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Old 04-11-2010, 20:55   #698
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Thumbs down Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2010) Vol. IV

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Originally Posted by Andrewcrawford23 View Post
PVR hard disk cost far more there specialy designed for PVR so aint as likely to fail as quickly you standard HDD oyu get at 30 quid will fail if used day in day out within 18-24 motnbhs the vr one are meant ot last 4-5 years
My PCs are on all of the time and I expect the drives to last a lot more than 24 months. Some of my older hardware has drives that are at least 12 years old and still working fine!

At the millennium, one of my major clients chose to power down all of its servers and reboot after midnight. My other clients chose to leave their servers running. After the reboot, a number of drives (only about six, as I recall, out of hundreds in multiple RAID arrays) failed because the heads stuck to the landing zone on the platters due to the build-up of grime forced onto the LZ by centrifugal force over many years of running. These would have mostly been top spec. SCSI drives in Sun servers and high end IDE drives in HP or Compaq machines not low end consumer drives in desktop PCs.

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Originally Posted by Media Boy View Post
The RTE TV channel only broadcast on Cable in Ireland.

But the RTE Radio 1 broadcast in old Telewest areas of Virgin Media.
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Originally Posted by Media Boy View Post
=== Unknown dates ===
-Channel 4's ''4oD'' will offer HD content.
-Pop Girl.
-RTE International.
-Squirt FM.
-Virgin Media will introduce an enhanced TV interface
I was referring specifically to "RTÉ International" the proposed television channel which has been "Coming soon ..." to cable, DTT and satellite viewers in the UK for years.

Links:-

RTÉ International
RTÉ International: It’s coming sooner than we think
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