"MartinM" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...
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You have to have a set-top box that has a slot for a top-up TV card. If you haven't one of these, you need a new set-top box.
I have a new set top box but no slot, I was assuming that you get some sort of encription code,
You need a new set top box with slot for top-up TV card then ;-)
that's a bit daft, why don't they all have them? mine is a fairly high range Philips
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Not going to do it anyway, freeview means just that in my book, not a lead on for Top-up (ie pay) TV. I am quite happy to wait until 1900 for itv2 (or even watch live at weekends). Anything else I want to watch I will rent or buy a DVD, it is cheaper.
Your choice to make :-)
quite, if I wanted to pay for rubbish I would have got Sky. Certainly the scrambled channels that appear on the menu do not seem worth paying for.
BTW Tim you mentioned that I could program the DTR500, I tried this morning but it just said no timers specified, does this mean I haven't set it up or it is not available? I have just left it tuned into itv2 and set the DVDR to record EXT2 this afternoon.
BTW Tim you mentioned that I could program the DTR500, I tried this morning but it just said no timers specified, does this mean I haven't set it up or it is not available?
AIUI on that model, hit the Guide button, scroll to the channel and programme you want, select with Red button. You can then adjust the timings presented (add a few minutes to the end, for example, to allow for late running programmes), then press Red again.
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I have just left it tuned into itv2 and set the DVDR to record EXT2 this afternoon.
A good idea to make sure it works with something less vital than Le Tour though.
BTW Tim you mentioned that I could program the DTR500, I tried this morning but it just said no timers specified, does this mean I haven't set it up or it is not available?
AIUI on that model, hit the Guide button, scroll to the channel and programme you want, select with Red button. You can then adjust the timings presented (add a few minutes to the end, for example, to allow for late running programmes), then press Red again.
Thanks
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I have just left it tuned into itv2 and set the DVDR to record EXT2 this afternoon.
A good idea to make sure it works with something less vital than Le Tour though.
had no choice, had to go to work. Absolutely glued to Live8 now anyway, Madge is set to steal the show with Snoop close behind
I have a new set top box but no slot, I was assuming that you get some sort of encription code,
You need a new set top box with slot for top-up TV card then ;-)
that's a bit daft, why don't they all have them? mine is a fairly high range Philips
When Freeview replaced On-ITV-Digital it was all free to view, so the new boxes came without card slots. Then TUTV thought, "Hey we could buy some space and get people with the old On-ITV-Digital boxes to pay us some money. Many manufacturers can't be bothered making boxes for what is after all a very small market.
-- Phil Cook looking north over the park to the "Westminster Gasworks"
