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1361359	2013-12-02 00:40:00	I downloaded the Igloo manual, and it says the following: ❖❖ Changing power settings To save power and money, and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, yourIGLOO is configured to automatically go into the standby mode when not in use for 4 hours. On the Power settings screen, you can turn this feature off by setting Auto Power Down to Never. Would that solve the above issue, or is the box "turn(ing) at 03:00 each day" going to happen regardless of the Power Setting?	John H (8)
1361360	2013-12-02 00:42:00	Thanks for your response ianhnz - it looks like we should have gone with Igloo in the first place and saved the cost of Sky. The Igloo channels are mostly the channels we watch on Sky anyway.	John H (8)
1361361	2013-12-02 00:49:00	I downloaded the Igloo manual, and it says the following: ❖❖ Changing power settings To save power and money, and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, yourIGLOO is configured to automatically go into the standby mode when not in use for 4 hours. On the Power settings screen, you can turn this feature off by setting Auto Power Down to Never. Would that solve the above issue, or is the box "turn(ing) at 03:00 each day" going to happen regardless of the Power Setting? Yes I discovered that on day one, last Thursday and set it to never. However every morning since, has been turned off. Igloo tells me that nothing can be done, to stop this, apart from maybe a software update. Same with recording, they said was too costly tp provide recording.	ianhnz (4263)
1361362	2013-12-02 00:51:00	Thanks for your response ianhnz - it looks like we should have gone with Igloo in the first place and saved the cost of Sky. The Igloo channels are mostly the channels we watch on Sky anyway. I only watch UK TV, not found anything else of interest. 33 channels and still nothing to watch. I noticed on the "Sky" channels there is a lot of advertising. Here we are paying extra and we still gets add's. Don't like add's, that's why I have an add blocker on my browsers.	ianhnz (4263)
1361363	2013-12-03 09:36:00	I hadn't realised until recently that Igloo was founded by Sky Network Television and TVNZ.	Marnie (4574)
1361364	2013-12-03 20:58:00	Pctec should know all about Igloos...after all she lived in the lower South Island. Plenty of material there to make an Igloo. PJ	Poppa John (284)
1361365	2013-12-03 22:12:00	Bro has a Igloo box, yep you cannot record. You can pause it and watch it later and I think that is thru a USB stick or something ... But it is not openable with the computer, it's just the Igloo device - like that USB recording off that HDTV. You CAN get more channels if you pay more for it and can be cheaper than paying for Sky. If you don't pay for it, it's the same as Freeview. He did sign up for free trial for a month (?) to get all the channels though. But fwiw our Samsung HDTV gets a stronger signal than our Igloo box. I guess the Igloo box is simiar to my USB TV Tuner on my PC. We are not in a strong area, the HDTV hardly gets a stutter but the other two gets it quite regularly. We haven't bothered to install an amp though. We have tried a amp near the tv that in theory is suppose to send the signal up the aerial to amplify it but didn't work so well so returned it, I guess one could wire it at the TV aerial and amp it there ....	Nomad (952)
1361366	2013-12-05 04:49:00	We have tried a amp near the tv that in theory is suppose to send the signal up the aerial to amplify it but didn't work so well so returned it, I guess one could wire it at the TV aerial and amp it there .... It couldn't work as you described it, because the signal can't be made any better than it was when it arrived at the TV so it was probably just a set-end signal booster, which is very useful device for turning crap signals into even crappier signals! If you have multiple decoder devices connected to your anternna i.e. the Samsung TV (if it has freeview built in) and the Igloo box then the signal is divided between them and some decoders do a better job than others on weak signals. We have two TV's with freeview built in, and three decoders (a DishTV and two Loranz). The Loranz are the best performing of the bunch with fast booting, rapid channel change and no stuttering, though we did have monumental problems with reliability to start with and went through about 5 or 6 decoders before we had two that could stay the course. Cheers Billy 8-{)	Billy T (70)
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