Xbox tv tuner.

danois · 29-10-2014 1:54pm #1

http://www.argos.ie/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=10152&catalogId=14551&langId=111&productId=656564

This is available in argos but I read somewhere it won't work in ireland?? Does anyone know for sure if it works here or is it just the uk??

Thanks.

Fingleberries · 29-10-2014 2:58pm

danois wrote: »

http://www.argos.ie/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=10152&catalogId=14551&langId=111&productId=656564

This is available in argos but I read somewhere it won't work in ireland?? Does anyone know for sure if it works here or is it just the uk??

Thanks.

From a technical standpoint it should work in Ireland - it has the right type of tuner in it.

The only complication might come from if the software doesn't have Ireland enabled as a market yet, you mightn't get the OneGuide stuff for the Saorview channels.

(Although that is enabled for the HDMI-In, so again should theoretically work for this USB tuner).

There are a couple of "should"s in there. If you buy it, keep the receipt and bring it back if it doesn't work (or hang on to it because its likely to work in the not to distant future)

danois · 29-10-2014 5:56pm

Fingleberries wrote: »

From a technical standpoint it should work in Ireland - it has the right type of tuner in it.

The only complication might come from if the software doesn't have Ireland enabled as a market yet, you mightn't get the OneGuide stuff for the Saorview channels.

(Although that is enabled for the HDMI-In, so again should theoretically work for this USB tuner).

There are a couple of "should"s in there. If you buy it, keep the receipt and bring it back if it doesn't work (or hang on to it because its likely to work in the not to distant future)

I reckon for the price it's worth a shot. Thanks.

calex71 · 29-10-2014 8:07pm

danois wrote: »

I reckon for the price it's worth a shot. Thanks.

For what it's worth I don't have TV connected to my xbox but I can see the irish tv listings on the one guide , and saorview is an option when you set it up.

gotthebug · 01-11-2014 1:25am

Any1 get one of these yet just picked mine up to day gonna set it up 2morro.wondering eat region to set it to when setting up for English freeview

MiskyBoyy · 01-11-2014 1:58am

gotthebug wrote: »

Any1 get one of these yet just picked mine up to day gonna set it up 2morro.wondering eat region to set it to when setting up for English freeview

You'll only be able to pick up the Irish channels (Saorview) unless you're living in the UK or Ni?

Shred · 02-11-2014 12:19am

I picked one of these up earlier. The first thing is the Xbox needs to be set to a supported region, so I chose UK. Secondly it requires a postcode and searches channels based on this, I tried a UK one but no channels were found (I have it connected to an aerial I use for Saorview). So I'm not sure if it will work here but I'll have another fiddle around with it tomorrow. If anyone has some suggestions in the meantime let me know and I'll try them.

calex71 · 02-11-2014 6:34pm

Shred wrote: »

I picked one of these up earlier. The first thing is the Xbox needs to be set to a supported region, so I chose UK. Secondly it requires a postcode and searches channels based on this, I tried a UK one but no channels were found (I have it connected to an aerial I use for Saorview). So I'm not sure if it will work here but I'll have another fiddle around with it tomorrow. If anyone has some suggestions in the meantime let me know and I'll try them.

I'm still playing with it too , but I got it working. Didn't pick it up when I connected it first with region set to ireland, set to UK rebooted said it lost my setting when I went to TV on the Xbox, so went through set up again set BT35 as the post code (Newry) freeview, free digital set it to scan , returned around 50 or so channels including the irish ones

Oh Also tested it streaming to smart glass on PC works very well indeed , only thing is neither the xbox or pc show program info in the guide which is annoying.

Shred · 02-11-2014 9:31pm

Nice one, I'll give that a crack so!

Shred · 02-11-2014 10:08pm

Yep that did the trick Calex, I'm picking up 71 channels supposedly (mostly radio), fair play. It works really well I must say and the SD channels are miles ahead of their quality on Sky with their sneaky downgrading tactics. Voice, casting to smartglass, live pause etc are spot on. It's a pity the one guide isn't populated but at least you can see what's on now/next when you switch to a channel.

calex71 · 02-11-2014 11:59pm

Shred wrote: »

Yep that did the trick Calex, I'm picking up 71 channels supposedly (mostly radio), fair play. It works really well I must say and the SD channels are miles ahead of their quality on Sky with their sneaky downgrading tactics. Voice, casting to smartglass, live pause etc are spot on. It's a pity the one guide isn't populated but at least you can see what's on now/next when you switch to a channel.

Ah hopefully once we get official support we can put the old rte guide away

Shred · 03-11-2014 12:48am

Sure we'll probably only have to wait a year!

Nedved85 · 03-11-2014 1:32am

Shred wrote: »

Yep that did the trick Calex, I'm picking up 71 channels supposedly (mostly radio), fair play. It works really well I must say and the SD channels are miles ahead of their quality on Sky with their sneaky downgrading tactics. Voice, casting to smartglass, live pause etc are spot on. It's a pity the one guide isn't populated but at least you can see what's on now/next when you switch to a channel.

Hi,

Just wondering which channels you are picking up?

Any of the BBCs etc?

Guess it's possible to pick those up if you are reasonably near the border.

Shred · 03-11-2014 8:16am

I'm in Dublin so I'm not picking up any UK channels at all; I'm getting all the RTEs (+1s etc), TV3/e3, TG4, lots of radio stations.

calex71 · 03-11-2014 10:16am

Nedved85 wrote: »

Hi,

Just wondering which channels you are picking up?

Any of the BBCs etc?

Guess it's possible to pick those up if you are reasonably near the border.

I'm in drogheda, getting all irish and bbc 1,2,3 + news, channel 4, +1, more, E, film , channel 5, itv2 , basically it should pick up what ever you normally get on saorview when set to uk and freeview digital. So if you are getting those uk channels on saor view you should get them on the one tuner.

Shred · 03-11-2014 1:35pm

calex71 wrote: »

I'm in drogheda, getting all irish and bbc 1,2,3 + news, channel 4, +1, more, E, film , channel 5, itv2

Bastid :pac:

Fingleberries · 03-11-2014 2:16pm

calex71 wrote: »

I'm in drogheda, getting all irish and bbc 1,2,3 + news, channel 4, +1, more, E, film , channel 5, itv2 , basically it should pick up what ever you normally get on saorview when set to uk and freeview digital. So if you are getting those uk channels on saor view you should get them on the one tuner.

Do they all appear with program info in the OneGuide, or do you only get UK or Irish, but not both together?

calex71 · 03-11-2014 2:56pm

Fingleberries wrote: »

Do they all appear with program info in the OneGuide, or do you only get UK or Irish, but not both together?

Yeah they all appear on one list but as I said you see the station name but 'no information' for all the programs.

Lucious Sweet · 03-11-2014 3:04pm

Can you record TV with this?

calex71 · 03-11-2014 3:10pm

Lucious Sweet wrote: »

Can you record TV with this?

No. There is a pause / rewind feature that uses 4gb of hard drive space that runs for around 30 minutes.

gotthebug · 03-11-2014 6:22pm

Got ttheirish channels with the normal aerial but trying with an old sky disc witch I get all the freeview through the Tele but getting nothing through the tuner any1 any ideas

MiskyBoyy · 03-11-2014 6:39pm

I know you can get this in Argos but does anyone know if it's available in Xtravision? I didn't realise it had the pause feature, that's class

Al_Coholic · 03-11-2014 7:57pm

i can get the UK channels where i live but with the tuner can you get the UK HD channels too? if i could id definitely get it.

Fingleberries · 04-11-2014 8:51am

gotthebug wrote: »

Got ttheirish channels with the normal aerial but trying with an old sky disc witch I get all the freeview through the Tele but getting nothing through the tuner any1 any ideas

The TV tuner is for channels from the Aerial only and not for satellite. The UK channels you see on your old Sky dish are FreeSat rather than Freeview.

Unfortunately, unless you live in an area where you receive Freeview (e.g. Border areas, or parts of the Wexford coast) you won't be able to use the Tuner to view UK channels.

Al_Coholic · 05-11-2014 8:07pm

I bought this today and have gotten uk free view HD channels,I'm only 20 miles from the border but I'm delighted to get the HD channels... A huge bonus.

Shred · 05-11-2014 11:55pm

Nice one Al. I've been really enjoying this over the past few days. I packed in Sky last month so it's been great to have live pause back. Two nights ago I was watching Second Captains and decided to hit the hay so I cast to the iPad, paused, went and got ready for bed and then continued watching when I got into bed. Last night I was watching the Liverpool game on ITV HD through the Sky box but had TV3 on on the Xbox so I could rewind if I wanted to re-watch a phase of play. Then tonight I watched the City game on RTE2 HD. It pretty much worked flawlessly throughout.

Nedved85 · 08-11-2014 2:53pm

Gone up to 38.99 in argos now

Lucious Sweet · 24-11-2014 1:34pm

No TV listings on mine. Is there a way to fix this?

MiskyBoyy · 24-11-2014 3:56pm

Lucious Sweet wrote: »

No TV listings on mine. Is there a way to fix this?

calex71 wrote: »

I'm still playing with it too , but I got it working. Didn't pick it up when I connected it first with region set to ireland, set to UK rebooted said it lost my setting when I went to TV on the Xbox, so went through set up again set BT35 as the post code (Newry) freeview, free digital set it to scan , returned around 50 or so channels including the irish ones

Try what Calex said, switch xbox region to UK & enter BT35 as the post code. Should work?

Lucious Sweet · 24-11-2014 4:09pm

MiskyBoyy wrote: »

Try what Calex said, switch xbox region to UK & enter BT35 as the post code. Should work?

Did that and I have all the Irish TV and radio channels but no listings.

GlennTKD · 11-12-2014 12:39am

I'm having no luck with this, set it too UK, use BT35 as post code, selected freeview and I either get nothing or I get 4 locked channels.

Any suggestions or help? Please

calex71 · 11-12-2014 9:27am

Does it take long to scan ? I have mine set to Freeview Northern Ireland OTA

It should pick up radio stations at least surely?

GlennTKD · 11-12-2014 3:50pm

calex71 wrote: »

Does it take long to scan ? I have mine set to Freeview Northern Ireland OTA

It should pick up radio stations at least surely?

I tried the same setting today and got about 8 regular tv channels and about 20 radio channels, is that what to expect or should there be more?

Also have you tried a different post code in the idea of finding more channels?

calex71 · 11-12-2014 4:30pm

GlennTKD wrote: »

I tried the same setting today and got about 8 regular tv channels and about 20 radio channels, is that what to expect or should there be more?

Also have you tried a different post code in the idea of finding more channels?

What part of the country are you in ? If you wouldn't not normally receive UK stations you won't get them with this either.

GlennTKD · 12-12-2014 6:44pm

calex71 wrote: »

What part of the country are you in ? If you wouldn't not normally receive UK stations you won't get them with this either.

I'm normally get the standard 14 with bbc, channel 4 and so on, still nothing yet with the xbox tunner.

stuchyg · 11-01-2015 12:27pm

Quick question on this. Do i need an aerial to plug this into or will it pick up the stations automatically once connected

MiskyBoyy · 11-01-2015 2:09pm

stuchyg wrote:

Quick question on this. Do i need an aerial to plug this into or will it pick up the stations automatically once connected

You need an aerial. A basic indoor one does the job!

calex71 · 11-01-2015 3:00pm

stuchyg wrote: »

Quick question on this. Do i need an aerial to plug this into or will it pick up the stations automatically once connected

You plug an aerial into it.

COYVB · 11-01-2015 3:32pm

Not sure I follow why anyone would need this. Surely it works the same in Ireland and the UK as everywhere else, in that you plug the HDMI out from your digibox into the Xbox and watch through there? Why the need for a tuner? Are people attempting to use their Xbox AS their digibox or something?

MiskyBoyy · 11-01-2015 3:37pm

COYVB wrote: »

Not sure I follow why anyone would need this. Surely it works the same in Ireland and the UK as everywhere else, in that you plug the HDMI out from your digibox into the Xbox and watch through there? Why the need for a tuner? Are people attempting to use their Xbox AS their digibox or something?

For my office/gaming room where I don't have a tv or a 'digibox'.

The other advantage being I can watch tv on my tablet anywhere in the house thanks the the xbox tv tuner.

COYVB · 11-01-2015 3:39pm

Gotcha. Makes sense I suppose - probably cheaper ways of doing it than an Xbox tuner though. Saorview boxes aren't pricey

MiskyBoyy · 11-01-2015 3:41pm

COYVB wrote: »

Gotcha. Makes sense I suppose - probably cheaper ways of doing it than an Xbox tuner though. Saorview boxes aren't pricey

Tbh with you I only got it as I couldn't think of anything else to tell my sister to get me for Christmas when she asked :P

COYVB · 11-01-2015 3:42pm

Ha, good a reason as any!

calex71 · 11-01-2015 5:34pm

COYVB wrote: »

Ha, good a reason as any!

I found that since mid-november or so the built in tuner on my tv would either no longer pick up UK channels or when it did they were choppy and unwatchable especially HD ones. They are perfect with the Xbox tuner. Same aerial cable going into the tuner that was previously in the TV

Also the streaming TV to pc/mobile/tablet is a god send if someone wants to watch TV if you happen to be in a multiplayer game you can't just drop it and leave lads in the lurch on. No if only they could do that so you could stream the game to a device like on PS4 to Vita/Sony Phone

calex71 · 21-02-2015 1:25am

Just noticed tonight that the smartglass app on phone/windows is only listing irish stations, favorites are blank but should list film4 etc. Xbox guide will still let me view and list uk ones but it's region set to UK for that region. Could that be a sign for irish support for the tuner?

It's gas that the reception is the best it's ever been for me on the UK stations now using the tuner.

Riesen_Meal · 21-02-2015 2:03pm

calex71 wrote: »

Just noticed tonight that the smartglass app on phone/windows is only listing irish stations, favorites are blank but should list film4 etc. Xbox guide will still let me view and list uk ones but it's region set to UK for that region. Could that be a sign for irish support for the tuner?

It's gas that the reception is the best it's ever been for me on the UK stations now using the tuner.

It really boils down to where you live and the aerial type you have - if your in Dublin city you should point to 3 rock with an indoor aerial no problem, not sure how many UK freeview you would get though... (if any)

The likes of me in the wilds of North County Dublin, need an outdoor aerial, pointing north iirc, but I can get decent UK signal on built in TV tuner of my tv on cloudy days (via Saorview) but a bit of rain and I have to switch to the satellite box for my UK ones....

An outdoor UHF will always kick the ass of an indoor one, the lads on the Terrestrial TV forum may explain areas and aerial differences better - some really knowledgeable posters over there....

Rowley Birkin QC · 23-02-2015 6:24pm

Just on this topic; I have a Horizon box from NTL. When I plugged it into the TV port of the Xbox, it seemed to be using an older channel guide. Anyone been able to get this working correctly?

rtron · 28-02-2015 7:57pm

I'm thinking of getting one of these - can anyone let me know if the cable interface accepts the type of cable that comes from a a Satellite LNB. Thanks in advance.

calex71 · 28-02-2015 8:47pm

rtron wrote: »

I'm thinking of getting one of these - can anyone let me know if the cable interface accepts the type of cable that comes from a a Satellite LNB. Thanks in advance.

No it's RF I think it's called, the one you would use to connect an aerial to the back of most TV's.

In your case with a sat feed you would be better with a cheap freesat box and connecting with hdmi to the xbox.

Fingleberries · 02-03-2015 11:51am

rtron wrote: »

I'm thinking of getting one of these - can anyone let me know if the cable interface accepts the type of cable that comes from a a Satellite LNB. Thanks in advance.

Nope, unfortunately not.

The signal from a satellite will be DVB-S / S2 encoded. The Xbox One TV Tuner supports DVB-T / T2 (essentially aerial - like Saorview / Freeview / FreeviewHD) and I believe DVB-C (cable tv) signals only.

Snake Plisken · 09-03-2015 8:33pm

Seems to be a shortage of stock none in any Argos dublin store and no stock on Amazon

Xbox tv tuner.

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