[theo_luddite]

I'm with BT/EE and get Sky Sports (and Sports+) through Now TV. Normally reliable and I've just been boosted to big full fat fibre that's so fast if you blink you miss it, so no idea why it buffered and dropped out last night. Had to be their end. Listened to commentary, even if it's a minute or so out of whack on, my laptop on HTTV. It's a minute in front of Now TV usually rather than behind, showing how up to the second digital really is, but if you put the digital against analogue you can boil a kettle waiting for digital to catch up. So much for advanced engineering. I guess they bounce it round every satellite they've got up there before it lands back at a transmitter somewhere close to where it eventually ends up on a telebox, computer or a digital radio.

On the occassions when Radio Local gives us the digital frequency we can listen to, rather than the one we can't, in the Stadium, Oggy and Glennon are a minute behind there, so what I'm watching on Now TV might as well be ancient history. I get BBC goal notifications on my phone faster than I see them on the box. Still, it saves me having to watch the other 90 odd minutes of crap so I only need to watch the goals.

Technology eh? Anyone got any carrier pigeons?

I guess it all goes to prove that if there was a nuclear war and we got the so called 2 minute warning on our phones from the Government so you could kiss your @ss or loved one's goodbye, your head would already be stuck up your neighbour's @ss and your's would be in what's left of your other neighbour's house before you received it, never mind read it.