Square eyes (2)

Following on from yesterday's post, one of the most annoying aspects of satellite television is how fragile reception is. It only takes an average rainstorm - nothing serious - to cause picture breakup. Indeed, it's often possible to anticipate bad weather is on the way because the picture starts to misbehave. In real stormy weather I've had complete picture blackouts of five, ten minutes and more. Of course, at the moment, provided you are watching one of the main BBC or ITV channels, you can click over to analogue, which is not affected by bad weather. But they're going to switch analogue off, aren't they? Hmmm....