He says, while paying $540 a year for the use of an ancient copper wire, and $40 a year to run a net connection over it. Guess which one's monopoly owned.

I've lived with a 4 tuner PVR for a while and actually managed to run out on a Sunday night by scheduling 4 things at once and then trying to tune live

I'm impressed that you managed to find 5 things worth watching on TV at the same time.

Russell, if I understand this correctly, the cost to upgrade to HD for people with the current digital box, which is most people, will be $599 plus $10 a month on the subscription?

I think I saw in Russell's original item that the new MySky has three tuners in it.…

Most people will feel they are being delivered a "better" product when they see the HD picture on their screen... and it's a fairly ordinary business practice to charge extra money for a better product/service.

The problem that I can see with SKY is because of their large bouquet they…

Of course really I'd like to just roll my own Sky box, but in my corner of the business one doesn't just run off and implement someones crypto without permission, even if you know how.

It would be ungentlemanly.

Of course really I'd like to just roll my own Sky box, but in my…

Why do I have to receive a whole host of other rubbish if I just want the sports and news channels.

Amen! Simon, we should start a club.

I don't have Sky and I also don't have freeview.... and I may take up one of those offerings either soon, or when I'm forced to when analog broadcast gets turned off... but they ARE competitors...

If you buy a FreeView HD box you pay a one off cost and receive improved picture quality. Yet with Sky you pay to get the box, then each month to receive the picture. While I appreciate that Sky is a business,…

If picture quality is not important to you, it may appear that you are paying an extra $10 a week for "nothing"...

Most people will feel they are being delivered a "better" product when they see the HD picture on their screen... and it's a fairly ordinary business practice…

Freeview seem to me to have missed the bus by not having a MYSKY equivalent at launch date.

I have one, but it doesn't have the official Freeview EPG and it's a satellite decoder. The boxes available later in the year will be Freeview HD ones.

You got a Topfield eh?…

OTA PVR, DIY, PC, CD, FV, MPEG4, TV, NZ, DVB-T, EPG, US, QAM, DVB, ATSC

er sorry, welcome to what I do for a living (cable/satellite/broadcast digital TV protocol wrangling – I make a living because all these different acronyms and the protocols they describe exist):

– OTA (off of…

WTF!!!

I see your WTF!!!, and raise you OMGWTFBBQ!!11!

Gee – maybe it's time to roll a cheap OTA PVR – I keep threatening to make a DIY-with-your-old-PC-and-Myth standalone CD – most of the bits are readily available now.

Oooh. Last I checked, myth was still having ish-yews with HDFreeView, but it does appear that they might have been…

OTA PVR, DIY, PC, CD, FV, MPEG4, TV, NZ, DVB-T, EPG, US, QAM, DVB, ATSC.

WTF!!!

Kyle's mobile number is 021-113-0236. Have fun!

brilliant!, I most definitely will (have fun)
ps, you haven't got yulia's number have you,

get my txting fingers limbered up......

Oh but before any of that, you have to pass the initiation. And believe me, that's no walk in the park

I hope you're not scared of goats...

I can provide goats, the badgers might be harder to find though ....

But the badgers represent the dream of central urban…

Paul I don't know if you did this on purpose but here is a list of all your acronyms: OB (and thanks to everyone for the explanations), OTA PVR, DIY, PC, CD, FV, MPEG4, TV, NZ, DVB-T, EPG, US, QAM, DVB, ATSC.

Wow...um, I'll just guess the ones…

Oh but before any of that, you have to pass the initiation. And believe me, that's no walk in the park

I hope you're not scared of goats...

Gee – maybe it's time to roll a cheap OTA PVR – I keep threatening to make a DIY-with-your-old-PC-and-Myth standalone CD – most of the bits are readily available now.

The big problem of course is that FV's choice of MPEG4…

Cheers. I've just realised: will this make us "the Dunedinista" ? :)

Not until you complete the Official Initiation Ceremony de Gross Humiliation.

But it's not so bad, I'll ask Jo to come & explain it.

And if not you'll be hearing from our lawyer... who also... technically, is Jo.

Actually…

What's an "OB truck"? (does the b stand for "broadcast"?)

It's 'outside broadcast' isn't it? Puts a whole new spin on 'ob-gyn'.

Also what are the rest of the 104 sports events in HD? (is there a list somewhere? he asks lazily)

I've been watching stuff branded ESPNHD for years now thinking "I wonder what it really looks like". Which is quite…

Cheers. I've just realised: will this make us "the Dunedinista" ? :)

Not until you complete the Official Initiation Ceremony de Gross Humiliation.

But it's not so bad, I'll ask Jo to come & explain it.

And if not you'll be hearing from our lawyer... who also... technically, is Jo.

Wouldn't want to risk any misunderstandings. Best to have Jo demonstrate, and cell-phone-cam it to youtube.

*pushes Grant forward*

e also outlined Sky's plans for the 2010 Winter Olympics and 2012 Olympics in London. They're huge. Sky will have eight dedicated Olympic channels

Sweet. We might actually get decent coverage of winter sports for the first time. Actually watching games rather than 5 minute highlights.

Not until you complete the Official Initiation Ceremony de Gross Humiliation.

But it's not so bad, I'll ask Jo to come & explain it.

Wouldn't want to risk any misunderstandings. Best to have Jo demonstrate, and cell-phone-cam it to youtube.

I guess that's what happens when you can just add channels whenever you choose, and all they do is show some particular event. A luxury TVNZ doesn't have.

Quite. Until we turn off analog TV, there's not a lot more spectrum to go around. Sky, on the other hand, has…

Jack Coleman of "Heroes" commented in an interview that he was terrified of the show moving to HD because it meant his nose hair would be broadcast to the worl

I remember, back at the very beginning of the high-def DVD wars, seeing a comment from an adult entertainment star…

Cheers. I've just realised: will this make us "the Dunedinista" ? :)

Not until you complete the Official Initiation Ceremony de Gross Humiliation.

But it's not so bad, I'll ask Jo to come & explain it.

He quoted a total of 3638 hours coverage of the London games, contrasting that with the 810 hours TVNZ provides from Beijing.

I guess that's what happens when you can just add channels whenever you choose, and all they do is show some particular event. A luxury TVNZ doesn't have.…

Running the HD box will cost an extra $10 a month, but that fee will be waived for customers to elect to keep their current box as an additional household decoder.

What does that mean?

That the cost of having an HD box, plus a second non-HD box will be…

Mmmm As usual it sounds as if SKY have done their homework and will provide a superior product. I don't think Freeview will have a PVR with intelligence out till late this year or even next year.

It should be late this year, and it won't be as friendly as…

Running the HD box will cost an extra $10 a month, but that fee will be waived for customers to elect to keep their current box as an additional household decoder.

What does that mean?

big tv, hi-def, pimples. an evil combo.

Jack Coleman of "Heroes" commented in an interview that he was terrified of the show moving to HD because it meant his nose hair would be broadcast to the world.

Russell, could you amend your post so my surname is spelt correctly, please? "Mc" not "Mac".

Duh. Done.

i'd like to gauge how much money tvnz will have to spend on "photoshopping experts" to smooth the blemishes of its talent.

big tv, hi-def, pimples. an evil combo.

(and seriously... would like to know some local prediction markets)

Anyway...yes, there's gonna ba blend in Dunners! I'm keen to have it at the end of this month, or early July.

If you're keen to have a few beers with your fellow Mainland PA-ers,…