Have just completed a Survey from Freesat one of the questions was about connecting to the Internet and using the catch ups. I was not aware this could be done with existing equipment, anyone doing this with older HD Freesat Panasonic TV sets, I thought Panasonic had failed to provide a modification update for these features. Can I tell if my TV has got the feature and I have not realised,...

I wonder why there aren't any after market 3D TV converters. Surly any 1080P TV could display in HD 2 images sequentially and a transmitter like the Sony one would work. with any TV. It could be added to the HDMI line in and possibly need a knob on it to adjust the sync when first installed. Seems the day of the gadget is dead. Gary

For the last few months I've been under some kind of illusion that I have quite happily been able to receive the BBC iplayer on my Bush Freesat receiver, however today when I pressed the the red button a message informs me that, 'BBC iplayer is coming to Freesat HD - 7001'.. On selecting the aforementioned page, I'm greeted with, 'The service is currently in testing and is available on...

This afternoon at 1.15pm I rushed to my shed and got a piece of board 38" x 26" and hung it on the front of the TV............then painted it and watched it dry. The new Silverstone circuit.............bbbbooooooorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnngggggggg.

Neighbours Humax pvr 9200T freezes the television program picture about two seconds just after the downloader program has done its job. It does exactly the same thing everytime. We have tried swithching off the power and disconnecting all the lead connections for minutes and we are no better off. I suspect it not do the recent software update that was sent out very recently. We will do this...

I just got in, put the telly on to see what's happening about the Mr Moat story. Obviously I turned to the BBC as a good British citizen. What I saw whas a recorded programme about parliament. Put Sky on, live coverage, people on the ground, instant updates. I'm so sad. Bill

It may be just my degenerating grey cells but ISTR that earlier in the year if you missed the practice sessions, qualifying and race you could watch them on iPlayer soon afterwards. I spent some time waiting for the European Grand Prix to appear, and looking tonight I can't get anything but a tiny overview of practice 1 and 2 of the British GP. Have the BBC changed the way iPlayer is...

I suspect it has been posted before. However is there any way to turn off Anytime and recover the disk space to use personally. I have Googled and can't see an answer to do this. I have turned off Anytime, removed all recordings and even tried a planner rebuild. But I don't think i am getting all the space for me to record. If I am how do I confirm that ? On my old Sky plus, I had an original ...

I've just had an email from Ross technical support concerning timer recordings on the Ross HD Satellite Receiver (B&Q/Homebase). Although marketed as an HD box with "live" recording through the USB, the receiver has 8 timers and limited PVR functionality. Ross now confirm that the timers use low-level systems which remain active when the box is in standby. However, the calendar is a high-level...

I currently have Sky HD and a Sky+ under Multiroom contract, connected to telephone point. Is it possible to take Sky HD receiver to another property for a short period and carry on receiving Sky broadcasts without connecting to a telephone point.? Bob

Has there been a system upgrade to Pace HD boxes? It is taking about 5 seconds for channels to change or other remote functions to work. I have rebuilt the planner but it has had no effect System is Pace 2.2.222 Version 9F3007 OS 1.32B12 EPG Sky+ 8.4.0 Multiplatform 3.0.0

Recently I replaced the distribution amplifier in our apartment with a TVlink-enabled one. It all worked fine, except in the kitchen, where the response from the Sky remote was very intermittent and unusable, even though received picture was fine. The kitchen is the shortest cable run from our amplifier, and double-checking connections in an effort to make it work proved unsuccessful. Anyway,...

Is it possible to install a dish at the back of south facing house? My mate wants to install a freesat system but his wife point-blank refuses to have a dish at the front. It's a standard semi with a pitched roof. Bob

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Hello group I am having problems with clashed recordings. Pace TDS470N v3 Over the last couple of weeks I have had several recodings fail due to 'clashing' where I am sure no clash really existed. I did a planner rebuild/reboot on Sunday. Then last night I was recording a programme from 9pm to 10pm followed by another programme on the same channel from 10pm to 10:30. I was watching a different...

According to http://www.joinfreesat.co.UK/index.php/echostar-plan-freesat-pvr-with-slingbox-feature anf http://wotsat.techradar.COM/news/freesat-pvr-slingbox-built-promised-echostar-01-07-10 QUOTE

Can anyone recommend a Freeview STB? Needs 1 scart output with RGB and if possible Y/C option. No need for modulator but uhf loop though to pass sky on E21 to tv. No need for hd or recording. No Philips though as I've had 3 x DTR320/05 die in 30 months, real poor kit. Don't think I'll ever buy anything Philips ever again.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment_and_arts/10535663.stm Woopeee! Pity lots of people bought TV's before that then, probably expecting them to work for a good few years. -- Tony

Despite the fact that the government doesn't think we can get Freeview in Felixstowe I intent to upgrade my aerial to Group E, if possible. http://www.aerialsandtv.com/onlineaerials.html#XB16E is a Group E for marginal signal areas (which this is). All well and good, but perhaps a tad expensive? Is there a cheaper Band E with similar performance on the market?

