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Painful Did anyone watch Crimewatch? Apparently a man in some toilets was "grabbed by the cubicles". Ooh, nasty! Paypal Our trial period of accepting Paypal payments has been successful, despite the annoyance of requiring manual payments. Now our software developer is adding an automated system to our shopping cart and I hope this will be completed in a few weeks. Freesat The latest version of DVBViewer (v4 20/12/08) has support for the Freesat EPG. Follow the instructions in the change log. Together with the Irish DTT channels, this works very well as a fully functional PC TV solution. See SkyHD offer Sky is offering an HD upgrade for just £49 provided that you take a new 12 month contract which includes the HD package. http://www.sky.com/hdupgrade/?DCMP=ILC-SkyCOM_hdupgrade BSkyB Recruiting Sky is recruiting 1000 staff, most of whom will be installing Sky+HD systems. Unlike many companies, Sky is actually showing a good profit and its share prices have risen. As they say, It's an ill wind ... that makes people stay at home and watch TV! Phew, what's happening? we are supposed to be in a recession but we broke all records during Christmas. We had too many orders! We couldn't cope. To make matters worse, we hadn't expected it (last Christmas was very quiet) so Sophie was allowed to go off on holiday, leaving us short-staffed. In addition, the computer system threw a "wobbler" around 29th - 31st December and failed to print out several orders, so they got overlooked. The result is that we've had a bundle of complaints - deservedly - but mostly good-natured. And my whinge? Unbelievably, some customers, who had no delivery as far back as November, waited several weeks before telling us! If your order doesn't show up when promised, PLEASE tell us and tell us again! BTW, if you want to change or cancel an order, please choose the appropriate title in the email form. If you choose a different message title, your email may be given low priority and might not be read for days if we are busy (we are). Regarding Customer receipt (Keep-me): SAT034468 Alternative email address- none Hello I placed this order sat034468 a week ago now. I have had your server response to say it has arrived at the warehouse, but no more emails. I know you have been busy after the christmas break but a week behind on emails is very poor indeed. I paid a higher dillivery on this item with that in mind and its a week later I would of expected a curtisy email at least. This will be the fourth email sent over the last week. If your sales is doing so well and in the current climate I would pay someone to a least man the phone beore you loose all you custumers and go from to many orders to then no orders. Please could you a least send me an email. Mr Lee F. Well here's the problem: The phone number you typed in your order is "unobtainable" and, although we've received and replied to all four of your "Order Progress" messages, the email address you've given is obviously trashing our personal replies. We do suggest that anyone with communication problems should provide an alternative email address (e.g. Yahoo!) and post a brief message in the "Customer Feedback" section of our forum - but you haven't. So, unless you read this, we will now have to post you a letter explaining that your credit card details and phone number are incorrect! (Assuming that your postal address exists.) By Michael Dranfield A guy contacted me about his SkyHD power supply. He had seen someone on eBay offering a PSU repair kit. The seller had also offered to fit the kit for an extra £20. When he received it back it did not work at all. (When he sent it, his Digibox only had signal break up.) He then contacted me - to quote his exact words:- "I am no electronics expert but even I can see this is not good." It has to be the worse job I have seen, in fact I would go as far as to say this has been done by someone with no electronics experience whatsoever and it certainly has not been tested as it came back dead. Here's a photo of it:- The large capacitor's leads have the wrong spacing so it's standing up in the air - its entire weight supported by the solder joint. Other capacitors are also "on stilts". And they appear to be a cheap Chinese brand of capacitor. Michael Dranfield (www.DigiFixLtd.co.uk) More Pirate kits on eBay. I suppose I should be flattered that people think my ideas are worth copying. But, frankly, I think it's shameful. A few people have decided it would be a good idea to copy the Thomson SkyHD PSU kit that Michael and I developed and to try to compete by using cheap Chinese capacitors with a "better" specification. As we have seen many times in the past, a "better" specification on paper doesn't always relate to better reliability in a real life situation. In fact our capacitors meet or exceed the Thomson specified ripple current and ESR parameters (but I'm obviously not going to divulge these values for someone to copy). The sellers of copycat kits don't have access to these specified parameters so they have no way of knowing whether their capacitors come anywhere near to meeting them. Feel free to buy stuff via eBay but "caveat emptor". BTW it is now exactly a year since Michael and I first began to develop the Thomson kit! The following submissions have been made. I did say that I would open this up to public vote and the most popular would receive an 8 GB memory stick for free. Well, there were only two submissions and, although the first one is well-written and provides interesting information for Virgin subscribers, I think that the second submission is more relevant. See what you think. 