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This device was originally sold to less than tec savy Americans who did not realise they could still get TV via an arial. The low frequency signals they referred to are are actually the standard UHF ones instead of the microwaves you get from a satellite.

At some point it was decided that Europeans would fall for it too and apparently they have ???

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It is an utter nonsense ?

Who would be transmitting these mysterious channels ?

All the TV transmitting multiplexes in the UK are well known and with a wideband Arial you can receive the lot.

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Wasn’t that problem posted somewhere else a couple of weeks ago ?

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You do need wood to make wooden sawdust ?

What it is the plastic frame screwed too ? Sometimes they leave behind wooden blocks that were cemented into the brick.

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Have a fiver. Dont spend it all at once ?

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I would give the BBC about a tenner a year to keep its engineering service going though ?

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The TV licence is not a stelth tax it is an in your face ring fenced tax, just about the only one in existence and for a service I gave up using about 15 years ago ?

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Hasn’t the latest fire stick GOT a voice controlled remote ?

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Well I went and did it. Ordered an i7 990X off ebay for £139. Apparently new old stock but I just noticed its coming Hong Kong so wish me luck ?

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Looking online I see the i7 990X is now about £140 instead of the silly money it had been.

I am thinking of buying one, partly because it has 2 more cores than my i7 930 but mostly because it is the very best CPU that will fit in my socket 1366 and I can say I own a CPU that once cost £1000 ?

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If the CPU is top of the line for its socket then I would consider selling everything separately. If not I would sell as a bundle.

There are always people looking to replace a dead MoBo, upgrade their ram or their CPU, and selling the complete bundle can be attractive too.

Almost no one is looking to replace their CPU with one of the same type because they hardly ever break ?

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I have been repairing my mum’s wood and cast iron garden bench this week. The back has a cast iron centre with a wooden surround that had rotted away where it bolts to the sides. A bit of a push saw it actually fall off so at least I didn’t have to mess with the rusty bolts. Two of the 5 bench slats also needed replacing.

I managed to salvage the top curved section of the back but the rest was only good for using as templates.

Although the bench was originally oak I could only get a pressure treated pine plank from my local B&Q so I used that. I used a jigsaw to cut out the lower curved section of the back and a circular saw for everything else. A few new nuts, bolts and screws saw everything back in one piece.

I used a hot air gun to strip the wood I kept and then sanded everything down before applying 2 coats of Cuprinol wood stain and preserver.

The old wood and new wood look almost identical even though they are different and there are no blood stains !

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Im afraid MS has not relented John.

Your PC may be waiting for your specified inactive hours. If your PC is never on during your inactive hours it can take a very long time ?

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Its a bit like the car leasing model. You pay for the use of the car and at the end of the lease period you have nothing.

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Its actually a GA-X58A-UDR3 with an i7 930@4Ghz under that tower cooler. You can also see the 3 sticks of memory for triple channel working and 3 empty slots for another 12Gb should I ever feel the need ?

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As promiced elsewhere a while ago, below is a look inside my hobby PC AFTER I tidied the cables ?

It had been a few months since I’d had the cover off. Spot the cobwebs on the PSU !

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H.264 profiles and levels

Thought you mite like a list of AVC profiles and levels so there it is above ?

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Those laptop in a PC case setups are most odd. The power brick may be fine but inside the PC case is a micro PSU that handles generating the different voltages a PC requires and distributing that power to the various connectors. The main power socket on the motherboard is not usually the standard 24 pin one but if you can find its details somewhere then it would be worth back probing it to see if the MoBo really does have the correct power.

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTSC

To understand frame rate conversion better have a look at the frame rate conversion section under technical details in the above Wiki post.

If you like you can read the whole thing and follow the links. I found it interesting ?

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https://www.techspot.com/article/1131-hevc-h256-enconding-playback/page4.html

Above are a few tips for Handbreak H.265 settings.

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