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Re: Set Top Boxes (STB) Europe-Wide?

thorne — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:20:09 GMT

Thanks a million. Cant wait to give it a try

Re: Set Top Boxes (STB) Europe-Wide?

Keith Saunders — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 10:34:03 GMT

As you have South/South East facing windows you could purchase a portable unit like the one HERE and place it just inside the window on the floor. You will then be able to pick up all the BBC & ITV free to air channels

Re: Set Top Boxes (STB) Europe-Wide?

thorne — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 09:46:33 GMT

Thanks again. Yes, we do have south and sout east windows, but again the problem is we are not allowed to install a satellite or indeed any other aerials apart from the communal one

Re: Set Top Boxes (STB) Europe-Wide?

Jandyt — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:32:41 GMT

thorne:
Thanks Keith. So only French channels, then. Not a stimulating prospect! Is there anything I can do to receive English channels in France, given the restrictions I have already mentioned?

Get Sky!!!
You must have a UK address to subscribe though. (a relative perhaps)

Re: Set Top Boxes (STB) Europe-Wide?

Keith Saunders — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 11:04:56 GMT

Well, that depends. Does your new flat has any south or south East facing windows ?

Re: Set Top Boxes (STB) Europe-Wide?

thorne — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 10:16:57 GMT

Thanks Keith. So only French channels, then. Not a stimulating prospect! Is there anything I can do to receive English channels in France, given the restrictions I have already mentioned?

Re: Set Top Boxes (STB) Europe-Wide?

Keith Saunders — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:02:28 GMT

NO, you can scan for channels and pick up France's version of Freeview with the French channels. Look at the link I provided further down this thread.

Re: Set Top Boxes (STB) Europe-Wide?

thorne — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:20:42 GMT

Does this mean I can simply install a freeview box in France and receive the Freeview channels I would receive in the UK?

If this is true, this is great news for me, because I have just bought a flat in France which does not allow satellite dishes but only a communal arial

Re: Set Top Boxes (STB) Europe-Wide?

Keith Saunders — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 04:55:05 GMT

You have a software version and a table version, its the table version which is important.

You can download a list for Table Version 3.0 HERE

The latest table versions are 3.90 & 3.91

Re: Set Top Boxes (STB) Europe-Wide?

timhanna — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 04:35:30 GMT

i think its SW3.0? or 3.1?

Re: Set Top Boxes (STB) Europe-Wide?

Keith Saunders — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 04:26:35 GMT

The STB controller table includes STB's from many countries.

Do you know what STB table version you have ? Either look on the back of the Beovision for a very small blue label with black writing or you can go into the Service menu and it will state it.

Re: Set Top Boxes (STB) Europe-Wide?

timhanna — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 04:14:04 GMT

Perfect. I am happy to hear that you had fun,

Ill go for the French ones, should my STB-C software be ok? Or will i need a fresh French datatable?

Re: Set Top Boxes (STB) Europe-Wide?

Keith Saunders — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 04:05:15 GMT

I had a good day, thank you Tim.

Given the quite low price of STB's I would get a french unit. All french STB's also output in PAL and RGB

Re: Set Top Boxes (STB) Europe-Wide?

timhanna — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:18:43 GMT

Hi Keith, thanks again. did you have a good celebration?

So its better that I just wait and get one in France i presume?

Tim

Re: Set Top Boxes (STB) Europe-Wide?

Keith Saunders — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:46:21 GMT

The fact that France uses SECAM is not an issue to you because you are using a STB and you would use the RGB output from it via the SCART connector.

The Humax freeview box should pick up the free MPEG2 channels, but they don't use MHEG so digital text and interactive channels won't work.

France has its own version of Freeview called TNT-gratuite - http://www.tnt-gratuite.fr, it should pick up some of these French channels.

What is MHEG

MHEG is an acronym for the "Multimedia and Hypermedia information coding Expert Group" (MHEG). It was developed in the mid 1990s as part of the DAVIC (Digital Audio Video Council) standardisation effort to support interactivity and navigation of multimedia services. It was first implemented by ONdigital in the UK which subsequently became Freeview.