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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Lazydocker on 06 December 2012, 13:20:43
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... give a true report ;D ;D ;D
Finally managed to get my mate from down the road down and he and I have re-sited my dish (and also fitted a 60cm instead of 45cm) to a 10' pole in the back garden. Now that there is clear line of sight over the trees in front of the house we have a perfect, strong, high quality signal :y :y
Can finally see some of the HD channels, or SD channels come to think of it, that we have never been able to receive since having sky installed in 2005 :o :o
Not the fault of Sky though... The signal was always going to be weak because of the trees and they wouldn't do the specialist installation that was needed and has now been done :y :y
I might be able to enjoy TV a little more now ;D ;D
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The 60cm dish will make a big difference on its own (almost double the area and hence 3db extra)
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... give a true report ;D ;D ;D
Finally managed to get my mate from down the road down and he and I have re-sited my dish (and also fitted a 60cm instead of 45cm) to a 10' pole in the back garden. Now that there is clear line of sight over the trees in front of the house we have a perfect, strong, high quality signal :y :y
Can finally see some of the HD channels, or SD channels come to think of it, that we have never been able to receive since having sky installed in 2005 :o :o
Not the fault of Sky though... The signal was always going to be weak because of the trees and they wouldn't do the specialist installation that was needed and has now been done :y :y
I might be able to enjoy TV a little more now ;D ;D
i won't say a word then ;D ;D ;D
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Ahh, but is it raining in Essex? :-X
;)
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Losing the signal here when its blowing the tree in front of the dish , i should of chopped the tree back 4 years ago ...oh well :(
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The 60cm dish will make a big difference on its own (almost double the area and hence 3db extra)
True, but the bigger dish couldn't have been mounted where the other one was... It would have moved far too much ;)
Besides... there are no longer trees blowing into the path to the satellite :y
Ahh, but is it raining in Essex? :-X
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Not yet, but looking at the sky and the temperature we could be in for a heavy dumping of snow this even in Suffolk :o ;)
At the end of the day, I wouldn't have expected a sky "Engineer" to do the work we have done for a standard installation. I doubt any of them would even know where to start when it comes to fabrication :-X ::) Not that I would expect them to TBH ;)
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Not yet, but looking at the sky and the temperature we could be in for a heavy dumping of snow this even in Suffolk :o ;)
OK, I'll give you that one. ::) It's close, though. ;)
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... give a true report ;D ;D ;D
Finally managed to get my mate from down the road down and he and I have re-sited my dish (and also fitted a 60cm instead of 45cm) to a 10' pole in the back garden. Now that there is clear line of sight over the trees in front of the house we have a perfect, strong, high quality signal :y :y
Can finally see some of the HD channels, or SD channels come to think of it, that we have never been able to receive since having sky installed in 2005 :o :o
Not the fault of Sky though... The signal was always going to be weak because of the trees and they wouldn't do the specialist installation that was needed and has now been done :y :y
I might be able to enjoy TV a little more now ;D ;D
Good news - and thanks for the reminder. Need to change my dish this weekend :y
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Sadly all of our special installs are contracted out :(
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Sadly all of our special installs are contracted out :(
TBH, even contracted out I highly doubt it would have been successful ::) It needed some fabrication and lateral thinking to get it in a suitable location, something that hasn't happened with any of the Sky "Engineers" or contractors who have been out in the past ::)
Not Uncle Rupert's fault though, all down to Mother Nature :y :y
Anyway... Great picture now :y :y
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Sadly all of our special installs are contracted out :(
To monkeys, I'm afraid, IME.
If I wanted Sky, I'd fit it all, so all the Sky mogrels would have to do is plug the box in.
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I love sky me. It's great. :y
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I love sky me. It's great. :y
So do I, now it's working properly :y :y
Just got to sort out connecting it to tinterweb now and all will be very good :y :y
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*IF* it would link into my MCE, I'd consider it.
Although with a pair of fast broadband lines, HD streaming is a reality, and probably the future...
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*IF* it would link into my MCE, I'd consider it.
Although with a pair of fast broadband lines, HD streaming is a reality, and probably the future...
break off >:( :-X ::)
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*IF* it would link into my MCE, I'd consider it.
Although with a pair of fast broadband lines, HD streaming is a reality, and probably the future...
break off >:( :-X ::)
Is that not available in the Suffolk countryside. Ahhh, shame.
Mind you, Ipswich only got it a very recently ;D
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*IF* it would link into my MCE, I'd consider it.
Although with a pair of fast broadband lines, HD streaming is a reality, and probably the future...
break off >:( :-X ::)
Is that not available in the Suffolk countryside. Ahhh, shame.
Mind you, Ipswich only got it a very recently ;D
Mains leccy? ;D
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Sky already have it as part of anytime.
