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Vigil - in UHD

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Re: Vigil - in UHD

Postby Gill » 07 Sep 2021, 10:46

It's the relationships that I found particularly unbelievable. The police investigator has personal issues, the first murder victim had a relationship with a CND protester camped on the base doorstep and gave her his barrack room pass which authorised her to pass through base security into his room after his death. Then she gets murdered and it transpires she was the illegitimate child of a local MP. Officers are 'socialising' with ratings. The boat is commanded by a man who has lost the confidence of his superiors to enforce discipline. The Royal Navy Police hasn't been mentioned once despite indiscipline amongst the crew. The list goes on and on.
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Re: Vigil - in UHD

Postby Woodster » 07 Sep 2021, 11:01

RogerS wrote:
Dr.Al wrote:
RogerS wrote:Thanks chaps.

Presumably it runs on a Mac ?


Looks like it:

Runs on Linux/BSD (Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenBSD and others), macOS (10.10+), Windows (7/8/10)


Mac installation instructions:

https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer/wiki/osx

I've only ever used it on Ubuntu, but I find it works very well indeed. It's worth keeping it up to date with the latest version - it tends to get updated when the BBC change things.


Many thanks for the link. I'll need to check the best way of getting the UHD video from the Mac into the TV :eusa-think:

I do have an Apple TV but suspect it is too old to handle UHD.

EDIT: It is :( I'll need an Apple TV 4K. Think I'll fire up github on the MacBook and see if it works on that. Only if it does then I'll get an Apple TV 4K and see what it's like.


I’ve seen a couple of reviews that say the Apple TV 4K outputs very good picture quality to your TV. It does however benefit from being set up using one of the later iPhones. My iPhone 8 is sadly too old for the job. ;) This is where it’s handy if you have a friend that always has to have the latest tech! :lol:
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Re: Vigil - in UHD

Postby SamQ aka Ah! Q! » 08 Sep 2021, 09:49

"The Royal Navy Police hasn't been mentioned once despite indiscipline amongst the crew."


Quite. The 'Mod Plod' individuals I met over 27 years were switched-on, no-nonsense folks who inspired thorough respect from all of us who had interactions with them. The sight of those quite magnificent Webleys they carried? The ones "that shot horses into individual cans of dog food"? Wow.
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Re: Vigil - in UHD

Postby RogerM » 09 Sep 2021, 16:06

AJB Temple wrote:From that Guardian article I was surprised that the Commander doing the teaching, with full control over a £1.1 billion nuclear sub, was earning only £78,000 annually. Does not sound a huge sum for such a challenging and responsible job.


Submariners do get extra pay, but I believe the average Commander who is in command at sea, and with a few years service at that rank, gets nearer £85,000. However, the rank of skippers of Vanguard class subs was reduced from Captain to Commander about 20 years ago, so that salary sounds about right.

Gill wrote:It's the relationships that I found particularly unbelievable. The police investigator has personal issues, the first murder victim had a relationship with a CND protester camped on the base doorstep and gave her his barrack room pass which authorised her to pass through base security into his room after his death. Then she gets murdered and it transpires she was the illegitimate child of a local MP. Officers are 'socialising' with ratings. The boat is commanded by a man who has lost the confidence of his superiors to enforce discipline. The Royal Navy Police hasn't been mentioned once despite indiscipline amongst the crew. The list goes on and on.


Yep - all that. Plus can you ever imagine a junior rating approaching the captain and saying "We need to talk"? I believe you are ex-RAF, so can you imagine an aircraftman approaching the Station Commander of an RAF base and saying "We have to talk"? These guys are GOD and the last thing you want to do is be noticed! Unless you were one of my coursemates who dated the Station Commander's 17 year old daughter whilst he was a student pilot at RAF Valley, but that's a different story. :lol:

Then there is reading a "TOP SECRET" captains eyes only, message in front of the entire crew! What???!!!
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Re: Vigil - in UHD

Postby Eric the Viking » 09 Sep 2021, 18:16

Woodster wrote:I casually looked at alternatives to Virgin for broadband. We’re on 100 mbps but actually get over that. Sky could only offer us a blazing 15 so we’re still with Virgin …

Similar thing here: every alternative is either a lot slower or a lot more expensive.

Next door has FTTP ("fibre to the property"), technically provided by Openreach, sold, I think, by BT, but his work pays for it and I'm sure it isn't cheap. But it is real optical fibre* and blazing fast. I would probably go that route if I could.

