Cable/Satellite viewers

What cable provider and package do you have? or what Sky service do you subscribe to?

Which do you prefer, or do you think their all as bad as each other?

I have Telewest Digital - the Essential Plus package, basically get everything except SkySports and SkyMovies, it comes with a surf unlimited 24/7 free web access as well.

I thought of installing broadband for 5mins but hardly worth it when i've got a 100mbps work connection :D

Sky digital is the most complete system. Sky has it first (whatever it is) then others follow.

Full channel package with very few stones unturned will cost around £34.99 inc. VAT a month ... that's Sky Sports 1,2,3,4 + all movie channels (except Film Four for some reason), Disney, Cartoons etc. except any nookie ... which is extra.

£30 approx. to install, sometimes £10/15 if a deal is on the cards in the highest street.

Obtain a Sky keyboard and access all features ... which are many and varied (there are hundreds).

For broadband, £15 a month from NTL or BT buys a 256kbps connection with unlimited access.

What else do you need to know?

Indoor golf simulator.

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Originally posted by Huntsman Sky digital is the most complete system. Sky has it first (whatever it is) then others follow.Full channel package with very few stones unturned will cost around £34.99 inc. VAT a month ... that's Sky Sports 1,2,3,4 + all movie channels (except Film Four for some reason), Disney, Cartoons etc. except any nookie ... which is extra.£30 approx. to install, sometimes £10/15 if a deal is on the cards in the highest street.Obtain a Sky keyboard and access all features ... which are many and varied (there are hundreds).For broadband, £15 a month from NTL or BT buys a 256kbps connection with unlimited access.What else do you need to know?

indeed, dont like dishes though ;)

Originally posted by Huntsman ?

There's a golf themed pub in Liverpool imaginitively titled the golf bar. They have a simulator where you whack balls into a screen showing an image of the likes of Augusta or St Andrews. I played in there after about 10 pints on my birthday a couple of years ago. It's the ultimate in home entertainment if you have a large spare room and I'd imagine a few grand to spare.

Have you got off the shelf clubs? If so they are probably not helping you. As I and several others have noticed you aren't the tallest of chaps. The lie of your clubs can have a dramatic effect on the spin imparted on the ball at impact. Correcting this, allied to a shortening of the shaft lengths of your clubs(ooh err) would improve your handicap by around 5 strokes. A set of tailor made clubs need not be too expensive and a generous trade may be available at your club shop.

Originally posted by ShugZV©
SUMDY MENTION GOOLF?I'm away fer a game this afternoon with Baldrick.....the little numpty is pretty good, he's got a handicap of 9......my handicap is actually participating:DSo, anyone got any tips? (come on Huntsy)

You and Baldrick playing a round of golf!! thats totally comedy!!!!

I have visions of that episode of 'The Detectives'

Donald, the new Sky dish is compact and non-intrusive, plus, it's outside your house or burrow. The vast old radars capable of receiving signals form Gamma 9, then about 50 litres of rainwater after a free fall onto the lawn are, thankfully, long gone.

Cable = cable supplier, and a great many new drill holes in your nest ... not wanted thank you.

I have seen these virtual pub games where a person re-enacts a sport, I find them tiresome and lacking in ingenuity. 10 pints would indeed seem the accurate volume of alcohol consumption before the necessary entertainment is extracted.

For about 20 years I have had a vision ... it is called 'Death Lair'. Imagine, if you will, a typical arcade of some size, 'space invader types' in one corner, 'sit down car games' along one wall, 'a small cafe serving pasties and tea' at the furthest side etc. - but located in the centre of the room is a lair ... 20 sq. mt. of black ply-board surrounds the lair preventing onlookers from seeing the action, they have to watch the video screen at the front of the booth which follows the current hapless participant as the exchanging of blows occurs.

The devil red sign indicates that 'Death Lair' is nothing to be sniffed at ... and it costs £5 a go which prevents anyone from getting too good at it and hogging the scene. Obviously, a best score is input at the end so people like 'Jez' can be proudly admired for clearing sheet 3. And the premise is this ... inside the blackened walls is just a vacuous space, the human is attached to complicated wires and electrodes and stands in the centre of the booth - an assistance ensures the person is correctly situated. Thereafter, the perspective battler adorns a pair of hi-tech glasses which show him the virtual 'Death Lair'. So all wired up and ready to go.

