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My internet used to drop in bad weather all the time. Turns out the contacts in the master phone socket were corroded to gently caress due to water getting in and high wind shook the incoming phoneline enough to make the connection noisy.
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Pablo Bluth posted:I have a rock solid 100mb internet connection but NowTV just isn't as reliable as Netflix, Amazon Prime or Youtube and drops down to a lower resolution blockiness much more frequency. They were almost certainly seeing losses in quality (at random intervals due to network congestion at who-knows-where) and were probably using confirmation-bias to assign blame to the weather/passing vehicles/Jerry next door wearing blue socks/astrological alignment/gay frogs/Socialists/immigrants/The EU/other. Yes. goatface posted:My internet used to drop in bad weather all the time. Turns out the contacts in the master phone socket were corroded to gently caress due to water getting in and high wind shook the incoming phoneline enough to make the connection noisy. This is also possible but it's not particularly common. There's also something in certain types of storm that can gently caress up your wires if they're old ones. But still - weather affecting just NowTV and not actual Sky is like the opposite of how it works.
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Apr 16, 2020 14:34
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Now TV was clearly having problems and not working during the storms earlier in the year at least with their internet connection. Like I said originally YMMV. It depends on your location, set up and what you use. SKY seemed pretty stable though, but it was installed after the bad weather. Still a heads up, I know people that had a rough ride with the thing.
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Apr 16, 2020 14:43
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I work for them so I'm gonna say your experience there is 0.0001% sort of thing and shouldn't be used to make a recommendation. They just had weird bad luck and that's it.
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Apr 16, 2020 15:16
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A friend once asked me to come round and look because his internet wasn't working, turned out they'd cut the phone line doing external renovations and taped it back together with electrical tape.
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Apr 16, 2020 15:37
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Taear posted:I work for them so I'm gonna say your experience there is 0.0001% sort of thing and shouldn't be used to make a recommendation. I mean I am not ruling that out at all.
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Apr 16, 2020 16:14
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I quite enjoyed quiz. It was tacky but interesting Still think they did it though
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Apr 16, 2020 17:08
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goatface posted:My internet used to drop in bad weather all the time. Turns out the contacts in the master phone socket were corroded to gently caress due to water getting in and high wind shook the incoming phoneline enough to make the connection noisy. Had similar thing, we had BT engineers out why our connection was randomly poo poo, and after testing the line and whatnot, they traced the phone line outside the front of the house, opened up a small 'junction' box high upon above the front window and laughed. The junction box must have been there since the 1950s, it was was just rust being held together with the layers of house paint over the years.
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Apr 16, 2020 17:58
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SeanBeansShako posted:Careful, my parents switched from it back to SKY because the service did not handle the rough weather of the winter. YMMV though, give it a go if you feel like it. This makes no sense: actual Sky can be busted by horizontal rain on your dish. NowTV is just streaming over the internet, via whatever connection you have. Which will be via a cable, unaffected by weather. That said, NowTV has a garbage app on every platform I’ve used it on, specifically *doesn’t* offer an app on FireTV (which makes me question your parents situation), and does annoying things like log you out daily on the web version. Netflix, iPlayer, Amazon feel no need to do this ever. It also takes like a minute to bring up the player on a a brand new workstation laptop, and requires its own player separate to the web browser on desktop OSs. They have NDS (somehow related to loving Mossad) involved in their online security stuff, and make accordingly paranoid k user hostile decisions.
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Apr 16, 2020 19:23
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There’s so much to enjoy about Quiz. MacFadyen is just really likeable, the old ITV logos were nice, and the Jasper Carrot posters in the Celedor corridor was very niche. And that Tarrant impression holy poo poo.
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Apr 16, 2020 20:16
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ookiimarukochan posted:If you have been ignoring HIGNFY because it's poo poo (which it is) I'd strongly recommend watching the new series, particularly the extended versions. It's not funny but it IS compelling viewing. Gotta be the worst of quaranTV. Hislop is even more insufferable, although in the last one he was being facetious about the tories, tongue in cheekly claiming they offered something (with the subtext being that they hadn't) and the other contestants just seemed to take it at face value. Also Paul Merton doesn't know that chopped tomatoes is an actual product. Incredible. Taear posted:I laughed a lot but it didn't feel like the same show! Cool, thanks. Pablo Bluth posted:I have a rock solid 100mb internet connection but NowTV just isn't as reliable as Netflix, Amazon Prime or Youtube and drops down to a lower resolution blockiness much more frequency. They were almost certainly seeing losses in quality (at random intervals due to network congestion at who-knows-where) and were probably using confirmation-bias to assign blame to the weather/passing vehicles/Jerry next door wearing blue socks/astrological alignment/gay frogs/Socialists/immigrants/The EU/other. My Now TV does that but only with certain shows - and the longer it goes on. Starts fine, then past the 40 minute mark it just goes so  VEEP, Westworld and Save Me do it. The Wire never does.
