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* on line free channelsBrian Gaff \(Sofa\)
+* Re: on line free channelsIndy Jess John
|+* Re: on line free channelscharles
||+* Re: on line free channelsWoody
|||`- Re: on line free channelsBrian Gaff \(Sofa\)
||+* Re: on line free channelsMax Demian
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||`- Re: on line free channelsBrian Gaff \(Sofa\)
|`- Re: on line free channelsBrian Gaff \(Sofa\)
`* Re: on line free channelsMichael Chare
 +* Re: on line free channelsRoderick Stewart
 |+- Re: on line free channelsBrian Gaff \(Sofa\)
 |`* Re: on line free channelsPamela
 | `* Re: on line free channelsRoderick Stewart
 |  +- Re: on line free channelsTony Gamble
 |  `* Re: on line free channelsPamela
 |   `* Re: on line free channelsTony Gamble
 |    `- Re: on line free channelsRoderick Stewart
 `- Re: on line free channelsBrian Gaff \(Sofa\)

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From: bria...@blueyonder.co.uk (Brian Gaff \(Sofa\))
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Subject: on line free channels
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 by: Brian Gaff \(Sofa\) - Tue, 23 Nov 2021 10:26 UTC

Being a Samsung TV as many know there are a lot of extra online channels,
from Pluto tv and others. Some are in fact quite interesting, but their
commercials seem a bit ad hoc to me.
Some have a definite digital noise in the sound channel, similar to
trunking radio sounds if tuned into by a scanner on fm, Sometimes there are
long periods of nothing or little jingles playing or commercials simply
repeated several times. Seems very amateurish.

Shame also there is nothing up there with audio description as some films
would be very watchable if there was.
Brian

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 by: Indy Jess John - Tue, 23 Nov 2021 13:31 UTC

On 23/11/2021 10:26, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
> Sometimes there are
> long periods of nothing or little jingles playing or commercials simply
> repeated several times.

They could be test transmissions. I remember when Classics FM was due to
start, there was hours of birdsong transmitted before the programmes
finally launched.

Jim

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 by: charles - Tue, 23 Nov 2021 13:50 UTC

In article <sniqft$1qb$1@dont-email.me>,
Indy Jess John <bathwatchdog@OMITTHISgooglemail.com> wrote:
> On 23/11/2021 10:26, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
> > Sometimes there are
> > long periods of nothing or little jingles playing or commercials simply
> > repeated several times.

> They could be test transmissions. I remember when Classics FM was due to
> start, there was hours of birdsong transmitted before the programmes
> finally launched.

> Jim

When the Engineering Test Transmissions for one of the London ILR services
finished, there was a letter in the London Evening paper saying "For weeks
we have lovely music, apparently chosen by engineers. Please could the
engineers chose all the programmes."

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"I'd rather die of exhaustion than die of boredom" Thomas Carlyle

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From: harroga...@ntlworld.com (Woody)
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 by: Woody - Tue, 23 Nov 2021 15:43 UTC

On Tue 23/11/2021 13:50, charles wrote:
> In article <sniqft$1qb$1@dont-email.me>,
> Indy Jess John <bathwatchdog@OMITTHISgooglemail.com> wrote:
>> On 23/11/2021 10:26, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
>>> Sometimes there are
>>> long periods of nothing or little jingles playing or commercials simply
>>> repeated several times.
>
>> They could be test transmissions. I remember when Classics FM was due to
>> start, there was hours of birdsong transmitted before the programmes
>> finally launched.
>
>> Jim
>
> When the Engineering Test Transmissions for one of the London ILR services
> finished, there was a letter in the London Evening paper saying "For weeks
> we have lovely music, apparently chosen by engineers. Please could the
> engineers chose all the programmes."
>

I would most certainly not argue with that!

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 by: Max Demian - Tue, 23 Nov 2021 17:50 UTC

On 23/11/2021 13:50, charles wrote:
> In article <sniqft$1qb$1@dont-email.me>,
> Indy Jess John <bathwatchdog@OMITTHISgooglemail.com> wrote:
>> On 23/11/2021 10:26, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
>>> Sometimes there are
>>> long periods of nothing or little jingles playing or commercials simply
>>> repeated several times.
>
>> They could be test transmissions. I remember when Classics FM was due to
>> start, there was hours of birdsong transmitted before the programmes
>> finally launched.
>
>> Jim
>
> When the Engineering Test Transmissions for one of the London ILR services
> finished, there was a letter in the London Evening paper saying "For weeks
> we have lovely music, apparently chosen by engineers. Please could the
> engineers chose all the programmes."

