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sara_louise:
Yes, I thought something like that would work - I've tried masking them off from each other in all sorts of ways, but the signal still gets through, and the only way I've found so far is by putting a piece of card directly over the remote sensor on the machine - that's as well as the large piece of board I've put between the machines (one is on top of the other), sticking out at the front by about 9 inches. It''s a bit Heath Robinson and awkward, but it works well enough, as long as I remember certain sequences of operation.
And yes, I'm fully aware of the impending great switch-over to digital - as far as I can see, this is one of the greatest cons of modern times, designed solely to force us into having huge numbers of channels which we don't need, and watch programmes which are no better than the ones put out by the perfectly adequate 5 network channels we already have. Why does anybody need any more? Go through the Radio Times carefully each week, and make a list of all the programmes on the network channels you want to watch, or think are worth recording to keep. Put them in order, and see how big a list you come up with, and add up all the time it takes out of your week to watch these programmes - then tell me if you REALLY, HONESTLY need any more of your life taken up with sitting in front of that seductive, glittering little box of moving colours. And if you still think, 'oh, there's nothing on that I want to watch' - just turn the thing off, and go and do something else!!
There's more to this response, but I'm being told it's too long - so I've copied it to MSW, and I'll try and paste it back to a second reply...