what area do i come under?

shibby · 14-02-2004, 00:14

i noticed that there is basicly 2 areas. i live in waterloovile, portsmouth and have a pace 4000 box could anyone tell me what area or platform i am on.
sorry if this anoys anyone still fairly new to the site.

Marge · 14-02-2004, 00:22

Hello

You come under the Bromley platform

Ignition · 14-02-2004, 00:27

East South-East Region. Welcome btw!

14-02-2004, 00:27

Debsy's right. Theres easy ways of finding if you are a Bromley or Langley platform customer. The easiest is checking channel numbers. Sky 1 Langley is 140, on Bromley its two digits. All Langley all channels are three digits.

allanprg · 14-02-2004, 00:33

Yes you are definately the Bromley area. So Am I. Sky One is channel 30. And you also have CR3 software on your STB and the red button interactive for BBCi.

14-02-2004, 00:36

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Originally Posted by allanprg

Yes you are definately the Bromley area. So Am I. Sky One is channel 30. And you also have CR3 software on your STB and the red button interactive for BBCi.

Unfortunately, not all Bromley fed areas are on CR3 software.

shibby · 14-02-2004, 00:50

thanks guys

. skyone is channel 30.
i also have the horrible purple pinky colour, also a pace 4000 box

Marge · 14-02-2004, 01:00

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Originally Posted by shibby

i also have the horrible purple pinky colour

but pink is a lovely colour or is that just a girly thing

snuffs99 · 14-02-2004, 02:14

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Originally Posted by Debsy42

but pink is a lovely colour or is that just a girly thing

Pink is a lovely colour but not on my tv thank you very much. i much prefered the old blue screens i used to have. interactive and now/next used to be much faster before the went and turned them Pink.

Tristan · 14-02-2004, 12:18

Now you're dreaming. Interactive is certainly much faster now. Do you not remember having to sit staring at the white "please wait" screen for upwards of a minute while the Liberate Browser loaded? The Lib 1.2 browser is actually a fair bit quicker too, in terms of usability, than the 1.1 version was: animated GIFs no longer make the whole thing slow to a crawl, for example.

Actually, I think it will be quite amusing when CR3 does arrive on Langley boxes to see users doing the same thing: suddenly remembering what they had before as the best thing since sliced bread, isn't this new software terrible, etc...

**Maggy** · 14-02-2004, 12:33

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Originally Posted by Tristan

Now you're dreaming. Interactive is certainly much faster now. Do you not remember having to sit staring at the white "please wait" screen for upwards of a minute while the Liberate Browser loaded? The Lib 1.2 browser is actually a fair bit quicker too, in terms of usability, than the 1.1 version was: animated GIFs no longer make the whole thing slow to a crawl, for example.

Actually, I think it will be quite amusing when CR3 does arrive on Langley boxes to see users doing the same thing: suddenly remembering what they had before as the best thing since sliced bread, isn't this new software terrible, etc...

It still freezes as regularly and updates on the EPG are terrible.It's so often displaying "information not available for this programme".I'm having to 'reset' at least 3/4 times a week.

jonifen · 14-02-2004, 18:06

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Originally Posted by Tristan

Now you're dreaming. Interactive is certainly much faster now.

are you sure? Since the purple osd came onto our NTL at home, the whole stb has been on a go-slow

channel flicking is slow, interactive is slow, loading the tv guide is horrendously slow and our broadband seemed to have gone slower too (messed with router MAC the other day and pulled a MAC from my PC rather than my gf's and its changed our IP (we had same IP for about 14months!) and it seems much better now).

back onto the topic anyway... I assume we're on Bromley as sky 1 is on channel 30 :p

shibby · 14-02-2004, 18:11

i loved the blue screens on ntl. the interactive i hardly use because it is so slow and horrible. i don't get many problems with the epg such as unable to find information. i've haven't had it in a long time, but i do get anoyed when the screen can just go black and stop working causing me to reboot, also channel changeing is so slowwwwwwwww

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also i hate the channels that you haven't subscribed to and you get that "get this channel now" thing it anoying it never use to be on it when it was blue. why can they not automaticly put them at the end? took me along time to sort get them to the end of the channel list, and i be anoyed if the box loses the settings

jonifen · 14-02-2004, 18:18

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Originally Posted by shibby

**edit**
also i hate the channels that you haven't subscribed to and you get that "get this channel now" thing it anoying it never use to be on it when it was blue. why can they not automaticly put them at the end? took me along time to sort get them to the end of the channel list, and i be anoyed if the box loses the settings

thats my only other disappointment with the current stb system... the "get this channel now" screen. If I wanted the channel, I would a) know about it and b) phone ntl and ask for it

shibby · 15-02-2004, 01:32

also the reminder is really slow takes ages to changel channel when u click watch now