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Old 20-05-10, 12:22 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Default just checked my box and some channels are working again!

i seen a comment on here earlier about some channels being back on.i plugged mines back in the wall and was amazed i wasnt taking for a fool!
sly 1-2-3 syfi watch e! discovery comedy central and a few others are back on air...
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Default Re: just checked my box and some channels are working again!

Not for two much longer they wont
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why did they go off plz tell us ??
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Default Re: just checked my box and some channels are working again!

They are been switched over to N3, the reason its taking so long is Kuldalksi are dragging behind virgin that's all.

List of areas updated today below

Latest List

- Aylesbury (Receiving new cards as part of Watford headend)
- Barnsley (Rec new cards) on N3 ?
- Bedfordshire including Bedford Sandy, Biggleswade, Dunstable, Luton (set to receive new cards) on N3 ?
- Bedford (received cards today) on N3 ?
- Bells Hill
- Birmingham [Set to receive new cards] n3 in stream today]
- Bolton
- Bournemouth / Poole - (Recieved Cards) on N3 ?
- Bradford (Received new cards) on N3 ?
- Brighton Recieved new cards now on N3
- burton joyce notts area (received cards)
- Cardiff (set to receive new cards)
- Castleford (set to receive new cards) on N3 ?
- Chesham (Receiving new cards as part of Watford headend)
- Cheshire including Warrington, Widnes
- Chiltern Hills (Receiving new cards as part of Watford headend)
- Cleethorpes ( received cards )
- Coventry (set to receive new cards)
- Croxley Green
- Derbyshire (Receiving new cards)Reports that Derby is now N3
- Dewsbury (Receiving new cards) on N3 ?
- Dunbartonshire in Scotland
- Doncaster ( received cards ) on N3 ?
- Dundee in Scotland now on N3
- DARLINGTON in co.durham (cards received)
- Edinburgh now on N3
- Edwalton (received new cards)
- east kilbride (received new cards)
- Essex including (Romford, Ilford, Rainham receiving new cards)
- Falkirk in Scotland - Cards Recd as of the 14th Apr on N3 ?
- Fife in Scotland received new cards on N3 ?
- Gateshead (Received cards )
- Gedling (received new cards)
- Glasgow in Scotland (received new cards)
- Greenock (received new cards)
- Grimsby ( received new cards 21/4/10)
- Halifax (set to receive new cards) on N3 ?
- Hampshire including Gosport, Aldershot, Farnborough
- Harrogate - On Nagra 3 now
- hamilton ( Received Cards )
- Hartlepool ( Received Cards )
- Hertfordshire including Hemel Hempstead, (Watford, Rickmansworth, Stevenage, Hitchin, Letchworth, Ware, Hertford, Hoddesdon, Cheshunt, South Hertfordshire receiving new cards) - Reports that Watford / Herts now on Nagra 3
- Horley
- Huddersfield On Nagra 3 ?
- Humberside
- Immingham (received cards)
- Ilkeston DE7 (received new cards)
- Keighley (set to receive new cards) on N3 ?
- Kent including (Swanley, Bexley, receiving new cards)
- Kirklees including Dewsbury, Batley On Nagra 3
- Lancashire including Chorley, Preston, Burnley, Nelson, Accrington, Colne, Blackburn
- Leeds - On Nagra 3 Now - Batley outside Leeds, (Received cards)
- Leicestershire (Cards Recd - " week Countdown to chan loss) on N3 ?
- Lincolnshire (set to receive new cards as part of Nottingham headend)
- Liverpool
- London 41050 including Harrow (East London, South London, Seven Kings receiving new cards) Ilford on Nagra 3 and Seven Kings on Nagra 3 Hayes on N3
- Lothian in Scotland including Edinburgh city now on N3
- Luton ( received there cards - 2 week countdown to chan loss) on N3 ?
- Manchester including Swinton, Salford, Stretford, Wigan (Manchester set to receive new cards)
- Middlesbrough (Received cards )
- Middlesex including Staines
- Newcastle (Received cards )
- Newcastle-under-Lyme
- North & South Lanarkshire in Scotland
- North Shields
- Norwich (set to receive new cards)
- Nottinghamshire (received new cards) now N3
- notts (pure N*l) (received new cards)
- Oldham
- Paisley in Scotland ( received cards )
- Portsmouth (Receiving new cards)
- Rotherham
- Rugby (set to receive new cards)
- Scun'thorpe (received cards)
- Sheffield - Cards Recd on N3 ?
- Solent (set to receive new cards)
- Southampton
- South Humberside (set to receive new cards as part of Nottingham headend)
- South Shields
- South Tyneside - (received new cards)
- Sunderland (now on N3)
- St. Helens
- Stockton-on-Tees (received new cards)
- Stoke-on-Trent
- strelley area notts (received cards)
- Sunderland - On N3
- Surrey including Guildford, Woking, Frimley, Farnham, Camberley, Epsom
- Sussex including (Crawley receiving new cards)
- Sutton in Ashfield (received new cards)
- Teesside + Tyneside ( Cards Received)
- Tonbridge including Tonbridge wells, Edenbridge, Lower Surrey (set to receive new cards)
- Uddingston in Scotland (received new cards)
- Warrington (set to receive new cards)
- Wednesbury in West Midlands (Receiving new cards)
- Wirral
- Wales (set to receive new cards)
- York - On Nagra 3 Now



- *** NORTHERN IRELAND (Set to get new cards)***


Areas switched over to Nagra 3
- Acton London
- Ashford
- Aylesbury
- Barking
- Batley
- Bexleyheath
- Bournemouth
- Brighton
- Chesham
- Chiltern Hills
- Chingford
- Dagenham
- Dartford
- Derbyshire
- Dewsbury
- Dover
- Dundee
- East Ham London
- East London
- Edinburgh
- Essex 1 (N*l/Excw parts only)
- Fife
- Folkestone
- Harrogate
- Hartlepool
- Huddersfield (N*l parts only)
- Herdforshire
- Ilford
- Kirklees
- Leeds
- Luton
- Mirfield
- Nottinghamshire
- Poole
- Rainham
- Rickmansworth
- Romford (Excw parts only)
- Seven Kings
- Shepherds Bush
- Southampton (Excw parts only)
- South Hertfordshire
- Sunderland
- St Albans (Excw parts only)
- Swanley
- Upton Park
- Waltham Abbey
- Walthamstow
- Watford
- Wessex
- West Yorkshire (N*l parts only)
- York
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i know about N3 but i just wanna know why and how its come back on as if its back on he aint been hit with N3 so why the loss of channels ??
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i know about N3 but i just wanna know why and how its come back on as if its back on he aint been hit with N3 so why the loss of channels ??
Same here. Read a few posts so decided to give it a try and got some channels back too. Pretty much the same as mentioned???

Sky 1,2 & 3. Discovery, ESPN and a few others?
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Default Re: just checked my box and some channels are working again!

could be a number of reasons, some people did not get cards, some cards dont work, some peoples boxs did not take the upgrade who knows, but be sure of one thing... if they where off they wil go off again.
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could be a number of reasons, some people did not get cards, some cards dont work, some peoples boxs did not take the upgrade who knows, but be sure of one thing... if they where off they wil go off again.
Dammit....

There was me thinking Mr Branson had had a change of heart... lol

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Dammit....

There was me thinking Mr Branson had had a change of heart... lol

well your on N3 and you have got some back so something is up ??
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well your on N3 and you have got some back so something is up ??
Yeah but what? Only a few channels back?
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