"Complete with two tuners and SD slots to enable the recording of two channels at once, the HD ready TV also has a unique split screen functionality, so that two channels can be viewed at once." "Cello Electronics has launched the UK's first Personal Video Recorder (PVR) Freeview TV that records onto SD cards rather than a built-in hard...

First up, a nice collection of metalwork ... http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii16/ktype_photo/tv/Yagi-puzzle.jpg Somebody obviously didn't have a long enough bracket for this next job - but they found a way round it ...! http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii16/ktype_photo/tv/Yagi-puzzle.jpg and

Last night the BBC TV news had an item about the cuts in the education budget. The story was that the government had decided to cut millions of pounds from the last government's proposed education budget, but no mention was made of the fiscal reasons was given, so it sounded as if they'd done it for their own reasons. This item was illustrated by a series of shots showing abandoned school...

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At some point I hope to be testing a PVR with a rebuilt power board, however the only TV at the workshop is a Casio pocket TV (no scart connector - obviously). Will a typical VCR present a UHF signal out from scart in??? Thanks.

Having turned out not to have been affected by the end of InView EPG service - my FVRT90 promptly died. When I went to use it the power LED came on and then it froze, so I unplugged it for 30 seconds and plugged it back in, whereupon the 7 segment display run through the Klingon alphabet and then went blank. Hopefully it only needs a PSU recap or dry joints sorting out - otherwise I'll...

Someone mentioned brittle cable ties in the thread "A little safety tip". Can anyone recommend where to get good cable ties? I've bought some from B&Q and they are utterly useless. As soon as the weather is cold they just snap when you are tightening them. SteveT

Was watching the Tour last night and the picture was so poor you could not read the cyclists numbers as they rode towards the camera motorbike. I know some of you can check such things so was it the ITV4 bit rate being very low or was it perhaps the feed they were getting? I presume Sky gets the same feed so is the satellite picture crystal clear? Paul DS.

I currently make my own DVDs, mainly of holidays, and play them on my TV (Panasonic TX-32LXD52) with a cheap DVD player. (I also make copies for family and friends.) But my video software is capable of burning higher definition discs of two types: Blu-ray and 'AVCHD', and I'd therefore like to buy a unit which is capable of at least the following: 1. Play standard DVDs on my TV

Years ago when I bought the analyser I use now most of the time I was a bit worried about the way the carrying strap was fixed to the case. It had those things like you get on dog leads, that just clip onto the collar. I put loose cable ties alongside these clips, just in case one of them ever did accidentally unclip itself. Last week I was climbing a scaffold ladder with the analyser on my back...

http://xbmc.org/theuni/2010/05/27/farewell-xbox/ The original Xbox platform seems to have run out of grunt for the main XMBC development guys but a lone fellow continues (but for how long?) ... http://sourceforge.net/projects/xbmc4xbox/

I have been with Sky from day one but enough is enough. After reading this I'm off to Virgin Media. http://www.techwatch.co.uk/2010/07/02/bskyb-raises-the-price-of-sky-sports/ Goodbye all. Del.

Whilst scanning through the DAB station list on my Pure Evoke Flow radio, I spied '? BBC Vision Trial', on selecting it I was informed, 'Station Off Air', it then switched to R1.. what's all that about then?

Hi, has anyone got a faulty one of these, I think it's similar to other receivers, such as the DTR1, and also Goodmans etc models. It's only a cheapy thing but I liked the box, unfortunately the tuner has failed due to water coming down the coaxial cable. I've tried opening the tuner and scrubbing off the gunk, but it made no difference. Basically it just fails to find any channels and...

Just wondering what happens with regional adverts on ITV1 HD. Are all the adverts taken from one region (Granada?) or can local adverts now be incorporated into the HD channel in that area? Similarly, with STV does STV North (formerly Grampian) have its own adverts on STV HD? Finally, I'm not sure if Channel 4 has local advertising. If it does, what happens with HD?

Fashion TV is simply showing a BLACK screen - no missing satellite signal message - just black. Anyone got any info? HD subscribed SKY box, normal def FTv. I remember seeing something on Ftv some weeks or months ago about moving to HD....? Cheers all, Jim

Has anyone seen this item. The RNIB, unsurprisingly are stocking it, but give it their own number. It is also supposed to have speaking epg as well. Its rather expensive for a basic box at over 80 quid and wondered if anyone had seen it in the wild, so to speak. RBNIB are bundling it with a special remote that is 'easy' to use apparently. Who runs goodmans these days, I've lost track, is...

