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That is OK - I cheated by using one of Rankrotten's pictures to do all the talking! ;)

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I rarely vent ny anger at ntl tech guys but this took the biscuit, the tech guy came up this morning to fix my brothers samsung box in the next room, after 10 mins (i knew what the problem was, they stoped the smart card) Smart card wasn't registerd even though it was, anyways to cut a long story short the guy came into my room and took out the smart card when i clearly told him i was recording a tv show, he just ignored me and then casualy walked into the living room where the tv drive is, he said whats this and i explained what it was and he said he's never seen one before
low and behold he started messing about with the diagnostics and then had the gull to say he's never been trained to install them, 20 mins later after he left...........THE BOX FROZED UP.

very angry indeed

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Sorry to hear about the mess the tech left you in .There seems to a lot of faults at the moment where custmers are losing channels .I have reported this problem but who knows what will happen.I would of thought the techs in the aera you live in would of been trained before the roll out :(

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The problem was, there was picture and sound however when i pressed TVD or to check see what was on nothing came up on the screen, then i realised what he did and that was simply put the scart lead in the wrong socket on the box.

All working now, as for the freezing it's all sorted now.

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Only quoting another poster :)

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Hi again

IS their no one out there who knows the release date for Portsmouth/solent area? I REAllY want this now and can't wait till January

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From the top of this thread - Early 2007.

If you can't wait, get sky?

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Done :tu: :LOL:

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just getting it installed as we speak, installer seems to be in a bit of a mood, i think he thought it was a straight swap of an old ntl box, but as i dont have tv, its a new install. His responce..."nightmare" Still excited as hell and cant wait!

EDIT: Also meant to say that the box does not have a telewest logo on it (or an ntl logo, theres no logo), but the remote does say telewest!

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Can't get sky because I'm tied to my NTL 12 month contract till April. Was going to go over to sky then but I think I'll stick with NTL now as I really don't want to own my equipment :rolleyes:

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OK its now in and its awesome. Its a bit slow at changing channels, and a little bit bummed to find out that my tv does not automatically switch to HDMI input when I switch on tvdrive the way it does when connected by scart.

Have watched Pride on BBC on demand in HD and its amazing! 108 the BBC HD preview channel is only giving me audio and no picture, not sure what thats about, hopefully will resolve itself soon.

Also very little on demand content, hopefully that will fix itself as well.

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Well, ntl demonstrated their usual level of customer 'service' today.

Was due installation of tvdrive today, called late afternoon to query status of engineer. "Oh we had to cancel the installation as somebody made an error processing your order. Did nobody call to tell you?". Err, nope!

Aaaarghhh.

Now sheduled for next week, although now pricing up Sky. Been a customer since mid-90s and now spending over £80 a month.

They couldn't care less.

:mad:

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Ok got round to calling them on friday!
I said as i only have 10mb broadband, what will it cost to get the tvdrive installed?
They said to have tvdrive i would NEED to take a phone line, even though i said i currently use vonage with my 10mb via my router. for £7.99 a month with free landline calls, saving £11 line rental a month and have no need for it!
They said with the family pack all in all i was looking at £66 PER MONTH!!
I declined.
I called back and said "i was condsidering going to sky, and i am a long time standing ntl customer, cant you give me some sort of deal"?
To which i was told £61 was the lowest they could go, i declined.
Got the flyer in the mail yesterday, and it was just as vauge with pricing as the sales people on the phone.
Perhaps a better deal will arise?

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Without wishing to bang on about the sound, I was flicking channels this evening and stopped at 108. BBCHD were showing Robin Hood (I think the reason for the lack of picture is, certainly in my case, the lack of an HD TV)

Anyway, imagine my surprise when I realised that Robin Hood on BBCHD is broadcast in 5.1 Surround:Yikes:

Life is full of surprises!

Rorschach

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this may sound like a stupid question:dozey: but do you only see the bbc hd channels on the EPG if you have a tvdrive???