Frederick Posted August 21, 2008 Share Posted August 21, 2008 My Daewoo SV900 freeview box no longer works as the Freeview transmission has been tweeked and according to Daewoo help desk it is a model that is now no longer of any use in the UK.....If I take it over to France ..(.its also a video recorder ) what is the chance of it picking up the free view channels there ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Posted August 21, 2008 Share Posted August 21, 2008 I think not - the UK started their terrestrial digital service with a speed of 2K - the French system uses 8K - the reason your box doesn't work now is probably because it's not able to deal with an 8K signal which is what the UK is changing over to.Sorry for the bad news - Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frederick Posted August 21, 2008 Author Share Posted August 21, 2008 Dont be sorry Tim !......I can now adise my OH that "Unfortunatly " it is now going to join its mates on the duff DVD pile at the local tip and we will just " have to" go out and buy one with the DVD recorder in now ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikew Posted August 21, 2008 Share Posted August 21, 2008 There might be a useful hard drive in the box that may be useful elsewhere..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikew Posted August 21, 2008 Share Posted August 21, 2008 There might be a hard drive in the box that may be useful elsewhere..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Posted August 21, 2008 Share Posted August 21, 2008 It's only got one hard drive [;-)] Sorry - couldn't resist it.[Www] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin963 Posted August 21, 2008 Share Posted August 21, 2008 Most of the current problems with UK Freeview boxes arise from the way the NIT table is now specified; because there are more channels (even if some are time shared) than originally specified the boxes that did not conform properly to the DVB-T spec are now no longer able to cope with the new system.My advice would be to try the boxes in France. It's only the original OnDigital boxes that won't cope with 8k symbol system used in France. The current problem in the UK is not related to that, and given that there are only just over twenty TNT channels in France my guess is that your box should (or at any rate *may*) still work. Incidentally, provided you don't do a rescan a lot of the "suspect" boxes will carry on working in the UK, it's just that new channels won't be available. As soon as you do a rescan however you're sunk....http://www.bbc.co.uk/reception/news/index.shtmlhttp://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=853956 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Posted August 22, 2008 Share Posted August 22, 2008 A very good point Martin - I'd forgotten about that even though I was reading about it just last week.[:$]I put it down to age.Tim Edit - spot on Martin - it's quite an interesting machine - Freeview box with built in VCR - but here's a link that may mean that Frederick can save it from the landfill - even if only for a short time. http://www.frequencycast.co.uk/freeviewlandfill.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo Posted August 22, 2008 Share Posted August 22, 2008 I have a dual input, ie.e. record one channel while you watch another, receiver with hard drive for sale at 75€. I have checked that it does work with French channels despite being bought in the UK It is in 56 near Vannes but could be posted if you are interested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frederick Posted August 22, 2008 Author Share Posted August 22, 2008 Thanks guys I will give it a go...My wife was watching the sport and pressed the red button to watch somthing ...it decided to do itself a scan for new channels and bingo..... threw in the towel ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madeira Jon Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 Martin, I got my OnDigital box some years ago! While in the UK I re-scanned it last week and behold all the stations work; so far anyway! However new digiboxes are only £20 or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin963 Posted August 25, 2008 Share Posted August 25, 2008 Yup - OnDigital boxes (whilst slow) should still work in the UK.The problem comes when Digital Switchover happens (ie when the analogue network is finally turned off) and the broadcasters in the Britain move from 2k to 8k symbols. At that point I would guess your OnDigital box will stop dead in its tracks.As it probably would if you brought it over to France where 8k was used from the start. As you say, £20 is not the end of the world, but it's a shame that so little thought has been given to the question of box longevity; OnDigital *could* have used 8k if they'd been prepared to wait three more months for launch (it was a shortage of available receiver chips which was the problem) and it would have made our lives very much easier as with 8k the broadcasters can use Single Frequency Networks (SFN's - I won't bore you with the details now) which might have made digital switchover a lot lot easier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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