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  1. Yes you do need a licence. They are issued by the "Service de la Redevance de l'Audiovisuel" I have my bill in front of me and there is no mention of the possibility of paying it on line. It's part of the Tresor Public, although your local office will probably deny all knowledge of it! It seems to be a regional entity, so you might find a ref to it in your pages jeunes or on the gouvernment web site. I can give you the address to write to if you are in Dept 44 (it's Rennes for us, so possibly serves pays de loire and/or Brittany as well) 116E50/year, they send you a reminder. If you live out in the sticks, the odds are if you don't receive a reminder, you won't be bothered by them unless/until you buy a TV in a French shop. They (the shop) have a duty to report new sets to the R. de l'a and you'll quickly receive a facture from them thereafter. paul
  2. yes, you should have it by now. a few questions : * Does it just not show a listing for ch 104 in the EPG, or is there something else there? * What version of the software is it showing? * Where in the UK is the card registered? * can you receive radio 2 and 4 (852 and 854) ok? paul
  3. Has anyone tried to (more importantly, has anyone succeeded in) change (ing) the default transponder frequency in the digibox Installation setup menu? I can access it ok, I can change it ok, I can even store it ok and move to another item in the installation menu. However, when I exit completely, and then go back in, it has reverted to the original frequency. I suspect it's a software glitch with this elderly Pace. Am I alone in this? Or is it a common problem? paul
  4. I have a not-very-technical friend down the road who is also Welsh-registered. Next time I go there (Sunday) I'll scroll down his EPG lists and check to be sure, but I *think* you are stuck with S4C. Scroll through the entire listing of BBC alternatives in the 940's and just check it isn't hiding there amongst the various BBC2 alternatives. paul
  5. Not a great deal of help at this time of the year, but due south is midday (GMT) of course, so marking the direction of a shadow from a vertical stick will give you that. If the sun moves 360 deg in 24 hrs, then it must move 15 deg per hour, or .25 deg / minute. Therefore 27.5 e (of s) is 14.00GMT 10 minutes (thats 10 x .25 deg ), or 13.50 GMT. All you need now is the sun! In fact, if you sight the sun from the back of the dish down the arm towards the LNB you can get near enough to start with - it won't be accurate, as I don't think the satellites ARE dead on 27.5 deg.
  6. Cajal, I've looked at the manual for this model and it does indeed have a multi-standard tuner, so will work perfectly well in France and the UK (and most other countries in the EU, apparently!). It works happily with off-air signals and equally with a video or satellite receiver via its scart or s-video socket. All of this in addition to functioning as a computer monitor. If you're happy with the price, I'd go for it. paul
  7. >For those living in region 86, >there is news that you >will all be getting ADSL >by the end of 2005 I'd take the "all" with a pinch of salt, if I were you. You can easily find yourself 'just' too far from the available nodes in an area which is ostensibly covered. I live in a village in 44, some 30km from Nantes; some 7km and 5km from small towns in either direction both of which already have ADSL, but there's no date yet for us "in the forseeable future" paul
  8. >If I purchase a TV in >the UK which has a >'built in tuner' for 'broadcasting >standards' PAL SECAM & NTSC >will it be able to >receive French terrestial >TV if used in France. If you are buying it in the UK, it would seem reasonable to assume that the version of PAL installed in the set is PAL-I (the one for the UK). Since France is the biggest country round here which uses SECAM, it would also be a reasonable assumption that the version of SECAM is France's. If this set really has PAL/SECAM/NTSC, then it sounds to me like it has a true multi-standard tuner, which will offer most versions of TV standards available in the world! - you could find yourself paying for rather more functions than you need. - you'd have to be going some to pick up terrestrial NTSC broadcasts, or are you planning to travel to America (or Japan)? In the same way that the most expensive way of buying Marmite is in the specialist food section of a French supermarket, you will find that the price of a dual standard TV in France is w-a-y cheaper than you can get them in the UK. However, if you plan to truck the set backwards and forwards between the two countries then a uk-sourced set will guarentee you have one that works on uk PAL-I. paul
  9. Has anyone recently changed isp for isdn? If so what's the cheapest deal for unlimited access? I currently use Free.fr's 'Forfait 50' 15E/month for 50 h, and noticed elsewhere on other threads that Tiscali seemed like a good bet, but on their site this morning, ISDN is 74.99E unlimited per month!!! seems they've got wise (or they just don't want new subscribers). paul
  10. Stop me if you've heard this before but.... Digibox works fine without card, gets all the free to air channels, does what you ask it, generally plays nicely. Then one day, through the post, the free to view card arrives and everything changes.... First the box doesn't acknowlege the card at all, then (with the help of a few hard boots) eventually it grudgingly takes on board the idea of a card and - after a lot of nagging -eventually puts up a listing which includes ITV and Ch4, and then works properly for precisely 2 hours and thereafter refuses to take any notice of the remote. So it's down to controlling everything with the buttons on the front. And that's where we are now. The remote is a known good one with fresh batteries (happily controls another digibox with no problems), so that's not the problem. Anyone got any ideas before I post it back to the dealer in the UK? paul ps. you'd never imagine how hard it is to bubble-wrap a digibox with an axe embedded in it!
  11. just another thought..... do you have any restore dates on the machine that you could try going back to? paul
  12. >AND ...there's a red cross next >to the DVD .... presumably >this means there's a conflict?? > The red cross simply means that the resource has been disconected (inhibited actually) either by instruction, or automatically by XP, as detailled above 'properties' should help you discover why. Try unticking the inhibit box. paul
  13. Anyone know what the following error message means when trying to copy a file from a CD drive to a HDD? 'Data error (cyclic redundancy check)' and - more importantly - what do I do to fix it? paul (merry christmas everyone)
  14. You simply write to Sky and cancel your subscription before you leave the UK (or at the end of the year if you are on a subsidized 1 year contract: - the one where you need to keep it connected to the phone) then bring the box and card with you. The card which will now have the Sky packages blocked, should unscramble ITV, ch4/5. The BBC channels will be received by the box with or without a card in the slot. Dishes are cheap over here; leave it or bring it with you as you wish. paul
  15. Yes, Numeris IS ISDN, Available almost everywhere, costs exactly twice the price of a single FT line. Occasionally FT will tell you it is not possible to install it: suspect often this is sales people who don't know enough about it, but sometimes genuine reason is lack of line capacity (esp. if you are w-a-y out in the sticks on the end of one, thin, fil). In practical terms, I would expect you to get download speeds at (getting on for) twice that of ordinary dial-up connection at same location. Plus you get additional numbers/accessible when on line (although your connection speed drops to that of standard, dial-up 'cos you don't get owt for nowt). Numeris Duo is the business version. hope this helps a bit. Mazan has filed several longer, more informative (and probably more accurate) threads on this subject, should be in the archives if you search 'isdn' paul
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