Posts by marksi
15 posts • joined Monday 15th June 2009 13:58 GMT
Posted in Toshiba Regza 32UL863 32in LED TV
"Hook the latter up to a spare Sky dish feed and you’ll get un-curated Freesat channels from Astra 19.2E."
You mean 28.2E.
u-turn ahoy...
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"Contrary to what we said earlier, we are going to bring Gingerbread to HTC Desire."
Third time...
...if you count Saturday evening when it would only load random parts of pages for quite a while. Eventually I did get the page I wanted to load and found the webform didn't work in Chrome.
4:3?
Time to buy a new television.
Ummmm...
It is an opt-in service. And has no chat facility.
Posted in OFT won't block BBC's über set top box
@AndrueC
The tuner in a Sky box only supports a limited number of transmission parameters, controlled by Sky. Despite having an "other channels" function, it is not as open as a FTA satellite box.
Posted in OFT won't block BBC's über set top box
Ummmm...
...is it not healthy for there to be a competitor to Murdoch?
This article reads as an anti-BBC rant, when in fact it is a project being undertaken by 7 companies, and is unworthy of The Register IMO.
Posted in Freeview HD launches, gets Channel 4
Erm
"State owned but advertising funded Channel 4 said it was "delighted" to be bringing its content to the channel, but we note that that delight doesn't extend to running its other offerings, including Film 4, E4 and More 4, on Freeview."
Can't blame them for that, there isn't the capacity on Freeview for more HD, largely because OFCOM wants to sell off part of the spectrum after analogue switch off.
Why, however, a public service broadcaster such as C4 is excluding it's channels from Freesat is a pertinent question to ask.
Posted in Virgin Media wins Film 4 HD exclusive
Blow to accurate journalism
Correct Richard, there is no possibility that Film 4 could have been on Freeview so it being described as "a blow" is nonsensical.
The question that should be posed is why as public service broadcaster, Channel 4 has chosen not to make it's 4HD service available on Freesat.
Posted in O2 just can't keep it up
O2 strange thing
A message sent from a friend's O2 phone to my O2 phone reached mine, apparently from a completely different number on Saturday evening. Replied to the number it claimed to come from and they'd no idea who I was, and that number isn't in either of our contacts list.
Posted in Nokia admits killing off Widsets
Ovi does not have the content Widsets did.
I liked Widsets. Was seriously pissed off that it had simply been deleted with no warning whatsoever.
I'll remember the contempt that Nokia has shown me.
Posted in Nokia toughens up
N79?
Looks like the N78 but with proper buttons. The N78 I have is a decent enough phone but the designer was clearly just having a laugh with the keypad.
Posted in Toshiba Regza 37AV615DB
Errr
"Freeview channels displayed correctly, but the signal from our Sky+ box was initially displayed at its standard 576p resolution, which left it with big black borders on either side of the image. We were able to correct this easily enough by using the ‘4:3 Stretch’ option within the on-screen menu. "
Actually it sounds very much like it was correct in the first place.
