Your days are numbered

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Feeling sad? …

No, not the cat 😆

Switchover to digital television by 2013

The switchover will occur in four stages:

* Hawke's Bay and the West Coast in September 2012,
* rest of the South Island in April 2013
* Lower North Island, Taranaki and Gisborne in September 2013, and
* rest of the North Island in November 2013.

Hmmm. Wonder if our friend DarkestHour has something to say about this :whistle:

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  1. Good to make the move early. :yes: The days are truly numbered for my dad's old telly, till July next year, and he's having a hard time making decision.

  2. Guess you are pleased because you will be ahead of everyone else in NZ? 😀

  5. Hopefully the old tv's will find a place where they can be re-used.. What a waste otherwise

  7. True, and a wider range of plastics too.I gotta go, have a good one

  8. Yes. They also will become source of pollution if just thrown away in the tip. Recycling of e-waste is still a big issue that can be done better in NZ.

  9. Originally posted by mimi_s_mum:

    our friend DarkestHour has something to say about this

    DarkestHour have a digital (same for us here at 100% next year), but your cat says it all, and prefers the window 😆 !!!

  10. Good to have you around again, Olivier. :)Originally posted by arduinna:

    same for us here at 100% next year), but your cat says it all, and prefers the window

    You know, for someone who loved the good old scifi space opera stories in my youth and prepare to beta-test software, I'm still very analogue with a lot of things. It was only this June I bought my first DVD player. :pYou are right about my cat's preference to the real window. Sometimes what I see through that window is a lot more exciting than what's on the box. :cat:

  12. Originally posted by mimi_s_mum:

    It was only this June I bought my first DVD player

    Hopefully you will not be trapped and will forget the outdoors ! I have to work by now, good night ! It was pleasant to see the small changes here since my last visit.

  13. Originally posted by darkesthour:

    Hopefully the old tv's will find a place where they can be re-used.. What a waste otherwise

    They still work with Commodore 64's :p.

  14. Originally posted by qlue:

    They still work with Commodore 64's

    😆

  16. Originally posted by darkesthour:

    By the time you have SP3 on board, lean and mean go out the window

    :lol:True. But my new setup has yet to see uninstallation of no longer wanted software, which should be a good thing, shouldn't it?

  17. I use this – revo uninstallerIt is pretty good, tidies up the registry for you when you uninstal

  18. Originally posted by darkesthour:

    Old home computer … Good for games and writing little basic programs etc

    OK. Then Aadil can have this one in the picture, if he can come and collect it from my place.Originally posted by darkesthour:

    like a Sinclair ZX or an old Amstrad

    Never heard of them. :p

  20. I've actually no idea what Commodore 64's is. I've figured it's not a muscle car. Maybe an ancient CPU box?

  21. Old home computer, like a Sinclair ZX or an old Amstrad…Good for games and writing little basic programs etc

  22. Most of my stuff is pretty old so I look for a low processing and ram overhead

  24. By the time you have SP3 on board, lean and mean go out the window :awww:

  26. I used to use Comodo IS. Now I use Microsoft Security Essentials.I'm yet to find a firewall that works well alongside MSE. Used to use Online Armor free (Aussie product). But since it was bought up by emsi soft, I'm checking out Agnitum Outpost free.Looks like the virus check is done. Now I have to adjust the user accounts to my liking and transfer the backuped data.

  27. Originally posted by darkesthour:

    Just in case curiosity gets the better of you…

    Thanks. Maybe later. Right now I'm a bit engaged, waiting for the first virus check after system reinstall finishes. After that I'll have to copy the backed up data over, which bounds to take long time. At least I'm lucky to have recovered all I needed and have a secondary PC I can use while the main one is down.

  28. Originally posted by darkesthour:

    The worst part is all the updates that you have to do to get your OS up to the current "bug and backdoor free"

    Yeah. I had downloaded the service pack installers in the secondary PC and took them in USB drive. That saved quite a bit of downloading. Still I needed to download & install 100+ patches, which took nearly half a day. 🙁 One good thing was I also got rid of a lot of rubbish and now know what other apps are good or not good to have in my laptop. So I can now start lean and mean. 🙂

  29. The worst part is all the updates that you have to do to get your OS up to the current "bug and backdoor free"

  30. I helped my dad buy a new PC the other day. Win7 Home Premium 64 bits; iCore5 with 4GB RAM. Very nice but came with too many rubbish pre-installed. 🙁

  31. Originally posted by darkesthour:

    It is best to strip it all off and re instal the OS from scratch.

    I'll do that next time I buy my own computer. Now I've had a practice, I'm quite confident I can do it again. ;)Originally posted by darkesthour:

    come with lots of old junk installed

    To me, those vendors of the software that HAD to come preinstalled do so because their products are not as good as others. I wish a lot more people realised that and stopped using those products, so that the practice of preinstalling software would die away.

