Grundig Freesat box

"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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"Roderick Stewart" wrote in
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In article , Adrian
wrote:
A particular annoyance is advertisers who send me messages full of HTML
with a
note at the bottom suggesting I should equip myself with news or email
software
that can handle it. Who do they think they are? My software is my choice,
and
if they want to put their message across it's in their interests to do it
in a
manner that will make it clear. I'm certainly not going to change
software that
I'm comfortable with for the benefit of advertisers.

They try it on because lots of people don't know enough about computers
and they get taken in. It's just another little con.

There's an outfit ringing round at the moment, introducing themselves as
'CIS'. Now 'CIS' is an Inland Revenue thing that the self-employed have to
take notice of, so calling themselves that is a con. There's another one
that rings up and says that they are 'The Halifax', but they're nothing to
do with HBS. And don't get me started on the way the disabled are conned
when they need a battery for their mobility device.
Bill


What the feck has any of that to do with you using at least double the space
needlessly on newsservers by using HTML?
You brain dead moron

Steve Terry

"Carpy" wrote in message
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Moving on from all the amusing bickering, what are these SD Freesat boxes
like compared to a Sky (Freesat from Sky) installation with regards to an
old age pensioner. I've got an old boy who hasn't got a hope in hell of
getting a decent aerial signal, so either Freesat (SD box) or the Sky free
offering would be the only choice, but which one is the easiest to
nagivate / use etc. I don't like the Sky vibe where he would have to
trundle through lots of unavailable channels to get ones he can see, so in
that sense Freesat might be a better choice? I don't think he's too
bothered about channel line up, although he might quite like channel 5
which isnt on Freesat at the moment.

Any ideas which would be easiest for him? I;ve not seen a Freesat box /
EPG so cant make the decision.

I'd go for non-Sky Freesat every time. No C5 though for a while.

Bill

"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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"Carpy" wrote in message
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Moving on from all the amusing bickering, what are these SD Freesat boxes
like compared to a Sky (Freesat from Sky) installation with regards to an
old age pensioner. I've got an old boy who hasn't got a hope in hell of
getting a decent aerial signal, so either Freesat (SD box) or the Sky
free offering would be the only choice, but which one is the easiest to
nagivate / use etc. I don't like the Sky vibe where he would have to
trundle through lots of unavailable channels to get ones he can see, so
in that sense Freesat might be a better choice? I don't think he's too
bothered about channel line up, although he might quite like channel 5
which isnt on Freesat at the moment.

Any ideas which would be easiest for him? I;ve not seen a Freesat box /
EPG so cant make the decision.

I'd go for non-Sky Freesat every time. No C5 though for a while.
Bill
Buy a couple of FreesatfromSky cards
Get C5 and Fox News, well there's a downside to everything.

Steve Terry

In uk.tech.tv.sky Bill Wright wrote:

: I'd go for non-Sky Freesat every time. No C5 though for a while.

While I would say that the £75 Sky-deal (from Argos etc.) which includes
STB, installation and 4 months of 4-Mix Sky TV is unbeatable!

"Steve Terry" wrote in message
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"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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"Carpy" wrote in message
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Moving on from all the amusing bickering, what are these SD Freesat
boxes like compared to a Sky (Freesat from Sky) installation with
regards to an old age pensioner. I've got an old boy who hasn't got a
hope in hell of getting a decent aerial signal, so either Freesat (SD
box) or the Sky free offering would be the only choice, but which one is
the easiest to nagivate / use etc. I don't like the Sky vibe where he
would have to trundle through lots of unavailable channels to get ones
he can see, so in that sense Freesat might be a better choice? I don't
think he's too bothered about channel line up, although he might quite
like channel 5 which isnt on Freesat at the moment.

Any ideas which would be easiest for him? I;ve not seen a Freesat box /
EPG so cant make the decision.

I'd go for non-Sky Freesat every time. No C5 though for a while.
Bill
Buy a couple of FreesatfromSky cards
Get C5 and Fox News, well there's a downside to everything.

An installation for a elderly person would be better with Freesat because
there isn't all that taradiddle if the thing has been unplugged from the
mains, and the replacement cost of the box is much less.

Also, I had one old guy who took the card out 'for safekeeping' and lost it!

Bill

Steve Terry wrote:
"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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"Carpy" wrote in message
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Moving on from all the amusing bickering, what are these SD Freesat
boxes like compared to a Sky (Freesat from Sky) installation with
regards to an old age pensioner. I've got an old boy who hasn't got
a hope in hell of getting a decent aerial signal, so either Freesat
(SD box) or the Sky free offering would be the only choice, but
which one is the easiest to nagivate / use etc. I don't like the
Sky vibe where he would have to trundle through lots of unavailable
channels to get ones he can see, so in that sense Freesat might be
a better choice? I don't think he's too bothered about channel line
up, although he might quite like channel 5 which isnt on Freesat at
the moment. Any ideas which would be easiest for him? I;ve not seen a
Freesat
box / EPG so cant make the decision.

I'd go for non-Sky Freesat every time. No C5 though for a while.
Bill
Buy a couple of FreesatfromSky cards
Get C5 and Fox News, well there's a downside to everything.

Steve Terry

You don't get Fox News.
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"Brian McIlwrath" wrote in message
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In uk.tech.tv.sky Bill Wright wrote:

: I'd go for non-Sky Freesat every time. No C5 though for a while.

While I would say that the £75 Sky-deal (from Argos etc.) which includes
STB, installation and 4 months of 4-Mix Sky TV is unbeatable!


Good deal, i would then replace the dish with a more rain attenuation
proof region 2 dish (or bigger) with a quad LNB to feed extra STBs

Steve Terry

"Adrian" wrote in message
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Steve Terry wrote:
"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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"Carpy" wrote in message
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I'd go for non-Sky Freesat every time. No C5 though for a while.
Bill

Buy a couple of FreesatfromSky cards
Get C5 and Fox News, well there's a downside to everything.
Steve Terry

You don't get Fox News.

No? Used to, I haven't had a Freesatfromsky card for a year now

So that's a bonus then, no Fox news anymore, who says Sky's all bad

Steve Terry

"Brian McIlwrath" wrote in message
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In uk.tech.tv.sky Bill Wright wrote:

: I'd go for non-Sky Freesat every time. No C5 though for a while.

While I would say that the £75 Sky-deal (from Argos etc.) which includes
STB, installation and 4 months of 4-Mix Sky TV is unbeatable!

Yes although I wouldn't like to inflict the lottery of Sky subcontractors on
him. He might end up with something like this.

http://img389.imageshack.us/img389/180/onebq0.jpg

http://img389.imageshack.us/img389/8100/twovx2.jpg

http://img55.imageshack.us/img55/1710/threeim7.jpg

http://img374.imageshack.us/img374/1462/fourfw2.jpg

http://img382.imageshack.us/img382/3794/fiveqv6.jpg

ChrisM wrote:

Anyway, enough said, eh?. All this bickering over a simple error has wasted
FAR more bandwidth than the original mistake!! :-)

Yes quite. Perhaps at some point some of the perfect posters in this thread
might like to tell us what it's like to have gone though life with a halo over
their head, and without ever making a single mistake ever.

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