A bit of background: We have SKY+ downstairs and a "narmal" SKY box upstiairs for which we pay for multi room and we even have both connected to the telephone line and both have genuine viewing cards, in effect we are "model" Sky customers - presumably not perfect models as we don't have HD. We have had this set up for about 4 years. The SKY+ box downstairs has started to go a bit goofy and...

On 01/07/2010 12:22, john hamilton wrote: Another problem is with these big companies is that the various departments seem to be able to pass around the responsibility of any problem with impunity on to another department. There is a 'gripe' forum at www.blagger.com I can't be reading this right - it seems to be filled with shop assistants taking a swipe at each others company of...

'My Stuff' on the 5800 is telling me it's out of date and no longer supported so I thought I'd get the latest version. The installer complains it can't communicate with the Toppy. Tried it on a laptop running Win7 and a PC running XP. And different cables. All I've done so far is check all the voltages from the SMPS and they're all fine. Nothing much of relevance I can find on the Toppy forum....

Total crap. http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/5321564/Trail/searchtext%3EBUSH+FREESAT.htm It's put me off the Freesat platform a little as well to be honest. I found the picture worse than Freeview (maybe it was the cheap HDMI cable versus the built in freeview of my samsung 42 inch plasma). The menus were horrible, the EPG was god awful.... the remote control had sharp...

My wife noticed this. On Freeview the channel named, with startling unoriginality, "Home" is on for an hour a day. So those who want their fix of multiple repeats of Nick Knowles or Kirsty and Phil will need to be by their TV sets at the appropriate hour. 10 am I think. Presumably "Gay Rabbit XXX Reader's Wives on Gems2" will have sacrificed an hour of their worthy content to allow this...

Last week, I treated myself to a small flat-screen TV set - a 16" Linsar 16LVD4 from John Lewis. I had fancied one for some time, and spotted one among the customer returns, £30 off, marked "Returned as "Unsuitable". Despite being a bottom-of-the-range model, the picture quality is, in my opinion, among the best for this type of set (after doing all the usual tweaks of the factory...

Transponder 11568 V (tp24) on Astra 1M at 19E is being cleared for new HD services by CanalSat. An number of International channels, often with interesting content, are affected: Canal Algerie, TV5 Monde FBS, Al Masriyah, RAI UNO (Italy), RTP International Europa (Portugal), Tunisie 7, ARTE Francais, TVE International Europe (Spain), TRT Turk, 2M Monde (Morocco).

Not sure if the message has been seen here, but my beloved Thomson DHD4000 will cease to have a working EPG in a couple of weeks time as InView (the company responsible for broadcasting the old 4TV EPG overnight) are withdrawing their service. I believe this also affects Digifusion PVRs (not all models) and at least on Sony PVR. See digitalspy for various threads -...

Just sent: Hello there, We greatly enjoyed our stay last week. We liked everything about the place except just one thing, and that was the music system in the pub. There’s something wrong with it. The bass just thuds relentlessly, and it is very annoying. It’s like trying to have a quiet pint near a large noisy machine. This is not what we expect from a grown-up country pub. In the front room...

On Wednesday, June 30th, 2010 numerous changes are occurring on the commercial Freeview multiplexes. http://uktv.co.UK/dave/article/aid/637190 Apparently Russia Today is going 24 hours so that viewers can keep constant track on the latest news concerning their favorite oligarchs, and everybody, including David Frost, favorite news station, Al Jazeera, is apparently launching on the...

As I live close to Lichfield, and my aerial is pointing at Sutton Coldfield for Freeview channels, would it be pointless to buy a Freeview HD receiver? I understand that Freeview HD is currently being broadcast from Lichfield rather than S.Coldfield, though I've also read that the Lichfield transmitter will be decommissioned in 2013, so presumably the HD channels will migrate to S.Coldfield...

Ofcom is handing over interference investigation to the Beeb ! http://www.ofcom.org.uk/complain/inter/ -- Mark Please replace invalid and invalid with gmx and net to reply. http://www.paras.org.uk/

I thought my son's Humax 9200 was sorted after the recent download, however he emailed me this evening to tell me that he had still been having problems, has anyone here experienced anything similar since the upgrade? | "Forgot to tell you that the Humax started to miss / break recordings, then the other day it lost all stored recordings. Yesterday it would not record anything at all so I...

Given that I can't see much difference between SD and HD on my TVs, so much so that I can't even persuade myself to cough for £99 for a Blu-Ray player, is there any point in HD camcorders? I am assuming that to get full use of the HD functionality you would need a Blu-Ray burner on your PC and a Blu-Ray player for the TV (or a dedicated media PC with HDMI output) as well as the HD...

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