I still have my tape of the Classic FM test transmission, labelled
"Country Sounds". I also have many tapes of the Heart Radio test
transmissions, which consisted of many hours of continuous pop music
(without commercials); and similar tapes of what Time Radio put out when
they were having difficulties.

--
Max Demian

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 by: Brian Gaff \(Sofa\) - Wed, 24 Nov 2021 10:04 UTC

No not in this case. These are TV channels often having films on them of or
running old series, like Myth busters or GPs behind closed doors or old
nature and explorer stuff, though some of it is not really more than a few
years old and certainly some films were probably direct to video type ones
but not bad at all.
Brian

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"Indy Jess John" <bathwatchdog@OMITTHISgooglemail.com> wrote in message
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> On 23/11/2021 10:26, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
>> Sometimes there are
>> long periods of nothing or little jingles playing or commercials simply
>> repeated several times.
>
> They could be test transmissions. I remember when Classics FM was due to
> start, there was hours of birdsong transmitted before the programmes
> finally launched.
>
> Jim
>

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 by: Brian Gaff \(Sofa\) - Wed, 24 Nov 2021 10:06 UTC

Yes this goes back to the old test card days, when people used to record the
sound channels merely due to the easy listening music. Now of course you can
get albums of it quite cheaply.

Brian

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> In article <sniqft$1qb$1@dont-email.me>,
> Indy Jess John <bathwatchdog@OMITTHISgooglemail.com> wrote:
>> On 23/11/2021 10:26, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
>> > Sometimes there are
>> > long periods of nothing or little jingles playing or commercials simply
>> > repeated several times.
>
>> They could be test transmissions. I remember when Classics FM was due to
>> start, there was hours of birdsong transmitted before the programmes
>> finally launched.
>
>> Jim
>
> When the Engineering Test Transmissions for one of the London ILR services
> finished, there was a letter in the London Evening paper saying "For weeks
> we have lovely music, apparently chosen by engineers. Please could the
> engineers chose all the programmes."
>
> --
> from KT24 in Surrey, England
> "I'd rather die of exhaustion than die of boredom" Thomas Carlyle

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 by: Brian Gaff \(Sofa\) - Wed, 24 Nov 2021 10:10 UTC

One of the really annoying things about commercial tv and radio is that the
output is based not on what the public want, but what the advertisers want
and in some cases pay for making. The advertising industry does not know
what the public want only what they want to flog certain people who are
deemed to have expendable cash. Thus the cuddly sort of radio and TV never
get a look in. Its either cheap trash or dramas that tick as many inclusion
boxes as possible than t contains at least some sex and violence.
Brian

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"Woody" <harrogate3@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> On Tue 23/11/2021 13:50, charles wrote:
>> In article <sniqft$1qb$1@dont-email.me>,
>> Indy Jess John <bathwatchdog@OMITTHISgooglemail.com> wrote:
>>> On 23/11/2021 10:26, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
>>>> Sometimes there are
>>>> long periods of nothing or little jingles playing or commercials simply
>>>> repeated several times.
>>
>>> They could be test transmissions. I remember when Classics FM was due to
>>> start, there was hours of birdsong transmitted before the programmes
>>> finally launched.
>>
>>> Jim
>>
>> When the Engineering Test Transmissions for one of the London ILR
>> services
>> finished, there was a letter in the London Evening paper saying "For
>> weeks
>> we have lovely music, apparently chosen by engineers. Please could the
>> engineers chose all the programmes."
>>
>
> I would most certainly not argue with that!
>

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 by: Brian Gaff \(Sofa\) - Wed, 24 Nov 2021 10:15 UTC

Yes it was fun in the early days before the big boys bought most of them up,
as I had a rota Fuba 5 element fm aerial that could pick up all the new
stations in and around the south of the UK pretty well.
Unfortunately, these days its just banal 'safe' pop and it just washes over
me if I'm forced to listen to it, and mostly at night its just a juke box or
some presenter from home with play station studio and a link to the server
voice tracking an all nighter in about 30 minutes.
Brian

