But...but...Heroes!

[selenay]

Yesterday, we had a disaster. Not the recoverable kind :-(

Sky decided to send out a software upgrade, that has apparently "caused problems with" (i.e. fried) some people's Sky+ boxes. Sadly, ours was one of the affected. Forty-five minutes on the phone to tech support produced a promise that an engineer would be out on Friday to replace the box free of charge.

Sadly, this means that all the things recorded on it have gone bye-bye. So good-bye to three (or four?) episodes of Heroes that we hadn't had time to watch yet. And good-bye to three episodes of Doctor Who that I hadn't had time to transfer onto DVD for the capping of. Woe.

It's the Heroes that I'm most distressed about. Guess I'll have to download them, but it's taught us a valuable lesson about finding time to watch what we record. We're going to be much more dedicated on this front from now on.

In other news, my back is aching a lot (I'm still paying for a shopping trip on Saturday, bleh) and I have meetings. Is it time to go home yet?

I have succumed to the lure of buying Jaffa Cakes. Bad Sel.

Comments

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Guess I'll have to download them

Bwahaha. That way madness lies. Or at least, extended sessions of "Just one more episode then". There are 8 more Heroes to download than have yet been shown on SciFi.

(And I've got to watch Dexter that a friend asked me to download. When I've finished watching Traders season 3...)

[gaspodex.livejournal.com]

um - can I ask what the upgrade did ? I have an HD box but it may be affected ... There is a way to copy all the programs on your sky+ to an image and then back to your new sky plus drive - as long as your happy opening the case. (if you have had the box over a year this shouldnt be an issue - and you can put a bigger disk in at the same time - I used it to put a 500GB disk in)

http://copyplus.artisswebdesign.co.uk/index.php

[gaspodex.livejournal.com]

Of course that fact that episodes 17 and 19 are so good shouldn't influence an chopice made to download anyway ...

[selenay]

The box is less than two months old, so we'd be a bit concerned about taking it apart at this stage! The repairs are being done under warantee *sigh*

For us, the upgrade made the entire thing stop working. All the lights on the front were on and some didn't turn off even when the power was unplugged. It doesn't respond to the remote and every varient on resetting, rebooting and fiddling didn't work *sigh* It also makes a whirring noise every few minutes if the power is plugged in. Oddly, we've now unplugged it. Basically, the upgrade turned out HD into a large paperweight. Fabulous.

[gerardkeating.livejournal.com]

if you want, i can post them to you..

[selenay]

I know :-) I have to check whether we have a d/ling cap on our connection before I start downloading, though, to be sure that I don't suddenly blow it out and end up with a large, unexpected bill :-)

I will, however, be aiming not to overtake Sci-fi with my DLing.

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. To be honest, I'd forgotten that such things exist! Because I've got legitimate reasons for not wanting capped downloads, so I automatically only look at services with allow at least 40 Gig a month (I think I can probably live with an average of 1 Gig per day, at the moment!).

Wanadoo once tried to ensnare me, on a tariff that only allowed 3 Gig per month (and that included email). Since I was about to download a 3 CD set of Mandrake which would blow most of that in a day, I pointed this out to them, and they went away.

[yragg.livejournal.com]

I have succumed to the lure of buying Jaffa Cakes.

Naughty, naughty, Sel!

What flavour? I'm quite partial to the lime myself. ;)

[selenay]

We're still with BT Internet (Da, the man who pays the bills, still hasn't got round to changing us to a more reliable ISP!) and I remember that there was some mention of capping the last time they 'upgraded' our package. So I need to check.

Definitely it's something I'll be making sure Da checks on our next ISP. The fact that BT randomly strangles downloads (even at 5.30am - huh?) doesn't make DLing any easier. Again, it's something I'll be checking with our next ISP.

[selenay]

I'm an old fashioned girl - prefer the traditional orange flavour :-)

[paranoidangel]

I am keeping all the episodes on my PVR and am trying to work out how to get them into something playable, like avi, for someone else, so I can put them on a DVD if you want. Assuming I work out what I'm doing. And resist the lure of extensions for my PVR (there's quite a few that skip adverts much better!)

[selenay]

yragg has offered to upload them somewhere for me, but if I have problems maintaining an Internet connection (as occured last night) then I may take you up on that. Thank you very much for the offer and I will let you know how my downloading goes :-)