Posts by giovanni tiso
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Depression.
So, no effect on New Zealand then?
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I once lived with a 4 tuner/1 TV PVR for a while and only ran out of tuners once
Is there a single poster in this forum who is not married to a TV reviewer? Where do you find all this simultaneous stuff to watch on TV?!
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We have the technology; now what about the content?
Yes, that's the issue for me too. I have zero interest in upgrading to HD with the current TV lineup: same old crap, but at a higher resolution is not my idea of appealing. The Freeview content on the other hand seems genuinely interesting.
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We only picked up Sky Movies when we got Sky HDi, and it unquestionably improves the experience. A good HD transfer is better than DVD. And a lot better than those grody pictures they send out on Telstra.
Fair enough if the films are in HD, although every time I happen to look at the lineup it seems downright awful. Ah, and I'm adding "grody" to my vocabulary. For instance, my middle child seems unwell today. She looks posivitely grody.
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But for basic sports and movies (ie, not Rialto, Rugby Channel, etc) you're looking at nearly $90 per month, and more than $100 a month for HD. That's quite a lot.
Long Live the Rialto Channel, but is there really somebody who still subscribes to Sky Movies? In the age of cheap DVD rentals it's got to be one of the great ripoffs on the market - shockingly bad choice and always so late at releasing stuff. That Sky Box Office is pay per view is just shocking.
I don't have an aerial on my house, and an old analogue TV cable feed via Telstra that is very handy in terms of keeping the price WAY down and getting the Sky TV packages that I want, when I want them (very easy to switch off Sky Sports when it ain't cricket season, for instance). I have an old but very functional USB PVR that records everything through my laptop, where I can convert programmes into DivX for burning, sharing with friends, but if anybody knows of a similar device that might also allow me to get onto Freeview (some work with bunny ears aerials, apparently) I'd be interested to hear about their experience.
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That's just weird.
That's what self-responsibility will do to you.
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I'm also open to blaming the Pillage Idiots
Very funny, but inaccurate, most of the pillagers did extremely well out of the whole thing. Some are getting sworn in as Prime Ministers as we speak.
More a case of the pillaged idiots, perhaps, but I'm against a culture of blaming the victims.
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I love that there's a cocktail called the wimble. Bring that. I'll bring two gimlets.
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Can we anyway?
I'll meet you at the viaduct basin in fifteen minutes. You bring the gimlet, I bring the wimble.
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Poobris... Brokest... Glunt
Those are good but lack a certain humph. I know catastrofuck is taken, but I think we need a sweary touch.