Freeview blowing crt sets ?

On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:25:16 +0100, Bill
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Hi, I had a similar problem, your advice has been invaluable in solving
it.

Would you please be good enough to forward me your contact details as
matron, the fire officer and the insurance Co would all like a word.

Dear Bill,
I am glad to have helped with your problem.
Please tell the matron and the other staff that they do not need to
thank me personally, your own response is quite sufficient.

PS Do you have a vacancy there for my friend Jamie?


Provided he does not wish to watch TV for a while he would be most
welcome.

No, he prefers to play with the pixies.

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PS Do you have a vacancy there for my friend Jamie?


Provided he does not wish to watch TV for a while he would be most
welcome.

No, he prefers to play with the pixies.

Poor Nemo's been imagining things again.
I've told him to get help, but it hasn't worked.

On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 01:29:15 +0100, "jamie powell"
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PS Do you have a vacancy there for my friend Jamie?


Provided he does not wish to watch TV for a while he would be most
welcome.

No, he prefers to play with the pixies.

Poor Nemo's been imagining things again.
I've told him to get help, but it hasn't worked.


I don't think you realise how serious is your problem.

You are a young man at uni, just beginning to learn about life.
Yet on this NG you are telling everyone that they know nothing about
any topic ranging from web design to international terrorism.

I lost count of the number of people you have insulted in this way
when I used up the fingers on both hands. I suspect that the number is
limited only by those who have chosen to respond. Several of these
people are twice or three times your age with a corresponding length
of experience.

Not once have I seen you agree with anyone.

Do you really, honestly, believe that *everyone* is wrong in
everything they say, and that only *you* have the right answers to
every situation?

If you continue through life with this attitude you are going to have
a very unhappy time.

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Do you really, honestly, believe that *everyone* is wrong in
everything they say, and that only *you* have the right answers to
every situation?

If you continue through life with this attitude you are going to have
a very unhappy time.

Or end up Prime Minister.

--
*Why is "abbreviated" such a long word?

Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.

On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:00:09 +0100, "Stefan"
wrote:

I have a Sony crt about 15 years old which conked out whilst watching
freeview. Internal fuse o.k., but no on light comes on - dead.
Connected a Sharp 21"crt set - worked fine on analogue. Switch on freeview
and after a minute or so the set turns itself off ! sometimes to standby,
sometimes completely off !
Switch back on and with freeview turns itself off again.
Sat back and thought a moment. Wondered if freeview causes excessively high
voltages/current to tube. I reduced the contrast slightly and now it works
fine !
Could the freeview have blown the original Sony set ? If so how many crt
sets around are being blown by freeview boxes ?
Of course I could buy a new set, but cannot live with the poor quality of
lcd or plasma and crt sets now are scarce. Waiting to see if oled any
better.

Any thoughts on this strange phenomena from engineering types ?

I have had freeview boxes feeding CRT sets for some years now. I got the
first one in autumn/winter 2002. Over the years I've accumulated TV sets
in all 3 bedrooms in my house, in the sitting room and in the kitchen.
Each one has a freeview box. TVs have died of old age, or have been
replaced them for other reasons. I also have additional freeview boxes
feeding VCRs and a DVD recorder. None of these CRT TVs or recorders has
been killed by a freeview box.

On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:52:33 +0100, Peter Duncanson wrote:
None of these CRT TVs or recorders has been killed by a freeview box.

Perhaps they are just biding their time.

It would look a bit strange if everybody's CRT failed at the same time.

So probably what happens is that the Freeview Broadcasting Conspiracy
Corporation (FBCC) send out a signal which only affects a certain number
of CRTs perhaps limited to a particular transmitter.

In this way the LCD manufacturers and retailers can keep the LCD supply
chain filled to a particular area and not run short for the whole country.

No doubt with the launch of Freeview HD in Granadaland in late 2009,
large numbers of the older plasmas and LCDs which are not HD ready will
mysteriously start failing in order to drive sales up of HD sets.

And since the Granadaland transmissions will also feature DVB-t2, perhaps
the FBC will start sending out Freeview signals to start killing off the
older DVB-t boxes in order to drive sales of DVB-t2.

The FBCC has already been working to put in place a plan to kill of 2k
Freeview boxes, and has some success with killing off early 8k boxes
with the fiendish NIT splitting signal, again to force people to buy
the latest 8k box which will have to be replace again of course with
a new DVB-t2 box.

So as you can see it is quite some conspiracy.

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Poor Nemo's been imagining things again.
I've told him to get help, but it hasn't worked.


