Well, that's my evening ruined

I had the pvr set up to record today's Bodger And Badger, and the
weak signal meant all I got was a static picture and fifteen minutes
of dialogue.

Curses.

 

"weak signal"? on BBC1? Do you live down a mineshaft or something?

 

Top of a bloody hill!

Can't get ITV or C4 at all, and even 5 seems to have vanished at
the moment.

 

you don't have satellite or cable either then, I take it?

I suppose Freeview's right out...

 

This is Freeview. Analogue telly varies between better and worse,
depending on how many letters there are in the day of the month.

I could get satellite (communal dish on the building) but that'd
mean paying to watch shite I could just download from uknova.

 

I thought you could get hold of free-to-air satellite decoders without
having to pay the Dirty Digger anything - at least that way you'd get BBC
etc

 

What sort of PVR is it - a homebrew one? If it's the sort of thing that
just dumps a transport stream to disk you can probably recover some video by
playing it back in something else - or starting playback after the glitch
which made the picure freeze.

If it's the sort of thing that relies on an external MPEG decoder and
re-encodes the video back to DIVX or something, then you're fucked

 

Astra 1 and Hotbird still have a selection of euro channels on free to
air analogue. Only BBC World from the beeb I think, though.

 

Nah, he means digital, doesn't he? You pay Sky a nominal fee for a card
that lets you receive BBC, etc. There was a thread about it last week-ish.

 

week-ish.

well, the "without having to pay" line was what threw me.

 

Pace Twin-tuner, same as you've got.

We're talking abount fifteen minutes of Bodger & Badger here, not
the MotoGP. I'm seeing them live at Glastonbury, so no biggy.

 

OK - sometimes happens on mine. If it does, going back to the Library view
and pressing green (resume) usually brings things back

If you do get it up and running, I can recommend upgrading the hard disk to
a 60 or 80Gb - I've got more recorded telly than I can shake a stick at at
the moment

 

Really, though, you want one of these

http://www.flash.co.uk/content/products/details/html/HUM-LGB32TPVR.htm

- in-built twin tuner PVR, with USB2 port so you can copy programmes to an
external hard disk.

Cheaper 26 inch one coming soon, so I hear