I'm looking for an easy and inexpensive way to display on my TV the photos (primarily) and video (occasionally) I have stored on my computers. There seem to be a lot of digital medial receiver products available, but most reviews focus on audio issues (e.g., support for various audio formats, support for playlists, etc.), and I don't care about that. My primary interest is in being able to...

Cyberhome DVD recorder @ £89.97, anyone bought one? Anygood?

In article , Yossarian wrote: Just bought this unit which is supposed to allow progressive output to my Panasonic plasma panel. So when I connect it via a RGB cable, all I get is a green display. I have either done something basically dumb on the connection front or the thing is a nail. Anyone got any ideas? Probably nothing wrong, just...

The BBCi 'Press Red' logo hasn't shown up on any BBC channels from Talconeston in the last couple of days although the 701-703 channels are there, they just have a pattern showing. Any ideas?

I need an L4963 ( no suffix) switching regulator chip to repair a home control PC board. Unfortunately everyone I have been able to track down as having these will only sell in 100's :-( I only want one. Or if someone could suggest a better group to post on. TIA

Hi, I need an aerial for my freeview box. I am a student so cant mount it outside but I am in Southampton and have a pretty stong singnal - currently using a broken set top aerial with built in booster which is OKish on most multiplexes most of the time. My room is upstairs so I was thinking of buying an outdoor aerial and placing in a corner of my room. I was wondering if anyone had...

can u help purchased a dmtech lcd , dvd combo and can't find code to operate it using the humax remote thanks. x-- 100 Proof News - http://www.100ProofNews.com x-- 30+ Days Binary Retention with High Completion x-- Access to over 1.9 Terabytes per Day - $8.95/Month x-- UNLIMITED DOWNLOAD

Hi, Have just purchased a Sony VTX-D800U Freeview STB, which works great. Unfortunately the Sony Manual does not provide codes to enable the Sony Controller to operate my TV an LCD DMTECH DML-4117W, although all common TV makes are catered for. Can anyone provide the info? I know I should ask Sony but I'm sure that this NG should be quicker. regards John Montgomery

Hi, Can anyone give a definitive way to attach Coaxial Aerial plugs (Maplin part FD85G) to CT100 cable? I've always found them a bit suspect particularly the braiding. How is the braid supposed to attach to the claw thingy? I notice the copper foil has a Mylar insulating layer on the INSIDE, so if it is folded back it will insulate itself from the claw! How much of the copper braid should...

Local Asda were selling (alongside the cyberhome models) a Pye PVR645 DVD recorder today @ £119.95. Can't find much info on the web about this one, though I understand that Pye are made by Philips now. Richer Sounds sell the same model for £109 (on their Irish website) .... Anyone got one - any comments ?

We have had a Phillips STB for a couple of years and when I set it up we received Sky News, Sky Sports News and UKTV History. I do not make a lot of use of the STB (or TV in general) but when I scrolled through the digital channels recently those particular channels just showed an image of a red TV with grey bars across it's screen. Has there been a change in status of these channels? The...

hi After 10mins, the creen freezes and the message P603 appears on the box. Any ideas? Thanks!!

Do many Freeview STBs have hidden engineers / service menus that can be accessed with a combination of remote keys ? In particular, I'd be interested in switching off MHEG to get rid of all that "press red" crap, and simply use 701, 702, 705, etc as regular channels. My box is a Pioneer DBR TF100. TIA

I'm looking at adding a Freeview TV decoder to my pc. Anyone have any suggestions on which card or usb box would be best along with some PVR software. So i far i've found the Hauppauge WinTV NOVA-PCI-T and the products from http://www.nebula-electronics.com/ Cheers

Hi, I've recently purchased a Goodmans Freeview set-top box and scanned for channels. It instantly found almost all channels and every single one of them has a very strong signal. The odd thing is though that I can't get ITV1, ITV2, ITV3, Channel 4 or E4 at all. I can, however, get E4+1 with a strong signal. Of all the channels that I might've suspected that could have trouble with reception, I...

Are there any box's out there that let you change the channel numbers in to some sort of sensible order ?

We are in the process of buying an appartment on a small development. All the rooms have connection points marked 'Sat', and there is a dish on the building outside, but it is a round dish as opposed to the odd-shaped small dish you see now on peoples houses. Can these larger dishes get Sky Digital, or would we need to have a seperate dish installed? The property was only build 2 years ago.

For some reason, my Daewoo Setpal box presented me on two occasions yesterday with a channel update scan during the second of which it seems to have lost channels 3 and 4. Despite doing a number of manual channel scans, I cannot seem to retrieve these channels. any ideas how to resolve this? It's not that I have de-selected them as favourites - they really do not seem to be there. -- Sam

Now broadcasting info on channel 57 Freeview. It looks like it is going to be broadcasting Scottish SPL games but using the same technology as Red Hot and Xtraview. Can someone remind me how to capture the PID info using TS Reader Lite? Jim

I want to transfer a recording to my PC then onto DVD+R disc. Will it work in normal .rec format or do you have to do something to it? Paul