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| Thread ID: 100754 | 2009-06-19 11:56:00 | My freeview education: why pay more? | Chilling_Silence (9) | PC World Chat |
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| 783713 | 2009-06-20 00:57:00 | Very happy with the recording quality, and ease of use. The fact that you can just fire up the EPG, select a program and it will record it is just magic. OK, I want one.:banana What do I need besides a Sky dish and some cable? Is it difficult to aim the dish? What is "the EPG"? I looked at the Trademe advert: does it have a hard drive or do you have to connect either a flash drive or external hd? :thanks |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 783714 | 2009-06-20 01:02:00 | EPG-Electronic program Guide No idea how hard it is to aim the dish, I had mine installed. You provide the flash drive or external HD, Though their are plenty of of them listed on Tradme that come bundled with a flashdrive or HD. www.trademe.co.nz Phase 2- I went down to Mitre 10, Purchased 30m of coax cable and ran it out to my shed/home theatre, The new Freeview box has a signal pass through feature, so I was able to feed the signal out to the old freeview tuner (now in the home theatre) and then into my Winfast TV card. Meaning freeview in a second location, and I'm able to record to the PC which powers teh theatre. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 783715 | 2009-06-20 01:06:00 | Very happy with the recording quality, and ease of use. The fact that you can just fire up the EPG, select a program and it will record it is just magic. I see that the USB drive has to be FAT32 format. Isn't the file size limit for FAT32 2GB or 4GB? I have recorded a few movies on Freeview in MediaPortal and some file sizes have been up to 6-7GB depending on the length of the movie. What does this box do when it reaches the file size limit? Does it just start a new file? |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 783716 | 2009-06-20 01:09:00 | yep,3.8Gb and it the starts a second file. I believe they claim thats 4 hours of recording. | Metla (12) | ||
| 783717 | 2009-06-20 01:52:00 | If the dish was set up for sky it just needs plugging in and then select a satellite to use I went with the Optus D1 as at the time it was the only one I had heard of and it just found all the channels. Only thing I did then was to re organise them so that channel 1 was TV1 etc | gary67 (56) | ||
| 783718 | 2009-06-20 02:59:00 | Chill: To do with the size of your dish, we have a 65cm dish and it's fine most times, but it is prone to 'rain fade'. A bigger dish will get less rain fade. Ever see the ones that Sky put on Hotels etc? There approx 1m across and sky guarantee that you won't get rain fade with a dish that big. If you're not really worried about it then just get a 65cm dish, if you cant stand rain fade, then get a bigger one. We install freeview (amongst many other things) at work and I've never had anyone ask for a bigger dish. It's pretty easy to line up a dish, just a bit fiddly. The little sat finders that they sell at dick smith are good. When you do mount the dish, make sure you get stays. We always put 2 stays on every dish, just to keep them in place. |
pine-o-cleen (2955) | ||
| 783719 | 2009-06-20 03:58:00 | What do you mean by colourful? I have used 3 non-approved freeview boxes, and they all had a detailed EPG, Though the colour was blue. Am I missing anything? Like this. (www.freeviewnz.tv) Bright, colouful and easy to read :thumbs:. |
davidmmac (4619) | ||
| 783720 | 2009-06-20 04:02:00 | If its not HD Video then 3.8GB should be *heaps* for a regular TV Show / Movie / whatever ;) I dunno how bad rain-fade is. To be honest the current setup is *useless* with just an antenna on the roof so in order to stop myself getting frustrated it may be worth grabbing a slightly larger dish, just to be safe. Could also be quite good if I need to tape something for the olds, chuck in a 4GB Thumbdrive and just pop the show onto that for them. The filesystem limit for FAT32 is pretty big isnt it? A few hundred GB at least? Its been a while so my memory is fading :p |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 783721 | 2009-06-20 04:43:00 | Like this. (www.freeviewnz.tv) Bright, colouful and easy to read :thumbs:. Cool, I would not want that :lol:. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 783722 | 2009-06-20 05:31:00 | Chill: To do with the size of your dish, we have a 65cm dish and it's fine most times, but it is prone to 'rain fade'. A bigger dish will get less rain fade. Ever see the ones that Sky put on Hotels etc? There approx 1m across and sky guarantee that you won't get rain fade with a dish that big. If you're not really worried about it then just get a 65cm dish, if you cant stand rain fade, then get a bigger one. We install freeview (amongst many other things) at work and I've never had anyone ask for a bigger dish. It's pretty easy to line up a dish, just a bit fiddly. The little sat finders that they sell at dick smith are good. When you do mount the dish, make sure you get stays. We always put 2 stays on every dish, just to keep them in place. I have heard about the DSE sat finders but when I think of all the wet weather and a new slippery roof, I may get an installer to do it. I will be using a 65 cm dish and I hope rain fade is not going to be too annoying - I will ask someone on our street who has Sky and the usual 65 cm dish. Mets, thanks for the trademe links. We have a DVD recorder so I wonder if I could use that to record from the freeview? A freeview with 250 G is another $140 and I suppose this would allow recording two different programs at the same time. |
Strommer (42) | ||
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