RE: Bl**dy OnDigital...

["Phil Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>]

I used to log all downs of service when I had cable TV with Telewest when I
was in London and would withold payments if nothing was done to fix
problems
... they didn't like it and did threaten to take legal action a couple of
times but given the "cheap" option of "fix the problem and I
pay my bill"
they usually appeared screwdriver in hand. (They had a problem with water
ingress in their green box on the street which was the cause of most of the
problems.)

NTL when we were in Farnham never gave me any cause for concern...

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian G. Reynolds [mailto:brian.g.reynolds@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 19 August 2001 23:40
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Bl**dy OnDigital...
>
>
> Your also lucky...this is going to go onto I lived in a box.......
>
> With NTL just when you get to a good bit on TV the picture
> freezes and when
> it comes back the good bit has gone! very, very annoying.
>
> I actually rang them today to complain about loosing the cable modem
all
> last weekend, then loosing the TV for a few hours and the jumping
picture
> and when they eventually answered the lad who answered put me through
to a
> department that was not open and all I got was the office hours
> and then cut
> off!! boy an I pi***d at them.
>
> Guess who I will be calling tomorrow!
>
> Be good,
>
> B.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Doxey [mailto:ukha@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 19 August 2001 23:24
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Bl**dy OnDigital...
>
>
> You're lucky.
>
> I dont have to turn anything ON.
>
> Just the clouds moving in the sky is enough to cause all manner of
pops,
> bangs and pixellation. Its bad enough at home but you ought to hear
the
> effect at the Long Bar where the sound is fed through a 2kW sound
> system!!!
> When they get a good downpour they lose it completely. When they used
to
> have SKY they only ever lost the signal twice, once they lost all
> Horizontal
> channels because one of the downleads filled with water, and the
> other time
> there were hailstones the size of pingpong balls in the middle of
July.
>
> Thankfully I only got OnDigital as a backup to SKY. Having said that I
> hardly ever watch OnD because the picture definition is awful compared
to
> SKY and the channels I mostly watch arent even on there :-((
>
> Keith
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Phil Harris [mailto:phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 19 August 2001 22:53
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: [ukha_d] Bl**dy OnDigital...
> >
> >
> >
> > I love OnDigital...
> >
> > ...what with its "ghost" images of people left on
background changes in
> > Start Trek Next Gen...
> >
> > ...its picture breakups whenever someone turns a light on in the
> > house (and
> > yes, I have replaced *ALL* the light switches recently with
decent MK
> > ones!)...
> >
> > ...it even does it when the central heating boiler kicks in!
> >
> > Hell, they can't even tell me when they're going to get round to
> > broadcasting ITV on my nearest transmitter!
> >
> > Tell me ... why does the OD box even have a selection for TV type
4:3 /
> > 16:9? Is that the answer in some poll that they were doing
> because it sure
> > as hell doesn't seem that the box uses that info for anything!
> >
> > *grin* I look forward to the day when the country has gone
properly and
> > completely 16:9 ... of course that'll be the same day that the US
gets a
> > fully transparently flexible multi-resolution encoding format
which is
> > backwardly compatible with they "old" high definition
tv standards.
> >
> > *grumble*
> >
> > Phil
> >
> > (P.S. I censored the subject so no-one got offended...)
> >
> >
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