le tour 2006

"normanwisdom" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Where will it be on the telly? We considering investing in whatever it
takes as it's the only sport we watch. What will I need - 'set top
box'? whatever that is, or what?

It's advertised as being on ITV4 (but not how much)
In which case you would need a freeview box.
http://www.freeview.co.uk/ has info.

Peter

normanwisdom said:

Where will it be on the telly? We considering investing in whatever it
takes as it's the only sport we watch. What will I need - 'set top
box'? whatever that is, or what?

ITV4 on week day eves, ITV3 live on weekends. Both on freeview (set
top box from GBP40 plus ariel upgrade maybe)

http://www.itv.com/page.asp?partid=3097

best wishes
james

"normanwisdom" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Where will it be on the telly? We considering investing in whatever it
takes as it's the only sport we watch. What will I need - 'set top
box'? whatever that is, or what?

cheers

Jacob

You'll need digital. It's on British Eurosport & ITV4.

You can get ITV4 on Freeveiew, and British Eurosport on top-up TV if you
don't wish to pay filthy lucre for Sky.

Cheers, helen s

Danny Colyer said:

normanwisdom said:

Where will it be on the telly? We considering investing in whatever it
takes as it's the only sport we watch. What will I need - 'set top
box'? whatever that is, or what?

I had a new digital aerial fitted a few days ago, ready

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for le Tour.

if like me you are in a a freeview-free area (according to their
website) you could try one of these, went from zero to pretty good
reception

http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/MXDAT45.html

NB if you're fitting it yourself be aware that some transmitters are
vertical and some horizontal so you may need to do a lot of playing
around.

Danny Colyer wrote:

And if you can't rely on being home in time to watch it then you'll

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probably want some sort of recording device with an inbuilt digital
receiver, either a DVD recorder or a hard drive

my dvdr would timer record straight off the digibox by setting its
channel to EXT2 ..

sometimes ;-)

Danny Colyer said:

And if you can't rely on being home in time to watch it then you'll
probably want some sort of recording device with an inbuilt digital
receiver, either a DVD recorder or a hard drive recorder.

Or you could connect the freeview box to a normal vhs recorder, and that to the
telly. This kind of setup's worked fine for me.

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normanwisdom said:

Where will it be on the telly? We considering investing in whatever it
takes as it's the only sport we watch. What will I need - 'set top
box'? whatever that is, or what?

On Free to Air Digital Satellite it will be on Hotbird RAI Tre (a great
way to learn Italian as the commentators are so excellent too!) also
repeats on RAI Sport Sat (which has been showing the U26 Giro all this
week). There are "educational uses only" ways of watching Eurosport
International for free although all the French channels are pretty well
protected now.
On Astra 1 it will be on German channels and on RTBF Sat and a few others.
All the best
Dan Gregory