Finally booted Virgin out

We had one, but it was wired to work at the back of the house in the kitchen so no cable for the lounge but we did a bit of messing about to re route it, well, Lizs son did, drilling through walls etc, and now it works, the box is crap though.


Im crap at instructions Jim, ill get there but it takes time, ill see if there is a video, im better with them.


18 inch solid stone walls dont help.
 
Pudsey Bear said:
Why do they need an ethernet cable though?
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Ah. If you are talking about the Youview, it needs a wired connection to use the on-demand streaming services. There is no option for wireless, only wired.
I have a mesh system to distribute the wifi through the house (sounds like you have similar?) and I connect my Youview box to the ethernet connection on one of the repeaters. works well.
 
nabsim said:
All the tv boxes I tried I couldn't get on with except Sky, never had a BT or a Virgin one though. I have lost count of the times I have cancelled Sky as we don't watch it but Caz keeps taking out a subscription, (cos its a bargain) grrrr

It's very rare I watch anything with adverts as the dogs go mad at animals, cartoons and lots of other things. If I do watch terrestrial tv it's the Freeview built in to the Samsung TV and it does need an aerial. I usually just watch stuff streamed off the internet in the house and the van. If you now have an internet signal you are happy with just get the apps and watch what you want, when you want Kew
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One comment on the Youview box I told Kev about .... It has the best way to deal with adverts I have seen on just about any STB... If you are watching a recording you made off a channel with adverts, you use the skip forward and back buttons. Most boxes tht would fast forward and you then hit play again when you think the adverts are about to stop. On the Youview box, the skip forward jumps 60 seconds, the skip back goes back 15 seconds. So advert starts ... hit skip 3 times, you have jumped 3 minutes. You get to know how long advert breaks are on a channel and just hit that button the right number of times. On Talking pictures, I skip the 5 minute advert break in about 3 seconds and don't miss the restart :)
 
That's exactly what I do with F1 if I am at the house David. Its only time I use the Sky box, record off All 4 then watch back and x30 through adverts
 
wildebus said:
if I go that wayAh. If you are talking about the Youview, it needs a wired connection to use the on-demand streaming services. There is no option for wireless, only wired.
I have a mesh system to distribute the wifi through the house (sounds like you have similar?) and I connect my Youview box to the ethernet connection on one of the repeaters. works well.
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It'll be in the lounge where the router is, so hopefully, it has more than one LAN connector, we only stream Netflix and Prime and the TV has dedicated buttons on the remote for those, but I usually use the phone apps for that as the remote is pretty crap.
 
wildebus said:
One comment on the Youview box I told Kev about .... It has the best way to deal with adverts I have seen on just about any STB... If you are watching a recording you made off a channel with adverts, you use the skip forward and back buttons. Most boxes tht would fast forward and you then hit play again when you think the adverts are about to stop. On the Youview box, the skip forward jumps 60 seconds, the skip back goes back 15 seconds. So advert starts ... hit skip 3 times, you have jumped 3 minutes. You get to know how long advert breaks are on a channel and just hit that button the right number of times. On Talking pictures, I skip the 5 minute advert break in about 3 seconds and don't miss the restart :)
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Just the same on Virgin V6 David, I only found it last year, also if you press FF 3 times then press the skip button it jumps 15 minutes.
 
This is bamboozling to a simple soul such as I.

My solution was to get a Firestick and a £60 a year “subscription “ via a bloke darn the pub. When we’re away in the van or on jollies in the Canary Islands I just use the phone hotspot, or Wi-Fi if available and stream anything that takes my fancy. In common with most providers Smarty allows up to 12gb out of your data when Eu roaming.

Got the lot really. All the good dramas and very new fillums and the sports stuff including F1. I’m hoping Plod never gets round to chasing hardened crims like me 🤣.

Cheers

H
 
Pudsey Bear said:
Just the same on Virgin V6 David, I only found it last year, also if you press FF 3 times then press the skip button it jumps 15 minutes.
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That’s interesting. On our Panasonic HDD recorder it puts in index points at the commercial breaks. If you hit the index button >l it skips the adverts.

