Re: NTL Digital TV quality (was Re: [ILUG] Broadband in Dublin) On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 02:19:52PM +0100, evhq@clubi.ie wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Conor McDermottroe wrote:
> 
> >The higher quality is in the UI. One of the most simple yet most 
> >annoying bugs in the NTL UI is that there is some dead time after 
> >pressing buttons before the box will respond to another key press. 
> >This enforces a very slow typing speed. Sky does not suffer from 
> >this. I also haven't heard my parents complain about jittery 
> >sound/video and jaggies.
> 
> The NTL boxes are /still/ laggy?
> 
> A friend got digital a good few years ago (3 or 4?), when it was 
> fairly new, and the general lagginess of the thing was horrid 
> (inc channel switching!). I'd have thought they'd have sorted it out 
> by now.
> 
> This is why it's such a horrifically bad idea to pass laws 
> criminalising attachment of own equipment (that otherwise meets 
> applicable standards).


As hard as it is to believe, since virgin took over NTL in the north,
the situation has got much worse. You can count in seconds how long it
is before you see a picture when you switch channel, when it works at
all, and if you're just scanning up or down, when you stop on a channel
you want, you'll find it keeps on switching channels anyway.

This is why some people choose to ignore some silly laws...


Cheers

-- 
Pete


