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Just done system update as above but it still looks the same to me, we live in regional WA should it be working here yet?

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Spot on

November 15th is the day Channel 7 will supposedly start on the Sat Systems.

Now I wonder what happens with the 2nd channels on 9 10 and 7...not heard what Foxtel are going to do with those.

Does the cable connection allow them ?

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I've been lead to believe 7 and 10 are not coming through with the people at 9 being particularly stubborn!

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Sorry, that should be 9 and 10.

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Yep, the cable connection allows all of them. I previously had cable here in Perth and had 7, 9, and 10.

It's apparently more to do with satellite bandwidth issues being the reasons that it is taking so long for these channels to become available via sat. Various states have access to different satellites so bandwidth issues aren't the same across Australia.

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I am pretty sure i read somewhere that on Foxtel we will soon be able to see Sky news from the UK in a full screen mode when we press the red button rather than the postage stamp size that currently appears.

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That's good as it's a bit too small at the mo

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It is for me in the south west - I updated my iQ2 about 4 weeks ago, iQ1 last week.

Did you get the "please wait system updating screen"?

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Didn't work for me either :( We get Foxtel through E-wire and don't get channel 7, 9 or 10. Had a letter from Foxtel saying that we won't get the next generation of channels and services until our TDT platfporm has been upgraded (I assume by E-wire) :confused:

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I must admit I find it funny that any expats have Foxtel at all.

I mean, I'm always hearing about the 'vastly improved outdoor lifestyle' that everyone has in Australia (as opposed to the UK) and yet people are happy to spend their hard-earned cash on something that is apparently entirely superfluous to them now that they have fulfilled their dream to be able to spend 99% of their spare time outside getting a tan by moving to Australia.

Surely some new swim-wear for all those visits to the beach, some new cycling lycra or a lovely surfboard would be more appropriate investments.
;)

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Not all of us came for the vastly improved outdoor lifestyle. Coming from Canada the lack of snow is good enough for me!

Besides... it gets dark very early in Queensland. There isn't much I'd be doing outside in the dark at 7pm and onwards. ;)

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Oh but the Aussie climate is so temperate and 'livable' that, even in the dark, one can sit outside with one's mates and drink all the wonderful Australian wines and discuss the fantastic low-cost, high-quality lifestyles everyone has in Australia. And sport.

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You can take the person out of Britain but you cant take Britain out of the person......

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because we all came here just for the beach.
I drag my 2 year old out each night- winter, spring, summer, autumn - and tell her ' no bed for you, you WILL go out and enjoy the outdoors lifestyle as that is all Australia is about". Strange child seems to want to go to bed rather than let us be out partying every night.


And our Foxtel (Vic) changed to funky colours last night....

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I was obviously being flippant.

It's just that people always bang on about the 'outdoors lifestyle' whenever you debate the merits of Australian life with them. When you point out that the TV and Radio in the UK is better than here, they say 'ah yes, but I am always out doing stuff here because it's a more outdoors lifestyle, so the TV and Radio doesn't matter'.

But they still get Foxtel.