Re: Sunday Herald yesterday

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Richard Evans <R.P.Evans.NoSpam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I've also had many holidays in the past in the South West of France, but
I don't think I actually listened to the World Service there, as back
then I could get Radio Luxemburg on MW instead :)

Along the Mediterranean coast, it used to be possible to get clear
reception all day, good enough for listening to the Proms in the
evening.

I presume you are not talking about Radio Luxemburg broadcasting the
Proms. Radio 4 perhaps.

No. I was talking about World Service broadcasting the Proms. Yes, we
used to listen to music in mono via a skywave HF signal. Some folk
here wouldn't credit it....

Does the Dreambox only receive Satellite or is there a Freeview version?

The more recent models can accept plug-in tuners (in the twin-tuner
models, you can mix satellite/terrestrial/cable tuners) and indeed I
bought a DVB-T tuner for my new DM600 to experiment with. Haven't got
around to trying it yet, because I can see it's going to be a bit
fiddly to insert -- there's not much space in there. But while it will
provide full access to the Freeview transport streams, it isn't going
to support the 'digital teletext' and red-button services that you get
with a Freeview box. If you want those, a better solution might be the
Topfield PVR, http://www.toppy.org.uk/

Well since I have a couple of weeks off work, I'll probably get around
to having a look at this. However it still seems to be essentially a
satellite receiver with an add on to accept input from other devices,
rather than a device designed for Freeview. So I suspect that that would
end up being a rather expensive way to get Freeview on my LAN.

No, the TF5800 PVR described there is a Freeview receiver with dual
tuners. <http://www.topfield.co.uk/terrestrialequipment.htm>

I would at least be worth a look though. For me the ideal system would
probably be something that works in a similar way to the Dreambox, but
receiving from T-DVB rather than from Satellite.

Then you could just buy a Dreambox fitted with DVB-T tuners. Or cable
tuners. It's your choice.

And I've an idea
that some of those multimeeja home entertainment client boxes have
SCART or s-video ports for feeding a TV direct, so you could do it
right now.

That might be the sort of thing that would interest me. Some device
(preferably small) such that I can plug in a Cat5 cable, plug the other
end into a TV and watch digital TV via my network.

The Neuston MC-500 is one such device -- it even has a SCART
connector, which not all do. And I see that it plays mp2 files ;-)

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Richard L.
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