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<blockquote data-quote="BarMoo" data-source="post: 137564" data-attributes="member: 175089"><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">You have DSL - ‘always on’ (and its open to the outside world while its on) – there’s a 10/100 connection on your STB - you wake up the following morning to find TV Shows/Commercials on your hard drive that you will later question your partner and/or your kids about. </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Yep, you have signed-up to a kind of SKY Cat-Flap – a portal to your home that comes without a firewall and wavers any right to restriction of your front room.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Free installation offers and/or boxes will be available in your ‘hood before the guy with the off-the-back-of-a-lorry jewelry even has a chance to hoodwink you.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Commentators, apparently, think that TV by DSL is the next big thing. I don’t share their enthusiasm. Why?</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">I bought a digital answering machine today. It might well have been an i-pod for all I care. It turns out that if I want to keep a message – the best I can hope for is to get hold of a good microphone and record what comes out of the answering machine speaker?<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite14" alt=":-doh" title="DOH! :-doh" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":-doh" />! </span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">How do you install a firewall on a SKY STB? Can't wait for that EPG update.</span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Have Fun,</span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Mark.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">P.S. This presumes, of course, that every SKY subscriber will have SKY+ by 2007 - or there abouts - (with offers ;-)</span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Sorry to anyone seeing multiple posts on the same thing - I fook'd-up on that. Give me a cassette anyday!</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Sorted <img src="https://www.satellites.co.uk/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-shortname=":)" /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BarMoo, post: 137564, member: 175089"] [size=3][font=Times New Roman]You have DSL - ‘always on’ (and its open to the outside world while its on) – there’s a 10/100 connection on your STB - you wake up the following morning to find TV Shows/Commercials on your hard drive that you will later question your partner and/or your kids about. [/font][/size] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]Yep, you have signed-up to a kind of SKY Cat-Flap – a portal to your home that comes without a firewall and wavers any right to restriction of your front room.[/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]Free installation offers and/or boxes will be available in your ‘hood before the guy with the off-the-back-of-a-lorry jewelry even has a chance to hoodwink you.[/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]Commentators, apparently, think that TV by DSL is the next big thing. I don’t share their enthusiasm. Why?[/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]I bought a digital answering machine today. It might well have been an i-pod for all I care. It turns out that if I want to keep a message – the best I can hope for is to get hold of a good microphone and record what comes out of the answering machine speaker?:-DOH! [/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]How do you install a firewall on a SKY STB? Can't wait for that EPG update.[/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]Have Fun,[/size][/font] [size=3][font=Times New Roman]Mark.[/font][/size] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]P.S. This presumes, of course, that every SKY subscriber will have SKY+ by 2007 - or there abouts - (with offers ;-)[/size][/font] [font=Times New Roman][size=3]Sorry to anyone seeing multiple posts on the same thing - I fook'd-up on that. Give me a cassette anyday! Sorted :) [/size][/font] [/QUOTE]
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