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12 months ago
in Sky HD? on Life is grand
I had sky hd for 3 months, it was a nightmare.
The boxes have staggering amount of bugs, random crashes, missguided features and corruption, I've had 7 HD boxes now and finally downgraded to sky+
For example, if you are watching HD through a HDMI output to your TV all 4:3 programs gets stretched to wide aspect ratio like it or not, no option to change that, the only way to view it in 4:3 is to also hook the HD box to a SCART intput on your TV and flipping back and forth between HDMI and SCART.
I'd say avoid it like the plague, sky claims new brand of HD boxes are coming out end of the year and they should have the problems fixed
The boxes have staggering amount of bugs, random crashes, missguided features and corruption, I've had 7 HD boxes now and finally downgraded to sky+
For example, if you are watching HD through a HDMI output to your TV all 4:3 programs gets stretched to wide aspect ratio like it or not, no option to change that, the only way to view it in 4:3 is to also hook the HD box to a SCART intput on your TV and flipping back and forth between HDMI and SCART.
I'd say avoid it like the plague, sky claims new brand of HD boxes are coming out end of the year and they should have the problems fixed
2 years ago
in They kicked him till he was down, and then some more on Life is grand
You've not seen crime in South Africa, wow you're one of the lucky ones then. I've witnessed a gang style execution of 6 youths (street corner just before cape town waterfront), actually seen someone shot in front of me (IN cape town waterfront infront of the Edgars i was not 10 meter away) been mugged twice myself and had 4 of my friends shot in the back of their heads while lying on the ground just so someone can enjoy a 3 hour joy ride in a new BMW then abandon it in Jhb and much more.
What you describe, while completely vile and unacceptible, has nothing on whats going on in South Africa.
What you describe, while completely vile and unacceptible, has nothing on whats going on in South Africa.
2 years ago
in Introducing ScobleShow on Scobleizer
Having some issues acessing podtech, seems some routing/outage on the way to your nameservers from where I am, annoyingly the administrators of podtech.net put both the nameservers in the same location, pretty bad network design.
3 years ago
in What’s harder to get than an Xbox or an iPod? Nikon D200 on Scobleizer
I had my hands on one in a shop on Friday, its very drool worthy, unfortunately all sold out here too :(
3 years ago
in Apple guy gives Xbox team some advice on Scobleizer
I mentioned how the situation has 'improved' with the mac shop it got me thinking.
Previous to apple putting up their Temples to The Cult of Mac everywhere you could go to specialist Apple stores and get to talk to people with often decades of Apple experience, they'd pretty much do you a tailored solution and often were long running family businesses, the kind of thing you just don't find in cities thesedays.
Now? I'd love to see someone do research on how many of these shops have either had to refocus their business or gone out of business completely as a result of Apple opening up shop in their cities. From personal experience I know that the Apple resellers have stock issues, people waiting for up to a month or more for something thats in stock at the Apple store, but people are prefering to buy from these old shops because they've done so for ages or simply because the level of expertise in these shops far exceeds that you'd get from the arogant twats working in the big Apple shops. Why do these shops have stock issues? Can it be that Apple is favouring their own shops rather than the very people thats carried the flag during decades of dark days in the life of Apple? I suspect so.
As for the 'get a life queuers' thing, wtf, when Apple London opened the West End came to a halt, street blocks in all direction were backed up, cars were unable to move etc as people queued for access to the shop on the open day. Read the account of a mac fanboy who flew half way around the globe to attend the event:
http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/mac911/2004/11/...
or the BBC's cover of the event titled 'Apple's flock worships new store':
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4028363.stm
Lets think back to the launch of Tiger. A simple dot upgrade in the product life cycle, it was hell, just look at the pictures on this blog:
http://www.jasonball.com/techbytes/2005/04/tige...
Now lets put it in perspective with a launch of a next gen console? Not just any next gen console but the first one to hit the market from any vendor, the first one to give the world a glimpse of whats to come in the HD world? The first one to show new tech in a number of years? You bet they're queueing it's a massivly significant event in the history of gaming.
As a Mac convert - owner of 1 x Powermac, 1 x iBook, 2 x iPod and lots of Apple software - I have to say the blog posting you refer to is an embarresment, I am feeling I do not really want to be associated with a company who employes or give people like that keyboards to type with, I feel a bit like I'm supporting Sony again :)
Previous to apple putting up their Temples to The Cult of Mac everywhere you could go to specialist Apple stores and get to talk to people with often decades of Apple experience, they'd pretty much do you a tailored solution and often were long running family businesses, the kind of thing you just don't find in cities thesedays.
Now? I'd love to see someone do research on how many of these shops have either had to refocus their business or gone out of business completely as a result of Apple opening up shop in their cities. From personal experience I know that the Apple resellers have stock issues, people waiting for up to a month or more for something thats in stock at the Apple store, but people are prefering to buy from these old shops because they've done so for ages or simply because the level of expertise in these shops far exceeds that you'd get from the arogant twats working in the big Apple shops. Why do these shops have stock issues? Can it be that Apple is favouring their own shops rather than the very people thats carried the flag during decades of dark days in the life of Apple? I suspect so.
As for the 'get a life queuers' thing, wtf, when Apple London opened the West End came to a halt, street blocks in all direction were backed up, cars were unable to move etc as people queued for access to the shop on the open day. Read the account of a mac fanboy who flew half way around the globe to attend the event:
http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/mac911/2004/11/...
or the BBC's cover of the event titled 'Apple's flock worships new store':
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4028363.stm
Lets think back to the launch of Tiger. A simple dot upgrade in the product life cycle, it was hell, just look at the pictures on this blog:
http://www.jasonball.com/techbytes/2005/04/tige...
Now lets put it in perspective with a launch of a next gen console? Not just any next gen console but the first one to hit the market from any vendor, the first one to give the world a glimpse of whats to come in the HD world? The first one to show new tech in a number of years? You bet they're queueing it's a massivly significant event in the history of gaming.
As a Mac convert - owner of 1 x Powermac, 1 x iBook, 2 x iPod and lots of Apple software - I have to say the blog posting you refer to is an embarresment, I am feeling I do not really want to be associated with a company who employes or give people like that keyboards to type with, I feel a bit like I'm supporting Sony again :)
3 years ago
in Apple guy gives Xbox team some advice on Scobleizer
Yes Apple is terrible on stock issues. When I bought my iPod I could not find one anywhere for weeks, I eventually wrote some perl scripts to scrape websites of online stores, they would SMS me on my mobile the moment one had stock, I rang them up immediately to book one for collection. Even with that it took me 3 weeks in London to find one. Shocking, and this was not even during a launch period.
The situation has probably improves now with the Apple store here etc, but stock shortages is something Apple knows a lot about.
The situation has probably improves now with the Apple store here etc, but stock shortages is something Apple knows a lot about.
