What I did at the weekend

[lnr]

Friday night: pizza/vids

Saturday: sleep, B5 (3 good and interesting episodes) and then a BBQ at Vicky's, which was nice.

Sunday so far: sleep, geek, mow lawn, read, geek, cook chilli.

Later we will eat chilli and probably watch on the the mediocre looking films on telly tonight. Cate Blanchett in The Gift on 4 or Bruce Willis in Striking Distance on 5. In fact we'll probably watch the latter and tape the former. The reception on channel 5 is poor enough that with the video on another channel it just plain won't display, which is weird. Have decided to try and make sure I notice a) nice things happening around me and b) me doing anything that could count as useful or productive. If I concentrate on them maybe it will encourage me to keep doing them.

Good things: glorious weather, nice friends, nice food, nice films, books etc.
Me not being useless: the lawn, cooking, and washing up.

Comments

[oldbloke.livejournal.com]

In some areas, C5 is very close to the channel that used to be default for VCRs (28 and 29 or something?). The fix was to retune the VCR to some other channel for output (and then tell your telly about it). Local telly wizzkid req'd if that is the prob.
L's folks' VCR outputs on fiftysomething, I was surprised, I thought they all did 28 (or29) or 35. But then I never had to worry about it, it all worked where I lived.

[lnr]

C5 reception is bloody awful anyway, and sometime cuts out anyway. I always figured it was just a side effect of the aerial going via the VCR and that with the VCR on that leading to interference or something. I might have a look and see if your idea helps. Wondering about a better aerial or going cable anyway.

[crazyscot.livejournal.com]

Our C5 reception at Impropriety became fine after I fiddled with the tuning control on the back of the video so it didn't clash.

[oldbloke.livejournal.com]

If you go for cable you'll be able to watch bid-up.tv
Or Cbeebies, if you prefer!

[imc.livejournal.com]

C5 in Oxford is on 49, if I remember correctly. No idea what it is in Cambridge.

A VCR that I bought in 1995 when this was all up in the air has an output range somewhere in the region of 55-67, so it's set to 67 (any lower than that and it interferes with the other TV channels). Most of my other machines have ranges centring on 35 (which is the one that all the fuss was about) and it's very difficult to try to arrange them in any kind of sensible order without them interfering with each other or with the broadcast TV stations.

I haven't fiddled for a while and the current arrangement is somewhat suboptimal.