Re: OT: Mr Tonks TIVO

[Richard Malcolm-Smith <rich@xxxxxxx>]

Des Gibbons wrote:

> No, I wasn't aware that there was any difference to the broadcast
standard
> between the UK and NZ, doh!
> 
> Do you know what the broadcast standard is here, one of the PAL
variants I
> presume? My tv's and videos have just arrived, hope they are not going
to be
> useless!

We are PAL B on the VHF, and G on the UHF.. will they even do VHF??

> > Do let me
> > know how you get on with it, as if it works Ok i might look at
sourcing
> > one of them.
> 
> Doesn't look like Mr Tonks is available, so doubt I will be able to
get one
> after all :/

Ah well. There are sites saying that the US ones can be made to do PAL
on the AV in and out, but i really want the tuner to work as everything
(to me) looks much better on the analog off air VHF then on sky
digital.. damn cheap MPEG crap..

> >  As its not released here and everyone knows what they are
I
> > would be the envy of every one at work if I had one.. even better
if it
> > actually worked.
> 
> Well, it is really not that great without the daily updates, but I
wnat one
> anyway ;)

If someone can crack the format that it gets the guide in then it would
be a winner.. There are many sources of guide information
electronically
(Cough.. www.sky.co.nz) that it would be viable. I recall someone
saying
that there FTA sat box was getting guide info from the sky transponders
so there may be a chance with a PCI sat reciever card to get the same
info, then its just a matter of getting it into the tivo. Im not to
worried about the recommendations as I know what I want ;)

> > Also, dunno if it would control sky in NZ, theres an RS232 port
on the
> > back of the boxes but I have no idea if it would even use
that.
> 
> >From memory it uses IR for control of sky, probably not comaptible
also the
> way this is going :)


I hate IR.. The sky NZ boxes with the open TV shit in them are so slow
and miss keypresses so often that it would be unreliable as hell..

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