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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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| 783723 | 2009-06-20 06:17:00 | 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. Are the standard Sky dishes 65cm? That's what we have and we have only ever had rain fade once since Freeview was launched and that was during a really really heavy downpour. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 783724 | 2009-06-20 06:31:00 | Yeah the standard Sky dishes are 65cm. | pine-o-cleen (2955) | ||
| 783725 | 2009-06-20 08:07:00 | Depends where you live a lot of places like West Coast South Island and far northern NZ had 85/90cm dishes installed. Not so much of an issue since Sky moved over to the newer D1 satellite. | apsattv (7406) | ||
| 783726 | 2009-06-20 08:10:00 | OK, so before we start: I'm frugal and on a budget. ;) Now that thats outta the way, I'm lookin around at different FreeView info sites, places that sell the systems etc. Everybody has FAQ's and things, I've been and read them all. Long story short: TV reception here blows at my new place, and I've lost the remote so can't try and re-tune Prime to see if we'd get HDTV with a better antenna (Doubtful). Chill. Where are you for starters? and which site do you get your existing tv signal from? just because existing analogue reception is poor doesn't mean digital will be. Digital need far less signal to work. |
apsattv (7406) | ||
| 783727 | 2009-06-20 12:22:00 | Yup, a non-HD 2 hour program would be around 3.9-3.9 GB (or just under a DVD). A 2 hr HD program would be about 12 GB ! (thats with no ads). About 1 GB for every 7-10 minutes ! Well thats what I found out when I recorded a non-HD and HD program with this tuner. | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
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