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"Max Demian" <max_demian@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
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> On 23/11/2021 13:50, charles wrote:
>> In article <sniqft$1qb$1@dont-email.me>,
>> Indy Jess John <bathwatchdog@OMITTHISgooglemail.com> wrote:
>>> On 23/11/2021 10:26, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
>>>> Sometimes there are
>>>> long periods of nothing or little jingles playing or commercials simply
>>>> repeated several times.
>>
>>> They could be test transmissions. I remember when Classics FM was due to
>>> start, there was hours of birdsong transmitted before the programmes
>>> finally launched.
>>
>>> Jim
>>
>> When the Engineering Test Transmissions for one of the London ILR
>> services
>> finished, there was a letter in the London Evening paper saying "For
>> weeks
>> we have lovely music, apparently chosen by engineers. Please could the
>> engineers chose all the programmes."
>
> I still have my tape of the Classic FM test transmission, labelled
> "Country Sounds". I also have many tapes of the Heart Radio test
> transmissions, which consisted of many hours of continuous pop music
> (without commercials); and similar tapes of what Time Radio put out when
> they were having difficulties.
>
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 by: Michael Chare - Wed, 24 Nov 2021 22:24 UTC

On 23/11/2021 10:26, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
> Being a Samsung TV as many know there are a lot of extra online channels,
> from Pluto tv and others. Some are in fact quite interesting, but their
> commercials seem a bit ad hoc to me.
> Some have a definite digital noise in the sound channel, similar to
> trunking radio sounds if tuned into by a scanner on fm, Sometimes there are
> long periods of nothing or little jingles playing or commercials simply
> repeated several times. Seems very amateurish.
>
> Shame also there is nothing up there with audio description as some films
> would be very watchable if there was.
> Brian
>

I have a LED Samsung TV I bought in 2011. It now can't even receive the
Netflix login page due to some change Netflix made to the way their
transmission works.

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 by: Roderick Stewart - Thu, 25 Nov 2021 10:14 UTC

On Wed, 24 Nov 2021 22:24:23 +0000, Michael Chare
<mUNDERSCOREnews@chareDO.Torg.uk> wrote:

>On 23/11/2021 10:26, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
>> Being a Samsung TV as many know there are a lot of extra online channels,
>> from Pluto tv and others. Some are in fact quite interesting, but their
>> commercials seem a bit ad hoc to me.
>> Some have a definite digital noise in the sound channel, similar to
>> trunking radio sounds if tuned into by a scanner on fm, Sometimes there are
>> long periods of nothing or little jingles playing or commercials simply
>> repeated several times. Seems very amateurish.
>>
>> Shame also there is nothing up there with audio description as some films
>> would be very watchable if there was.
>> Brian
>>
>
>I have a LED Samsung TV I bought in 2011. It now can't even receive the
>Netflix login page due to some change Netflix made to the way their
>transmission works.

Don't bother with the streaming functions built into TV sets. They're
never as good as separate devices.

A week or two ago I needed to replace the remote control on my old
Amazon Fire TV box and couldn't get an exact replacement, but was able
to get a new TV Stick for £16.99, and I see that their Black Friday
price for it today is only £14.99. That's a complete streaming kit
including a remote control for about the price I was expecting to pay
for a replacement remote on its own (if I could have got one). This
cheapest one only does 1920x1080 but it works very well, and there are
also 4K versions if you want to pay a bit more. At that sort of price
I've bought things out of what I call the "curiosity budget" just to
see what they can do. Go on - it's nearly Christmas.

Rod.

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 by: Brian Gaff \(Sofa\) - Fri, 26 Nov 2021 12:07 UTC

Mine is 2020 and still works but I do not subscribe to any of the paid
channels. I'd have thought that the app would be updatable on most Samsungs,
although its supposed to be their own operating system all the stuff looks
like Android to me.
Brian

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"Michael Chare" <mUNDERSCOREnews@chareDO.Torg.uk> wrote in message
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> On 23/11/2021 10:26, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
>> Being a Samsung TV as many know there are a lot of extra online channels,
>> from Pluto tv and others. Some are in fact quite interesting, but their
>> commercials seem a bit ad hoc to me.
>> Some have a definite digital noise in the sound channel, similar to
>> trunking radio sounds if tuned into by a scanner on fm, Sometimes there
>> are
>> long periods of nothing or little jingles playing or commercials simply
>> repeated several times. Seems very amateurish.
>>
>> Shame also there is nothing up there with audio description as some films
>> would be very watchable if there was.
>> Brian
>>
>
> I have a LED Samsung TV I bought in 2011. It now can't even receive the
> Netflix login page due to some change Netflix made to the way their
> transmission works.
>
>
> --
> Michael Chare

