Monday, April 25, 2005

A while back I was going on about how I didn?t know how I ever survived without the ability the pause live TV; well now I wish I could stop live TV from pausing. For the last week our carefully selected TV viewing as been interrupted by random glitches which cause the picture to freeze for a second or two. It started off happening a couple of times an hour and has got gradually worse. Now it?s happening every minute or so.

Now, I?m not Miss Marple, but I?m pretty sure that the reason for our new ?re-mixed? TV is that the leaves on the pear tree in the garden have started to appear after the winter and as a result the Sky dish is having problems picking up the signal through the new greenery.

It does beg the question ?Why did the Sky engineers fit the dish where they did when they knew there was a tree in the way?? My guess is they knew it wasn?t their problem and couldn?t be arsed to run the extra 10 metres of cable they?d have needed to set the disk up well out of the tree?s reach. Sky is sending an engineer on Wednesday to see what they can do to sort out our TV. I wonder whether Sky or the tree will win?

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