1. Virgin Remote control fix A friend of mine has two Virgin- (Samsung) cable TV boxes. Both simultaneously stopped responding to the TV volume and mute remote functions. My friend replaced both sets of batteries, thinking that was the problem, before calling Virgin's customer assistance people - which was fruitless. I read the user guide from the Virgin website. No help. Then I tried the Q&A section. Ditto. Finally I managed to locate the web page with the list of remote contol codes and programming instructions: Solving the problem was then just a matter of reprogramming the two remotes. What had happened was the two remotes had got mixed up. My friend then compounded the problem by removing the batteries, causing each remote to lose its original code. My friend now has strict instructions never to get the two remotes mixed up! I know this isn't strictly a satellite submission, but exactly the same thing could happen to a Sky multiroom subscriber many of whom are not aware of the need to set up the remote (because the Sky installer did it). Lawrence Pearce 2. Humax Foxsat HDR review I got one of these boxes from Argos, just before Christmas (2008). I had cancelled my Sky+ contract a few weeks before, I couldn't justify the cost of Sky+ and the thought of a Freeview box appealed. Like a kid with a new toy I set about transferring the connections from the Sky+ box to the new one. The first problem was that there were no RF outputs on the Humax box. This means that you can't feed TV's in other rooms. For the same reason you can't have a distant remote control facility. There is an RF out connector but this is a "loop through" from one of the LNB feeds. It can't feed a TV set. I already had a SCART to RF modulator so this was used to drive the remote TV's, the distant remote control will have to wait. The LNB connectors are the same as on the Sky+ box. In no particular order, my likes: A good looking unit and mechanically very quiet. If there is a fan then it doesn't start until it's needed. There is a bright, cheap looking 16 character LCD on the front of the unit. It shows various things, mainly the current channel. I find it visually distracting, it needs a dimmer. The box was very simple to set up and get running. Before long it was successfully searching for channels. My first surprise was the picture quality. I have an old Sony 22" CRT TV and the picture from the Humax box was much better than from the old Sky+ box. In both cases the connection was via SCART. We find the ability to automatically go to a specific channel at fixed time of day very useful. Our granddaughter watches CBeebies in the morning at 7.20am. The Humax box has a feature where it can turn off and on at the same time each day. The turn on menu asks what channel you would like to box to select. Unfortunately this setting doesn't survive a reboot, as we've just discovered. Programmes marked to be recorded do survive a reboot. The hard drive will hold many, many hours of TV at standard definition. We were often up against the limit of the old Sky+ box's hard drive so this was very welcome (we don't have an HD TV yet). Series like Coronation Street get put into their own folders, a neat facility. But if you delete all the individual programmes, the empty folder remains. This is a nuisance. There is an optional time bar that shows where you are in a recording. This is better than Sky+. If you press the "i" button once you get a bar across the bottom of the screen showing many things: A gauge showing how far you are through this programme, two signal quality/strength meters (one for each lnb), time now, date now and other symbols (SD/HD etc). See below: If you press it again you get a written summary of what the current programme is about. The EPG is better than Sky+ but it still needs some further work. One feature that I'm not sure about enables you to look back in the EPG to see what you've just missed. There is a mains rocker switch on the back panel. This is useful when a reboot is needed, it is better than the doubtful process of pulling out the two pin mains plug on the Sky+ box which can lead to power supply damage if any arcing occurs. You can record radio programmes very easily. I haven't tried to see if it series links them, now that would be useful. (TV series linking works well.) The dislikes: It is too easy to power off the box from the remote control. This should be standby, in my opinion but the whole box powers down ready to BOOT on the next press of the top right hand button. It won't record programmes or do anything while powered down. The box is often slow to respond to the remote control and the beam from the remote control is very narrow. This often causes the annoying sequence where you press a button but nothing seems to happen. Is it because you weren't pointing directly at the box? So you