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Apr 16, 2020 21:18
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wooger posted:This makes no sense: actual Sky can be busted by horizontal rain on your dish. Now TV Firestick on the broadband with lovely cables. It makes sense to me, It worked fine until the storms rolled in. Then their Now TV went to poo poo and wouldn't even work.
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Apr 16, 2020 21:55
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SeanBeansShako posted:Now TV Firestick on the broadband with lovely cables. It makes sense to me, It worked fine until the storms rolled in. Is there a thing called a Now TV firestick? FireStick is a specific Amazon product.
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Apr 16, 2020 22:17
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USB dongle thingy then. I don't know what the hell is it called.
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Apr 16, 2020 22:18
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NowTV Smart Stick.
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Apr 16, 2020 22:24
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Pablo Bluth posted:NowTV Smart Stick. That is the thing, now sure if it didn't get along with the already suspect ye old coastal line or the stick itself had issues.
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Apr 16, 2020 22:32
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Padje posted:Gotta be the worst of quaranTV. Hislop is even more insufferable, although in the last one he was being facetious about the tories, tongue in cheekly claiming they offered something (with the subtext being that they hadn't) and the other contestants just seemed to take it at face value. Also Paul Merton doesn't know that chopped tomatoes is an actual product. Incredible. it was interesting for 5 minutes watching them floundering in the silence after doing their usual lazy as poo poo gags also someone really should have told Hislop he didn't need to shout directly into the mic, or at least balanced the audio levels at all
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Apr 16, 2020 22:54
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I feel a bit like NowTV is more of an experiment and they're not that interested in sinking loads of money into it. We don't even make the sticks ourselves, they're Roku as far as I know. Who knows why. In other news I'm re-watching life on mars and it makes me laugh that his Dad is the main police in Criminal: UK.
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Apr 17, 2020 00:44
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Flat out easier to use a preexisting hardware client. I have an AT&T streaming device that I presume is custom and boy is it absolutely garbage. The app they have on Firestick, Apple TV etc is far better than it.
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Apr 17, 2020 03:51
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If you're not watching NowTV using a PS4 or Xbox just lol I had it on an Amazon Firestick and it would constantly buffer. All the time. On a 200mb internet connection.
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Apr 17, 2020 10:36
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Taear posted:I feel a bit like NowTV is more of an experiment and they're not that interested in sinking loads of money into it. We don't even make the sticks ourselves, they're Roku as far as I know. Sky don't have much to do with Now TV, do they? I used to work in support for them and we didn't deal with it at all.
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Apr 17, 2020 10:55
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I pay a couple of quid a month for NowTV, use either PS4 or the little box to watch it (which also has iplayer and Netflix installed; they just need to get Amazong on there now).
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Apr 17, 2020 11:02
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Mickolution posted:Sky don't have much to do with Now TV, do they? I used to work in support for them and we didn't deal with it at all. Pablo Bluth fucked around with this message at 11:35 on Apr 17, 2020 |
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Apr 17, 2020 11:24
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Sky keeps Now TV and the broadcast service separate by design, I guess to not actively drive people from the old subscriptions. I worked with video services at PlayStation and it was all pretty crazy since Sky has it's own app for catchup which ran on completely different tech, but handled much the same content.
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Apr 17, 2020 12:37
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Mickolution posted:Sky don't have much to do with Now TV, do they? I used to work in support for them and we didn't deal with it at all. Depends which site you're at. There is some crossover and such. It's not as separate as like KFC and Pizza Hut (who are the same company but totally apart) but people transferred between the two companies and we have the same email addresses and etc. It's just weird, who knows why it's like that.
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Apr 17, 2020 17:46
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I've also been watching Quiz and the stuff about the backstage (them learning how to get on it, basically) was fascinating - is that real? I do remember watching the show and thinking everyone was very posh and loving shitloads of people got to 32k as well.
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Apr 17, 2020 21:07
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Quite real. I’m more interested in them tapping into what I presume were analogue mic feeds. That’s very easily done. There’s so much on the open spectrum. Check this out for an example: https://youtu.be/1-1TdPPYTdc
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Taear posted:I've also been watching Quiz and the stuff about the backstage (them learning how to get on it, basically) was fascinating - is that real? What I didn't get is why the question they ask you on the phone is so difficult. Surely you'd really want a mix of people who will win small prizes and larger prizes. Peo[ple using their phone a friend on the £400 is Very Good Millenium Television. Padje fucked around with this message at 13:45 on Apr 20, 2020 |
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Padje posted:What I didn't get is why the question they ask you on the phone is so difficult. Surely you'd really want a mix of people who will win small prizes and larger prizes. Peo[ple using their phone a friend on the £400 is Very Good Millenium Television. I feel like most gameshows now do that pre-show stuff that allows the producers to work out how good they are. I dunno why "Who wants to be a millionaire" did such a weird question.
