Radio-only receiver?
 

I am interested in buying a radio-only satellite box to listen to BBC radio on
the Astra 2 satellite. I already have an old Sky Digibox, but I dont want the
box near the TV and would prefer something which gives more information on the
front of the box (as a minimum the channel number).

Does such a thing exist? Anything similar?

Many thanks.

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If you hold on to next Summer, Pace are bringing out just such a machine.
Pictures here...

http://www.pacemicro.com/corporate/p...sp?PID=DSR210F

Rgds - Martin

"Phillip Deackes" wrote in message
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I am interested in buying a radio-only satellite box to listen to BBC
radio on
the Astra 2 satellite. I already have an old Sky Digibox, but I dont want
the
box near the TV and would prefer something which gives more information on
the
front of the box (as a minimum the channel number).

Does such a thing exist? Anything similar?

Many thanks.

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Phillip Deackes

On 16 Oct 2004 10:20:07 GMT, Phillip Deackes
wrote:

I am interested in buying a radio-only satellite box to listen to BBC radio on
the Astra 2 satellite. I already have an old Sky Digibox, but I dont want the
box near the TV and would prefer something which gives more information on the
front of the box (as a minimum the channel number).

Does such a thing exist? Anything similar?

The Pace box not out yet looks ideal, but I don't know how much
information the display could give because the radio information on
the "Sky" EPG is rather limited compared with DAB and Freeview where
it often says what the current song is that is playing etc

All Radio stations (except Talk Sport) are FTA, so any FTA digital
receiver will do, many FTA receivers show the channel number, and the
advantage is you can order the radio channels with numbers you want
rather than being stuck to the set 9xx numbers.

The BBC stations 1-7 could be stored on numbers 1-7

In article , Martin Peters wrote:
If you hold on to next Summer, Pace are bringing out just such a machine.
Pictures here...

http://www.pacemicro.com/corporate/p...sp?PID=DSR210F

Perfect! Thank you very much, Martin.

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On 16 Oct 2004 10:20:07 GMT, Phillip Deackes

All Radio stations (except Talk Sport) are FTA, so any FTA digital
receiver will do, many FTA receivers show the channel number, and the
advantage is you can order the radio channels with numbers you want
rather than being stuck to the set 9xx numbers.

Aston Xena models 1600, 1700, 1800 boxes also display the channel name on
the front panel (10 character VFD dot matrix display). They are relatively
expensive because they include Viaccess and Mediaguard CA, so it's maybe too
much for only listening to radio.
If the channel number is sufficient (you can generally number the stations
as you like in favourite lists), then most FTA receivers which can be found
from less than 100 Euros and up have a 4 digits LED display.

Martin Peters wrote:

If you hold on to next Summer, Pace are bringing out just such a machine.
Pictures here...

That's nice.

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"Martin Peters" wrote in message
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If you hold on to next Summer, Pace are bringing out just such a machine.
Pictures here...

http://www.pacemicro.com/corporate/p...sp?PID=DSR210F

Rgds - Martin


That looks like a nice item - lets hope it'll come in at a decent price....
it could also do with an SD card slot for recording.

On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 07:06:53 GMT, "JohnW"
wrote:

That looks like a nice item - lets hope it'll come in at a decent price....
it could also do with an SD card slot for recording.

That would definitely be the cherry on top. Looks like a nice unit.

I notice that the illustration shows BBC Radio 1 on channel 851 - I
wonder if it will default to using the Sky EPG numbers unless you
change them?

Martin Peters wrote:

If you hold on to next Summer, Pace are bringing out just such a machine.
Pictures here...

http://www.pacemicro.com/corporate/p...sp?PID=DSR210F

That's a sweet bit of kit.

Seeing as it says "Product only available to Operators" I wonder how
you'll be able to buy it?

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Martin Peters wrote:

If you hold on to next Summer, Pace are bringing out just such a machine.
Pictures here...

http://www.pacemicro.com/corporate/p...sp?PID=DSR210F

That's a sweet bit of kit.

Seeing as it says "Product only available to Operators" I wonder how
you'll be able to buy it?

They probably don't intend marketing it as a retail item but that doesn't
always prevent items becoming available via "non-retail" suppliers or
"second-hand".
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