that which mean I don't own a hard-disk PVR.
Cheap PVRs still seem to be in the "Windows 95/98/Me" phase - when
they reach indows NT/2000/XP" stability (pause for chants of "Linux,
Linux" from the sidelines) then I'll consider opening my wallet.

And note I said _cheap_ PVRs before chant of "Topfield/Humax" break
out. Remember I'd be replacing a perfectly functioning £50.00 video
recorder!

Fair comment - except that you're not really comparing like with like.
Your cheap £50 VCR can't:
- record two things at once;
- give you immediate access to what you have recorded by name, without
worrying about which tape it's on or were it is on the tape;
- let you watch something you're recording from the start before the
recording has finished;
- record and play back at exactly the same quality you received at;
- etc. etc.

Go on - open your wallet!

André Coutanche

Snipped Most Of The Arrogant Twaddle

....Maybe best for people to add you to the killfile
until you work out which group you're in...

Actually Bills posts are the ones I and many other lurkers here look for
first.
Don't bother replying to me, I've killfiled you, seemed a much better idea
than killfiling Bill

Bill Wright wrote:
If you don't like long irrelevant rambles you'd best not read this. For the
rest of you --


Thanks, Bill. This forum has been somewhat boring for several weeks now.
Enjoyed your post.

Andereida

Paul D.Smith wrote:
It's comments like that which mean I don't own a hard-disk PVR. Cheap PVRs
still seem to be in the "Windows 95/98/Me" phase - when
they reach indows NT/2000/XP" stability (pause for chants of "Linux,
Linux" from the sidelines) then I'll consider opening my wallet.

Your loss. I paid around £150 for my first a couple of years ago, and £100
for my second (same model) a few months ago. Best value pieces of technology
I've ever bought (and I've bought a lot!). Crashes? Too few to worry about.
Less than Windows XP, in any event. Once every few months, perhaps. A
trifling inconvenience for the vastly enhanced functionality they deliver
the rest of the time.

I still have 3 very good VCRs in the house, and none of them ever get used.
The idea of going back to tapes is simply abhorrent.

Malcolm H wrote:
"Zimmy" wrote in message
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"Pete" wrote in message
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"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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If you don't like long irrelevant rambles you'd best not read this.
For the rest of you --


Can't be bothered reading through to see if it is remotely connected
to the title of the newsgroup. Maybe best for people to add you to
the killfile until you work out which group you're in!
This one is for Digital TV.

It was relevant, even if it did have an overly long preamble, but he
did warn you, and you didn't waste time reading it, so why complain?

I liked it.

Z

I liked it too! Very droll!

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Me,too!
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"Bill Wright" wrote in message
...
If you don't like long irrelevant rambles you'd best not read this. For
the rest of you --


Can't be bothered reading through to see if it is remotely connected to the
title of the newsgroup. Maybe best for people to add you to the killfile
until you work out which group you're in!
This one is for Digital TV.


Killfiled (not Bill).
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In article ,
Bill Wright wrote:
So off we guz on the Friday. Beforehand my dad has spent three days under
his dreadful caravan trying to fix it. I'm sceptical. Last trip I threw a
wobbly - said I'd never tow the damn thing again. The body isn't properly
attached to the A frame and when you look in the rear view camera it
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

That sounds a bit OTT or did you really mean rear view mirror?

seems to be trying to overtake you, and it squeaks, and the lights don't
work half the time. I hate towing the blasted thing, I really do.

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"David" wrote in message
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Well Bill she did now about analogue switch off, I bet plenty of people do
not realise.

No, what she 'knew' about was the switch off of ALL terrestrial TV in 2008.

Bill

"Colin Forrester" wrote in message
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Gordon Dack wrote:
Maybe you SHOULD have read it, it was very much to do with digital tv &
quite an amusing ramble to be honest.

But from campers - so hardly representative of "public perception".

True. We motorhome owners are well above average for income. We have to be
with 'toys' costing anything up to £100k. We're also above average for
discernment, especially with our choice of holidays. Personally I'd need
paying a lot of money to endure an airport/aeroplane type holiday.

The problems with Fred and missus were more to do with their age than
anything else, and unfortunately they are not untypical. That was the point
of my post. The misaprehensions many people have about analogue switch-off
are astonishing.

Bill