Lost channels on PC stick
 

Hi

I just received this:

http://www.riverstreams.co.uk/index....d&productId=16

and it is excellent except that it will not detect BBC4 on any sweep
on a mains aerial. It detects 66 channels in total in the West Oxford
area. On this same aerial on a Freeview box, I can detect BBC4.

Any help welcomed

Thanks

Jon

PS What frequency is BBC4 broadcast on, please, as there is a manual
scan option.

Lost channels on PC stick
 

vigman wrote:

Hi

I just received this:

http://www.riverstreams.co.uk/index....d&productId=16

Interesting piece of false advertising there - it says it does HDTV, if
only...

and it is excellent except that it will not detect BBC4 on any sweep
on a mains aerial. It detects 66 channels in total in the West Oxford
area. On this same aerial on a Freeview box, I can detect BBC4.

What frequency is BBC4 broadcast on, please, as there is a manual
scan option.

Here (Darvel) it's on the same frequency as the BBC radio channels. I
expect that'll be the same everywhere.

Peter

Lost channels on PC stick
 

Peter Hayes wrote:

http://www.riverstreams.co.uk/index....d&productId=16

Interesting piece of false advertising there - it says it does HDTV, if
only...

The confusion is around the name of the BlazeVideo software bundled with
the product that has the name "HDTV player" as it can be used with HDTV
hardware (which this device is not)

http://www.blazevideo.com/hdtv-player

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Lost channels on PC stick
 

On 31 Oct, 17:07, (Peter Hayes) wrote:
vigman wrote:
Hi

I just received this:

http://www.riverstreams.co.uk/index....d&productId=16

SNIPPO Here (Darvel) it's on the same frequency as the BBC radio
channels. I
expect that'll be the same everywhere.

Peter

Thanks. After reading through old items here I saw that BBC4 shares
with CBeebies. I tried opening up Cbeebies (which has scanned
successfully) in the evening but got a blank, so rescanned and BBC4
appeared.

Another point though. The Blaze s/w allows for teletext "if your
provider delivers this service". However if I go on to a dedicated
teletext site...holidays...cars etc, I just get the sound and all the
teletext options are greyed out.

Please could someone explain if I should be able to receive teletext
on the digital channels on this device, and how to do this?

Many thanks

Jon

PS Great little device working on under spec laptop with USB1 !!!!

Lost channels on PC stick
 

At the start of October bbc 4 and the radio channels went missing until you
did a rescan. Maybe its still having problems due to that?


Brian

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vigman wrote:

Hi

I just received this:

http://www.riverstreams.co.uk/index....d&productId=16

Interesting piece of false advertising there - it says it does HDTV, if
only...

and it is excellent except that it will not detect BBC4 on any sweep
on a mains aerial. It detects 66 channels in total in the West Oxford
area. On this same aerial on a Freeview box, I can detect BBC4.

What frequency is BBC4 broadcast on, please, as there is a manual
scan option.

Here (Darvel) it's on the same frequency as the BBC radio channels. I
expect that'll be the same everywhere.

Peter

Lost channels on PC stick
 

vigman wrote:
Another point though. The Blaze s/w allows for teletext "if your
provider delivers this service". However if I go on to a dedicated
teletext site...holidays...cars etc, I just get the sound and all
the teletext options are greyed out.

Please could someone explain if I should be able to receive teletext
on the digital channels on this device, and how to do this?

Almost certainly not. That's because teletext in the U.K. DTT system
is delivered as MHEG, which is unique to the U.K., and these sticks
(and PC cards) are made for the general DTT system which delivers
teletext the old fashioned way, as part of the video signal.

André Coutanche

Lost channels on PC stick
 

On 1 Nov, 10:56, "André Coutanche" wrote:
vigman wrote:
Another point though. The Blaze s/w allows for teletext "if your
provider delivers this service". However if I go on to a dedicated
teletext site...holidays...cars etc, I just get the sound and all
the teletext options are greyed out.

Please could someone explain if I should be able to receive teletext
on the digital channels on this device, and how to do this?

Almost certainly not. That's because teletext in the U.K. DTT system
is delivered as MHEG, which is unique to the U.K., and these sticks
(and PC cards) are made for the general DTT system which delivers
teletext the old fashioned way, as part of the video signal.

André Coutanche


Thanks again.

Finally, as an IT Manager I can offer some advice.

I was running this stick on a Tosh 2100 with 1.1 USB ports.

I thought I would try using a USB2 PCMCIA adaptor to cut out a few of
the jerks and lock-ups.

DON'T!!!!

After hours of pratting about with no success, I find that some/most
digital TV sticks will not run on these USB2 adaptors especially if
they have an NEC chipset.

What's worse, is having installed the USB2 card, the TV stick then
failed to work on the original USB1.1 ports.....and I thought the unit
had died.

Basically, I had to uninstall the USB2 card drivers, then the original
USB 1.1 drivers (and re-install) and then re-install the TV stick
drivers and software before the unit started working again.

So don't use an NEC chip USB2 PCMCIA card to try and work some/all
digital USB TV sticks!!

Hope this saves some hours of frustration.

Regards

Jon

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uk.tech.digital-tv
vigman
Thu, 01 Nov 2007 11:49:12 -0700
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as an IT Manager I can offer some advice.

I was running this stick on a Tosh 2100 with 1.1 USB ports.

I thought I would try using a USB2 PCMCIA adaptor to cut out a few of
the jerks and lock-ups.

DON'T!!!!

After hours of pratting about with no success, I find that some/most
digital TV sticks will not run on these USB2 adaptors especially if
they have an NEC chipset.

What's worse, is having installed the USB2 card, the TV stick then
failed to work on the original USB1.1 ports.....and I thought the unit
had died.

Basically, I had to uninstall the USB2 card drivers, then the original
USB 1.1 drivers (and re-install) and then re-install the TV stick
drivers and software before the unit started working again.


Wouldnt a good IT manager just create a resore point before
experimenting with different drivers ? .

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Wouldnt a good IT manager just create a resore point before
experimenting with different drivers ? .- Hide quoted text -

Maybe....but this one is lying on his back for 8 weeks after major
surgery typing on a laptop on his stomach and trying to think through
the haze of extra strong painkillers!! 8)

Jon

Actually I tend to keep current back-ups of all data.....make sure I
have driver disks readily available for all hardware....have the OS on
a separate partition.....and then quickly re-install the OS after any
major problems/failures.I turn 'restore points' off as in the long run
in XP, much quicker to install the OS than pratting about with
'restores', especially as they often bring back unwanted nasties with
them.............pass the morphine......