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      Americanisms

      Perhaps instead of 'americanisms' it should be 'americinanities'.
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      Americanisms

      ..... radio instead of wireless, hoover instead of vacuum cleaner, Dyson instead of shoddy plastic junk. Ok so the last one's British.
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      BST Clock Changes - Experiment

      Just checked the manual - you're right. I am rebaffled!
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      BST Clock Changes - Experiment

      My HDR suddenly switched off midway through the boat race today - I didn't see it but apparently it came up with a message to say it was about to switch off. I realised it was an hour since it had been switched on so I guess it started, at some point put the clock forward an hour then after 1...
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      Broadband Disaster

      Mike - yes I use that map. It suggests I'm firmly in the mid band for the area, with no clear performance leader apart from the lucky few able to get BT Infinity. It can also be difficult to draw conclusions - eg some of the more popular ISPs show some poor performances but is that because...
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      Broadband Disaster

      BT is looking good. I'm currently paying about £45pm in total for my BT unlimited call package plus the Demon service whereas adding the unlimited broadband option to my BT package gives a total of about £22. Just need to unpick the offers a bit - they anticipate broadband users adding phone but...
    7. S

      Broadband Disaster

      Mike - you don't say who your ISP is. Unfortunately such speeds are just not on offer in my area. Though as I am currently able to stream video quite comfortably I'm not sure I would get much benefit from them anyway - I'm not into online gaming and suchlike.
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      Broadband Disaster

      I presume BH's issue is not T&Cs but aversion to Sky. I have a good phone package with BT so could probably get a good broadband bundle - the only question is the very mixed reviews it gets. Mind you, Demon gets some poor reviews too and my only complaint is price. I guess it's just the usual...
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      Broadband Disaster

      I've been with Demon for years - not the fastest ( 4 - 5 Mbps ) but absolutely reliable. I can't recall ever losing service for more than a couple of hours. However they are expensive at around £24 pm. They are now offering an 'upgrade' to ADSL2+ with an unspecified increase in performance and...
    10. S

      What a long way we've come...

      This is all a bit alarmist - I've only just retired my 2001 vintage series 1 TiVo having kept it going after the demise of analogue and the official epg service. I had hoped that one of these new fangled Fox things would see me out, or at least until the collapse of modern society when we'll all...
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      Assume v. Presume

      .... it's even worse when you consider such expressions as "a number of MPs has/have fiddled their expenses". Your ear definitely goes with "have" but the brain says "has". I think we have to consider "a number of x" as a proxy for "some x". And then there's the situation where the number/some...
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      New To The Game: FOX T2 or Foxsat-HDR

      Did Sky perhaps create their own series link data rather than relying on the original broadcaster's embedded signals? That was the way TiVo did it, even in the pre digital days. That meant that in some respects it was unequalled, eg in carrying over series links to new seasons, recognising...
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      Flatten leaves series folders behind

      I've noticed that flatten sometimes leaves series folders behind after moving the contents out. This seems to occur if I start watching the programme before recording has finished and hence before flatten does it's thing. I also get a "failed recording" email from RS for the programme, though it...
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      RS failed recording email

      Thanks BH - found the file and deleted it. If it was from mid December my son was staying so perhaps he tried to record it. I updated to RS 0.7.1 yesterday so presumably this check is a new feature, can't see why else it would pop up now. All helps to understand the mysteries of Hummyland a bit...
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      RS failed recording email

      Yes - I have enabled email notification so it's the content of the email that's puzzling me rather than the fact of getting mail from RS. I haven't recently scheduled anything via RS. There are 2 outstanding autos but neither match the message.
    16. S

      RS failed recording email

      This morning I received the following email: At least one failed recording has been detected in your media library. The following recording(s) failed: /Sliver_20121218_2342 Bit baffled - it's not something I recognise or have booked. Also if the first numeric string is a date, why now? I...
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      Interview with Graham North from Humax

      I've just listened to this, with interest in the hints about future updates to the HDR T2. Several times I found myself thinking "hang on, we've already got that!" Then of course I realise it's in the custom firmware. Eg the talk about an ios app to control the box 'because typing without a...
    18. S

      4G Interference

      And how do the boxes and the services compare? I assume Freesat has all the main channels. Does the Foxsat have the same functionality and user interface but with different tuner technology or are they different altogether?
    19. S

      4G Interference

      There has been some discussion lately of the potential interference with Freeview from the new 4G services this year - maybe 2 million will be affected. Whilst it's too soon to tell who will be affected and how badly it set me to thinking about the worst case, an unusable HDR T2. If it came to...
    20. S

      LED lighting

      I wouldn't be too confident about buying from major retailers - I bought 2 LED spots from Homebase, neither worked so back to CFLs. That bad experience aside it still seems to be the case that LEDs are not yet a good option for general lighting. Current CFLs are pretty good. We also have 4...
    1. S

