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ruprect
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8. August 2007 @ 00:06 |
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Originally posted by keith20:
hi, im just wondering does anybody no at all if its possible to get sky box office up and running for free of course on a nokia dbox2
You can only get what is being broadcast by your cable provider, NTL do not do box office. If they start to you could get it, but I doubt they will.
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ruprect
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8. August 2007 @ 00:12 |
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1.How often do these boxes need to be up-dated?
I have nokias going 6+ months with no updates needed. I update mine only to get new features, not channels.
2.Does it cost money to up-date it?
Nothing if you know how to do it. In buyandsell people charge ?30 callout.
3.How DO you up-date it?
Download free images and transfer Via PC
4.I have a wide-screen plasma, do these boxes show pictures in 16.9 wide?
Yes
5.I know you can hook them up to the pc, can the electronic channel guide (the channels) be re-arranged to your favourites?
Yes.
Many here say it is easy to set them up, but that is like going to a mechanics website and people saying it is easy to change a sparkplug or brake pads. If you do not have a clue it can be difficult. Took me a while to get mine going, and I still have problems when trying to use a mates laptop which has different settings. I had never done any FTP stuff before so was not used to it.
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LeftyGT
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8. August 2007 @ 05:57 |
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Originally posted by ruprect:
1.How often do these boxes need to be up-dated?
I have nokias going 6+ months with no updates needed. I update mine only to get new features, not channels.
2.Does it cost money to up-date it?
Nothing if you know how to do it. In buyandsell people charge ?30 callout.
3.How DO you up-date it?
Download free images and transfer Via PC
4.I have a wide-screen plasma, do these boxes show pictures in 16.9 wide?
Yes
5.I know you can hook them up to the pc, can the electronic channel guide (the channels) be re-arranged to your favourites?
Yes.
Many here say it is easy to set them up, but that is like going to a mechanics website and people saying it is easy to change a sparkplug or brake pads. If you do not have a clue it can be difficult. Took me a while to get mine going, and I still have problems when trying to use a mates laptop which has different settings. I had never done any FTP stuff before so was not used to it.
Ruprect, my point exactly. I could read all the guides available, but you do need a certain amount of basic knowledge on the application which I dont have.Hence the reason for politley asking somebody that knows the ins and outs to give me a brief explanation on the jargon involved.Sorry if I offended those of higher inteligence.
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gotasmoke
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8. August 2007 @ 08:59 |
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Originally posted by ruprect:
Originally posted by gotasmoke:
I got a variable attenuator and I gto my BER down near 0. Still only getting 109 channels. Do you think I need a booster?
Do the channels that you do get have good picture? If so you might only need a services from somebody in your area. Or try scanning in a friends house. Maybe have the coax going via a video or dvdrecorder, this can stabilise the signal.
At times I couldnt pick up a single channel when scanning, but if I had the right service file on all the channels were there and working perfectly.
Scans in dublin are now working fine, when 1 month ago they were terrible.
Thanks. I'll try this.
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gotasmoke
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8. August 2007 @ 13:34 |
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Ok i've got a copy of service.xml from my friend and used it but the channels I previously could not get, would still not disply.
I compared his services.xml to mine and I see the following difference:
I'm not getting the following transponders found:
- transponder id="003c" onid="0601" frequency="410750000" inversion="2" symbol_rate="6875000" fec_inner="3" modulation="3"
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- transponder id="003e" onid="0601" frequency="426750000" inversion="2" symbol_rate="6875000" fec_inner="3" modulation="3"
The channels on these transponders are the 20 that I'm missing.
I'm using the irish9 cables. Can anyone shed any light on this for me?
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eoinf
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8. August 2007 @ 13:58 |
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just flashed a new services and cables file. everything worked ok updated the channel names and a few new channels.
just two things
my volume control & mute no longer work. could i have changed something by accident edit seemed to fix this in the audio menu
alos a problem i was always having setanta sports appears with the last 1/5th of the screen repeating itself on the right hand side. i can fix it by messing around with the aspect ratio but i need to do it every time i switch to the channel any idea what this might be?
cheers
eoin
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8. August 2007 @ 14:08 |
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Originally posted by gotasmoke:
Ok i've got a copy of service.xml from my friend and used it but the channels I previously could not get, would still not disply.
