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Tuesday 16th October, 2007 23:28 Comments: 0
I'm so happy! I got a shiny new TV card for Christmas last year and brought it back to my flat in January. Before fitting the card, I noticed that my TV reception had suddenly gotten worse on the TV in the flat. I tried it with the new TV card and discovered that BBC2 and Channel 4 couldn't be picked up automatically, and Channel 5 was barely watchable (actually, it's barely watchable even when there's perfect reception, except for when they air good American shows like House). And I've put up with it for 9 months because I don't really watch that much terrestrial TV.
But I was watching the new series of Spooks tonight (Jo, what have you done to your hair?!?) and it looked pretty good. Surprisingly good. And so did ITV, and so did Channel 5. So I did another scan and it picked up BBC2 and Channel 4. At that point I should have been happy, but my TV card also supports digital TV, so I decided to give that a go. At first it found nothing, then it told me it had found 6. Then a few more, then up to 28, and finally settling on something like 68 channels! And being digital, I can watch widescreen shows in widescreen. And I can finally watch BBC Three (without having to visit my parents). The best bit is I managed to do all this in about the half hour break between episodes of Spooks, so I only missed the first few minutes.
Feeling very chuffed. And for those of you that are wondering, the music on the advert for Spooks that the BBC have been showing up until recently is Chemistry by Unkle.
I can't wait until next week!
But I was watching the new series of Spooks tonight (Jo, what have you done to your hair?!?) and it looked pretty good. Surprisingly good. And so did ITV, and so did Channel 5. So I did another scan and it picked up BBC2 and Channel 4. At that point I should have been happy, but my TV card also supports digital TV, so I decided to give that a go. At first it found nothing, then it told me it had found 6. Then a few more, then up to 28, and finally settling on something like 68 channels! And being digital, I can watch widescreen shows in widescreen. And I can finally watch BBC Three (without having to visit my parents). The best bit is I managed to do all this in about the half hour break between episodes of Spooks, so I only missed the first few minutes.
Feeling very chuffed. And for those of you that are wondering, the music on the advert for Spooks that the BBC have been showing up until recently is Chemistry by Unkle.
I can't wait until next week!