Kiwi TV
Dec 2nd 2007, 3:01 am
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Kiwi TV
Right, never thought I would say this, but god I miss UK telly! Crying out for the BBC right now, Kiwi TV is just truelly awful..and not even any more Top Gear repeats on...arghhhh!!
I know am not here to watch telly, but spent yesterday with a stinking hangover and NOTHING to watch bar the Simpsons....its awful!!!
I know am not here to watch telly, but spent yesterday with a stinking hangover and NOTHING to watch bar the Simpsons....its awful!!!
Dec 2nd 2007, 3:06 am
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Re: Kiwi TV
Right, never thought I would say this, but god I miss UK telly! Crying out for the BBC right now, Kiwi TV is just truelly awful..and not even any more Top Gear repeats on...arghhhh!!
I know am not here to watch telly, but spent yesterday with a stinking hangover and NOTHING to watch bar the Simpsons....its awful!!!
I know am not here to watch telly, but spent yesterday with a stinking hangover and NOTHING to watch bar the Simpsons....its awful!!!
Dec 2nd 2007, 3:25 am
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Re: Kiwi TV
Right, never thought I would say this, but god I miss UK telly! Crying out for the BBC right now, Kiwi TV is just truelly awful..and not even any more Top Gear repeats on...arghhhh!!
I know am not here to watch telly, but spent yesterday with a stinking hangover and NOTHING to watch bar the Simpsons....its awful!!!
I know am not here to watch telly, but spent yesterday with a stinking hangover and NOTHING to watch bar the Simpsons....its awful!!!
Dec 2nd 2007, 3:26 am
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Re: Kiwi TV
Right, never thought I would say this, but god I miss UK telly! Crying out for the BBC right now, Kiwi TV is just truelly awful..and not even any more Top Gear repeats on...arghhhh!!
I know am not here to watch telly, but spent yesterday with a stinking hangover and NOTHING to watch bar the Simpsons....its awful!!!
I know am not here to watch telly, but spent yesterday with a stinking hangover and NOTHING to watch bar the Simpsons....its awful!!!
Dec 2nd 2007, 6:29 am
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Re: Kiwi TV
Thank god you lot didn't decide to immigate to Papua New Guinea !!!
I mean come on,what were you expecting !!!
I mean come on,what were you expecting !!!
Dec 2nd 2007, 6:56 am
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Re: Kiwi TV
How do you find using the slingbox?
Not entirely sure how it works.......
Do you have it set up to a UK sky tv box with ability to remotely change channels etc or is it running off a source that someone else is controlling in the UK?
Are you paying a UK sky subscription and watching all your TV on a computer or do you stream it here to a normal tv?
Intrigued to find out exactly how well this works.........
Not entirely sure how it works.......
Do you have it set up to a UK sky tv box with ability to remotely change channels etc or is it running off a source that someone else is controlling in the UK?
Are you paying a UK sky subscription and watching all your TV on a computer or do you stream it here to a normal tv?
Intrigued to find out exactly how well this works.........
Dec 2nd 2007, 9:20 am
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Re: Kiwi TV
we've just finished watching last years i'm a celebrity on skye....seen it all before,but it was hilarious watching david guest again
.....jacky
Dec 2nd 2007, 10:30 am
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Re: Kiwi TV
and for slingbox to work you need a decent broadband connection........
thanks Mr Telecom.........for nothing!!!!!!!!!!!
Dec 2nd 2007, 2:58 pm
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Re: Kiwi TV
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"Yep it's crap unless you like sport...even Sky is UK repeats from years and years ago!"
Does that mean we have half a chance of getting close to winning something?!
Dec 3rd 2007, 1:34 am
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Re: Kiwi TV
How do you find using the slingbox?
Not entirely sure how it works.......
Do you have it set up to a UK sky tv box with ability to remotely change channels etc or is it running off a source that someone else is controlling in the UK?
Are you paying a UK sky subscription and watching all your TV on a computer or do you stream it here to a normal tv?
Intrigued to find out exactly how well this works.........
Not entirely sure how it works.......
Do you have it set up to a UK sky tv box with ability to remotely change channels etc or is it running off a source that someone else is controlling in the UK?
Are you paying a UK sky subscription and watching all your TV on a computer or do you stream it here to a normal tv?
Intrigued to find out exactly how well this works.........
It is hooked up to a satellite which is remotely controlled from here. (Plug it in and forward a port on your router) So it is dedicated for my use. I pay no satellite subscription at the moment but I would like Eurosport. You can hook up any AV source to it, I should have used my Tivo as that would record in the UK and then stream to the web.
I sometimes do view on my TV but the resolution is not fantastic.
Slingbox is now encrypted unless you can get hold of an old firmware version it is difficult to record. ( there are products but functionality is not great)
Limitations are your originating broadband suppliers ( in my case BT ) upload speed. 440kbs equates to 380 here in NZ after the overheads have been removed. So in this case NZ broadband is not to blame. If you watch it on a Lan the picture is great when it streams at 1.5mb, so I will chase BT about my upload speed.
Dec 3rd 2007, 1:44 am
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Re: Kiwi TV
Rodney Marsh has been a good laugh a wind up merchant first class also really chauvinistic. Also some American model Janice what an argumentative nutter. You will have to wait until next year no dought.
Dec 3rd 2007, 3:05 am
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Re: Kiwi TV
have i missed something here? Kiwi tv = bad (am I right so far?) but good UK tv is 'i (at sometime in the past or only if you read gossip mags) am a celeb..'
Dec 4th 2007, 4:04 am
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Re: Kiwi TV
I hate the TV here! If you like rugby, you are good because all is on is rugby, rugby, rugby on the sports channels. Sky is rubish too, it has about 200 channels were as the English TV has about 2000! It is awful!:curse:
Dec 4th 2007, 4:13 am
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Re: Kiwi TV
Not to mention Marco on big brother. hell, anyone on big brother.
You brits had pretty cr*p tv too - but your good stuff made up for it. We tend to put our good shows on a 10am Sunday morning or stupid times like that.
Dec 4th 2007, 7:39 am
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Re: Kiwi TV
hehe my thoughts exactly. I thought docos were great in the UK but there was A LOT of reality tv rubbish. Supernanny was one thing, but then other shows came out attempting to tame children, families, teenagers etc.
Not to mention Marco on big brother. hell, anyone on big brother.
You brits had pretty cr*p tv too - but your good stuff made up for it. We tend to put our good shows on a 10am Sunday morning or stupid times like that.
Not to mention Marco on big brother. hell, anyone on big brother.
You brits had pretty cr*p tv too - but your good stuff made up for it. We tend to put our good shows on a 10am Sunday morning or stupid times like that.
face it, apart from Bro Town, Kiwi TV sucks.........
there may be a lot of pap from the UK but there is probably more quality television on the CBBC and CBeeBees channels than comes out of NZ (and for that matter Oz put together).......!
/ducks as all the NZ is best crowd aim for head/
Also the ad breaks are really really annoying and make watching a half-decent movie or show a real chore, especially if you have to get up at 0530h to get to work.....