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Offline dleafy

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« Reply #30 on: December 30, 2020, 19:50. »
Very informative thread and great to see the doom and gloom that was predicted by many hasn't come to pass.
Even better was the head of the Valencian region speaking yesterday about how important UK visitors, second home owners and residents were to the region and how he will do everything in his power to ensure that as little as possible changes.

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« Reply #31 on: January 02, 2021, 11:02. »
I've just picked this up in the online comments section of today's paper and can't seem to find what's prompted it. Anybody any ideas?

"So apparently Brits’ streaming services either won’t work or will have limited or local language content when we go on holiday to the EU now. No Sky nor Britbox, Amazon with very limited content and Netflix will default to local language content wherever you are, with no access to U.K. library. VPNs seemingly won’t be an effective workaround for streaming or at best will be exceedingly fiddly to make work for anyone but the most IT-literate so not really a solution for families used to things just working across multiple mobile devices. This is going to be such a pain for those of us with multiple kids who always spend summer holidays in the EU and do holidays involving a lot of driving".

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« Reply #32 on: January 02, 2021, 12:10. »
As soon as something gets blocked, someone will find a way around it.

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« Reply #33 on: January 02, 2021, 12:25. »
A few more comments refer to the UK falling out of the market for digital services and Portability regulations.

It's all Greek to me.

Maybe just mobile stuff. Early days and as you say someone usually manages to find a way round whatever it is.

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« Reply #34 on: January 02, 2021, 16:12. »
Best hope is Freesat, my neighbor has a 1.4m offset dish and gets good results, different story when it rains though, record loads of stuff when it's dry to watch when it's wet .I'm going for my own Freesat system this year as our community system is a bit limited for channels.

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« Reply #35 on: January 02, 2021, 16:59. »
I've used Freesat for years without problems. Expensive to install but then free for llife.

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« Reply #36 on: January 03, 2021, 11:58. »
i agree W.B.A freesat great, bit scrambled when bad rainy weather only 4 times a year though.
people who live in glass houses should undress in the dark !

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« Reply #37 on: January 03, 2021, 12:00. »
Blue and White, what size dish do you have ?

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« Reply #38 on: January 03, 2021, 14:34. »
Just a standard 1.4 dish as readily available


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« Reply #40 on: January 03, 2021, 16:12. »
Before we actually left the EU one blamed the EU for whatever went wrong. Now there is a choice as you can blame either Boris or Brexit. Rubbish reporting but I suppose it might sell the odd newspaper.

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« Reply #41 on: January 03, 2021, 16:21. »
£1900 on two flights, testing and getting to the airport, £950 each!!!

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« Reply #42 on: January 03, 2021, 16:40. »
Exactamente.

The trouble is people sometimes believe what they read.

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« Reply #43 on: January 03, 2021, 18:53. »
Ryanair to Barcelona from £9.99 one way. Shame we can't be helpful and point this out. Even British Airways only wanted £83 with hold baggage.

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« Reply #44 on: January 03, 2021, 20:27. »
Any system that uses bureaucrats or politicians to run a country or institution is usually chaotic and at times poorly run. 40 years of EU membership didn’t bring obvious benefits on a personal level to the normal joe in the street. Leaving won’t change much for most of us, it will still be all about the money.