Want to pay £80 per month to rent a 14" telly with not many channels?

"Glenn Millar" wrote in message
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On 06/06/2010 07:05, housetrained wrote:
How does that compare with, say, Harley Street clinics, or, say, a BUPA
hospital?

I maintain the TV system at a BUPA hospital in Northern Ireland here. They
have freeview along with 6 Sky channels including SKY Sports 1,2 and 3. No
service cost whatsoever.

Glenn.

Wishful thinking. Private health care providers will cost everything for
their medical and other services, and adjust charges accordingly. When
visiting someone in a BUPA hospital many years ago, I was amazed to see a
trolley with syringes, needles, catheters, etc outside a room and absolutely
everything had a small price sticker on it! Rest assured that the price
charged will have a contribution from the cost of providing a TV.

--

Jeff

On Sun, 06 Jun 2010 18:27:27 +0100, Silk wrote:

If you had a laptop with you, there's plenty else to do.

Yes such as updating the photographs of your operation on your weblog,
and posting messages to Usenet complaining about the hospital service
and the cost of it all

Silk wrote:
On 06/06/2010 17:46, Mark Carver wrote:
Silk wrote:
On 06/06/2010 04:26, wrote:
Yes? Well check in to an NHS hospital.

http://s19.photobucket.com/albums/b1...l%20rip%20off/

Laptop, 3G dongle, iPlayer etc. Simples.

Yes, with i-player consuming around 0.75GB per hour, you should be able
to notch up an 80 quid/month data usage bill with OrangeVodaO23Tmobile

That's assuming you're going to be watching TV all of the time. If you
had a laptop with you, there's plenty else to do.

Not really, three to four hours a day watching TV is not excessive if you're
stuck 24/7 in a hospital bed. 0.75x4x30= 90 GB/m. What's the cheapest 3G
tariff available ? About 1 UKP per Gig I think ?

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Mark
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housetrained wrote:
How does that compare with, say, Harley Street clinics, or, say, a BUPA
hospital?

I think you'll find that they make their profits from other services.

The NHS is of course "free at the point of use" so they can't charge you
for anything. Except phones, parking, prescription charges...

Andy

On 06/06/2010 19:56, Mark Carver wrote:

Not really, three to four hours a day watching TV is not excessive if
you're stuck 24/7 in a hospital bed. 0.75x4x30= 90 GB/m. What's the
cheapest 3G tariff available ? About 1 UKP per Gig I think ?

You can always get a relative to take the laptop away, connect to a
fixed broadband connection and download some stuff.

On 06/06/2010 19:20, Jeff Layman wrote:
"Glenn Millar" wrote in message
o.uk...
On 06/06/2010 07:05, housetrained wrote:
How does that compare with, say, Harley Street clinics, or, say, a BUPA
hospital?

I maintain the TV system at a BUPA hospital in Northern Ireland here.
They have freeview along with 6 Sky channels including SKY Sports 1,2
and 3. No service cost whatsoever.

Glenn.

Wishful thinking. Private health care providers will cost everything for
their medical and other services, and adjust charges accordingly. When
visiting someone in a BUPA hospital many years ago, I was amazed to see
a trolley with syringes, needles, catheters, etc outside a room and
absolutely everything had a small price sticker on it! Rest assured that
the price charged will have a contribution from the cost of providing a TV.

Hence I worded it as a Service Cost. Where as other systems you buy your
topup or credits.

"Andy Champ" wrote in message
...
housetrained wrote:
How does that compare with, say, Harley Street clinics, or, say, a BUPA
hospital?

I think you'll find that they make their profits from other services.

The NHS is of course "free at the point of use" so they can't charge you
for anything. Except phones, parking, prescription charges...

Andy


....Osteopaths, Chiropractors, Physios, anti-bed sore bedding, dentistry,
opticians...

And don't get me started on funeral costs!

On 6 June, 19:56, Mark Carver wrote:
Silk wrote:
On 06/06/2010 17:46, Mark Carver wrote:
Silk wrote:
On 06/06/2010 04:26, wrote:
Yes? Well check in to an NHS hospital.

http://s19.photobucket.com/albums/b1...l%20rip%20off/

Laptop, 3G dongle, iPlayer etc. Simples.

Yes, with i-player consuming around 0.75GB per hour, you should be able
to notch up an 80 quid/month data usage bill with OrangeVodaO23Tmobile

That's assuming you're going to be watching TV all of the time. If you
had a laptop with you, there's plenty else to do.

Not really, three to four hours a day watching TV is not excessive if you're
stuck 24/7 in a hospital bed. 0.75x4x30= 90 GB/m. What's the cheapest 3G
tariff available ? About 1 UKP per Gig I think ?

If only. I pay a fiver a month for 500Mb on my phone.




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Mark
Please replace invalid and invalid with gmx and net to reply.

www.paras.org.uk

"MartinR" wrote in message
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On 6 June, 19:56, Mark Carver wrote:
Silk wrote:
On 06/06/2010 17:46, Mark Carver wrote:
Silk wrote:
On 06/06/2010 04:26, wrote:
snip
Not really, three to four hours a day watching TV is not excessive if
you're
stuck 24/7 in a hospital bed. 0.75x4x30= 90 GB/m. What's the cheapest 3G
tariff available ? About 1 UKP per Gig I think ?

If only. I pay a fiver a month for 500Mb on my phone.


I pay a fiver a month for well over 2Gb on my 3Pay phone

Steve Terry
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http://www.topcashback.co.uk/ref/G4WWK

On 6 June, 20:24, Silk wrote:
On 06/06/2010 19:56, Mark Carver wrote:

Not really, three to four hours a day watching TV is not excessive if
you're stuck 24/7 in a hospital bed. 0.75x4x30= 90 GB/m. What's the
cheapest 3G tariff available ? About 1 UKP per Gig I think ?

You can always get a relative to take the laptop away, connect to a
fixed broadband connection and download some stuff.

The most convenient route I've found is to record programmes as normal
on my PVR*, and then copy the ones I want to watch onto my USB stick.
Pop it into the laptop, watch using VLC.

No internet, no iPlayer, no restrictions. "Broadcast" quality. Almost
makes long train journeys a pleasure. Finding time to watch some of
those programmes that were clogging up the PVR!

* - Freesat HDR. Other PVRs are available . USB on the Humax is
rather slow!

Cheers,
David.