Now building trade suppliers are getting trashed. Who's next...

adr0ck

take it everyone knows jcb are making over 500 redundant#

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space_rider

!!!!!!? wrote: »

Sky have just announced their annual price increase:

http://www.sky.com/Assets/PDF/StaticFiles/4396810.pdf

Up by 1-2 quid per month on all packages. Top package is a wallet-busting 47 quid per month plus I think another tenner for HD service. About 600 quid a year :eek: That's a month's rent for many, or a month's mortgage payment if you bought when houses were affordable

They really are taking the p***. Glad I quit them a few years back.

I already phoned to cancel the movies and got it free for 3 months. Have set a reminder to cancel it altogether.

PasturesNew

I've never seen Sky TV. There's a dish where I live, but I don't understand it, I'd get free Sky if I could understand how to do that, but I think you have to sign up for a while and cancel it. So through lack of understanding I never bothered.

Got my first freeview box for Xmas (£12 as it was a returns). Found some great channels! Then it packed up last week. So unplugged it. It might be the batteries in the handset, so when I remember I'll try some new ones.

So back down to 4 channels.

TV is important, more than 4 channels is nice/want. But basic Sky is never need.

As for pizzas, I make my own now. About 15p for the base and then whatever I stick on it. I just can't understand how anybody can justify nearly 2 weeks' shopping money for one convenience food on one night, no matter how lovely the adverts make it look! And I'm loaded... but tight.

MonkeySaving?

As someone said earlier in the thread, SKY (on it's own) is very poor value for money, however if you get the TV/Broadband/Phone package it becomes exceptional value for money. Case in point, I was paying £80 a month for unlimited 8mb broadband from Nildram, plus around £20 a month for BT phone & calls. Switched to sky (wanted to as we were in a poor analog reception area), the package now comes in at £31 a month for 6 channel mixes, 16mb unlimited broadband and free phone evening & weekends.

WTF?_2

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've never seen Sky TV. There's a dish where I live, but I don't understand it, I'd get free Sky if I could understand how to do that, but I think you have to sign up for a while and cancel it. So through lack of understanding I never bothered.

Got my first freeview box for Xmas (£12 as it was a returns). Found some great channels! Then it packed up last week. So unplugged it. It might be the batteries in the handset, so when I remember I'll try some new ones.

They made some changes in the way Freeview was transmitted a week or two back which apparently resulted in a lot of boxes failing to work anymore with the new transmission format due to incompatibilities. Could be that causing your problem.

http://ertweekly.com/default.aspx.locid-05nnew1nf.RefLocID-05n01a.Lang-EN.htm

AFAIK there is no plan to change back to the old format so those boxes which failed are useless. Great :rolleyes: At least new boxes are pretty cheap.

If you have a dish and cabling to it then you should be able to buy a freesat box. Of course, that assumes that the LNB on it hasn't packed up and it's properly aligned. But the box is more pricy than freeview and given what could go wrong, probably best to stick with Freeview which has worked for you,

bo_drinker

Suicide it's the only answer after reading these posts on here. Can't decide hanging (cheap) or overdose. Aaaaaaaarrrrghhhhhhh

fc123

bo_drinker wrote: »

Suicide it's the only answer after reading these posts on here. Can't decide hanging (cheap) or overdose. Aaaaaaaarrrrghhhhhhh

No I recommend wine. Nice Cotes Du Rhone from Lidl. Oligoploy wine @ £3.10 per bottle.........don't miss telly then as the eyes can't focus.

PasturesNew

!!!!!!? wrote: »

They made some changes in the way Freeview was transmitted a week or two back which apparently resulted in a lot of boxes failing to work anymore with the new transmission format due to incompatibilities. Could be that causing your problem.

http://ertweekly.com/default.aspx.locid-05nnew1nf.RefLocID-05n01a.Lang-EN.htm

AFAIK there is no plan to change back to the old format so those boxes which failed are useless. Great :rolleyes: At least new boxes are pretty cheap.

Thanks. Hadn't heard of that.

My freeview box will start and goes to a blue screen and tells me there are new channels, press OK. But when I press OK nothing happens. So I think it might be the remote. Switched the batteries with those in the TV remote and it still didn't work. So thinking there's a 1-in-1000 chance that the freeview remote needs more juice than the TV remote, which is why all the batteries work the TV but none work the freeview. Might be clutching at straws there though

Update: I am not in those areas, I am in south wales.

!!!!!!? wrote: »

If you have a dish and cabling to it then you should be able to buy a freesat box. Of course, that assumes that the LNB on it hasn't packed up and it's properly aligned. But the box is more pricy than freeview and given what could go wrong, probably best to stick with Freeview which has worked for you,

Dish and socket on the wall only. Last tenant fitted the sky dish and used sky. So when I moved in it's just a socket on the wall.

Thanks for letting me know that freeview was the way to go in my circumstances. Now at least I know.

sreppaw

In Cardiff there is NTL, now Virgin Media, we blagged the 'Large' package, broadband+TV for £20/month, that is 10Mb plus lots of free ondemand TV stuff. Except I only tend to watch the news in the summer.

adr0ck

Wolseley sack 6000

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