Cheers

H
 
Winks said:
That’s interesting. On our Panasonic HDD recorder it puts in index points at the commercial breaks. If you hit the index button >l it skips the adverts.

Cheers

H
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Interesting. In the old days, some video recorders used to use the little black and white square that appeared in the screen corner at the start and end of a break to try and do an auto-FF, but that was usually pretty unreliable and sometimes the fast-forward never stopped :D (I think the squares were meant as a visual clue for some TV Studio person to get ready to do something or other? I could go and check, but if I do I will end up WILFing for a couple of hours on something totally random so going to resist the temptation!)

I used to use a dedicated PC as a Media Centre, running Windows 7 MCE (a great system. such a shame MS dropped it), and with that setup, you could (with an add-on, I think) have the playback seemlessly skip the adverts by comparing a still frame at the start of the break against the end of the break. Brilliant stuff, and if you added multiple TV cards, you could record lots of channels simultanuously.
(as an aside, I think in Japan, they have Recorders that automatically record EVERY channel continuously? Think you can go back upto 24 hours, so if you want to watch any a program on ANY channel, you can do so at any time upto a day after it was broadcast)
 
nabsim said:
That's exactly what I do with F1 if I am at the house David. Its only time I use the Sky box, record off All 4 then watch back and x30 through adverts
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I would use Channel 4 for F1, but they still haven't implemented the "Mute Steve Jones" filter :(
 
I've wondered for years why there isn't a pause and rewind button on DAB radios, not via the TV.
 
Pudsey Bear said:
I've wondered for years why there isn't a pause and rewind button on DAB radios, not via the TV.
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There is on some of them. I have a Pure "BUG" and that has a 'Revu' button that allows you to go back a set number of seconds. Also has a 'Record' button you can use on the fly IIRC.
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Had that for maybe over 20 years and not sure if it still works (not sure where Power brick is for it). Don't really like the PURE radios much now as I also have an Pure Evoke Flow, which is a DAB plus Internet Radio (great before it became so easy to listen on your phone and PC via internet and with smart speakers) but is fitted with some weird kind of OLED organic display which actually has a working life of just a few years before it sort of starts to consumes itself. Mine display eventually completly died a few years back (like they ALL end up doing) and the radio is totally unusuable without a working screen.
Parts too expensive to repair given how truely useful it really would be nowadays compared to using the Alexas I have now. The Bug screen is very likely the same OLED technology and so is probably gone :( I keep it as I love the design, but just ornamental now.
 
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Winks said:
This is bamboozling to a simple soul such as I.

My solution was to get a Firestick and a £60 a year “subscription “ via a bloke darn the pub. When we’re away in the van or on jollies in the Canary Islands I just use the phone hotspot, or Wi-Fi if available and stream anything that takes my fancy. In common with most providers Smarty allows up to 12gb out of your data when Eu roaming.

Got the lot really. All the good dramas and very new fillums and the sports stuff including F1. I’m hoping Plod never gets round to chasing hardened crims like me 🤣.

Cheers

H
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The police in many countries are now active to combat this theft. https://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/24791869.police-visiting-homes-crackdown-dodgy-fire-sticks/
 
After posting about my DAB Radio, the lack of being able to use it "BUGged" me :D
Decided to sort out a power supply for my BUG (9V, so had to jerry-rig from a desktop PSU) and still working and display fine :)
But not many tunable DAB stations as it predates DAB+ :( Managed to find only around 13 stations that worked, but still had a few that I would use, so that is ok.
Something to maybe be aware of if buying of using an older DAB radio that it may not find all the stations you want?
 
I bought a very cheap one for the kitchen 9.99 ish i only listen to greatest hits.
 
Just looked on BRSK website and I'm afraid anyone who needs my full name and mobile number just to check if there is coverage in my area won't be getting any of my business.

Regards,
Del
 
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