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| Thread ID: 109624 | 2010-05-16 01:36:00 | Tivo | Hitech (9024) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 885241 | 2010-05-26 06:40:00 | mysky sounds cool. i don't think freview is any good, it has too little channels | goodiesguy (15316) | ||
| 885242 | 2010-05-26 11:53:00 | I've never had that issue, maybe you need a better aerial? :confused: The slow channel switching annoyed me when I first got Tivo (I'm sure they could speed it up with faster hardware) but I came to the realisation a few months back that I hardly ever watch live TV so it isn't that much of an issue for me. I time shift the news when I get home and pretty much record everything else. I don't have any Digital tuner yet, though I tried out a friends DVB-T tuner card in my PC once and the reception was terrible. UHF analogue is pretty bad here too. A new antenna might help, no idea. The thing is I can handle a slightly hazy or ghosted analog channel fine, but when it comes to digital I expect it to work 100% - when it suddenly has corruption artifacts even if for just a second it really annoys me. DVB-S might be a better choice for me but then I hear you need a large dish or else you can get rain fade... |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 885243 | 2010-05-26 13:04:00 | DVB-S might be a better choice for me but then I hear you need a large dish or else you can get rain fade... Not really (unless it's a true downpour). I'm running a standard sky dish (65cm I think), and it only really drops out in high winds, even then that was at the old place. Have yet to see any issues in the new place. |
ubergeek85 (131) | ||
| 885244 | 2010-05-26 13:27:00 | No it has 17 Little channels on tivo | Hitech (9024) | ||
| 885245 | 2010-05-26 21:17:00 | did you have your stopwatch running when you did this ken. | Hitech (9024) | ||
| 885246 | 2010-05-27 06:18:00 | Intriguing this... I have 3 (2 UHF and 1 Satellite) tuners in our house and did some real hitech testing to establish the channel changing times on them (one higeldy pigeldy, 2 higeldy pigeldy...etc.) Tivo 4 seconds Zinwell 4 seconds And the satellite one... Hills 4 seconds Using the guide takes longer as you have lots of key presses to change channel Ken :nerd: I have a DSE freeview decoder, and using the 'recall' button (which switches back to the last channel you were on) is lightning fast. I wonder why it takes so long any other way? |
pine-o-cleen (2955) | ||
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