I compared his services.xml to mine and I see the following difference:
I'm not getting the following transponders found:
- transponder id="003c" onid="0601" frequency="410750000" inversion="2" symbol_rate="6875000" fec_inner="3" modulation="3"
and
- transponder id="003e" onid="0601" frequency="426750000" inversion="2" symbol_rate="6875000" fec_inner="3" modulation="3"
The channels on these transponders are the 20 that I'm missing.
I'm using the irish9 cables. Can anyone shed any light on this for me?
Check your SNR,SIG you may need a booster.
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ruprect
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9. August 2007 @ 00:31 |
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Originally posted by eoinf:
alos a problem i was always having setanta sports appears with the last 1/5th of the screen repeating itself on the right hand side. i can fix it by messing around with the aspect ratio but i need to do it every time i switch to the channel any idea what this might be?
Happens on everybodies I know, sagem, nokia & proper pace box. I also notice golf has dirty big borders these days. Never tried messing with aspect, will give it a go.
blade trinity V2 for sagem 1x
http://www.techno-source.co.uk/SMF2/index.php?topic=2446.0
blade trinity V2 for sagem 2x
http://www.techno-source.co.uk/SMF2/index.php?topic=2557.0
Both of these have a cables file in them with my new fast scan option, and all of mgb17's latest "irish 9" file- though some might be slightly renamed, and a whole load of other providers from other images.
I will have commando 8.2 soon, and sporster 1.1 2x with gbox, though the sporster creator asked for it to be posted without keys, just get them from blade, I have it all configured so you just drop them in.
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9. August 2007 @ 00:51 |
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Hi Guys. Quick question. I have my Sagem DBOX working ages in Dublin on NT£ but recently I bought a new lcd tv, Samsung LE32S81 and the quality of the TV seems very poor. Except for sky movies and some other channels. Would it be because I have an analogue tuner on the TV? My old phillips TV seemed to have a much better picture. Any ideas? signal on channels seem to get a muddled up picture every now and then also.
Mullingar
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ruprect
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9. August 2007 @ 02:02 |
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Originally posted by mullingar:
Would it be because I have an analogue tuner on the TV?
you are watching digital via the scart to the TV right?
Try changing the video settings. Your LCD might be set at a much higher res than what ntl broadcast at. If you click red then blue you will see the res the program is broadcast at. A low res input on a high res screen looks bad since it shows up all the flaws.
I have a low res plasma and it looks fine on it. I would sooner have a lower res high quality screen for the same price as a high res low quality screen. Same goes for cameras, people put too much emphasis on pixel counts since quality cannot be given in numerical terms.
Also try a different image, the newer blades are good, he improved the video drivers on them.
www.avforums.com might help on settings for the LCD
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srevor
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9. August 2007 @ 06:41 |
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Originally posted by eoinf:
alos a problem i was always having setanta sports appears with the last 1/5th of the screen repeating itself on the right hand side. i can fix it by messing around with the aspect ratio but i need to do it every time i switch to the channel any idea what this might be?
cheers
eoin
I had the same problem with Setanta Ireland, I changed the ucodes (to 0014 i think?) and its been fine since.
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eoinf
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9. August 2007 @ 06:49 |
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Originally posted by srevor:
Originally posted by eoinf:
alos a problem i was always having setanta sports appears with the last 1/5th of the screen repeating itself on the right hand side. i can fix it by messing around with the aspect ratio but i need to do it every time i switch to the channel any idea what this might be?
cheers
eoin
I had the same problem with Setanta Ireland, I changed the ucodes (to 0014 i think?) and its been fine since.
excuse my ignorance but what exactly did you do as this is begining to wreck my head
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9. August 2007 @ 10:07 |
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9. August 2007 @ 10:41 |
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Originally posted by ruprect:
Originally posted by eoinf:
alos a problem i was always having setanta sports appears with the last 1/5th of the screen repeating itself on the right hand side. i can fix it by messing around with the aspect ratio but i need to do it every time i switch to the channel any idea what this might be?