refine your aim and press again only to find that the box did see the first press but took a long time to process it. And now you've pressed the same button twice. This causes great frustration. Looking at what is recorded (including the empty folders) rather strangely shows a number of TV programmes in among the radio programmes that have been recorded. Sometimes after recording two programmes at once, the box starts to freeze-frame. I once got an on-screen message saying "LNB SHORT". The freezing gets worse until the picture vanishes altogether, leaving just the sound. The box won't respond to the remote control and usually locks up after this and needs a power off, power on (reboot) cycle. This is almost certainly a software fault and Humax should address this with some urgency. The time taken to delete a programme from the hard drive seems to be proportional to size of the programme. It is as though the box is actually rewriting the newly released blocks on the hard drive to show that they're free. The layout of buttons on the remote control is poor and there are far too many of them. Some of the on-screen menus have small fonts. I suppose most TV's are big these days so this shouldn't be a serious problem for most users. When chase viewing, the box stops showing the delayed programme when the actual programme finishes. Imagine that you are watching a programme that finishes at 9pm. A friend comes to your door so you pause the channel. You chat a while and have a quick cup of tea, your friend leaves 15 minutes later. You go back to your programme and press Play. It carries on where it stopped and you are now 15 minutes behind real time. Alas, 9pm comes, the programme ends (in real time) and the delayed playback stops! But because you weren't recording the programme, you've had it, you lose the last 15 minutes and you can't get them back. Not good. Ah, but why not press record before you press pause? Yes, but then you are warned that if you press record, any current delayed programme will be lost and real time will prevail. If it really is that difficult then hats off to the software writers who programmed this feature for Sky+ - where it works very well. The user manual is poor. A worked example of how to record a future programme would be very useful. A lot of things have to be worked out by trial and error, but perhaps that's not such a bad thing. It took a forum member to explain to me how the drop-down front panel worked (it swivels down). The manual also tells us that the two LNB connectors have different maximum current outputs but doesn't go into further detail. Part of the initial set-up needs you to input your postcode. It took me ages to work out how to enter the numeric digits, in fact I didn't; I had to use the pseudo onscreen keyboard. On page GB76 we are told that protection of the power supply (mains) is via a "Separate internal fuse". But the next line then advises "The input should be protected against lightning" but doesn't actually tell you what you need to do to achieve this. I've seen it stated that this box is not intended as a replacement for Sky+. It is as far as I'm concerned, I was paying £46 per month to Sky and in the current financial climate I can no longer afford this. Freesat+ boast that they have 140+ channels. Well, they do and they don't &endash; at present there are 19 BBC1 regions, 4 BBC2 regions and 36 radio channels. I frequently used to watch Dave and the History channels on Sky, but there is nothing really comparable on Freesat+ (yet?). If someone were to explain to me that Humax had never seen a Sky+ box or a Sky+ remote control then that would explain a great deal. It's difficult to imagine what a serious impact on Sky this box could be. It's no wonder that Sky are falling over themselves to stop customers going to another provider. A friend of mine cancelled his Sky+ contract and after a couple of months got a letter from Sky saying that he could go back to Sky+ for only £10 per month. He was not pleased. Humax must wake up to what is happening &endash; if they can sort the problems out, and the programme providers offer some more realistic choice, then we will have a real winner that will make Sky sit up and listen. But unless that happens Sky will continue to dominate the satellite TV market. This box was a bit of a disappointment; I was expecting more. A score out of 10? I suppose 6 would be fair, but that's only my opinion! Happy New Year to all. Charles Coultas 60cm DISH This dish is slightly larger than a zone-2 dish and performs better with an OCTO or a QUATTRO LNB. Click - MORE INFO When you want more than 4 outputs, it's likely that some of your cable runs will be longer than those used in the average "semi". This means that more signal will be lost in the cable so we recommend this larger dish to compensate. This gives much better results than an LNB amplifier. SELFSAT ANTENNA A discreet antenna measuring just 10" x 18" and providing performance similar to that of a Sky minidish (see below). Available with 1 LNB output or 2 or 4. MORE INFO I am inviting you to nominate the most amusing auction you can find. Email me with the link. This month's had me wetting my pants. If you fancy a TopUp TV PVR, take a look HERE. Since this auction