Now my LG and me

I recently bought a LG smart HD TV to replace my 10 year old wide screen Sony TV. Great decision, lovely TV. It came with a 3 month subscription to Sky NowTV movies and 6 sport day passes.
So far,  so great until trying to get NowTV to work. Try as I might I had no joy. Contacted Nowtv bods though they were no help.

Just today though found a tid bit of info on the great inter web which has some my problem. So here I am passing on the same to those who find themselves in the same predicament of "cannot contact stream", "oops we have a problem" or any of the other cannot stream to you messages.

It is as easy as entering the IP address details manually (set up automatically and then go to manual, take note of the settings and re-enter manually) and then enter the following for the dns entry,  4.2.2.2 (why? No idea but it works.  Info care of a page on the Now TV community board)

Voila! working NowTV through your LG TV.  Wonder why this Info is not displayed prominently on the website? Off to tell them now.

The problem with Telcos or How Virgin Tried to Pull a Fast One

Got my latest virginmedia bill and yet again it has slowly crept up. Ever so slowly a pound here or a pound there and the bill has gone for the same services over time from £20 to over £30

So I want to reduce my bill, hardly use the phone as we both have mobiles, but it useful to have a landline, the internet is the basic package and the TV is the basic package also.  No need for more than that in the house at the moment.

So I see an opportunity to save some dosh, reducing my monthly cost to £25.  Oh no I am told it is not for existing customers, cue discussion with agent on end of phone while I sit in front of computer telling her what it says on the web page. https://my.virginmedia.com/customer-news/articles/collections.html

We can upgrade you but cannot give you anything to reduce your cost she tells me and recommends I speak to their retention team but not before she says but we can just upgrade your broadband at no cost to you. I say no and she insists that there is no cost to me so why not just get it.  So of course I do and then get a letter saying they are putting me on a new 12 month contract.
So I have cancelled that no cost to me broadband upgrade! which would have fixed my bills at there present rate for the next 12 months - cheeky buggers!

So I'll have to discuss with their retention and find out why they are offering their collections to existing customers but not really offering, as you will not get it at the rate they show but rather the rate you are currently on providing it is more than the offer rate.

Where has the TV gone?

We have removed access to the TV!
This is not an experiment though.  We have done it a number of times before over the years.

There is no access to TV in the house for the next few weeks.  What will we do?  Well I suppose the same as previously, the children will start playing with their toys again and talking to us and us to them.

We started over the weekend and the kids have got used to it already and it does help with the better weather.

It is us adults who are having the most difficulty though, being so used to relaxing in front of the TV in the evening.  We are talking more and reading more now,

You'll be amazed how much you find to do and talk about,

• Reading
• Talking
• Sitting down for longer at dinner time and having family discussions
• Playing cards
• Playing in the garden
• Playing games together