  32. It is best to strip it all off and re instal the OS from scratch. HP seems to come with lots of old junk installed

  34. You can still use the TV, just need to get a box to convert the signal. If you are using Satellite or Cable your provider will give you the new receiver at no extra cost. Tube television create huge environmental problems when they are just dumped, they should be brought to the hazardous waste run by the government. 🙂

  35. I do hope to keep using this one but on the other hand don't want to pay for the box only to have the 12 years old TV dying on me next day.Another possible alternative is to do away with TV altogether and use Internet, instead. Apparently TVNZ has a deal with some ISPs & downloading their OnDemand won't be metred towards the monthly quota (Yes, we still have monthly traffic quota system with our broadband. Ours is 10GB per months :()Originally posted by GaryGJBell:

    … they should be brought to the hazardous waste run by the government.

    That's the area NZ government is quite behind. 🙁

  36. Originally posted by mimi_s_mum:

    TV altogether and use Internet, instead.

    Not yet, you will get nailed for bandwidth. I watched the winter Olympics that way and my bill sky rocketed! 😥 That is with a 65 gig allowance before the up charge then $2.00 per gig

  37. Originally posted by GaryGJBell:

    I watched the winter Olympics that way and my bill sky rocketed! 😥 That is with a 65 gig allowance before the up charge then $2.00 per gig

    Ouch!! 😥

  38. Originally posted by GaryGJBell:

    That is with a 65 gig allowance

    Bad trap, indeed , to be offered TV and being limited ?!

  39. I think his choice was either to pay for a satellite/cable channel or downloading live stream on Internet. He did the latter and got stung by it.

  40. Originally posted by mimi_s_mum:

    He did the latter and got stung by it.

    Have TV(s) and we use to be uncapped on band width. The cap is a new thing and I had a lengthy but futile discussion with provider about it :insane: :bomb: :furious: Apparently every provider is doing the same unless you are grandfathered in an old agreement, told them I just became a Grandfather recently but they said that didn't count 😆 We are considering giving on the Tv(s) satellite service. We could have watched limited coverage on the TV on the broadcasters schedule (and did on occasion) or watch it in live or on demand in High Def (one of my computers is a HD IMac 27) The on-line services provided by the same broadcaster as on TV was very comprehensive and you could watch events in whole rather than just highlights, it really was very well thought out and executed. Statistically Canada is the most wired Country in the World and we use the Internet (per capita) more than anyone else. Just think about a standard throughput of 65 Gig, 10 years ago the very concept would have been thought ludicrous. They are now running fiber optics into homes, increasing the bandwidth even more. :spock: We have arrived, almost 😆

  41. I see. I totally misunderstood your situation. Thanks for putting me right. So you found out about the data/traffic cap when the bill came in, did you?Originally posted by GaryGJBell:

    live or on demand in High Def … very comprehensive and you could watch events in whole rather than just highlights,

    So, altogether how many GBs did GB's household use? :pOriginally posted by GaryGJBell:

    Just think about a standard throughput of 65 Gig, 10 years ago the very concept would have been thought ludicrous. They are now running fiber optics into homes, increasing the bandwidth even more. :spock: We have arrived, almost

    Ten years ago, I had dial-up with 30MB traffic cap :lol:It will be still some time until the fibre comes to everyone in NZ. :wait:

  42. Originally posted by mimi_s_mum:

    GBs did GB's household use?

    😆 :sherlock: 132 gig in the month that we didn't know about the cap :yikes:

  43. Originally posted by GaryGJBell:

    132 gig in the month that we didn't know about the cap

    :eyes: :yikes: :faint: :still dizzy: 77GB at $2/GB sounds just outrageous. :yuck:

  44. By the way how is your spring? Our fall has been really nice so far

  45. Originally posted by mimi_s_mum:

    :still dizzy

    You can see why I won't make that mistake twice! I have an email alarm sent when I have used up 75% of my bandwidth for the month :p

  46. Originally posted by GaryGJBell:

    You can see why I won't make that mistake twice! I have an email alarm sent when I have used up 75% of my bandwidth for the month

    Well, thanks for sharing. I've certainly learned from your mistake! (My ISP also has bandwidth alert, but not until getting at 90% of monthly quota)Originally posted by GaryGJBell:

    By the way how is your spring?

    Apparently it was quite good until a week ago. Not so great since I came back last Saturday. 🙁

  47. Funny picture :jester:I still use small Sharp TV with 53cm and picture is just perfect when i watch some movies over Philips player and USB key can't get any better for this price.

  48. Welcome, iPristy. Great to have you around. Originally posted by italianjob44:

    Funny picture I still use small Sharp TV with 53cm and picture is just perfect when i watch some movies over Philips player and USB key can't get any better for this price.

    Glad you like the picture. Do you use that Sharp with the HTPC you posted about at your blog?

  49. HTPC is no good with regular TV, my Philips DVP 5160 player has USB so i just copy some movies on it. Better wait for Smart TV i guess…

  50. No a TV, at lest not yet but some TV actually already use USB, DVD player has USB and use Scart.If you are buying new TV get a Sharp and not too big if you use cable TV or IPTV because picture is far from HD quality, we have at home Sony LCD TV and still waiting for some proper signal we use Sony HDMI gold cable.

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