will eventually disappear, I've put the delightful text here: - a selection from this month's emails I have wired the televes system into the house using the main and option box suggested circuit. At present there is a single sky dish providing the satellite feed, a Ferguson digibox and 2 tv's currently connected. I have used the RF1 output from the digibox as the return. The problem is that the second tv does not autotune to the signal from the digibox, or DVD player, that are connected to the main TV. Do I need to temporarily exclude the option box from the circuit and put the return directly into the main box? or should I upgrade the dish to a quad LNB and keep the full system or is there a secret to tuning the second tv to recognise the digibox signal?? Anthony S. Hi, Anthony, Some TV sets can not tune to UHF channel 69 so make sure that the Digibox RF output is NOT set to 69. RF2 must be used for the return feed if you want to use a Remote Extender. Connect the TV set directly (with a cable) to one of the Digibox RF outputs and set it to autotune (or use the manual tune facility which many TV sets have). Obviously make sure that the TV has an analogue tuner and that this tuner is selected (if it also has a digital Freeview tuner). Most DVD players do not output RF so you may need to use an external RF modulator with yours unless it has an internal one. I have a Thompson dish and Sky set top box installed some 3 to 4 years ago. How may I check if the dish and cable from the dish will receive FREESAT before I purchase a HUMAX FOXSAT -HDR 320GB freesat digital recorder? A very brief answer will suffice. Many thanks. Anthony S. If the Sky Digibox receives BBC, ITV etc. then the Humax should work fine. I have two sky feeds coming through my wall, as per the usual sky installation, eg hole drilled through wall and cable pushed through. As you will have read on our web site, we recommend leaving the LNB cable as one continuous length unless this is impossible. Adding connectors of any type can compromise the signal, resulting in problems with *some* channels. Therefore, you should test the system (every single available channel) with a continuous length before cutting and adding a wall plate connection. Compare the "before and after" results. I would like to terminate these cables in a wall plate, could you recommend which product would be most suitable. A blank plastic wall plate with holes drilled in it (no connections) would be best. Otherwise, see http://www.satcure.co.uk/accs/page15.htm#plates I also use the rf2 out of my sky hd to go back out through the same wall up to my bedroom. could you also recommend a wall plate that would be suitable for this. Graham D. See http://www.satcure.co.uk/accs/page15.htm#plates Model number on label or rear panel: BSKYB 3100 Hi. I have a SKY box in the upstairs bedroom linked to a magic eye in the conservatory downstairs. The magic eye cable comes from the back of the box upstairs and outside coming back through the wall in the conservatory. I have now moved my TV and the cable is not long enough to reach the back of the new TV. I would be very grateful if you would let me know what cable I need to fix on to the cable from where it comes through the wall to the magic eye and then into the back of the TV. I estimate I need approx 15 metres extra cable. Secondly, the new TV is wall mounted but I am concerned that the distance between the aerial socket where the magic eye goes into the TV and the wall behind is not wide enough for the magic eye and the new cable. Do magic eye links come with right andgled connectors etc to prevent this problem and reduce the length of the cable and magic eye together. many Thanks in advance, James Allen James A. Hi, James. Sky "magic eyes" require double-screened cable. Since we don't sell anything else, you may choose any cable in our range. See One of our "dish cable extensions" will be fine: You'll probably want a "090-4333 TV to F adapter" and possibly a "COLCM - male/female adapter" Finally, you'll need an RF "fly-lead" to connect the "magic-eye" to the TV aerial input: Please note that some TV sets throw out so much interference that the magic eye won't work if it's within 3 metres! Please do tests before finalising its location. Finally, some TV sets require the "magic eye" to be decoupled: And, if you are now thinking "information overload!" I'm afraid that you should also download and read our "magic eye" installation notes, here: Equipment made by: Echostar Model number on label or rear panel: DSB-808 Hi There Just a simple question but its confusing me slightly. I wish to set up 2x Universal LNB's on one dish for 19.2E Astra & 13.0E Hotbird using a bracket for my Dad. I understand that Universal LNB's work on the principle that a 22Khz Tone pulse will switch a Universal LNB to HIGH band or LOW band frequencies. A. No, the tone is continuous, not pulsed. Only DiSEqC is pulsed. However - I also need to Switch between the two different LNB's for 13.0E & 19.2E and the switching method used for this is also via a 22Khz Tone Pulse. Therefore does this mean that I cannot use 2 Universal LNB's down one cable via a 22Khz switch and will have to use two non-enhanced standard LNB's instead? Steve W. A. No, all DiSEqC switches will happily pass the band-selection tone to the LNB. The layout of the property is such that I need a long cable run (c. 50m). I can run the cable entirely indoors if necessary (at present it follows the eaves). Somewhat surprisingly the signal is generally OK but with occasional break up, however I'd like to improve the reception. I can either (a) mount the aerial externally, or (b) install double shielded cable, or (c) do both if really necessary. My questions are: 1. Would you recommend option (a) or (b) as the first option. 