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| Thread ID: 133050 | 2013-05-25 05:37:00 | Freeview decoders | Brucem (8688) | PC World Chat |
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| 1343159 | 2013-05-25 05:37:00 | While we have a sky dish, we have 2 TV's and freqently wish to watch different programmes. Neither TV has built in freeveiw, and I have seen Satellite Freeview, and I prefer the terrestrial version as there are, I understand, more channels, including CTV. Also it gives something of a safeguard against rainfade that happens occasionally with sky. Has anyone any recommendations for a terrestrial decoder, as we hope to move back into our house shortly after protracted earthquake repairs, programmed for one month, now 11 weeks and counting. |
Brucem (8688) | ||
| 1343160 | 2013-05-25 09:03:00 | We used a Sat freeview box for the last 4-5 years and the amount of rain fade could be counted on one hand so don't believe all you read. Our box was just a cheap one of Trademe with a USB port on the front. It's only retired now due to new TV but its likely to be back in service soon | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1343161 | 2013-05-25 15:27:00 | You can get special of $70 from Harvey Norman, not a wonderful unit but adequate. Name is Loranz. www.loranz-av.com www.harveynorman.co.nz d10m9q5283f1m1.cloudfront.net I got this for $70 two days ago after seeing my friends one. |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1343162 | 2013-05-25 22:08:00 | The only drawback with satellite freeview is that it is not transmitted in HD when a HD program is being shown. Over having the extra channels or having HD, HD wins for me. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 1343163 | 2013-05-25 22:42:00 | I would also imagine that after a period of time that the satellite freeview will be turned off as all the TVs that come out now with freeview tuners are terrestrial UHF but this could be 5 or 10 years time, who knows that is if it happens. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 1343164 | 2013-05-25 23:04:00 | Would be a stupid thing to do as there are UHF black spots all over NZ | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1343165 | 2013-05-26 00:30:00 | The beauty of the terrestrial version is that you can use rabbit's ears set to about 18 inches (lol) long instead of UHF aerial as long as you use avi outputs and not HDMI. | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1343166 | 2013-05-26 02:13:00 | The beauty of the terrestrial version is that you can use rabbit's ears set to about 18 inches (lol) long instead of UHF aerial as long as you use avi outputs and not HDMI. Uhh, nope? There is no restriction on the output. |
pine-o-cleen (2955) | ||
| 1343167 | 2013-05-26 02:28:00 | Would be a stupid thing to do as there are UHF black spots all over NZ Yeah I really doubt they will turn off the satellite. |
Alex B (15479) | ||
| 1343168 | 2013-05-26 07:22:00 | The HDMI output is better quality than the avi one and requires a stronger input signal, ie HDMI does not work well in low signal strength conditions ie rabbit's ears. | zqwerty (97) | ||
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