The game is very exciting and quite frankly I can't type fast enough I'm so keen to share the vision with you all. Scene 1, 'The entrance' ... the gamer must walk (i.e. walk in real life but remain roughly in the same place in the booth), toward the entrance to the lair. Along his way are some minor foes, small animals, falling trees, mice etc. - mainly the gamer can run from these or pick them up and throw them off the mountain track. Anyway, once in the lair the gamer must then tackle progressively higher foes ... a cyclops, a big strong bloke, a wolf, a creature with many heads that can run really quickly, a ghost!, and eventually some weird thing that words can't describe which you have to virtually throw off the side of the mountain and out of the lair.

Now how good does that sound? - answer: very good.

All the while the person is actually kicking, shouting and punching, running in real life and receiving minor electric shocks and bumps and hits him or herself.

Ladies and gentleman, welcome to the future ... welcome to 'Death Lair'©2002.

I'd like to announce I own the copyright to 'Death Lair'©2002. You can have 'Death Laie'©2002.

In essence you prefer fighting to golf?

I have edited this error now thank you.

Fighting is best in a virtual world.

The trip from the path to the entrance can take almost 3 minutes, which in itself is almost worth the asking price. Thereafter the actual hardcore fighting and sheer terror experienced in the 'lair' can last almost half an hour! ... believe me, it's like nothing you've experienced before and for £5, it's worth every last penny. I find it upsetting that people will blow £2.50 (£5.00 in the smoke) on a beverage which equates to consuming a tree stump and tastes like cold tar, yet will not envisage taking on a cyclops in a pseudo-real life situation for almost the same price.

I know where my money would go.

Originally posted by Huntsman Donald, the new Sky dish is compact and non-intrusive, plus, it's outside your house or burrow. The vast old radars capable of receiving signals form Gamma 9, then about 50 litres of rainwater after a free fall onto the lawn are, thankfully, long gone.Cable = cable supplier, and a great many new drill holes in your nest ... not wanted thank you.I have seen these virtual pub games where a person re-enacts a sport, I find them tiresome and lacking in ingenuity. 10 pints would indeed seem the accurate volume of alcohol consumption before the necessary entertainment is extracted.For about 20 years I have had a vision ... it is called 'Death Lair'. Imagine, if you will, a typical arcade of some size, 'space invader types' in one corner, 'sit down car games' along one wall, 'a small cafe serving pasties and tea' at the furthest side etc. - but located in the centre of the room is a lair ... 20 sq. mt. of black ply-board surrounds the lair preventing onlookers from seeing the action, they have to watch the video screen at the front of the booth which follows the current hapless participant as the exchanging of blows occurs.The devil red sign indicates that 'Death Lair' is nothing to be sniffed at ... and it costs £5 a go which prevents anyone from getting too good at it and hogging the scene. Obviously, a best score is input at the end so people like 'Jez' can be proudly admired for clearing sheet 3. And the premise is this ... inside the blackened walls is just a vacuous space, the human is attached to complicated wires and electrodes and stands in the centre of the booth - an assistance ensures the person is correctly situated. Thereafter, the perspective battler adorns a pair of hi-tech glasses which show him the virtual 'Death Lair'. So all wired up and ready to go.The game is very exciting and quite frankly I can't type fast enough I'm so keen to share the vision with you all. Scene 1, 'The entrance' ... the gamer must walk (i.e. walk in real life but remain roughly in the same place in the booth), toward the entrance to the lair. Along his way are some minor foes, small animals, falling trees, mice etc. - mainly the gamer can run from these or pick them up and throw them off the mountain track. Anyway, once in the lair the gamer must then tackle progressively higher foes ... a cyclops, a big strong bloke, a wolf, a creature with many heads that can run really quickly, a ghost!, and eventually some weird thing that words can't describe which you have to virtually throw off the side of the mountain and out of the lair.Now how good does that sound? - answer: very good.All the while the person is actually kicking, shouting and punching, running in real life and receiving minor electric shocks and bumps and hits him or herself.Ladies and gentleman, welcome to the future ... welcome to 'Death Lair'©2002.

so.... to summarise, you'd reccomend sky?