Freeview?
Hercule Q
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what is going on with this rubbish i'v just had to retune the bastard thing and now the channels are all to pot :evil:
IT WAS FINE THE WAY IT WAS!!!!! :evil: :evil: :evil:
IT WAS FINE THE WAY IT WAS!!!!! :evil: :evil: :evil:
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lol mines way better... I can actually watch channel 4 films now
Gutted that I missed Ronin last week0 -
Retune again Hercule.
Though some older boxes won't work well.0 -
i haven't retuned mine because my remote is kind of broken. but all the channels are still working btw how many times can film 4 repeat the same film, it's so annoying :x0
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Just wait til you get the full switch over, quite a lot of set top boxes lose loads of channels!
I missed the last series of Top Gear coz the missus's freeview box wouldn't get BBC2...0 -
Hercule Q wrote:we've already "switched over" down here and the signal quality is now shite
Anyway, as far as Freeview is concerned, vista (or 7's) Media Center is the dog's danglies. Totally wipes the floor with Sky+0 -
I wanted a simple life, thanks to V+ it is, shame i don't use it much now haha0
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What's V+?0
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meh. Can't get cable here anyway. Media center wins again then0
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yeah its virgin tv basically, that is the down side some areas don't have cable enabled! bad times...0
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Even if I had cable, I'd probably still opt for Media center as a receiver box.0
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yeehaamcgee wrote:What's V+?You only need two tools: WD40 and Duck Tape.
If it doesn't move and should, use the WD40.
If it shouldn't move and does, use the tape.0 -
Sky+ is crap. The damned thing keeps crashing, or forgetting to record, or just generally fuggs up. And that high-frequency hum? Man, that drives me insane.
Stupid stupid stupid machine.
It is, however, infinitely better than any freeview "box".0 -
I ended up changing the hard drive in the sky plus box for the glitches and sticks, cured a great deal actually.0
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What did you swap it for? I'm guessing they're cheapo 54,000RPM notebook drives?
If I replaced it with a better disk, how do I format it to whatever Sky needs? is it ext-3?
And, are all the glitches gone, or is it just an improvement?0 -
Well it makes you laugh when you open it up and look inside and realise everything is stored on an ancient £10 Seagate IDE drive. I just figured mine was on the way out because of the glitches so swapped for an equivalent current day Seagate IDE drive and it cured the bulk of glitching and stalling of programs and it was generally smoother. You'll have to see what wire-age you've got in there to fit a SATA drive, I was told you can no problem.
Give me a couple of hours and I'll find the pdf with the instructions but from memory you don't do much at all, sky does it on reboot. But let me check the procedure and the SATA question.0 -
Ok, cool, cheers.
Now if only Sky would market a PCI, or PCI-express sattelite receiver, huh?0 -
yeehaamcgee wrote:Hercule Q wrote:we've already "switched over" down here and the signal quality is now shite
The west of Cumbria went first then we followed a couple of months ago.yeehaamcgee wrote:Sky+ is crap....
Stupid stupid stupid machine.
It is, however, infinitely better than any freeview "box".
I've got PlayTV/PS3 for my freeview duties- works a treat. Upped my HD to 320 too- don't think the the standard 40gb would lasted very long0 -
how do you use media center to watch tv i cant work it out?0
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fourcrossjohn wrote:how do you use media center to watch tv i cant work it out?0
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and in english?0
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havent checked mine yet as i dont watch tv :?0
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Daz555 wrote:yeehaamcgee wrote:What's V+?
have to agree, although i don't really watch much TV myself, got it for the missus mainly, i was more bothered about the 20 meg broadband!0 -
fourcrossjohn wrote:and in english?
You need to buy a thing called a Freeview receiver, for your computer. These can be either USB (like a memory stick) which plugs into a USB slot on your computer, or alternatively a piece of circuit board, or "PCI card" that goes inside your PC, just like a graphics board.
Once you have that in place, start Vista, or Windows 7, and it should automatically configure it.
Next, open up Windows Media center, and it will guide you through setting up the TV signal, programme guide, and bob's your father's brother.
Then, you will have something that looks like this....
THIS
THIS,
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yeehaamcgee wrote:Ok, cool, cheers.
Now if only Sky would market a PCI, or PCI-express sattelite receiver, huh?
Temporary hold up is the pdf is on a different hdd. Case of Ip-Dip-Dog-Sh!t as to which one. So bare with me. :P0 -
Right, Mr Mcgee, YMMV for what it fixes exactly, it fixed the bulk of what I said above for me, but for the cost of a new IDE drive it's worth a punt I reckon.
So take a look in your box and a) see what hdd you have in there b) see what wire-age you have. That will determine what you buy obviously - you can increase the hdd capacity but sky won't use it (part of the way sky proprietary storage formatting works apparently)
I followed the following procedures after I'd replaced the original IDE hdd (copying jumper set up, etc).
- Once your box is fully assembled >> power up >> wait 2 minutes >> press Sky key.
- Perform A - "Full System Reset" (press services, 4, 01 Select, 8 Housekeeping)
- Wait for box to restart (normally minutes for a 120GB drive and <45 minutes for a 250GB drive)
- Again wait 2 minutes and press the Sky key.
- Test for correct operation.
- Re-enable "Instant rewind" and re-enter your series links.0