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Apr 20, 2020 13:48
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One of my friends was on a gameshow a couple of years ago (Atari Codebreaker... I'm sure you all watched it). She had to go to a group interview where there were several rounds of general knowledge questions and a personal interview to work out of she had a good TV personality. Couple of interesting things about the show, they flew all the contestants out to South Africa for a week for a holiday and filming. This was apparently cheaper than filming in the UK. Also, one of the contestants out of the 3 on each show was a hired actor who was there to intentionally lose the first round. They game then a fake name and home town. She won her show, got an £11,000 two week cruise.
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Apr 20, 2020 15:17
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Brooker is doing a new screenwipe. Being stuck in the house has finally given him the time.
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Padje posted:What I didn't get is why the question they ask you on the phone is so difficult. Surely you'd really want a mix of people who will win small prizes and larger prizes. Peo[ple using their phone a friend on the £400 is Very Good Millenium Television. It sounded like the phone question was meant to be so difficult that you could only guess, which would mean a random assortment of people ending up on the show. They say a couple of times that it’s meant to be “democratic”/random and not a bunch of Mensa white people who can answer such questions. The thing I was surprised about is that your “phone a friend” was genuinely just at home. I always thought they corralled a pre-arranged friend into a secure room to stop cheating. I know computers weren’t all that back then, but I feel like you still could have cheated pretty easily if you were prepared. I guess the risk of cheating on one lifeline didn’t outweigh the trouble/expense of having to put friends in hotel rooms etc.
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Pablo Bluth posted:Brooker is doing a new screenwipe. Being stuck in the house has finally given him the time. Holy poo poo. 2020 is wild! I guess most of the old screenwipe was him sitting on his sofa anyway so it makes sense.
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Apr 22, 2020 08:44
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Matt Berry's has been doing audio minisodes of Toast of London apparently. Worth a listen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVLyl4E-aIs
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Aphex- posted:Holy poo poo. 2020 is wild! I guess most of the old screenwipe was him sitting on his sofa anyway so it makes sense. BBC PR posted:For the first time since the Bafta-winning 2016 Wipe, Charlie Brooker (picture above, courtesy of Matt Holyoak) has been lured out of isolation, to go into isolation for the one-off Charlie Brooker's Antiviral Wipe (w/t) (1x30').
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Tsietisin posted:One of my friends was on a gameshow a couple of years ago (Atari Codebreaker... I'm sure you all watched it). I've been on The Chase, which was a pretty similar set up. I had a phone interview, with some trivia questions, then invited to a hotel with a bunch of other interviewees to do some questions in the same format as the show. Then a follow up interview, then finally invited to the studio to compete. You weren't supposed to meet the other contestants, but since my recording was the first one of the day I was put up in a Travelodge the night before and had a drink with someone who was also in the same recording. Interestingly, the producers advised you not to go on Twitter when it airs, since it can be upsetting. It was quite hilariously brutal - the general audience hated me, lol. We didn't win, but I did make it to the final chase. We were about 7 seconds away from winning though. There's no audience - that's all canned sound (which may be obvious to you, but wasn't to me). We were just on a set with 4 contestants, the chaser, Bradley Walsh and the producers. I thought Bradley Walsh was a bit of a prick, but maybe he was just having an off day, but Anne Hegerty was very magnanimous.
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Bogmonster posted:Interestingly, the producers advised you not to go on Twitter when it airs, since it can be upsetting. It was quite hilariously brutal - the general audience hated me, lol. I didn't realise people would tweet about The Chase, let alone be brutal about contestants 0_o Is it about them/you getting questions wrong or personality/appearance?
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101 posted:I didn't realise people would tweet about The Chase, let alone be brutal about contestants 0_o It's mainly "What a dumb oval office" and "Imagine giving birth to someone who takes the minus offer."
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Bogmonster posted:I've been on The Chase, which was a pretty similar set up. I had a phone interview, with some trivia questions, then invited to a hotel with a bunch of other interviewees to do some questions in the same format as the show. Then a follow up interview, then finally invited to the studio to compete. You weren't supposed to meet the other contestants, but since my recording was the first one of the day I was put up in a Travelodge the night before and had a drink with someone who was also in the same recording. I heard from another goon that Mark is a complete oval office. I mean it was already pretty obvious but, you know.
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Szmitten posted:It's mainly "What a dumb oval office" and "Imagine giving birth to someone who takes the minus offer." Yeah that was pretty much right. That and how I was speaking too loudly and a stupid prick who didn't know the Yellow Sea was the furthest from Britain (which, to be fair, I was) I just remembered that they paused filming for a while since one of the lads on my team questioned whether his answer was wrong or right. I think it was something like "Who was the US president who, along with Tony Blair, headed the war on Iraq"? The bloke said George Bush, and this was given as incorrect since he didn't say George W Bush. That lent the whole recording quite a tense air. Bogmonster fucked around with this message at 16:57 on Apr 22, 2020 |
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