WHAT'S NEW TO THE SITE AND WEB SITE HELP

WHAT'S NEW TO THE SITE
Your comments are welcome at comments@auspaytv.com

NOTE: Some features, e.g. scrolling text and pictures mentioned below may not apply to NETSCAPE users. However, all features apply to Explorer Versions 3 or greater.

January 2001,
The site has again been upgraded and also moved to a dedicated hosting service using our official domain name auspaytv.com. 500Mb of wab space is available, In addition we have the ability to provide unlimited email addresses, with virtually unlimited mail box space that allows for attachments to be sent and received. Should you wish to consider having an email address yourname@auspaytv.com that you can use with any ISP, anywhere in the world, please contact us at email@auspaytv.com and joining details will be forwarded. You can use your own name or a name of your choice (depending on availability).

Saturday, October 7, 2000,
The whole site has been upgraded and reworked using stylesheets to assist in reducing the code of each page to speed up download time.

Saturday, July 8, 2000,
Sections on The history of satellite television, FAQ on DIgital TV, and MPEG2 FAQ added to the site

Tuesday, July 26, 1999.
The auspaytv site has today been split into two services. 1. The AUSPAYTV INFORMATION SERVICE - This is mostly a site of information a=on service providers and the channels they offer, for ease of understanding extensive use is made of graphics. 2. The AUSPAYTV NEWS SERVICE. The NEWS service is basically a text service, with minimal use of graphics. This has been done to allow speedy access and ease of moving between various news pages.
To ensure you have reached the latest news update, please press your browser's "reload" (Netscape) or "refresh" (Microsoft Explorer).

Tuesday, July 10, 1999.
New domain name for this site www.auspaytv.com, plus each page has its own email address e.g. this page is help@auspaytv.com, the Foxtel pages are Foxtel@auspaytv.com , Optus are optus@auspaytv.com. etc.

Tuesday, June 25, 1999.
Front page re-set, now loads more quickly. Page one now includes "latest news links", and "news in brief".
New common header for all pages, scrolled channel logos. Note: scrolling of logos may only work with Internet Explorer. Also opening page gives up-to-date time and each time you log onto the page, although this may not scroll across the screen for NETSCAPE users. The date is taken from your computer cmos.

Wednesday, June 16, 1999.
NOTE: New email address for this page. help@auspaytv.com also I have published two updated versions of the OPTUS page (i) TEXT (Text) as a quick view, (ii) GRAPHICS (slower to load) (Pics) in a form easier to read and has more detailed information but is a bit slower to load.

Friday, June 12, 1999.
(i) Published a new section on decoders and a download site for various UEC decoder manuals. (ii) Updated most pages with various corrections and updated web site addresses. (iii) Added a "return to top of page" feature following several requests as an aid to navigation through pages.(iv) upgraded side-bar and removed a small bug annoying some Netscape users.

Friday, June 11, 1999.
Published two updated versions of the FOXTEL page and Misc. Sites page, (i) TEXT (Text) as a quick view, (ii) GRAPHICS (slower to load) (Pics) in a form easier to read with more detailed information but is slower to load.

Monday, June 7, 1999.
Published an updated version of the AUSTAR page in two formats, (i) TEXT (Text) as a quick view, (ii) GRAPHICS (Pics) in a form easier to read and with more information but is slower to load.

Sunday, May 30, 1999.
Published an updated version of the TV CHANNELS page in two formats, (i) TEXT (Text) as a quick view, (ii)GRAPHICS (Pics) in a form easier to read but slower to load. Altered "SIDEBAR" menu to indicated "Text" for Text Page or "Pics" for Graphics page.

Saturday, May 29, 1999.
Updated NEWS and TARBS pages plus added moving "Welcome" to Home Page and "STOP PRESS" text to index pages.

Monday, May 24, 1999.
Published the PAY TV INFO page in two formats, (i) TEXT as a quick view, (ii) GRAPHICS in a form easier to read but slower to load. It is the intention to have most pages in the two formats eventually.

Friday, May 21, 1999
A page on the forthcoming television conversion of analogue to digital has been added. 
Following several requests for information the first page on the digital receivers/decoders used by the Australian Pay Television industry has been added, The Pace DGT 400 - includes information on re-tuning it to various frequencies, etc.   Info. on other receivers to follow shortly

Thursday, May 20, 1999. 
Hopefully Netscape incompatibilities have been corrected to Pay TV pages. This version of the site is now suitable for Netscape and Explorer version.

Following several requests I have also added, as an option, a method of calling up most of the Pay TV pages as a full screen without the sidebar. This option will also make it easier to print off a hard copy of a particular page.

Each Pay TV page of the site now also has the option of returning to the INDEX page at both the top and bottom of each page.

When returning to the INDEX page from a page set as a full screen, the sidebar will also return. Brief instructions on using this new option are at the bottom of the INDEX page.

Each link to a site, outside my Pay TV site, will now be treated differently as a result of the above changes. If an outside link is accessed on a page opened as a full screen (without the sidebar) from my site, the outside site will appear as a full screen. However, if an outside link is accessed from a page with my Pay TV sidebar still in place, the outside site in MOST cases will appear with my PAY TV sidebar still place and my site will still be open to you.

Wednesday, May 12, 1999. 
Welcome to this new site.

WEB SITE HELP
The following part of this page has been developed as a guide to solving problems you may experience with this Web Site and is in the format of questions and answers

 Q. The site text appears to be too large. How do I make the SIDE BAR MENU or one of its web pages fit my screen properly?

A. Alter your browser screen font size. e.g. Internet Explorer 4 - go to View option, go to Fonts, alter size setting - Internet Explorer 5 go to View option, go to Text Size, alter setting. Other browsers also have a similar system of altering your screen font size, with out altering the computers overall font size settings.

 Q. One of the links to another site will not allow me to see their site as a full page, the SIDE BAR MENU is still in place, what can I do to correct this?

A. As far as possible, all links to sites containing more than one page have been tested to avoid this happening. However, one or two site may have been missed or changed by the site owners. Please sent me an email with details so I can correct the site and solve this problem auspaytv@netc.net.au, in the meantime as a temporary fix you can use mouse to block over and highlight the site address, go to the Edit option and copy and press enter. Then go to the side menu bar and go to Home Page, then with the required site address still in memory go to the navigation bar and paste into place and press enter. You should then find the site you wish to view as a full screen.

Q. Sometime when accessing a page on this site I get a white screen with information saying the page I have requested is not available, what can I do.

A. Try again later, if the server supplying the page is very busy, or the NET in general is busy, a page on some occasions may not be found on the first try as a result of a time-out being invoked. This Pay TV site has proved very popular, especially in the first few days of being available, and this has at times, put a heavy of load on it - the server being used is only supposed to be used for mostly private home pages of our local community ISP.

Note: Any suggestions to improve this Web Site will be most welcome.
If you experience any problems using this site please send an email with details to: help@auspaytv.com with a brief description.