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| Thread ID: 134599 | 2013-07-17 12:45:00 | Freeview decoder box suggestions - ability to record | Nomad (952) | PC World Chat |
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| 1349204 | 2013-07-18 06:46:00 | Can you get summit on your tivo? Can now. Looked when I got home and it was on CH 14 . No rescan required.. No EPG though.. |
paulw (1826) | ||
| 1349205 | 2013-07-18 06:53:00 | Can now. Looked when I got home and it was on CH 14 . No rescan required.. No EPG though.. Yep got it, had to rescan. |
plod (107) | ||
| 1349206 | 2013-07-18 06:57:00 | Tried it on mine, after a scan I have summit ok but it's not in the guide. Not a channel I'll watch anyway. | dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1349207 | 2013-07-18 10:29:00 | I have had one of these for a couple of years - www.trademe.co.nz It records to a USB stick or external drive. Reliable enough, but not really intuitive to use. Unlike a HDD DVD recorder, you cannot stop and resume a programme when you are watching it. If you stop, you have to start from the beginning and shuttle your way through to the point where you left off watching. Sometimes this means that the sound and video tracks have lost synchronisation. Grrrr. I wouldn't recommend you get something like this, even though they are cheap. BTW, you need to choose whether you want a satellite or terrestrial decoder. The latter will give you HD if a programme is broadcast that way; satellite will not. However, you need a UHF aerial to access terrestrial digital broadcasts. |
John H (8) | ||
| 1349208 | 2013-07-18 12:41:00 | Which aerials / dish options is the best in your opinion? i have a sky dish on shed roof, have no idea if it is still usuable, never been connected since ive been here for 5 years............. and i have a broken uhf ? aerial so would need a new one to replace that, and then freeveiw boxes one to start with, and a second at some stage, recording if posible :D Ive been putting it off because other things become more important..so any recomendations is good. if i get new aerial can i get up on roof and swap aerials and be all good ? or do i really need to get a aerial company instaler to check it? disappointed that i have to do this, as i wouldnt upgrade other wise. im happy with my tv and reception :( |
beetle (243) | ||
| 1349209 | 2013-07-18 22:12:00 | I think there are others who can give you better advice than me, beetle. However, you first have to find out what service you are going to receive in your area. For example, where we live we get both terrestrial and satellite, but my son lives in Hokitika, and they only get satellite (I think that is the case for all of Westland). Anyway, our house had both a Sky dish and a UHF aerial when we moved in, so I bought a terrestrial decoder so we could get HD programmes on Freeview (you can't get HD programmes on satellite freeview). There is a really big difference between HD and non-HD on our TV set. We are just building a new house, and I will get a UHF aerial installed on that house. Other than that, I will have to leave the advice on choice of aerial/dish options to others on this forum who know better than me. First check what you will be receiving in your area - that may simplify things for you. | John H (8) | ||
| 1349210 | 2013-07-18 23:07:00 | If you can get terrestrial it's definitely better, satellite is really just for areas outside UHF coverage. Swapping the Aerial should work fine, providing it's pointing the right way. You can get a little meter to connect to the aerial that shows you signal strength as you pan it around, get one of those and out a joiner in the coax at the aerial end so you can plug it in and you just became almost a professional installer. What the experts have an advantage with is local knowledge as to signal strength & coverage area, direction to the transmitter, typical aerial requirements, and how to identify if you have the good coax or the cheap stuff (cheap coax has high loss especially at UHF frequencies). |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1349211 | 2013-07-18 23:13:00 | I put up an aerial ourselves so my input ... Sat dish is not Full HD. But people I heard have used Sky dish for that. You can keep the old cable and get a new dish if it is passed its used by date. You can also snip the cable and put up a UHF aerial for Full HD if you are in the right area that supports HD. Or just run some fresh RG6 cable to a new aerial and down to the wall .... don't need a plate really, b/c some installers don't do that but maybe it is neater for a wall plate :D Althou in theory each wallplate is effectively a joiner so the reception could degrade. So they have a cable from the roof through the wall and straight to the TV. Some electrical stores IME have return policies maybe b/c they cater to traders. Get a aerial like your peers in your area or larger, if you cannot see the tv station get a phased array, that helped us greatly. We didn't have a meter reader so .. This is the most tricky thing IME b/c for us we are in a valley and despite what the guy said we swapped to a phased array and it worked sig better althou not the smoothest 24/7 b/c I guess unless you have a meter you can get them for $20-30 online I think. Have a search here, Speedy posted a link to it. So you walk around your roof attached to a aerial and get a meter strength reading. For us we have old Sky b/c they want Asian channels, so the Freeview HD is only for the 1 or 2 bedrooms and they didn't wanna drill another hole on the roof to put the aerial somewhere else, we just used the old position where the VHF was. www.dishtv.co.nz |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1349212 | 2013-07-18 23:54:00 | HD for satellite is too expensive, and there isnt enough space wherever it is for it anyway. Thats why satellite isnt HD. And thats why places like Sommetsports didnt put it on satellite. Too costly, and it would take up the capacity, if they added satellite + HD | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
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