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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-NZ link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi Mike,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Well I don’t really agree with some of what you said.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I did mention buying a DVB-S2 receiver, they are not Freeview compliant and I don’t know why anyone would limit themselves to what freeview offers. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The Australian channels are SBS 1 and 2 and HD and Channel Nine HD and a couple of lesser channels.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>However in saying that, I have just cooked myself a really nice meal , Javanese curried pork strips – bottle of Sav Blanc, –(wife is away so I can indulge myself!) and watched <u>a bit</u> of TV. Mostly on TVNZ7 I must admit and I am very concerned that it is to be turned off some time in the future.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I watched bits of – TV1 News, Jamie Olivier 30minute meals, 400 years of Telescopes, Country Calendar and we have several episodes of Grand designs, Midsommer Murders, Sea Patrol, etc yet to watch. We look through the prog guide once a week or so then when we want to watch something check the playlist and go… TVNZ 7 has had some of the most amazing science docos but they are not at peak times which is when they put on the likes of Talk Talk and other boring stuff….<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I must admit, a DTT STB with a hard drive is really the way to go ( satellite if you don’t have Freeview HD) . We don’t watch any live TV and fast forward all the ads. There is so much good TV out there and it really annoys me that people say there is nothing on Freeview and they have to have SKY.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>There that’s my hobby horse….. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>SKY has a place if you really like sports but other than that it is a big rip off….( mind you in saying that I have just spent the last 20 years installing and maintaining their transmitters!. And switched them off a while back.)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Denis<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> thelist-bounces@radiowiki.org.nz [mailto:thelist-bounces@radiowiki.org.nz] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Mike Trump<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, 3 September 2011 7:14 p.m.<br><b>To:</b> thelist@radiowiki.org.nz<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [TheList] Question from the Village idiot<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Hey Dennis,<br>Good info there, mate.<br>Although, if I was going to spend real money doing this I'd not bother buying a Free-view "compliant" decoder, because when you do, you are pretty much locked into the channels that Free-view has to offer.<br>Which to be honest doesn't really have a great deal to offer, unless you like repeats and boring media-based things like "Talk Talk" on TVNZ7 and the kiddies channel that used to be TVNZ 6, now called U.<br>At least with a decent sized dish and decoder, you can have signals from all over the place, not just what Free-view says you should have.<br> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Mike T<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></body></html>