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*IF* it would link into my MCE, I'd consider it.
Although with a pair of fast broadband lines, HD streaming is a reality, and probably the future...
break off >:( :-X ::)
Is that not available in the Suffolk countryside. Ahhh, shame.
Mind you, Ipswich only got it a very recently ;D
Mains leccy? ;D
I was going to say sanitation... ;D
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Ipswich is full of retards so they don't need it :-X ::) ;D
Anyway... Apparently by 2014 we will have either fibre or min 2 meg BB
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Sadly all of our special installs are contracted out :(
To monkeys, I'm afraid, IME.
If I wanted Sky, I'd fit it all, so all the Sky mogrels would have to do is plug the box in.
;D ;D ;D ;D and i didn't start this .
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Sadly all of our special installs are contracted out :(
To monkeys, I'm afraid, IME.
If I wanted Sky, I'd fit it all, so all the Sky mogrels would have to do is plug the box in.
;D ;D ;D ;D and i didn't start this .
it's really not hard to do, any eejit can fit and service a satellite system. ::)
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*IF* it would link into my MCE, I'd consider it.
Although with a pair of fast broadband lines, HD streaming is a reality, and probably the future...
break off >:( :-X ::)
Is that not available in the Suffolk countryside. Ahhh, shame.
Mind you, Ipswich only got it a very recently ;D
Mains leccy? ;D
I was going to say sanitation... ;D
The telephone and or tarmac........ :o :o
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*IF* it would link into my MCE, I'd consider it.
Although with a pair of fast broadband lines, HD streaming is a reality, and probably the future...
break off >:( :-X ::)
Is that not available in the Suffolk countryside. Ahhh, shame.
Mind you, Ipswich only got it a very recently ;D
Mains leccy? ;D
I was going to say sanitation... ;D
The telephone and or tarmac........ :o :o
or a cinema with one of those new-fangled magic lanterns that lets you watch "fillums". ;D
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Sadly all of our special installs are contracted out :(
To monkeys, I'm afraid, IME.
If I wanted Sky, I'd fit it all, so all the Sky mogrels would have to do is plug the box in.
A tenant of mine had Sky installed and I didn't have a problem at the time. A couple of years on, different tenants complained of damp patches in the walls in the front and back bedrooms. Turned out that the Sky Numpties had fixed the dish on on the back of the house, slung the cable over the roof and down the front.... BUT the cable was all tight and they didn't loop it, so the water ran down the cable and straight down the walls!!! >:( Utter, utter retards!!! >:( >:( >:(
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*IF* it would link into my MCE, I'd consider it.
Although with a pair of fast broadband lines, HD streaming is a reality, and probably the future...
Indeed and sky know that all to well......hence thier move towards streamed content as well.
Sooner or later the Sats will get much less use as the costs increase and bendwidth becomes a bigger limitation
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*IF* it would link into my MCE, I'd consider it.
Although with a pair of fast broadband lines, HD streaming is a reality, and probably the future...
Indeed and sky know that all to well......hence thier move towards streamed content as well.
Sooner or later the Sats will get much less use as the costs increase and bendwidth becomes a bigger limitation
You say that, but with streaming media Sky's costs only increase. Unless we build our own CDN, which is quite possible. But with Sats, there is a fixed cost, no matter if we have 10 million customers or 15 million, plus its the same delivery if you are in central London or in Lakes. So don't think they are written off just yet, but it is moving that way, but its going to be some time I think.
I'm currently experimenting with my Raspberry Pi & various builds of XBMC. Some like OpenElec do include PVR, but only certain hardware.
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Oh they are.
Video on demand is becoming the publics expectation, time bound streaming is cheap to do (E-Tree), Sats have limited bandwidth and sat costs will increase.
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Huge sections of the country still have poor internet connections though, but when fibre is in every home its clearly the way forward :)
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Fibre makes me fart. ;D
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It doesn't need high bandwidth links to the home though, thats the key, fibre is certainly not needed
In the next few years most of the UK will be in a position to stream HD (ish) video on demand.
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Well.... Rain, sleet, heavy snow, high winds have all been experienced in the last 20 hours or so and the picture is still perfect :y :y :y
I expect there to be occasions when it's unreliable but it's better than I've ever experienced with the Sky here in the last 7 years :y :y
Just goes to show that fitting it properly can make all the difference ::)
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It doesn't need high bandwidth links to the home though, thats the key, fibre is certainly not needed
In the next few years most of the UK will be in a position to stream HD (ish) video on demand.
Indeed, BT built (but poorly marketed) a TV streaming service back in the days when 2Mb was the fastest line. Although it was scrapped a couple of years later, in favour of Vision...