      Americanisms

      Perhaps instead of 'americanisms' it should be 'americinanities'.
    2. S

      Americanisms

      ..... radio instead of wireless, hoover instead of vacuum cleaner, Dyson instead of shoddy plastic junk. Ok so the last one's British.
    3. S

      BST Clock Changes - Experiment

      Just checked the manual - you're right. I am rebaffled!
    4. S

      BST Clock Changes - Experiment

      My HDR suddenly switched off midway through the boat race today - I didn't see it but apparently it came up with a message to say it was about to switch off. I realised it was an hour since it had been switched on so I guess it started, at some point put the clock forward an hour then after 1...
    5. S

      Broadband Disaster

      Mike - yes I use that map. It suggests I'm firmly in the mid band for the area, with no clear performance leader apart from the lucky few able to get BT Infinity. It can also be difficult to draw conclusions - eg some of the more popular ISPs show some poor performances but is that because...
    6. S

      Broadband Disaster

      BT is looking good. I'm currently paying about £45pm in total for my BT unlimited call package plus the Demon service whereas adding the unlimited broadband option to my BT package gives a total of about £22. Just need to unpick the offers a bit - they anticipate broadband users adding phone but...
    7. S

      Broadband Disaster

      Mike - you don't say who your ISP is. Unfortunately such speeds are just not on offer in my area. Though as I am currently able to stream video quite comfortably I'm not sure I would get much benefit from them anyway - I'm not into online gaming and suchlike.
    8. S

      Broadband Disaster

      I presume BH's issue is not T&Cs but aversion to Sky. I have a good phone package with BT so could probably get a good broadband bundle - the only question is the very mixed reviews it gets. Mind you, Demon gets some poor reviews too and my only complaint is price. I guess it's just the usual...
    9. S

      Broadband Disaster

      I've been with Demon for years - not the fastest ( 4 - 5 Mbps ) but absolutely reliable. I can't recall ever losing service for more than a couple of hours. However they are expensive at around £24 pm. They are now offering an 'upgrade' to ADSL2+ with an unspecified increase in performance and...
    10. S

      What a long way we've come...

      This is all a bit alarmist - I've only just retired my 2001 vintage series 1 TiVo having kept it going after the demise of analogue and the official epg service. I had hoped that one of these new fangled Fox things would see me out, or at least until the collapse of modern society when we'll all...
    11. S

      Assume v. Presume

      .... it's even worse when you consider such expressions as "a number of MPs has/have fiddled their expenses". Your ear definitely goes with "have" but the brain says "has". I think we have to consider "a number of x" as a proxy for "some x". And then there's the situation where the number/some...
    12. S

      New To The Game: FOX T2 or Foxsat-HDR

      Did Sky perhaps create their own series link data rather than relying on the original broadcaster's embedded signals? That was the way TiVo did it, even in the pre digital days. That meant that in some respects it was unequalled, eg in carrying over series links to new seasons, recognising...
    13. S

      Flatten leaves series folders behind

      I've noticed that flatten sometimes leaves series folders behind after moving the contents out. This seems to occur if I start watching the programme before recording has finished and hence before flatten does it's thing. I also get a "failed recording" email from RS for the programme, though it...
    14. S

      RS failed recording email

      Thanks BH - found the file and deleted it. If it was from mid December my son was staying so perhaps he tried to record it. I updated to RS 0.7.1 yesterday so presumably this check is a new feature, can't see why else it would pop up now. All helps to understand the mysteries of Hummyland a bit...
    15. S

      RS failed recording email

      Yes - I have enabled email notification so it's the content of the email that's puzzling me rather than the fact of getting mail from RS. I haven't recently scheduled anything via RS. There are 2 outstanding autos but neither match the message.
    16. S

      RS failed recording email

      This morning I received the following email: At least one failed recording has been detected in your media library. The following recording(s) failed: /Sliver_20121218_2342 Bit baffled - it's not something I recognise or have booked. Also if the first numeric string is a date, why now? I...
    17. S

      Interview with Graham North from Humax

      I've just listened to this, with interest in the hints about future updates to the HDR T2. Several times I found myself thinking "hang on, we've already got that!" Then of course I realise it's in the custom firmware. Eg the talk about an ios app to control the box 'because typing without a...
    18. S

      4G Interference

      And how do the boxes and the services compare? I assume Freesat has all the main channels. Does the Foxsat have the same functionality and user interface but with different tuner technology or are they different altogether?
    19. S

      4G Interference

      There has been some discussion lately of the potential interference with Freeview from the new 4G services this year - maybe 2 million will be affected. Whilst it's too soon to tell who will be affected and how badly it set me to thinking about the worst case, an unusable HDR T2. If it came to...
    20. S

      LED lighting

      I wouldn't be too confident about buying from major retailers - I bought 2 LED spots from Homebase, neither worked so back to CFLs. That bad experience aside it still seems to be the case that LEDs are not yet a good option for general lighting. Current CFLs are pretty good. We also have 4...
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