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 by: Brian Gaff \(Sofa\) - Fri, 26 Nov 2021 12:09 UTC

Yes always good as a back up anyway if you want all that. Also of course it
has voiceview and alexa built in as standard so they can be used if you are
blind as well.
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"Roderick Stewart" <rjfs@escapetime.myzen.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 24 Nov 2021 22:24:23 +0000, Michael Chare
> <mUNDERSCOREnews@chareDO.Torg.uk> wrote:
>
>>On 23/11/2021 10:26, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
>>> Being a Samsung TV as many know there are a lot of extra online
>>> channels,
>>> from Pluto tv and others. Some are in fact quite interesting, but their
>>> commercials seem a bit ad hoc to me.
>>> Some have a definite digital noise in the sound channel, similar to
>>> trunking radio sounds if tuned into by a scanner on fm, Sometimes there
>>> are
>>> long periods of nothing or little jingles playing or commercials simply
>>> repeated several times. Seems very amateurish.
>>>
>>> Shame also there is nothing up there with audio description as some
>>> films
>>> would be very watchable if there was.
>>> Brian
>>>
>>
>>I have a LED Samsung TV I bought in 2011. It now can't even receive the
>>Netflix login page due to some change Netflix made to the way their
>>transmission works.
>
> Don't bother with the streaming functions built into TV sets. They're
> never as good as separate devices.
>
> A week or two ago I needed to replace the remote control on my old
> Amazon Fire TV box and couldn't get an exact replacement, but was able
> to get a new TV Stick for �16.99, and I see that their Black Friday
> price for it today is only �14.99. That's a complete streaming kit
> including a remote control for about the price I was expecting to pay
> for a replacement remote on its own (if I could have got one). This
> cheapest one only does 1920x1080 but it works very well, and there are
> also 4K versions if you want to pay a bit more. At that sort of price
> I've bought things out of what I call the "curiosity budget" just to
> see what they can do. Go on - it's nearly Christmas.
>
> Rod.

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 by: Pamela - Sat, 4 Dec 2021 14:34 UTC

On 10:14 25 Nov 2021, Roderick Stewart said:

> On Wed, 24 Nov 2021 22:24:23 +0000, Michael Chare
> <mUNDERSCOREnews@chareDO.Torg.uk> wrote:
>
>>On 23/11/2021 10:26, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
>>> Being a Samsung TV as many know there are a lot of extra online
>>> channels, from Pluto tv and others. Some are in fact quite
>>> interesting, but their commercials seem a bit ad hoc to me.
>>> Some have a definite digital noise in the sound channel, similar
>>> to
>>> trunking radio sounds if tuned into by a scanner on fm, Sometimes
>>> there are long periods of nothing or little jingles playing or
>>> commercials simply repeated several times. Seems very amateurish.
>>>
>>> Shame also there is nothing up there with audio description as
>>> some films would be very watchable if there was.
>>> Brian
>>>
>>
>>I have a LED Samsung TV I bought in 2011. It now can't even receive
>>the Netflix login page due to some change Netflix made to the way
>>their transmission works.
>
> Don't bother with the streaming functions built into TV sets.
> They're never as good as separate devices.
>
> A week or two ago I needed to replace the remote control on my old
> Amazon Fire TV box and couldn't get an exact replacement, but was
> able to get a new TV Stick for �16.99, and I see that their Black
> Friday price for it today is only �14.99. That's a complete
> streaming kit including a remote control for about the price I was
> expecting to pay for a replacement remote on its own (if I could
> have got one). This cheapest one only does 1920x1080 but it works
> very well, and there are also 4K versions if you want to pay a bit
> more. At that sort of price I've bought things out of what I call
> the "curiosity budget" just to see what they can do. Go on - it's
> nearly Christmas.
>
> Rod.

I have a couple of Fire tv sticks and use them for almost all viewing.
However they can get laggy, despite all the tricks and tips on web
pages.

To reduce this in future I would get as powerful a stick as you can
afford rather than the most basic model.

