BBC 4

[Mikey]

Some interesting progs on Beeb 4 recently

Dan Snow's Norman Walks,
The beauty of Maps
Death on the mountain;Tom Simpson

Yes, boring old fart.....but also in the last week

Iron Maiden
Thin Lizzy
Mark Knopfler/Dire straits
History of the guitar

Coming up on friday

Peter Green & Fleetwood Mac

[ChrisX]

BBC4 on Friday Night is almost every time interesting. I even liked the Mark Knopfler night last Friday. Looking forward to seeing the Peter Green & Fleetwood Mac thing although I have a sneaking suspicion that it was broadcast before.

[Mikey]

although I have a sneaking suspicion that it was broadcast before.

Correct

[Mossive Attack]

I agree...BBC 4 has to be my fave channel. Lots of good music (as mentioned above) and some really cracking documentary stuff...keeps the old brain cells working...!

[Brom]

Agreed, BBC4 does put out some good stuff, including some gigs I attended as a student and those days no one had a video recorder, so they were just a memory till now! Another good feature is the ability to watch on iplayer for quite some time afterwards.

Last Friday I discovered that BBC4 (at that time) gave a blank screen and an error message from my provider, Virgin. It was only when I turned my DVD recorder off that it came to life! Crafty eh!

[catherine]

Have you retuned recently, Brom? The impending digital switchover might be doing funny things to the channels. I believe I have to retune in February and again in March.

[Brom]

Have you retuned recently, Brom? The impending digital switchover might be doing funny things to the channels. I believe I have to retune in February and again in March.

Yes and no!!  :lol:  this was with regard to my Virgin cable system which is self tuning - if that makes sense. I even tried rebooting the box but to no avail, if the dvd recorder was on, then both BBC3 and 4 were unobtainable - however, I did see a quick flicket of the iplayer logo on the screen before it went blank and then the unobtainable message popped up from Virgin. I suspect when the BBC are playing repeats they send out a signal mixed in with the video which prevents recording. however, It seems a bit naughty that you can't even have your DVD player on, i.e. not recording!

Agreed, set top boxes need retuning. The problem I have at my location is that BBC4 has a really poor signal, so, for example, the TV in our bedroom which has a Freeview box often gives sporadic output on BBC4* - a bloomin pain if you want to watch Guitar heroes at the Beeb from under the duvet!.................. Yes it can be that scary!!

*Ironically The Shopping channels etc come in at full strength.  :evil:  :roll: