> > Dilwyn, I suggest you tape it.......... I can't get BBC4 over here > and > > would love to see it. > > > > If good, I could digitise it and turn it into a movie file for > > download..... No, it wasn't good. The only good part of it for me was the nostalgia aspect of seeing Jeremy Ruston, someone I knew of but had never met from back in Spectrum/ZX81/BBC Micro days in connection with Interface Publications. Even Sir Clive's contribution was small. QL connection was restricted to some old advert pictures of him jumping over some computers.
Anyway, tape's recorded if ever you want it - I'll put it onto the bottom of the pile of VHS tapes so we don't record over it too quick, you can watch it next time you're in Wales. > >>Will try. Can you get it via Sky, I assumed Sky in Ireland had pretty > >>much the same channels as over here? > > Actually, no. The Irish Sky setup is very much different - we only get BBC1 > (not even BBC2!!) and no channel 4 or 5 (which I miss from the analogue > days) and no ITV either, OR ITV2. We do get RTE1 and NETWORK2 and TV3 and > TG4 (the irish terrestrial channels) via the sky box so better picture and > sound, but all the channel numbers are different from the UK as a result!! > I find I watch sky movies most anyway. > > Off topic I know, but does anyone know if the freeview boxes work all over > Ireland? I was disputing getting sky in the house in Galway as well as > Wicklow, but two subs would be a bit much. I know a few people who bought > freeview boxes in the Uk and are using them in Dublin without any problems, > but would they work on the far side of the country? > > Do they use a dish, or just the normal roof mounted job? Freeview boxes use the normal rooftop aerial if in good condition, but it must have good reception. No dish required. There's nothing on there you can't get via Sky I don't think, though some of the channels are in Sky bundles you pay for. Some channels like Channel 5 you'd not get on Sky unless you were paying for something in which case they come at no extra charge, but I wouldn't call that free if you have to pay for something else to get something called 'free' (I pay Sky nothing, so I get little more than BBC channels and Sky News, various religious channels and some QVC-style channels, in other words, barely worth the bother) There was a snippet in the newspapers today about how Top Up TV's launch has been put back a while because of possible BBC dirty tricks in allegedly relegating the Top Up TV channels to the bottom of the electronic program guide, after the channels hardly anyone would watch, so nobody would know they were there unelss they saw adverts about Top Up TV! Complaint gone into OFCOM regulator apparently. When buying freeview boxes, make sure your gear has scart sockets everywhere. Many of the cheaper ones do not output onto aerial coax leads. They have a through aerial connector for analogue channels but freeview channels only go via SCART. So I found I could either plug mine into a video or to a TV but not both as there wasn't a pair of sockets to forward the signal and a home made lead wouldn't work (the telly got confused because it was getting both the video and freeview signals). Get a freeview box with 2 scart sockets or a box that modulates its own output onto UHF or you'll end up like me having to buy an external modulator which added some �40 to the price, nearly enough for a video with twin SCART sockets! I'm not sure if the new channels would replace existing ones or not, I didn't think the terrestrial digital system had any more free channels to pack anything else on, I thought the existing 30 or so TV channels was the maximum! -- Dilwyn Jones
