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April 11

ps3 psn store

I have a question about downloadable psn games

I mean when i bought a game and then waited for a few good hours to get it downloaded it then pops up in the game section of xmb as an installer icon of that game so i install it and then it turns to an actual launch game icon so my question is if i delete the installed game then will i still be able to see that install option without having to go to my acc and re-downloading the whole thing all over again?? Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.35.19.149 (talk) 04:45, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

No, if you delete the game, you delete the installer too. It might be possible to backup this file, although I've never tried. I can tell you that I did a backup and restore (PS3 replacement) recently and the downloaded and installed games did not backup. --Rixxin (talk) 15:24, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

Facemask penalty in American football

I saw this pic of Antwaan Randle El getting his facemask pulled back quite a ways and wondered if he was injured during the play. I've done a bit of searching but can't find any reference to it. Can anyone tell me if he was hurt? It's really just a curiosity since the picture looks so painful!

If you're wondering, I'm assuming that it is Randle El because the caption says that the photo was taken in 2003 and, according to our article, Randle El was number 82 in 2003. Thanks, Dismas|^(talk) 07:42, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

Confirming it is Randle El, picture on photographers website here notes it was the 2003 AFC Wild Card playoff and the mask puller was Chris Atkins. Picture taken January 5, 2003. Nanonic (talk) 08:19, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

He played the following weekend,[1] so apparently he wasn't hurt too badly. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 12:34, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

this site notes that Akins was punished with a 15yd penalty in the 2nd quarter for an intentional facemask foul, the only one of the game. Randle El scored a touchdown 5mins later so wasn't that badly affected. Nanonic (talk) 20:07, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for the responses! It certainly looks worse than it apparently was. Dismas|^(talk) 00:02, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Resolved

EastEnders on RTE One

Just wondering if RTE One in Ireland shows the EastEnders omnibus, and if the BBC's rescheduing of that will affect them. BBC One and RTE simulcast the weekday episodes, and I notice RTE One then repeats episodes in the afternoon, but have they ever simulcast the omnibus? I notice the programme is not listed in their schedule for either Friday or Sunday this weekend so it could well be the answer is no. Can anyone help? Paul MacDermott (talk) 19:36, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

no--31.200.149.160 (talk) 15:12, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

Just an expansion on the IP editors answer: RTÉ doesn't show the omnibus edition currently (Not an Enders fan, but I can base that on my vast experience of channel-hopping on wet weekend afternoons. I am fairly certain they never did, although I would be open to correction there.) As you say, RTÉ repeat the shows on weekday afternoons instead. As for simulcasting, although the same (new) episodes are shown in the same time slot as the BBC (for obvious sound commercial reasons), I would be very surprised if they actually take a live feed direct from the BBC; RTÉ would be more likely to download the programme, especially as they have to slot adverts in before and after the show and have to adjust times accordingly. (Also they have to occasionally change the time of showing if that time slot was pre-empted for live events.) I am old enough to remember when RTÉ did take programmes live from the BBC - Top of the Pops springs to mind - and you would get snippets of the BBC continuity announcers or the spinning BBC globe indent if they got the timing wrong. FlowerpotmaN·(t) 23:51, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks, I thought it was worth asking just in case they had as TV3 shows an omnibus edition of Coronation Street (though that doesn't correspond with the UK showing). I guess simulcasting can never be an exact science as there will always be errors. One I remember from the days when I had cable was CNBC Europe which took some programmes from the US and ad breaks from Europe, but sometimes you'd catch snippets of US ads. Paul MacDermott (talk) 21:57, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

Season finale On Demand

Usually, episodes appear On Demand a day after it first aired on Comcast. But sometimes season finale does not appear On Demand, why? PlanetStar (talk | contribs) 20:11, 11 April 2012 (UTC)