Happens on everybodies I know, sagem, nokia & proper pace box. I also notice golf has dirty big borders these days. Never tried messing with aspect, will give it a go.
blade trinity V2 for sagem 1x
http://www.techno-source.co.uk/SMF2/index.php?topic=2446.0
blade trinity V2 for sagem 2x
http://www.techno-source.co.uk/SMF2/index.php?topic=2557.0
Both of these have a cables file in them with my new fast scan option, and all of mgb17's latest "irish 9" file- though some might be slightly renamed, and a whole load of other providers from other images.
I will have commando 8.2 soon, and sporster 1.1 2x with gbox, though the sporster creator asked for it to be posted without keys, just get them from blade, I have it all configured so you just drop them in.
I have tried the Sagem 2x image, tried the NTL Dublin scans but picked up nothing, tried Cable IE Sym6887 and again nothing.
Am I missing out on something?
Update: Changed location to Dublin NTL and did a scan, picked up the channels but still no picture.
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jj40
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9. August 2007 @ 11:00 |
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Have tried Blade V2 1x on Sagem here in Cork Picked up channels on Scan 121 Tv 33 Radio on Ch&r£s but no picture What am I doing wrong where can I get Irish9.zip?
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gotasmoke
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9. August 2007 @ 13:22 |
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Originally posted by wiz569:
Originally posted by gotasmoke:
Ok i've got a copy of service.xml from my friend and used it but the channels I previously could not get, would still not disply.
I compared his services.xml to mine and I see the following difference:
I'm not getting the following transponders found:
- transponder id="003c" onid="0601" frequency="410750000" inversion="2" symbol_rate="6875000" fec_inner="3" modulation="3"
and
- transponder id="003e" onid="0601" frequency="426750000" inversion="2" symbol_rate="6875000" fec_inner="3" modulation="3"
The channels on these transponders are the 20 that I'm missing.
I'm using the irish9 cables. Can anyone shed any light on this for me?
Check your SNR,SIG you may need a booster.
My SNR is around 61000 and my SIG is about 47000.
I think this is ok.
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 9. August 2007 @ 13:36
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10. August 2007 @ 00:45 |
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Originally posted by ruprect:
Originally posted by mullingar:
Also try a different image, the newer blades are good, he improved the video drivers on them.
www.avforums.com might help on settings for the LCD
Ruprect, Are there Keys and all with that Blade (Blade_Trinity_V2_Dublin_Sagem_1x) image?
Mullingar
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eoinf
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10. August 2007 @ 03:22 |
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ive tried a few images and found some to be better than others. just looking to get peoples opinions on what the best image for a 2x Nokia box.
one other thing some of the images dont seem to have keys/cams/emu are these the same for each image?
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muzza76
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10. August 2007 @ 05:26 |
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Hi there, I have tried rescannin for channels on my box, but now all I get is 15 channels at most. I have restarted the box and tried this and the same thing happens. Sorry, Im not the most technically minded person, but was wonderin if there was some sort of guide to rescannin, so I can get the channels back.
Its bein used through Virgin Media in North Lanarkshire
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10. August 2007 @ 06:03 |
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Wot image is on your box at the mo mate ................Paul
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muzza76
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10. August 2007 @ 08:13 |
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Originally posted by bigdunc:
Wot image is on your box at the mo mate ................Paul
Its cool, managed to do a rescan and all the channels were found!!!!
Thanks for your help
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eoinf
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10. August 2007 @ 08:48 |
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hi
is there any reason why setant sports two would only have audio and no picture. epg is coming up as "this is setanta sports 2" with audio some match with salisbury but no picture
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dc69
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10. August 2007 @ 10:08 |
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exactly the same as mine,i think it maybe something to do with setanta hosting the rugby world cup and sorting out their channels,hopefully it will be sorted soon
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dc69
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10. August 2007 @ 10:11 |
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Originally posted by ruprect:
Originally posted by keith20:
hi, im just wondering does anybody no at all if its possible to get sky box office up and running for free of course on a nokia dbox2
You can only get what is being broadcast by your cable provider, NTL do not do box office. If they start to you could get it, but I doubt they will.
they are gona start showing video on demand in the new year
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eoinf
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10. August 2007 @ 10:14 |
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Originally posted by dc69:
exactly the same as mine,i think it maybe something to do with setanta hosting the rugby world cup and sorting out their channels,hopefully it will be sorted soon
cheers cause i was messing around trying to get rid of the folding screen thing on the other setanta tought i had fooked it up
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