We finally upgraded to Sky Q, after what seemed like an eternity on Sky SD. This means I can finally watch NHK world again after it went to HD back around 8 years ago. We may even get back Fox news even though it was nixed for even longer. France24 will of course be back then and I'll no longer have to rely on scrolling through what was left on SD before eventually settling on al onion (Jazeera,)
If you want to know what that was like and a brief bit of the news and views of Qatars premier news outlet, read on. But first the reason why we did, what we did and why we got rid of a near 20 year old sky box.
Not only did channels migrate to HD and their SD equivalents get shut down but, every time it updated it would either whistle (a high pitched tone don't know if it was interference or just aging hardware, it would whistle all the time until it rebooted) or go mute. It also started to crash and had to be rebooted in a similar fashion, i.e unplugged and plugged back in, the old turn it off and on again.
EDIT, It is to do with Thomson boxes only which ours was. Our other box was an Amstrad and used to go silent when updating.
Finally back to the news, if you'd like to hear news with a slight middle eastern bent to @l Jizz isn't that bad. Watching them cover Jamal Khashoggi or The Yemen crisis first hand as well as a few other bits and pieces from round the world and most crucially enough though precious little brexit news, which seems to infest twitter and other sources.
Mostly though on their scrolling news ticker they have a story about a journalist in an Egyptian jail for almost 1000 days. He appears nowhere else and isn't deemed news worthy by any other outlet.
This should occur sometime in the week if my calculations are correct. I wonder what will happen if he gets released.
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