Picture problems and CR3?

Mikey E · 07-03-2004, 21:34

Periodically my set-top box will start playing up (picture problems, interactive hangs etc.) because the signal strengh gets too high. Spend the expected 20-40 mins on the phone to customer services; engineer comes round fixes the problem and then everything is fine until the next time..

Does anyone one know if the langley CR3 upragde will make my pace box more tollerant to signal strenght changes or (as I feel is probably the case) it will make things worse because the new software relies even more on the return path?

07-03-2004, 21:38

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Originally Posted by Mikey E

Periodically my set-top box will start playing up (picture problems, interactive hangs etc.) because the signal strengh gets too high. Spend the expected 20-40 mins on the phone to customer services; engineer comes round fixes the problem and then everything is fine until the next time..

Does anyone one know if the langley CR3 upragde will make my pace box more tollerant to signal strenght changes or (as I feel is probably the case) it will make things worse because the new software relies even more on the return path?

No it won't. Where in the UK are you? What makes you think the signal strength is too high, the tech who comes round?

Mikey E · 08-03-2004, 21:32

Shame.... I Live in High wycombe, bucks. The engineers who come round to fix the problem tell me it's the signal strength.

BBKing · 08-03-2004, 22:14

Isn't that a 'Bromley' area (Amersham/Aylesbury) rather than 'Langley'? You should already have CR3 (pink CWC version).

Tristan · 08-03-2004, 22:19

Just out of curiousity BBK, what is it you have against the terms Bromley and Langley? I seem to remember you disliking them back on .com, but I never got why. Seems like a fairly easy way of distinguishing between the two TV networks, if you ask me...

BBKing · 09-03-2004, 08:16

I dislike them because they get used in at least two different ways* and confuse people, they enshrine a separation in the company that certainly won't last forever and makes people think that the company is forever divided into two warring parts (well, that bit is partly true).

*The other use is to differentiate between SACM and STB broadband, even on the same ex-CWC area UBRs, which in TV terms are Bromley. If/when STB BB turns up on original ntl area UBRs people will probably call that 'Bromley' unless I reeducate them with a mallet.

Mikey E · 10-03-2004, 16:39

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Originally Posted by BBKing

Isn't that a 'Bromley' area (Amersham/Aylesbury) rather than 'Langley'? You should already have CR3 (pink CWC version).

Wycombe is Langley which is why i'm waiting "patientily" for CR3!

Frank · 10-03-2004, 21:07

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Originally Posted by BBKing

I dislike them because they get used in at least two different ways* and confuse people, they enshrine a separation in the company that certainly won't last forever and makes people think that the company is forever divided into two warring parts (well, that bit is partly true).

Tbh, these names will continue until the features offered by both platforms are exactly the same and there is no need to refer to one particular platform. They may both to the same company, but they still aren't the same, so they have to be called something.