I am using a Freecom type 3 USB DVB-T stick. I'm in the UK and picking up from Mendip.
Weird thing is that when I scan for channels, I pick up nothing for Mux D (the one with film four on, of course!). What is weirder is that I pick up Mux 2 and A, which are low strength. I am in a margainal reception area, but it seems odd to loose one full strength Mux for no reason, whilst the weaker ones are (just about ) there.
Of course, this has now become an issue because Film 4+1 (on a strong mux, which I relied on) has gone, leaving me with nothing :mad:
Any tips welcome- is it possible to enter settings manually? If so, where could I get the details?
Sorry for the long post. My point is that Best Buy blatently lies to non tech-savvy customers to sell them useless or horribly over-priced crap. Details below.
I was in Best Buy last night pricing plasmas. There was a couple there who were buying a 37" LCD TV.
Mr. Blueshirt was giving them a very hard sell on a $49.00 HDMI cable. He actually told them that "cheap cables degrade the picture so much that they will not carry them". He also implied that the warranty would not be honored for picture quality problems unless they could prove they had bought high quality cables. At no time did this guy even ask if their STB had an HDMI connection!
I never do this kind of thing but I actually walked over and asked them if they had cable, satellite etc and asked if they knew if they had HDMI available or not. They didn't know. I also told them that I had spent a couple hundred bucks on Monster cables and saw absolutely no difference in picture quality over my old dollar store cables. I told them they could probably get a perfectly fine HDMI cable (if they need one) for $15.00 from Wal-Mart.
Mr. Blueshirt is rolling his eyes like I am some kind of crazy person. The people tell him they are going to wait on the cable and go to pay for their tv. Mr Blueshirt returns with one of the "Magnolia home theater" people. Mr Magnolia tells me I am "disturbing" customers. Tells me I have no right to give advice to anyone and If I am not there to buy something to please leave the store. I tried to have a reasonable conversation with him about the cables. He said that I "didn't know what I was talking about" and outright told me to leave or he would call security.
Last year I saw an old couple buying a laptop for their grandaughter who was starting university. They were practically forced to buy about $400 bucks in useless crap (portable surge protector, headphones, travel mouse, rolling case etc). They were also upsold to a more expensive laptop with a bunch of mumbo jumbo about floating point calculations and hyper threading. These people did not appear to be rich and I have regretted not pulling them aside since.
Best Buy employees are not supposed to be on commision. They must threaten to fire them if they don't push cables.
I just purchased a AVerMedia M780 card to replace a failing PVR-150 card. Since this PVR-150 card was also the remote, I opted to get the MCE kit with the M780 card to get the remote and IR blaster (which is nice since it is a USB and not directly tied to a TV tuner card).
Anyways, the MCE IR has 2 IR Blasters and would like to use the remote to power on and off the TV and my receiver. I would also like to set up my remote so that the volume buttons control the volume on the receiver, as well at mute button.
I'm at a loss on which to use, HIP or EventGhost. I thought I read that EventGhost doesn't support the MCE IR Blaster (yet), but the website doesn't seem very clear about it.
Hi, I'm switching to i-XMLTV, but I can't get it to work on either of my home machines. I'm @ work right now, remoted to one computer and just trying to test it there and make sure it works, but I keep getting an error in i-XMLTV.log.
The last entries in the file are below:
[COLOR="Red"]Wed 08/29/2007 6:29:34.66
Replacing UTC entries in TVGUIDE.XML with +0000 >> I-XMLTV.XML
Enhancing EPG: TVGUIDE.XML >> I-XMLTV.XML
Error= 62 Error codes are located in ReadMe-NOW.txt
Replacing -Paid Programming- listings, with -Zap2It- messages.
Error= 62 Error codes are located in ReadMe-NOW.txt
I-xmltv v1.3c (build 11/26/06)
Creating a custom search channel
Display Name=FIND, Channel=1, Entries=170 / 192 max.[/COLOR]
I looked up error 62:Input past end of file
I have no idea what that means. Can anyone help me out? I can post more info as requested, just let me know.
Hi
I'd like my son to be able to connect to the hard drive on my computer where I have my GBPVR recordings from his computer in his bedroom. The recordings are on a 500Gb IDE hard drive but when I set it up to allow sharing I cannot connect to it from his computer - I get a dialogue box up saying there is not enough server storage. If I put shared access on my other hard drive (160Gb SATA) there is not a problem with my son's computer accessing it. Is the size of the IDE drive a problem or is there a way of working round this? I'd like to use the larger drive as the 160Gb one fills up rather quickly!
Cheers
I am using the patched(fandango/sorting patch) 5.0 version. It's nice to see theatre listings again. But am running into a few problem.
1. When choosing "By Film" the list is empty. That seems kind of odd since "By Cimema" lists films.
Code:
2007-08-28 22:41:00.203 VERBOSE [1] International Cinema Listings Plugin: Loaded 32 film showings.
2007-08-28 22:41:00.203 VERBOSE [1] International Cinema Listings Plugin: Loaded 2 cinemas.
2007-08-28 22:41:00.203 VERBOSE [1] International Cinema Listings Plugin: Loaded 0 films.
2. When I select a film in the "By Cimema" list, I got a popup window of an unhandled exception.
Code:
************** Exception Text **************
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at InternationalCinemaListingsPlugIn2.FilmInfoPopup.getPostBackgroundRenderList()
at GBPVRX2.Popups.PopupBase.GetRenderList()
at GBPVRX2.BaseButtonListUiTask.GetRenderList()
at InternationalCinemaListingsPlugIn2.ICLP2MenuTask.GetRenderList()
at GBPVRX2.MenuTask.xd2a3a83a17aec615.GetRenderList()
at GBPVRX2.x0061b801bdf12d35.xdb012c437aec4a40(Boolean xd23bf32f3b17e3be)
at GBPVRX2.x0061b801bdf12d35.xf11d09f6e9e3e55b()
at GBPVRX2.xdd215986d9a64c86.ReturnToMainMenu()
at GBPVRX2.x0061b801bdf12d35.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)
Did I forget to install something? I am using standard blue skin.
Hi, I have read differnet discussions on the TV Guide, but I can not find how to select a show once I find it in the search. it displays the name of the show but that is all:confused:
How do you select it so that you can now schedule it to be recorded???
Thank you
Pasquale
Sorry: found that I had to convert to the sqlite3 db and it works. :o
