OT : 23 channels and nothing to watch!
 

The Tour de France is coming up and I thought I'd get one of those el
cheapo $50 HD digital set top boxes which allows recording to an
external USB HDD for later viewing as I am not always around when each
stage of le Tour starts.

I plugged it all in, did the scan and was kinda excited to discover that
I can get 23 digital channels in Sydney. Man, I've got it made - NO MORE
5 channels of crappy free-to-air **** - or so I thought.

After two days of channel surfing 23 digital channels at different times
of the day and night, I have come to the conclusion that, I now have 23
channels of crappy digital ****.

Oh well, never mind, I hope the recording function works but I'll not
know that until I can get an external USB HDD.

OT : 23 channels and nothing to watch!
 

Geoff Lock wrote:
I have come to the conclusion that, I now have 23
channels of crappy digital ****.

ditto. Aren't you just excited about the digital swap over.

Oh well, never mind, I hope the recording function works but I'll not
know that until I can get an external USB HDD.

Those cheap USB sticks work okay, say 4Gb plus.

OT : 23 channels and nothing to watch!
 

On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:06:58 +1000, Geoff Lock wrote:

The Tour de France is coming up and I thought I'd get one of those el
cheapo $50 HD digital set top boxes which allows recording to an external
USB HDD for later viewing as I am not always around when each stage of le
Tour starts.

And so it begins. My addiction began about 5 years ago. While I like the
functionality offered by MythTV, it can really be a time sink trying to
fix the niggling little issues... And needing more tuners and disk.

--
Dave Hughes -
"Sanity is like money; you should just have enough to get by. Any more
and you turn into a freak" - rone, ASR

OT : 23 channels and nothing to watch!
 

On 20/06/2011 3:06 PM, Geoff Lock wrote:
The Tour de France is coming up and I thought I'd get one of those el
cheapo $50 HD digital set top boxes which allows recording to an
external USB HDD for later viewing as I am not always around when each
stage of le Tour starts.

I plugged it all in, did the scan and was kinda excited to discover that
I can get 23 digital channels in Sydney. Man, I've got it made - NO MORE
5 channels of crappy free-to-air **** - or so I thought.

After two days of channel surfing 23 digital channels at different times
of the day and night, I have come to the conclusion that, I now have 23
channels of crappy digital ****.

Oh well, never mind, I hope the recording function works but I'll not
know that until I can get an external USB HDD.

What's the song by Pink Floyd? ...."16 channels of **** on the TV to
choose from." He should thank his lucky stars! I've been watching black
and white episodes of On The Buses. :-|

OT : 23 channels and nothing to watch!
 

On 20/06/2011 5:02 PM, terryc wrote:
Geoff Lock wrote:
I have come to the conclusion that, I now have 23 channels of crappy
digital ****.

ditto. Aren't you just excited about the digital swap over.

Over the moon, I am. :)


Oh well, never mind, I hope the recording function works but I'll not
know that until I can get an external USB HDD.

Those cheap USB sticks work okay, say 4Gb plus.

Ah, I have a bunch of 8GB flash drives lying around somewhere - I had
thought it'd take several 100GBs to do a recording but then I never did
sit down and calculate what I really needed and I was looking for an
excuse to buy a 500GB external USB HDD.

OT : 23 channels and nothing to watch!
 

On 20/06/2011 8:29 PM, Dave Hughes wrote:
On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:06:58 +1000, Geoff Lock wrote:

The Tour de France is coming up and I thought I'd get one of those el
cheapo $50 HD digital set top boxes which allows recording to an external
USB HDD for later viewing as I am not always around when each stage of le
Tour starts.

And so it begins. My addiction began about 5 years ago. While I like the
functionality offered by MythTV, it can really be a time sink trying to
fix the niggling little issues... And needing more tuners and disk.


If this carries on, we'll need a new newsgroup like aus.set-top-boxes or
something silly like that and aus-admin will probably knock it on the
head. :)

OT : 23 channels and nothing to watch!
 

On 20/06/2011 9:21 PM, Blue Heeler wrote:
Dave Hughes wrote:

And so it begins. My addiction began about 5 years ago. While I like
the functionality offered by MythTV, it can really be a time sink
trying to fix the niggling little issues... And needing more tuners
and disk.

And ends with multiple HDhomerun boxes and Windows Media Centre -
finally a microsoft product that actually "just works".

And a plug for a fine piece of open source - Media Portal


Media Portal, eh? Hm ....

OT : 23 channels and nothing to watch!
 

On 21/06/2011 12:59 AM, Alan Erskine wrote:
On 20/06/2011 3:06 PM, Geoff Lock wrote:

I plugged it all in, did the scan and was kinda excited to discover that
I can get 23 digital channels in Sydney. Man, I've got it made - NO MORE
5 channels of crappy free-to-air **** - or so I thought.

After two days of channel surfing 23 digital channels at different times
of the day and night, I have come to the conclusion that, I now have 23
channels of crappy digital ****.

What's the song by Pink Floyd? ...."16 channels of **** on the TV to
choose from." He should thank his lucky stars! I've been watching black
and white episodes of On The Buses. :-|

"And, oh, by the way, which one is Pink?" :)

B&W episodes of "On the Buses"??? Did that come out in B&W? Damn!! This
thread is starting to sound like aus.tv!! :) Good thing I had the thread
marked OT or I'd be in trouble, eh? :)

OT : 23 channels and nothing to watch!
 

On 21/06/2011 4:44 AM, Geoff Lock wrote:
On 21/06/2011 12:59 AM, Alan Erskine wrote:
On 20/06/2011 3:06 PM, Geoff Lock wrote:

I plugged it all in, did the scan and was kinda excited to discover that
I can get 23 digital channels in Sydney. Man, I've got it made - NO MORE
5 channels of crappy free-to-air **** - or so I thought.

After two days of channel surfing 23 digital channels at different times
of the day and night, I have come to the conclusion that, I now have 23
channels of crappy digital ****.

What's the song by Pink Floyd? ...."16 channels of **** on the TV to
choose from." He should thank his lucky stars! I've been watching black
and white episodes of On The Buses. :-|

"And, oh, by the way, which one is Pink?" :)

B&W episodes of "On the Buses"??? Did that come out in B&W? Damn!! This
thread is starting to sound like aus.tv!! :) Good thing I had the thread
marked OT or I'd be in trouble, eh? :)

Along with the rest of us.

(weren't they a duet? Pink _and_ Floyd?) Oh wait, that was the Muppets
band!

OT : 23 channels and nothing to watch!
 

On 20/06/2011 3:06 PM, Geoff Lock wrote:
The Tour de France is coming up and I thought I'd get one of those el
cheapo $50 HD digital set top boxes which allows recording to an
external USB HDD for later viewing as I am not always around when each
stage of le Tour starts.

I plugged it all in, did the scan and was kinda excited to discover that
I can get 23 digital channels in Sydney. Man, I've got it made - NO MORE
5 channels of crappy free-to-air **** - or so I thought.

After two days of channel surfing 23 digital channels at different times
of the day and night, I have come to the conclusion that, I now have 23
channels of crappy digital ****.

Oh well, never mind, I hope the recording function works but I'll not
know that until I can get an external USB HDD.
If you get an external HDD,make sure it has its own power supply. All
the external HDD boxes I've used need two USB plugs, one for data and
another for (extra?) power. I haven't seen a set-top-box with twin USB
ports.

Moike