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50 BBC One HD (UK service without regions),
51 ITV 1 HD (ITV Central West),
53 S4C Clirlun,
54 BBC HD,
Interesting, and a possible solution for ITV and an unregional BBC1, but unfortunately doesnt do much for the other channels :/
the transponder uses 256QAM constellation so it might be expecting too much for your distance?
hmmm unsure. Could go 2 ways.. not pick it up at all, or pick it up and I get a crappy blocky picture like what happens with BBC3 now.
Do you like the MythTV stuff?
Not sure if Ive understood properly here as Im not up on MythTV, so please do forgive me if Ive got this wrong (which I probably have).
But several years ago I built an Antec System with Windows MCE using a Hauppage WinTV card. This seemed to work for a while, but guess what also went to pot at DSO?
As Eric will probably confirm, (he built a similar linux system at about the same time)... they can be tricky to tune and very temperamental.
It was ok whilst it lasted, but its a right PITA having to wait for a PC too boot up and switch over to MC before you can watch something.. and it has to be a dedicated system. You cant really watch live tv and use the PC at the same time. There was a time when I had several boxes, but unfortunately these days Im basically down to this PC and the ipad. This PC couldnt serve the downstairs TV. It was a fun project at the time, and meant to be the B-all of media systems... but at some point became impractical.
Its so damn annoying that so much went to pot at the time of DSO.. and just about everything I had no longer worked as it should, and I more or less stopped watching TV anyhow.
TBH one of the reasons why I was enquiring about the
ATV here was I knew I was likely to be wanting to watch TV for a few days as I wouldnt be up to doing much else.
Just checked in the Andover Argos and their catalogue is still showing the SD STB I bought. The Argos number is 523/2367 and it's only £17.99. Should have given you this number before.
Thank you so much for doing that tony - appreciated.
According to the online catalogue thats the Alba model which has the marker "Please note that this product is excluded from our 30 Day Money Back Guarantee."
My fear is that it may do exactly the same as my existing equipment and because of the overlap in the NW still pick up moel-y-parc due to its stonger output.
I just looked at that map and the Welsh transmitter.
I will work the mileage out later.
104 miles -v- 39 miles for me according to google maps.
Kitz, my last word (honest) on the merits of FreeSat, probably only relevant if you're a sports fan though.
Im not a sports fan, but I think you may be right HP. Unless I know for sure there is a freeview unit that allows you to specify channels or frequencies, then Freesat or sky is going to be the only permanent solution.
Unfortunately for dish and installation and even a couple of cheap (non HD) boxes it looks like at least £200 because of the dish and installation. The HD boxes arent cheap
Currently sky is £15 for 6 months + £25 thereafter inc ent pack + free installation = £240 - £50 M&S voucher. Downside only one box... and which room?
Dilema, dilemas.
When I get a chance I may have another look at my Freestat box with hard-disk and see if I can get that to at least work with the downstairs TV.. cause the downstairs TV is the real mess atm.. at least I have decent upstairs tele for now. I definitely dont feel like lugging boxes about and crawling in corners messing with ariels today. Someone was supposed to have helped me to find a solution for this ages ago, but for whatever reason he couldnt get it fixed/sorted either.