[access-uk] Re: SKY Channel 5 audio interferance
- From: "Andy Logue" <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 20:10:01 -0000
Hi Trace.
That would not surprise me. I think you are also right about the dish, so
why do they insist that a telephone line must be connected. Could it be
that they want you to get involved in interactive or shopping stuff? I
simply don't trust them. And when you telephone them, you get a selection
of buttons to press. There is no choice for logging a fault and you are
kept waiting for ages. I bet if you selected 1 for new customer, then the
wait will be significantly less.
I've decided, rather than pay SKY £25 a month, I'll subscribe to that DVD
Audio Movie home delivery service, if I can find out the url. As I said,
all I was watching was the occasional AD movie on 5, and often I wrote to
the list asking if a particular movie was being broadcast in AD as mine was
not.
I may very well live to regret quitting SKY, but I don't think so.
Best wishes.
Andy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Spring.flower" <spring.flower@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 7:43 PM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: SKY Channel 5 audio interferance
> Sky can be a total pain at times, our old analogue set up went belly up
> some
> years back and when I phoned them to upgrade to digital they told me they
> couldn't as I refused to give them a telephone number and they'd need the
> number to update the box, I know you had to have a phone line in it, I
> then
> told them I wanted to cancel my subscription, they told me I had to give
> them a months notice, at that point I kicked off to some degree and
> finally
> got put through to someone who knew what they were talking about, updates
> come via the dish and not the phone line and we got the thing upgraded.
> The
> thing that I found really strange was that when the guys came to upgrade
> it,
> one of the men turned the old box on, fiddled with it and through came the
> signal, the same happened to a good number of people I knew, some even
> reckoned Sky were messing up the analogue signals to make people upgrade!!
>
> Trace
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andy Logue" <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 5:00 PM
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: SKY Channel 5 audio interferance
>
>
> Hi Trace.
>
> No it was dry for once. I checked 5 again today and it's just the same.
> Incidentally, I telephoned SKY to book an engineer about an hour ago and
> was
> told that it was not possible to arrange a visit until March.
>
> I mainly watch AD movies on 5 as there are very few of these on any of the
> other channels, and I pay £25 a month for that. I decided to unsubscribe
> from SKY and phoned them back. When I was asked why I wanted to quit SKY
> I
> told them that amongst other things, I cannot get an engineer visit until
> March. The guy told me that his computer had just crashed and volunteered
> to phone me back. When he came back he said that I could get an engineer
> out anytime this week, morning or afternoon. What do you think of that.
> Anyway, I told him that I was no longer interested and requested that he
> unsubscribe me. So that's me down and out as far as AD movies go. Hope I
> have not cut off my nose to spite my face, hahaha.
>
> Best wishes.
> Andy
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Spring.flower" <spring.flower@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 3:36 PM
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: SKY Channel 5 audio interferance
>
>
>> Was it raining? that happens here when it rains.
>>
>> You weren't getting a load of hiss were you? don't live near a huge
>> telescope do you? I'm not being daft, remember when they lost Beagle on
>> mars? they had jodrel Bank cranked up to maximum one night trying to find
>> it
>> and it messed up channel 5 via sky, we don't live hugely far away from
>> it.
>>
>> Trace
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Andy Logue" <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 10:13 PM
>> Subject: [access-uk] SKY Channel 5 audio interferance
>>
>>
>> Hi all.
>>
>> Anyone experiencing interference on SKY's Channel 5 this evening. Not
>> sure
>> if I have a problem with my dish or it's a problem at the broadcasting
>> end.
>> The audio sounds a little like a cassette tape that is sticky.
>> Occasionally, the audio speeds up causing a stuttering. If the problem
>> lays
>> at my end, then I can phone SKY tomorrow.
>>
>> Best wishes.
>> Andy
>>
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