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*a local circuit from the green cabinet to the property can also be legitimately called fibre - it depends what protocol is being used on that bit of the circuit. A proper optical connection is almost always faster though.
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Re: Vigil - in UHD

Postby Sheffield Tony » 09 Sep 2021, 19:36

I was disappointed that mt Virgin "fibre" turned out to be fibre to cabinet then co-ax to the house. But looking on the bright side, I can repair/extend co-ax if needed, harder with fibre. And it does give 350Mb/s, which even my son's gaming can't use up. My excuse is that I do need it for home working (though not on the company, that's iffy), mostly for a decent upload speed.
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Re: Vigil - in UHD

Postby Stargazer » 09 Sep 2021, 19:47

Same here, rural Oxfordshire and fibre right into my office, costs me less than BT, and 300Mbps both ways, but as Sheffield Tony says, it is the fast upload that really helps with 3 people doing zoom calls. Provided by a company called gigaclear who are slowly putting in fibres across west oxfordshire.
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Re: Vigil - in UHD

Postby Eric the Viking » 14 Sep 2021, 10:20

Sheffield Tony wrote:I was disappointed that mt Virgin "fibre" turned out to be fibre to cabinet then co-ax to the house. But looking on the bright side, I can repair/extend co-ax if needed, harder with fibre. And it does give 350Mb/s, which even my son's gaming can't use up. My excuse is that I do need it for home working (though not on the company, that's iffy), mostly for a decent upload speed.

Copper into the house (with a fibre protocol) shouldn't theoretically slow anything up significantly, as long as it's done correctly, but ADSL and SDSL will always be slow.

In the computer storage business, "fibre channel" architecture has both optical and copper physical layers defined, and the choice comes down to cost and convenience. In telecomms, the practical disadvantages of copper in this context are induced interference and ground loops, but both these issues can be mitigated so as to be insignificant for the user*.

So I wouldn't worry unduly. Here we still stick with Virgin (was Telewest, which was originally Mercury in the 1980s), who use the North American style of coax broadband architecture (probably fibre-to-the-cabinet now in most places), and we have coax coming into the house much more cost effectively than next door's optical Fibre (from Openreach).

Outside urban areas it's different, as TW/Virgin didn't cable, and the GPO/BT/Openreach monopoly is only now being challenged by new suppliers, albeit usually with significant subsidy or as CICs.

E.

*locally, Virgin lost a lot of kit to corrosion, especially underground repeaters, until they realised the value of isolating their infrastructure from consumer kit by interrupting the ground DC continuity. They now fit those ground interrupter modules as standard, in the incoming coax to the property.
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Re: Vigil - in UHD

Postby Phil Pascoe » 14 Sep 2021, 11:00

Our incoming phone lines are dire - even the Openreach engineers will tell you that. Most of my problems were cured however when I had a (brilliant) friend rewire the bungalow (mid '70s) with Cat5 (I ran the cables in) - the speed went from 5mgps (on an exceptionally good day, 1mgps usually) up to 27mgps.
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Re: Vigil - in UHD

Postby TrimTheKing » 15 Sep 2021, 07:41

Phil Pascoe wrote:Our incoming phone lines are dire - even the Openreach engineers will tell you that. Most of my problems were cured however when I had a (brilliant) friend rewire the bungalow (mid '70s) with Cat5 (I ran the cables in) - the speed went from 5mgps (on an exceptionally good day, 1mgps usually) up to 27mgps.


I’m not entirely sure how rewriting your house internally speeded up your broadband connection, unless you’re talking about using Wi-Fi previously in which case your broadband was always that quick and it was your Wi-Fi letting you down.
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Re: Vigil - in UHD

Postby Phil Pascoe » 15 Sep 2021, 08:33

No, it was wired. The computer was practically unusable wired or wifi, but fine once the router was rewired with Cat5 back to the incoming phone line. I had it wired across the bungalow to the computer at the same time which is much better than wifi.
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Re: Vigil - in UHD

Postby 9fingers » 15 Sep 2021, 09:24

Your phone line is therefore just using one of the pairs in a length cat 5 cable to talk to the modem. This suggests that the original internal phone wiring inside your bungalow had some sort of problem that restricted the bandwidth of the ASDL signal.
Only the connections after your modem are using ethernet in a network of cat 5 which will always beat WiFi performance on grounds of data rate and security hands down.

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Re: Vigil - in UHD

Postby Phil Pascoe » 15 Sep 2021, 16:13

Certainly. I posted only because I sometimes wonder whether people are too quick to blame the wrong things.
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Re: Vigil - in UHD

Postby RogerS » 16 Sep 2021, 21:09

And in complete contrast ....and well worth watching IMO..is HMS Trenchant - a hunter-killer.

https://www.channel5.com/show/submarine ... the-waves/
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