I don't think you realise how serious is your problem.

You are a young man at uni, just beginning to learn about life.
Yet on this NG you are telling everyone that they know nothing about
any topic ranging from web design to international terrorism.

I lost count of the number of people you have insulted in this way
when I used up the fingers on both hands. I suspect that the number is
limited only by those who have chosen to respond. Several of these
people are twice or three times your age with a corresponding length
of experience.

Not once have I seen you agree with anyone.

Do you really, honestly, believe that *everyone* is wrong in
everything they say, and that only *you* have the right answers to
every situation?

If you continue through life with this attitude you are going to have
a very unhappy time.


I know how real all this must seem to you right now as it plays out inside
your head, both in your dreams, and in your waking thoughts, and I feel very
sorry for you because of this - I can only imagine what it's like to have
one's imagination so badly mixed up with reality - whereas you're living
with it every single day.

In a way, I suppose it's fortunate that you chose to imagine so many things
about me, and not someone more vulnerable who might have been disturbed by
it.
I'm going to remain sympathetic towards you though, and continue to urge you
to voluntarily get psychiatric help with your problems.
You know what you have to do, Nemo.

"J G Miller" wrote in message
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On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 14:52:33 +0100, Peter Duncanson wrote:
None of these CRT TVs or recorders has been killed by a freeview box.

Perhaps they are just biding their time.

It would look a bit strange if everybody's CRT failed at the same time.

So probably what happens is that the Freeview Broadcasting Conspiracy
Corporation (FBCC) send out a signal which only affects a certain number
of CRTs perhaps limited to a particular transmitter.

In this way the LCD manufacturers and retailers can keep the LCD supply
chain filled to a particular area and not run short for the whole country.

No doubt with the launch of Freeview HD in Granadaland in late 2009,
large numbers of the older plasmas and LCDs which are not HD ready will
mysteriously start failing in order to drive sales up of HD sets.

And since the Granadaland transmissions will also feature DVB-t2, perhaps
the FBC will start sending out Freeview signals to start killing off the
older DVB-t boxes in order to drive sales of DVB-t2.

The FBCC has already been working to put in place a plan to kill of 2k
Freeview boxes, and has some success with killing off early 8k boxes
with the fiendish NIT splitting signal, again to force people to buy
the latest 8k box which will have to be replace again of course with
a new DVB-t2 box.

So as you can see it is quite some conspiracy.

Given that the broadcasters know that a (small) proportion
of the DTT STB "estate" is 2k mode and/or non split-NIT
compliant, it would be difficult to convince some people
that there isn't a conspiracy.

When I was involved with referring Sky digiboxes
a few years ago we got a spate of "faulty" boxes that had
the LNB power and/or the 22Khz command turned
off in the engineering menu.
I certainly began to suspect that some of them were being
turned off remotely, if not maliciously, then perhaps a consequence of new
firmware being deployed.

--
Graham.

%Profound_observation%

On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:53:24 +0100, "jamie powell"
wrote:


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Poor Nemo's been imagining things again.
I've told him to get help, but it hasn't worked.


I don't think you realise how serious is your problem.

You are a young man at uni, just beginning to learn about life.
Yet on this NG you are telling everyone that they know nothing about
any topic ranging from web design to international terrorism.

I lost count of the number of people you have insulted in this way
when I used up the fingers on both hands. I suspect that the number is
limited only by those who have chosen to respond. Several of these
people are twice or three times your age with a corresponding length
of experience.

Not once have I seen you agree with anyone.

Do you really, honestly, believe that *everyone* is wrong in
everything they say, and that only *you* have the right answers to
every situation?


Somehow I didn't think you would face up to those questions.

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On Tue, 14 Apr 2009 17:53:24 +0100, "jamie powell"
wrote:


wrote in message
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Poor Nemo's been imagining things again.
I've told him to get help, but it hasn't worked.


I don't think you realise how serious is your problem.

You are a young man at uni, just beginning to learn about life.
Yet on this NG you are telling everyone that they know nothing about
any topic ranging from web design to international terrorism.

I lost count of the number of people you have insulted in this way
when I used up the fingers on both hands. I suspect that the number is
limited only by those who have chosen to respond. Several of these
people are twice or three times your age with a corresponding length
of experience.

Not once have I seen you agree with anyone.

Do you really, honestly, believe that *everyone* is wrong in
everything they say, and that only *you* have the right answers to
every situation?


Somehow I didn't think you would face up to those questions.

It's all in your head, Nemo.
You know what you have to do.