Freeview box gone bang....

spud17

DON79 wrote: »

Yep! told him that too spud17 lol! still makes no difference to him. says he doesn't care if the guide doesn't work properly as he will just flick through the channels to see what is on! :rotfl:

Fair enough.
It's more to do with updates to the box itself, one of mine (£9.99 ) is now much faster changing channel, presumably they have updated the software.

Sowilo_2

kwikbreaks wrote: »

I seriously doubt that a £7 one protects anything at all but if you want to pay that rather than a couple of quid for a 4 way strip that's entirely up to you. Some are a lot more expensive than that and I regard them to be snake oil too.

Gee really help positive feedback. You should consider going into business giving advice.
p.s I was talking about replacing the Freeview box. In case you lost the thread that's what the topic is. Duhhh.

pendulum

In fairness I thought you were talking about the £7 surge protectors too, it's just the way it read.

Whoever said older people can be set in their ways is dead right, sometimes they just won't even listen to the facts and they insist on doing things their way. I hope I never get like that.

Inactive

Does he turn his fridge off at night as well?;)

fiddiwebb

Inactive wrote: »

Does he turn his fridge off at night as well?;)

Does a fridge have an on\off button?;)

kwikbreaks

Sowilo wrote: »

Gee really help positive feedback. You should consider going into business giving advice.
p.s I was talking about replacing the Freeview box. In case you lost the thread that's what the topic is. Duhhh.

You need some lessons in both how to make an unambiguous post and manners.

JasX

JasX wrote: »

if he insists on turning everything off at the mains perhaps he could/should invest in a decent surge protector?

*speaking of ambigious/unambigious posts I'm not quite following where the advice OP should get a cheap £7 surge protector and arguments over how crap they are came from.......

kwikbreaks

The suggestion to buy a surge protector that, if any good, would cost several times the price of a cheap Freeview box originally came from you as you have already highlighted.

The £7 post which seemed to refer to surge protection but in fact was referring to cheap Freeview boxes came from Sowilo

HTH.

JasX

kwikbreaks wrote: »

The suggestion to buy a surge protector that, if any good, would cost several times the price of a cheap Freeview box originally came from you as you have already highlighted.

meh I was thinking along the lines of a belkin AV/PC certified one at around £16/17 online, that way he can cover his TV, top box, VCR/PVR/DVD player, hifi and anything else he has in that corner, plus it'll be a darn sight easier turning one thing at the wall only

Inactive

fiddiwebb wrote: »

Does a fridge have an on\off button?;)

NO, but the 13 amp socket usually has an on/off switch.;)