Robin Nicholson wrote:

Very much appreciated the synoptic loops they are using now. I have
only just started recording this programme, as i got a Freeview box
with a useful 38hours hard drive thingy in it - no more video
cassettes hanging around!
How long have they been using this? I have noted my regional BBC (
South Today) also uses them. It contrasts markedly with the situation
a year ago( was it?) when synoptic charts were out of fashion...
R


Sorry, off topic, but what's the Freeview recorder you use, and how
much?

Unlike most BBC weather forecasts, I do not think those charts were ever
removed from Countryfile.

I recently upgraded my basic Sky digibox to Sky HD (with Sky+ capabilities)

Using the Manual-Record feature, it records BBC1 from 11:45 to 11:59 every
Sunday.

Very useful in case I miss it, or wish to view it again.

Brendan DJ Murphy wrote:
Unlike most BBC weather forecasts, I do not think those charts were ever
removed from Countryfile.

Well think again.

There were several ******s giving short shrift and I dare say someone
must have had a quiet word with the buggers.

No doubt now that the North Koreans have a nuclear bomb, the writing is
on the wall for a chimpload of monkeys in the BBC. No more sock
puppeteers no doubt.

(Well one can hope.)

Can someone shoot Andrew Lane? Seeing that no one in the States wants
to shoot George Bush. (I wonder why -or is it only Democrats that get
hit?)

"Weatherlawyer" wrote in message
ups.com...

Brendan DJ Murphy wrote:
Unlike most BBC weather forecasts, I do not think those charts were ever
removed from Countryfile.

Well think again.


It is my recollection of it that when they moved to the new graphics last
last year, and the synoptic charts virtually disappeared from the other
forecasts, they were always retained on the CF forecast.
The last bastion of intelligent weather forecasts
--
Col

Bolton, Lancashire
160m asl

In message , Col
writes

snip

It is my recollection of it that when they moved to the new graphics last
last year, and the synoptic charts virtually disappeared from the other
forecasts, they were always retained on the CF forecast.
The last bastion of intelligent weather forecasts

Within the last month or so I'm sure I've heard a reasonably
comprehensive - by public standards and comprehensible forecast in
Gardeners' Question Time on a Sunday afternoon on BBC Radio Four.
Indeed, I usually find R4 forecast superior to the televised version.

Not practical when away from broadband, but I just wonder about R4
spoken content with MetO charts, etc, on screen.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/mainf...bc.co.uk/radio
/aod/radio4_aod.shtml?radio4/gqt

at 29 minutes or so in. Rather less detail, than I thought I recalled,
but still...

Cannot find anything else apart from shipping on Listen Again, but
perhaps I can't see for looking.

--
Peter Thomas

Within the last month or so I'm sure I've heard a reasonably
comprehensive - by public standards and comprehensible forecast in
Gardeners' Question Time on a Sunday afternoon on BBC Radio Four. Indeed,
I usually find R4 forecast superior to the televised version.


What time is that forecast usually on? I think I'll add that to my Sky+
planner (using manual-record/series-link functions)to record it and listen
at a time convenient to me.

In message , Brendan DJ Murphy
writes

Within the last month or so I'm sure I've heard a reasonably
comprehensive - by public standards and comprehensible forecast in
Gardeners' Question Time on a Sunday afternoon on BBC Radio Four. Indeed,
I usually find R4 forecast superior to the televised version.


What time is that forecast usually on? I think I'll add that to my Sky+
planner (using manual-record/series-link functions)to record it and listen
at a time convenient to me.


BBC's radio web-site has it starting at 1400 Sunday, forecast half an
hour or so into the programme - probably 1429 would get it. Anything
else I can do for you?

Incidentally, that particular programme last Sunday was a hoot- very
funny indeed, listening now from the beginning.

--
Peter Thomas

On Mon, 9 Oct 2006 22:23:45 +0100, Peter Thomas
wrote:


Within the last month or so I'm sure I've heard a reasonably
comprehensive - by public standards and comprehensible forecast in
Gardeners' Question Time on a Sunday afternoon on BBC Radio Four.
Indeed, I usually find R4 forecast superior to the televised version.

I would certainly say that I tune in,when possible, to radio Solent on
Sunday afternoon when they have a link with the MetO and a very good
week's forecast. at about 1330,1530 and/otherwise/possibly 1430
Plus late in the evening I think at about 2300 ish. It is certainly
not one of their presenters giggling out in the Radio Solent garden
doing a clothes check which I endure in the morning.

On Mon, 9 Oct 2006 12:38:17 +0100, (varnish)
wrote:


Sorry, off topic, but what's the Freeview recorder you use, and how
much?

£99 Digihome 80GB Twin Tuner Hard drive disk p 843 Argos catalogue no
532/0864 view on line. 160GB is 532/0871 @ 149.99
also got gold scarts 50% off

I work out that having cancelled Sky monthly sub I pay for it quite
quickly for exactly the same progs. My parents-in-law got it some time
ago. Now thinking of the thingy that relays upstairs to the bedroom TV
- the high of laziness but partner approves. and I can watch one
channel and record another.
The funny thing is that I have got a better signal than part of
Blandford. \i did not expect this but I tried a Freeview box here
first, in deeper than deepest Dorset

varnish wrote:
Sorry, off topic, but what's the Freeview recorder you use, and how
much?

Robin Nicholson wrote:
£99 Digihome 80GB Twin Tuner Hard drive disk p 843 Argos catalogue no
532/0864 view on line. 160GB is 532/0871 @ 149.99
also got gold scarts 50% off

If you're on the lookout, I'd recommend the Topfield TF5800 - I got
mine from http://www.empiredirect.co.uk. It's a twin-tuner machine
with a 160Gb HDD (you can also get a 250Gb version).

The biggest difference between that and other Freeview PVR's like the
DigiHome or the Humax is that it is extendable using small programs
called TAPs; you can find many downloadable extensions (such as
improved on-screen guides, auto timers, and even an MP3 player) and a
*very* active user group at http://www.toppy.org.uk

--
Neil Sunderland
Braunton, Devon

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