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click on the arrow in the 'H.222 Transport' column to sort by that to see the
COM7 channels being lost.
There is no information on if the axed HD and SD channels on Freeview, will >continue on Freesat - which naturally has an even smaller audience.
How does the rest of Europe have many FTA HD channels, but UK decides
to axe the HD and leave us with shitty SD?
One word MONEY.
Mike
One word MONEY.
Mike
Yep. The government would rather make money by auctioning off spectrum,
than provide good public services.
Presumably no more Com7, so presumably no more Forces TV then :|.
To be fair I only use them if there is a programme I want to watch and Virgin goes down, the only time I use the TV for anything other than
showing Virgin is for You Tube and steaming video, music and photos from
my computer upstairs to the TV.
Hasn't it been announced that Forces TV is to close?
On 20/06/2022 13:47, Mike Swift wrote:
To be fair I only use them if there is a programme I want to watch and
Virgin goes down, the only time I use the TV for anything other than
showing Virgin is for You Tube and steaming video, music and photos from
my computer upstairs to the TV.
With Freeview you have a very wide choice of PVRs.
With Virgin, you can only choose what they want to offer you.
With satellite, there is probably a bit more choice,
but--
I'm not allowed to install a dish where I am. In any case
where I am the view of the South Eastern sky is very
restricted. So satellite probably wouldn't work.
After paying my TV license for BBC, and putting up with
adverts on other stations. I would consider it a cheek to
have to pay extra to get them on Virgin when I can't even
choose what PVR I want to use.
There is very little choice of Freesat PVR. There is so little choice that >Freesat had to get somebody to make them after Humax stopped making
Freesat PVRs Reliability of Humax Freesat recorders was poor, which is
odd because we have had a Humax Dutch cable PVR for more than ten
years without problems.
With Freeview you have a very wide choice of PVRs.
With Virgin, you can only choose what they want to offer you.
With satellite, there is probably a bit more choice,
There is very little choice of Freesat PVR. There is so little choice that Freesat had to get somebody to make them after Humax stopped making Freesat PVRs
Reliability of Humax Freesat recorders was poor, which is odd because we have had a Humax Dutch cable PVR for more than ten years without problems.
On 21/06/2022 11:01, Martin wrote:
With Freeview you have a very wide choice of PVRs.
With Virgin, you can only choose what they want to offer you.
With satellite, there is probably a bit more choice,
There is very little choice of Freesat PVR. There is so little choice that >> Freesat had to get somebody to make them after Humax stopped making Freesat PVRs
Reliability of Humax Freesat recorders was poor, which is odd because we have
had a Humax Dutch cable PVR for more than ten years without problems.
Rather than sending it to a tip, I turned an old unused computer in to a >PVR, zero problems, record all the steams on the multiplex if you want.
Pick your own cable / terrestrial / or satellite card (or a combi card). >Overkill yes, but it works and you chose what you want depending on budget.
On Sat, 25 Jun 2022 12:12:12 +0100, Ar <Ar@127.0.0.1> wrote:
On 21/06/2022 11:01, Martin wrote:
With Freeview you have a very wide choice of PVRs.
With Virgin, you can only choose what they want to offer you.
With satellite, there is probably a bit more choice,
There is very little choice of Freesat PVR. There is so little choice
that
Freesat had to get somebody to make them after Humax stopped making
Freesat PVRs
Reliability of Humax Freesat recorders was poor, which is odd because we >>> have
had a Humax Dutch cable PVR for more than ten years without problems.
Rather than sending it to a tip, I turned an old unused computer in to a >>PVR, zero problems, record all the steams on the multiplex if you want. >>Pick your own cable / terrestrial / or satellite card (or a combi card). >>Overkill yes, but it works and you chose what you want depending on >>budget.
Can a whole family watch it? It's outrageous the way Microsoft has made perfectly good PCs obsolete, without any real advantages to the user.
Rather than sending it to a tip, I turned an old unused computer in to a PVR, zero problems, record all the steams on the multiplex if you want.
Pick your own cable / terrestrial / or satellite card (or a combi card). Overkill yes, but it works and you chose what you want depending on budget.
On 25/06/2022 12:12, Ar wrote:
Rather than sending it to a tip, I turned an old unused computer in to a
PVR, zero problems, record all the steams on the multiplex if you want.
Pick your own cable / terrestrial / or satellite card (or a combi card).
Overkill yes, but it works and you chose what you want depending on
budget.
If you mean MythTV, I pretty much gave up on that because the video
playback was jerky. The reason is simple enough but actually
solving it, seemed to be impossible :|. It would probably be
fine in the USA where the refresh rate is 60Hz. But here were
we use 50Kz, but computers are 60Hz. That was just a frustrating
problem that I gave up on.
Perhaps it depends on what you find acceptable.
For playing back 50 Hz video on my PC, I've set the video card refresh
rate to 50 Hz (or maybe 100 Hz) as opposed to 60/120 Hz.
I investigated MythTV as a means of recording, and found it difficult to configure.
- didn't want to have to keep a couple of multi-TB HDDs spinning all the time; instead just use a single HDD as the temporary recording storage;
at present that disc is a spinning one, but I might be able to save
power by using a solid state HDD instead
- didn't want to have to keep a couple of multi-TB HDDs spinning all the
time; instead just use a single HDD as the temporary recording storage;
at present that disc is a spinning one, but I might be able to save power >> by using a solid state HDD instead
I would tend to steer clear of solid state drives for this. I think
an issue would be that there is a limit to how many times you can
write to an SSD. Although the limit is very high, video files take
a lot of data. So if you are regularly writing a lot of video files
to an SSD, it might not take a very long before you start reaching
the limit.
Can a whole family watch it? It's outrageous the way Microsoft has made perfectly good PCs obsolete, without any real advantages to the user.
On 26/06/2022 09:34, Martin wrote:
Can a whole family watch it? It's outrageous the way Microsoft has made
perfectly good PCs obsolete, without any real advantages to the user.
You can build a "media centre" PC relatively cheaply or re-use an old computer to do it - it just has to be good enough to be able to play HD video. Get rid of Windows, use Linux, or as someone already replied, you
can use a Raspberry Pi with a USB device called a "RTL SDR" (software defined radio). These two options may be a bit more involved compared to getting a dumb box from the high street, but they will record what you
want, and if not using Windows, they should ignore any "do not record"
flags the broadcasters send out.
I have successfully recorded with Windows 7 - if you're using later, ask around for advice.
BTW, the bastards at Freeview deliberately scramble their EPG, so if
you're not using "official" kit with the Freeview logo on it, the text for the EPG will be scrambled, and you won;'t be able to read it. This is because the manufacturer refused to pay Freeview money to unscramble the text. I don't know anyone else in Europe that deliberately scrambles their EPG.
Freesat is not affected the same way by the wanker tactics of Freeview on the EPG, but some stations only have "now and next" option, so unless you know their schedule, you won't be able to programme anything in advance
from an EPG.
That's a fair point. I'd always been led to believe that SSDs didn't
like frequent deletions and writes, which is why you are advised not to defrag them.
files, despite the large amount of data and therefore the large number
of writes involved.
Maybe I'll play it safe and stay with a spinning disc...
Thanks to EE winning an auction of the frequency for Com7, Freeview will
be losing a lot of channels,