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 by: Roderick Stewart - Sun, 5 Dec 2021 10:50 UTC

On Sat, 04 Dec 2021 14:34:51 GMT, Pamela
<pamela.private.mailbox@gmail.com> wrote:

>On 10:14 25 Nov 2021, Roderick Stewart said:
>
>> On Wed, 24 Nov 2021 22:24:23 +0000, Michael Chare
>> <mUNDERSCOREnews@chareDO.Torg.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>On 23/11/2021 10:26, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
>>>> Being a Samsung TV as many know there are a lot of extra online
>>>> channels, from Pluto tv and others. Some are in fact quite
>>>> interesting, but their commercials seem a bit ad hoc to me.
>>>> Some have a definite digital noise in the sound channel, similar
>>>> to
>>>> trunking radio sounds if tuned into by a scanner on fm, Sometimes
>>>> there are long periods of nothing or little jingles playing or
>>>> commercials simply repeated several times. Seems very amateurish.
>>>>
>>>> Shame also there is nothing up there with audio description as
>>>> some films would be very watchable if there was.
>>>> Brian
>>>>
>>>
>>>I have a LED Samsung TV I bought in 2011. It now can't even receive
>>>the Netflix login page due to some change Netflix made to the way
>>>their transmission works.
>>
>> Don't bother with the streaming functions built into TV sets.
>> They're never as good as separate devices.
>>
>> A week or two ago I needed to replace the remote control on my old
>> Amazon Fire TV box and couldn't get an exact replacement, but was
>> able to get a new TV Stick for £16.99, and I see that their Black
>> Friday price for it today is only £14.99. That's a complete
>> streaming kit including a remote control for about the price I was
>> expecting to pay for a replacement remote on its own (if I could
>> have got one). This cheapest one only does 1920x1080 but it works
>> very well, and there are also 4K versions if you want to pay a bit
>> more. At that sort of price I've bought things out of what I call
>> the "curiosity budget" just to see what they can do. Go on - it's
>> nearly Christmas.
>>
>> Rod.
>
>I have a couple of Fire tv sticks and use them for almost all viewing.
>However they can get laggy, despite all the tricks and tips on web
>pages.
>
>To reduce this in future I would get as powerful a stick as you can
>afford rather than the most basic model.

Or an Nvidia Shield, as long as you don't want to watch All4, because
there isn't an app for it. It's possible using a browser, of which
several are available, but it's a fiddly process, which is why I keep
an Amazon device just for this one channel.

The quality of what you *can* watch on the Shield is superb though,
and even if the resolution of the material is lower than your TV, it
does a very good job of upscaling it so it looks sharper.

Rod.

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 by: Tony Gamble - Sun, 5 Dec 2021 12:05 UTC

On 05/12/2021 10:50, Roderick Stewart wrote:
>
> Or an Nvidia Shield, as long as you don't want to watch All4, because
> there isn't an app for it. It's possible using a browser, of which
> several are available, but it's a fiddly process, which is why I keep
> an Amazon device just for this one channel.
>
> The quality of what you *can* watch on the Shield is superb though,
> and even if the resolution of the material is lower than your TV, it
> does a very good job of upscaling it so it looks sharper.
>
> Rod.
>

The Shield is well worth the money. Great quality.

I also download 4k films using an Android app on my PC and it's like
being at the cinema without the rattling of bags of popcorn. I hooked a
discarded HDD to the Shield so I can download films and then watch them
later.

I've lost track of what tv the OP has but the Shield has no problem
feeding 4k standard.

Tony

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 by: Pamela - Sun, 5 Dec 2021 13:45 UTC

On 10:50 5 Dec 2021, Roderick Stewart said:

