Whitey Grandad

I assume that you have a communal aerial worth a distribution amplifier feeding all the flats in the same building? Ask the other occupants if they have the same problem. See if you can take your tv to one of their rooms temporarily. If it does pick up the other stations then at least it will have registered the programme list and may work when you get back to your own installation. If your feed is worse than the others then contact the property management. If it's a built-in freeview decoder then it will have been designed to be as cheap as possible, and they do vary a lot in terms of sensitivity. I had one decoder which used to 'notch out' the channel that it was tuned to so that all downstream receivers suffered. Try borrowing a separate decoder (set-top box) and see if that's better. If you do decide to buy one, get a PVR, i.e. one with a hard-drive, it will replace your video recorder. You may just be unlucky, check your likely signal strength at http://www.digitaluktv.com/news/check-predicted-digital-tv-reception/ The good news is that when they eventually do switch off the analogue signals then the digital strength will be increased. The bad news is that they are going to switch off the analogue signals. Check if you are in one of the group who can receive free help: http://www.helpscheme.co.uk/ Even if you aren't eligible, someone in the same building may be. Failing that, you can always deek professional help from someone with a signal-strength meter and spectrum analyser. Good luck and let us know how you get on.

When you say 'new webcam', is it from the same manufacturer with the same software or another one? BTW, each usb port has to have a driver installed for it for the same plug-in device.

You're two days late!

I believe so, unlike mobile phones which use code division multiplexing. It's late and my head hurts.

A good independent.

Each of the old analogue channels is used to provide a new digital bit stream in which several new digital channels are combined in what is called a multiplex. The BBC channels that you can receive are grouped into a multiplex on a different analogue channel to the ones that you can't get. It depends on the transmitter but I think that the BBC mux is on a much lower frequency to the ITV ones, so it looks like your aerial is picking up some frequencies better than others. What transmitter are you looking at?

Can I have your share?

Comparing our performance to the 6th place in the table is to compare to a moving target. You are not comparing to the same team but to the best team out of several.

Ain't that the truth!

Thanks, now I feel sick.

It's very important for digital signals. Any kink, loop, coil or knot can really bugger them up.

I saw loads of empty seats.

I shall be where every true Saints fan should be: at St Mary's cheering on our team.

I had jugged hare at a college dinner once. I can still smell it.

Check the cable quality first. Some old cables can be very lossy, especially if they are bent or wet. An amplifier won't improve your noise figure or get rid of reflections. Can't you get an outside aerial fitted?

He'll be playing for us next season.

That may be true, but if he gets rid of AP because of it then I have serious doubts as to whether he is the correct man to be chairman of a football club.

We don't know, of course, but we could all see how much he enjoyed last Sunday. There's quite a bit of money to be made from this club in the lower leagues and I wouldn't be surprised to see a profit over this season. Maybe the money from the cup runs will help loosen the funding in the summer? I agree that the JPT has probably not helped our league form.

I don't think that you can consider this a below-par season. If next season were to be the same then I would agree with you, but the current team bears no relation to the team that started in August.

And we shall deserve to be there. Have we learnt nothing from all the chopping and changing over the last decade or so?

How many points were we above the relegation zone then and how many are we above now? All that matters is that we were out of the playoffs then and we shall almost certainly finish out of them, but if we were to play next season with the same form that we have shown since December then I am fairly certain that we shall get promoted.

We've got more points than we had in December. :confused:

This method is a complete falacy. At the start of season all teams (except those with deductions) are at the top of the table, and at the bottom. A team that ends mid-table on 50 points might finish 40 points off the top spot. Have they gained 50 points or lost 40?

Which school trip was that?

Rule one. (Don't get caught)