2. If you recommend changing the cable, which one of your many different types I should go for, please. Even after having read your web site I'm still confused. Thank you. Bill N. Hi, Bill. Ideally, for Tacolneston transmitter, you should have a high-gain "Group CD" aerial, not "wideband", mounted outdoors. Height and lateral position are likely to be critical factors since there are hills between you and the transmitter. See http://tinyurl.com/97yln3 Assuming that your hills are tree-covered, you might find reception is worse when the trees are in leaf and wet. The aerial position may need to be optimised at that time of year. Start by replacing the cable with the proper stuff. If in doubt, use WF100, as explained on our cable page ... http://www.satcure.co.uk/tech/cable.htm If that doesn't help, check your unknown amplifier. As you will have read on this page ... http://www.satcure.co.uk/tech/amps.htm ... you should choose a low-noise masthead amplifier with a gain of around 0.2dB per metre of cable. In your case that's about 50 x 0.2 = 10dB. We sell adjustable gain amplifiers starting at 12dB, which would be fine if your existing one isn't ... http://www.satcure.co.uk/accs/page11c.htm If that's still not perfect, then you'll have to mount the aerial outside. In this case you might find that our "Vision V10-040 log-periodic" gives good results and has some advantages with regard to size, wind resistance and immunity to interference. http://www.satcure.co.uk/tech/best_aerial.htm Martin, In your last bulletin you had a letter from an ANDY about a low Buzz that a neighbour is complaining about and seems to think it is the SAT dish. My brother's house had a low buzz that could only be heard at night times when all was quiet and he asked me about it one day . We all went quiet and ended up in the bedroom above the living room . I put me ear to the floor and heard this very low buzz . Guess where it was coming from? In the living room directly below they had a ceiling mounted fan that had seized up and had not been noticed and was permanently switched on! The mains buzz was throughout the house and even travelled next door through the semi detached building. Could have burnt the house down even though it had been like that for months. Worth asking the neighbour the question. Hope it helps John B Model number on label or rear panel: DRX550 Can you tell me where I can find simple info on what I need to connect the Sky Box to my PC running XP to watch programs on the PC monitor? Forums I have looked on are mainly incomprehensible to someone with no technical Digi TV experience so I don't understand the acronyms and language used. Recording of programs is not important but you never know later. Philip S. -- Hi, Philip. Unfortunately, if you aren't able to look up the acronyms then I don't see how you can hope to understand any answer, in which case ask your local computer shop to supply and fit the appropriate equipment. (I mean a real computer shop - not Dixons or "PC World"!) You haven't stated what type of PC or operating system you use. I use an Apple Mac G4 PC with OS10.4.11 and I have it connected to an ElGato EyeTV200 analogue tuner via a Firewire cable. The tuner connects to the Sky Digibox via a SCART to PHONO lead. This is not a cheap setup but it's reliable and the EyeTV software allows it to work as a PVR. I also have an EyeTV410 Freeview tuner and an EyeTV310 satellite TV tuner connected. The latter supports DiSEqC so it's possible to have up to four LNBs connected for reception from different satellite positions. If you have a PC tower running Windows or Linux, having internal PCI card slots, then you would need to use a PCI video input card that has phono input sockets for video and audio. I know that cards are more often available with an S-Video output but that wouldn't be any use to you without a converter, since your DRX550 has no S-Video input socket. You would also need appropriate software. Some software exists for Linux - at least for Hauppage cards - but there's more software for Windows. The choice for laptop AV-USB2 input seems very limited. In fact I can't find one for Windows, although ElGato make several for MacOSX. If your computer has internal PCI slots then one of these should do:- http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/site/products/data_impactvcb.html Make sure that it has two PHONO (left & right) audio sockets and a PHONO video socket, before ordering. 