> On Sat, 04 Dec 2021 14:34:51 GMT, Pamela
> <pamela.private.mailbox@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>On 10:14 25 Nov 2021, Roderick Stewart said:
>>
>>> On Wed, 24 Nov 2021 22:24:23 +0000, Michael Chare
>>> <mUNDERSCOREnews@chareDO.Torg.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>>On 23/11/2021 10:26, Brian Gaff (Sofa) wrote:
>>>>> Being a Samsung TV as many know there are a lot of extra online
>>>>> channels, from Pluto tv and others. Some are in fact quite
>>>>> interesting, but their commercials seem a bit ad hoc to me.
>>>>> Some have a definite digital noise in the sound channel,
>>>>> similar to
>>>>> trunking radio sounds if tuned into by a scanner on fm,
>>>>> Sometimes there are long periods of nothing or little jingles
>>>>> playing or commercials simply repeated several times. Seems very
>>>>> amateurish.
>>>>>
>>>>> Shame also there is nothing up there with audio description as
>>>>> some films would be very watchable if there was.
>>>>> Brian
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>I have a LED Samsung TV I bought in 2011. It now can't even
>>>>receive the Netflix login page due to some change Netflix made to
>>>>the way their transmission works.
>>>
>>> Don't bother with the streaming functions built into TV sets.
>>> They're never as good as separate devices.
>>>
>>> A week or two ago I needed to replace the remote control on my old
>>> Amazon Fire TV box and couldn't get an exact replacement, but was
>>> able to get a new TV Stick for �16.99, and I see that their Black
>>> Friday price for it today is only �14.99. That's a complete
>>> streaming kit including a remote control for about the price I was
>>> expecting to pay for a replacement remote on its own (if I could
>>> have got one). This cheapest one only does 1920x1080 but it works
>>> very well, and there are also 4K versions if you want to pay a bit
>>> more. At that sort of price I've bought things out of what I call
>>> the "curiosity budget" just to see what they can do. Go on - it's
>>> nearly Christmas.
>>>
>>> Rod.
>>
>>I have a couple of Fire tv sticks and use them for almost all
>>viewing. However they can get laggy, despite all the tricks and tips
>>on web pages.
>>
>>To reduce this in future I would get as powerful a stick as you can
>>afford rather than the most basic model.
>
> Or an Nvidia Shield, as long as you don't want to watch All4,
> because there isn't an app for it. It's possible using a browser, of
> which several are available, but it's a fiddly process, which is why
> I keep an Amazon device just for this one channel.
>
> The quality of what you *can* watch on the Shield is superb though,
> and even if the resolution of the material is lower than your TV, it
> does a very good job of upscaling it so it looks sharper.
>
> Rod.

I looked at the Nvidia Shield after your recommendation but at about
�130 it's many times more than a 4K Fire Stick.

For an ordinary viewer (no fancy games or ten-speaker home cinema) I
can't see what it provides that's not on the Fire stick.

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 by: Tony Gamble - Sun, 5 Dec 2021 15:09 UTC

On 05/12/2021 13:45, Pamela wrote:

>
> I looked at the Nvidia Shield after your recommendation but at about
> �130 it's many times more than a 4K Fire Stick.
>
> For an ordinary viewer (no fancy games or ten-speaker home cinema) I
> can't see what it provides that's not on the Fire stick.

A much more sophisticate version of Android and the ability to mount
several USB devices. I have a 2tb HDD attached and a whole bundle of
movies - quite a few in 4k.

>

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From: rjf...@escapetime.myzen.co.uk (Roderick Stewart)
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 by: Roderick Stewart - Sun, 5 Dec 2021 17:10 UTC

On Sun, 5 Dec 2021 15:09:54 +0000, Tony Gamble
<tonygamble@compuserve.com> wrote:

>On 05/12/2021 13:45, Pamela wrote:
>
>>
>> I looked at the Nvidia Shield after your recommendation but at about
>> ?130 it's many times more than a 4K Fire Stick.
>>
>> For an ordinary viewer (no fancy games or ten-speaker home cinema) I
>> can't see what it provides that's not on the Fire stick.
>
>A much more sophisticate version of Android and the ability to mount
>several USB devices. I have a 2tb HDD attached and a whole bundle of
>movies - quite a few in 4k.
>

Indeed. And better picture quality and more responsive controls.

Also, the remote control has infra red as well as bluetooth so it can
control the volume on a Cambridge Audio amplifier (and presumably
others as well), so most of the time I only need one remote on the
coffee table and it controls everything. Some of the more expensive
Amazon remotes have infra red too, but they only seem to know about TV
sets and I couldn't get one to work with the hi-fi at all.

Also, I found that a file manager app on the Shield could see files on
my main PC without needing to configure anything, so I can show my
photos on the big screen. Maybe it's possible to get the Amazon one to
do this as well, but I didn't need to do anything to the Shield. I
just clicked on network and there it was.

Similarly if someone gives me some picture or video files on a USB
stick. It's the most elementary thing to be able to plug one into a
computer to look at the files, but the Amazon devices have no
provision for this. But just plug it into a standard USB port on the
Shield and there they are.

Even the more expensive Pro version cost less than I paid for the
Panasonic Freeview recorder, which is probably a fairer thing to
compare it with than an 8kB dongle device such as an Amazon stick,
considering it's now effectively the central component in my entire
viewing and listening system.

Rod.

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