On 04/08/2010 17:45, Peter Nikolic wrote:
On Wednesday 04 Aug 2010 02:18:17 Basil Chupin wrote:
On 04/08/2010 06:16, Peter Nikolic wrote:
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Well i thought i had started to get a handle on this but seems it has just thrown another curved ball out .
I had noticed that when it was in bumbo mode and not getting with the BBC
Earlier I asked if you had some screensaver or similar which activates at a predetermined time. The basic question here really was: do you lose the BBC channels after a certain period(s) of time; have you been making notes about how long it takes before you lose the BBC? Five minutes, ten, twenty...?
Screen saver is off as is dpms and also if it were the screensaver thenit would effect all channels not just the BBC ones , The time it takes is not a definate period of time it can take hours or could be mineuts
You really are in a pickle, aren't you? :-( I simply cannot see how you are having this problem. You did mention that your setup is your total Media Centre. Anything to do with the way this is set up? (grasping at straws....) I am looking forward to the other GB person who is now trying to use vlc to tell me how he is coping with the BBC. I'll keep you informed of course.
One other thing - a very long shot. Did I read somewhere (BBC News Online?) that you in GB still have to buy a licence to view TV, is this correct? How would the guvvimint know if you have such a licence? Could they terminate a transmission to someone's place if they mistakenly thought that someone didn't have such a licence? (We dropped this TV licence nonsense some 40 years ago so I don't know how this works now but I do recall something about vans driving around - like theydid during WWII - looking for TV signals or something :-) .)
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Yes we still pay a license fee to recivev Tv and Radio but they have no way with terrestial stuff at the moment of switching individual sets off also if it was a license thing then i would loose it all
Om on dropping it 40 odd years ago the BBC here is funded by the License fee they have no commercial income from things like advertising they are NON commercial no adds jumping in and screwing your viewing as we get with the commercial stations some of the you have
Certainly our commercial channels do this, and even a channel which started as a community channel - the SBS - now has commercials every 15 minutes, but only if they are of the "choice" type, ie they don't contain some idiot screaming at you to buy some crap within the next few minutes before the "offer" expires - with this commercial then repeated for the next several months :-( - like the Indians who keep having their "Liquidation Sale Because the Landlord is Terminating the Lease", selling a $10,000 Arabian rug for $200 - and which is then again advertised some weeks later in another Closing Down Sale :-D . No, our ABC channels are advert free except that they do advertise their own programs available on their various (ABC) channels as well as the DVDs, CDs and books which are sold thru their ABC Shop.
a program that is supposed to be 1 hour long 25 mins of that is taken by darn commercials dont want more of that thanks
I avoid watching commercial channels like the plague. I especially avoid anything which comes from America. If there is no decent program on the ABC (= your BBC) I listen to the radio or listen to streaming radio broadcast on my DVB-T card which is either Classical Guitar, Classical Music or Country Music (these streaming broadcasts are for free from my ISP and do not contribute to the monthly download quota). BC -- If nothing happens, nothing can go wrong. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org