1. Is it OK to mount satellite mini dish about 18" from electrical cable (feeding outside light)? I don't see why not, unless the light is a gas-discharge type and transmits interference (e.g. mercury, sodium etc.) 2. What is the minimum distance required between interior WF100 cable and house electrical wiring? How long is a piece of string? Depends on how much interference is present on the house wiring and what signal the coaxial cable is carrying. Let's say "half a meter if possible" but 100mm should be fine. 3. What is the best way to protect WF100 outside from UV light? Paint it with a nice oil-based outdoor paint. Actually, no, that's the cheapest. Feeding it through conduit is probably "best" (but not cheap or convenient). It really depends on what you mean by "best". If you are a keen gardener then growing ivy over it might be "best"! Well, it's working, and there's no-one more surprised than me. I've got Freesat in three rooms in the house, having upgraded an original Sky single LNB installation to a quad LNB with new cabling throughout. I would not have known where to begin without the advice on your site, and since it covered everything in such easy to understand detail, it gave me the confidence to have a go. Thanks to all of you at Satcure. Matthew G. Just a note of thanks. Following answers to my techie questions, and the excellant data in your ebooks, my installation was a breeze. I had 2x sky plus boxes fed from a standard sky dish. I wanted to add a freesat PVR. I managed to source the new Humax FOXSAT-HDR PVR from Argos, ( a nice bit of kit by the way). The rest of the kit/ cable etc including the new Zone 2 dish as you recommended and Octo LNB from yourelf with a POWERMID XL to control the FOXSAT-HDR remotely. All easy to install and excellant results. We live in hole as far as terestial tv is concerned and doesnt look like getting much better when digital arrives, so its the pefect solution. I use headphones mostly to listen to the telly as the ears dont work so well these days. I saw your headphone amplifer in your list, that has now capped the perfect intallation Many thanks from a very satisfied customer Robin L. Newsletter comment Call that a whinge? - read on! whinge Brit, Austral & NZ informal Verb [whingeing, whinged] to complain in a moaning manner Noun a complaint [Old English hwinsian to whine] whinger n whingeing git, descriptive n [sim. Martin Pickering, David Robson] Faced with character judgement betwixt your average dog walker, and, (in this day and age of weird anti-social miscreants), some dubious looking, single 'old git', wandering around aimlessly, whilst listening to children's stories on his Walkman, . . . I have to say, . . . I am forced to vote in favour of the dog walker on every occasion. Let's face it - who would inspire your average man in the street with a feeling of comfort and confidence regarding the safety of his wife & children, whilst out walking? Some odd, mad looking, whingeing professorial geek with solder under his finger nails, and wires coming out of his ears, or . . . Wallace and Gromit? I rest my case. Furthermore whilst in turbo whinge, or super whine, precisely where exactly, does the average healthy well fed dog supposed to relieve itself? Like a bear, - in the woods? One has to wonder if your sensibilities would have been quite as obviously pricked had you seen a smoker nonchalantly toss a dog-end down, and walk off? Or maybe you haven't seen the sometimes empty, sometimes not, Big Mac and Pizza boxes littering our highways and bi-ways? Your dog walker showed a sterling sense of consideration by cleaning up after his pet, (unlike the majority of smokers, fast food aficionados and gum chewers). Finally, I think your neighbour's 'embarrassment' was either a figment of your own colourful imagination, or more likely ... ... not so much embarrassment, as nervous caution when HIS fertile imagination pictured exactly what an un-accompanied male, (who was clearly over interested in the ablutions of his beloved dog, whilst 'glued' to the inane ramblings of some old homosexual wizard via his earphones), . . . . might really be up to. Which brings me neatly onto my Pet Hate - "Sat in close proximity to some usually brain dead moron complete with the usual ubiquitous ear phones, (and more often than not, the "de rigor" back to front baseball cap), whilst said devices issue forth their scratchy, unintelligible cacophony" Happy New Year Martin! - Bet you don't publish that! Hee hee. For the record, I use cheap but good quality earphones from which no sound leaks externally... http://www.satcure.co.uk/accs/page18.htm Latest SatCure eBook updates Sky User Guide "Missing Manual" updated 25-12-2008. Meet other Satellite TV enthusiasts and put your questions or points of view here Need to buy wholesale stock to sell on eBay or on your web site? Thinking of starting your own business? Click on banner above. All kinds of video tapes transferred to DVD, UK's lowest prices and top quality. Experienced engineer and a personal service. Most tapes just £10 for 2:30 hours or less in quantity. I can't recommend this forum for Expats too highly. It's run and moderated by Kay who puts in a lot of hours to make sure everything runs smoothly. If you are outside the UK or thinking of emigrating then you need to look in here! Don't fancy DIY? Looking for a TV or VCR remote control? Look no further. only £18.80 inclusive from SatCure! Your advert could be here! 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