Re: Watching Prisoner via TV4

"Alf" <spam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> In article <402d75d4@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, "Dave" <no_one@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
>
> > "Alf" <spam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> > news:spam-6F3AF9.09435206022004@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > In article <bvta30$vtks1$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, DaveB
> > > <me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Have many people been getting their PCBH fix by watching the show
using
> > > > the analogue signal from satellite Thor 2? It's been really great.
It
> > > > wasn't tricky to set the equipment up, and TV4 show PCBH 4 times a
week.
> > > > They also and treat the show a lot better than any of the channels
here
> > > > in the UK used to - they hardly ever even put in an ad break!
> > > >
> > > > Unfortunately, it seems they are going to be switching off that
analogue
> > > > signal at the end of March. :-(
> > >
> > > I wonder why they are doing that? Don't they like you watching
Prisoner?
> > Bastards
> >
> > Actually it's rather odd that a channel like TV4 is in the clear and
still
> > on analogue after all this time eps as the stuff they show obviously
is
only
> > meant to be seen in Sweden but can be seen accross the whole of
Europe!
> >
> > Perhaps a pcbh fan from Sweden can stream Prisoner from TV4 so those
with
> > ADSL can watch again after the shut down in near TV quality !! Come on
how
> > about it ?
>
> You need a lotalota bandwith for that! Many many Mbps at least surely
I'd
guess.
> The Internet is still not good enough & cheap enough for decent TV
streaming yet.

Hmm I don't know, it's not bad, 512k is as cheap as £18 in the UK and
approx
the same around Europe, probably similar down under...  Plenty of fairly
cheap or free s/w to stream also. I've watched 500k tv streaming from
Holland and the quality is very good