Bye bye Virgin
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No, not what lots of you are thinking ;P Yesterday I had SKY HD installed (UK satellite) and unplugged the Virigin Media cable box. Finally rid of that piece of £"$%^^%*^$($ X| REAL HD (not HD MPEG2) and decent SD, none of that rubbish SD that VM transmit at what I'm pretty certain is about 60% of the bitrate needed. *Gentle sigh* :cool: All I need now is one of these[^] :-D
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No, not what lots of you are thinking ;P Yesterday I had SKY HD installed (UK satellite) and unplugged the Virigin Media cable box. Finally rid of that piece of £"$%^^%*^$($ X| REAL HD (not HD MPEG2) and decent SD, none of that rubbish SD that VM transmit at what I'm pretty certain is about 60% of the bitrate needed. *Gentle sigh* :cool: All I need now is one of these[^] :-D
Visit http://www.notreadytogiveup.com/[^] and do something special today.
Trollslayer wrote:
No, not what lots of you are thinking
Well, what was I thinking?
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No, not what lots of you are thinking ;P Yesterday I had SKY HD installed (UK satellite) and unplugged the Virigin Media cable box. Finally rid of that piece of £"$%^^%*^$($ X| REAL HD (not HD MPEG2) and decent SD, none of that rubbish SD that VM transmit at what I'm pretty certain is about 60% of the bitrate needed. *Gentle sigh* :cool: All I need now is one of these[^] :-D
Visit http://www.notreadytogiveup.com/[^] and do something special today.
They have gone live with HD in South Africa too now, one channel only for now, but the decoder (HD PVR) is not too expensive (R2500) and has the same month cost as the SD PVR unit (you can also hookup the old one with the new one to give you 3 viewing and 3 recording at the same time).
xacc.ide - now with TabsToSpaces support
IronScheme - 1.0 alpha 4a out now (29 May 2008) -
Trollslayer wrote:
No, not what lots of you are thinking
Well, what was I thinking?
We are a big screwed up dysfunctional psychotic happy family - some more screwed up, others more happy, but everybody's psychotic joint venture definition of CP
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No, not what lots of you are thinking ;P Yesterday I had SKY HD installed (UK satellite) and unplugged the Virigin Media cable box. Finally rid of that piece of £"$%^^%*^$($ X| REAL HD (not HD MPEG2) and decent SD, none of that rubbish SD that VM transmit at what I'm pretty certain is about 60% of the bitrate needed. *Gentle sigh* :cool: All I need now is one of these[^] :-D
Visit http://www.notreadytogiveup.com/[^] and do something special today.
I got a virgin box for free a couple of months ago, because I refused to pay for cable on the grounds that the amount of tv I watch isn't worth the amount I pay for the license let alone cable prices on top. I hate the way when you watch something the picture ghosts all the time until the adverts come on and then all of a sudden you have a crystal clear reception until the program resumes. I think I'm being ripped off.
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No, not what lots of you are thinking ;P Yesterday I had SKY HD installed (UK satellite) and unplugged the Virigin Media cable box. Finally rid of that piece of £"$%^^%*^$($ X| REAL HD (not HD MPEG2) and decent SD, none of that rubbish SD that VM transmit at what I'm pretty certain is about 60% of the bitrate needed. *Gentle sigh* :cool: All I need now is one of these[^] :-D
Visit http://www.notreadytogiveup.com/[^] and do something special today.
Trollslayer wrote:
No, not what lots of you are thinking Poke tongue
I should 1 vote you for the misleading subject
"There are three sides to every story. Yours, mine and the truth" ~ unknown "All things good to know are difficult to learn" ~ Greek Proverb "The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary" ~ Vidal Sassoon
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No, not what lots of you are thinking ;P Yesterday I had SKY HD installed (UK satellite) and unplugged the Virigin Media cable box. Finally rid of that piece of £"$%^^%*^$($ X| REAL HD (not HD MPEG2) and decent SD, none of that rubbish SD that VM transmit at what I'm pretty certain is about 60% of the bitrate needed. *Gentle sigh* :cool: All I need now is one of these[^] :-D
Visit http://www.notreadytogiveup.com/[^] and do something special today.
Trollslayer wrote:
No, not what lots of you are thinking
I thought you travelled with Virgin Atlantic and didn't like it.
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That I had thrown out the olive oil. ;)
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Trollslayer wrote:
That I had thrown out the olive oil.
Genius response :D
Don't forget to vote if the response was helpful
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I got a virgin box for free a couple of months ago, because I refused to pay for cable on the grounds that the amount of tv I watch isn't worth the amount I pay for the license let alone cable prices on top. I hate the way when you watch something the picture ghosts all the time until the adverts come on and then all of a sudden you have a crystal clear reception until the program resumes. I think I'm being ripped off.
pseudonym67 My Articles[^] Beginning KDevelop Programming[^]
Reduced bitrates can do things like this. It's one of the tricks to deal with their bandwidth problems - satellite like Sky have about 8.8Gb/s total system bandwidth, Virgin have about 4.8Gb/s.
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Trollslayer wrote:
No, not what lots of you are thinking
I thought you travelled with Virgin Atlantic and didn't like it.
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Trollslayer wrote:
No, not what lots of you are thinking Poke tongue
I should 1 vote you for the misleading subject
"There are three sides to every story. Yours, mine and the truth" ~ unknown "All things good to know are difficult to learn" ~ Greek Proverb "The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary" ~ Vidal Sassoon
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I got a virgin box for free a couple of months ago, because I refused to pay for cable on the grounds that the amount of tv I watch isn't worth the amount I pay for the license let alone cable prices on top. I hate the way when you watch something the picture ghosts all the time until the adverts come on and then all of a sudden you have a crystal clear reception until the program resumes. I think I'm being ripped off.
pseudonym67 My Articles[^] Beginning KDevelop Programming[^]
pseudonym67 wrote:
I got a virgin box for free a couple of months ago
Now THAT is even better phrased than Trollslayer....
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
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That I had thrown out the olive oil. ;)
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No, not what lots of you are thinking ;P Yesterday I had SKY HD installed (UK satellite) and unplugged the Virigin Media cable box. Finally rid of that piece of £"$%^^%*^$($ X| REAL HD (not HD MPEG2) and decent SD, none of that rubbish SD that VM transmit at what I'm pretty certain is about 60% of the bitrate needed. *Gentle sigh* :cool: All I need now is one of these[^] :-D
Visit http://www.notreadytogiveup.com/[^] and do something special today.
No, not what you think.... just planning on bidding on the control software for Spaceport America... Home of Virgin Galactic. (bit optimistic aren't they?)
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
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That I had thrown out the olive oil. ;)
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I now wonder why I was thinking about olive oil.
We are a big screwed up dysfunctional psychotic happy family - some more screwed up, others more happy, but everybody's psychotic joint venture definition of CP
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I now wonder why I was thinking about olive oil.
We are a big screwed up dysfunctional psychotic happy family - some more screwed up, others more happy, but everybody's psychotic joint venture definition of CP
blog: TDD - the Aha! | Linkify!| FoldWithUs! | sighistpeterchen wrote:
I now wonder why I was thinking about olive oil.
I have erased two popeye comments.... I just couldn't say them....
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
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Well?
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i said i should, not that i would
"There are three sides to every story. Yours, mine and the truth" ~ unknown "All things good to know are difficult to learn" ~ Greek Proverb "The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary" ~ Vidal Sassoon