All posts by MikeB
Below are all of MikeB's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Rick Fairfield: No - internet radios have wifi built in with the means to get a streaming radio channel. They also tend to have DAB and FM. My Pure Flow One is available for about £90, with more expensive models around about the £150 mark.
Of course you can listen to internet radio via a laptop, tablet, mobile phone, etc - if you can attach/blu tooth to an external speaker, you can wander around and listen at the same time. TuneIN is avaible for most tablets, Ipods, etc.
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Steve Norton: Sky is the channel 980 (see Brian's post before yours), with Freesat being 983. LG's have a 'secret' sat. tuner (seriously, our LG rep just wouldn't talk about it), but its generic, not Freesat - so the EPG is not like Freesat - the channel numbers might be different.
Second thing is that the BBC is not (as far as I'm aware), broadcasting in 3D any longer, so they cant watch it in 3D as broadcast (hence no 3D channel). However, your TV can of course make a 2D programme 3D, so they can watch it - but it will not look as good as a proper 3D programme - so dont worry about it. Record it if you like, and then try converting it.
Just watch it on BBC1 HD, etc.
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Steve Norton: a quick look at various dw websites (and den of geek) says that 216 cinemas across the uk will show it in 3D - so it's a trip to the cinema if the kids want it in true 3d.
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Mark A.: I wish I'd found that webpage first...before a wrote complete rubbish!
Thats great - although I was assuming that all 3D content had finished, they'd obviously saved it for the special.
Steve Norton's kids will get to see it in 3D after all.
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Michael P: Yes - see here Can I stop paying Sky and use my satellite receiver to get Freeview ? | ukfree.tv - 11 years of independent, free digital TV advice
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Hannah: As a matter of interest, where are you?, since analogue finished some time ago, as far as I'm aware.
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Caroline Burgess: I can only agree with Michael. The total cost of Sky would be far higher than any replacement PVR.
The new Humax 2000 is available for £179.95 all in, includes the cables, and if you can connect it directly to the web, gets you Iplayer. Its also HD. You can get cheaper ones as well, although not much cheaper for HD, so I'd go with that one. You can also look to see what Humax will sell you graded -
Manager's specials - HUMAX UK Direct Sales Website
£130 for the older model.
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Caroline Burgess: Dont worry - your box is 4 year old (?), and judging by the reviews on Amazon, wasn't greatly admired even then, so you've been pretty lucky.
Buy something decent, you will get HD and Iplayer, and everything will work fine.
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Hannah: you will need to pay sky for this extra service, but you can get a cheap freesat box for less than £50 - all you need is a spare lnb. Of course the other question is , if you can get an analogue signal, could you get a digital one by using a cheap portable aerial?
A digibox is £15 or less ( someone might even let you have one for nothing), and although portables are usually rubbish, might be fine - I saw one in a supermarket the other day for less than £10.
At least you have options.
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Thursday 21 November 2013 9:19PM
Chris: A quick question first - when you mean 'BT box', do you mean the older ones, or do you mean a You View' box? If its the latter, its basically a Humax T2 with some software differences, a slightly different casing, and one or twoo ther changes - and it of course does have HD tuners. So I'd just use one or the other. If its the older ones, then carry on!
Yes, you can use a switched splitter (although they dont always work that well), and just arrange it so that the two least used devices are on the switched input - so I suspect the Humax would be on HDMI 1, and the console/BT box on the other (the BT box doesn't have HD, so I assume you'd use that less). The aerial can be split 2 ways (and then daisy chained), three ways, or daisy-chained through both boxes to the tv - whichever works.
Something like this might do - HDMI Switches