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Buying a TNT box in France?

  • 04-11-2009 9:42pm
    #1
    cutback
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 70 ✭✭


    Would anyone here know if I went into an electronics shop in France (I'll be over there for a weekend in a couple of weeks) and bought any TNT box would it work here in Ireland? I really want to get something which will give me perfect terrestrial reception and if possible something with a built in hard drive. Basically I'm wondering whether all MPEG4 boxes will work over here or if it's possible that I could buy something which wouldn't work when I got it home.


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  • #2
    egal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 377 ✭✭egal


    As far as I know, it has to be TNT HD. Also, without MHEG-5, programming recordings might be a bit of a nuisance.


  • #3
    maxg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 516 ✭✭✭maxg


    Simply buy a sagem STD81 picnic box from a currys in NI for 19.99 and you get all what you want execept hard disk.


  • #4
    Richard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,439 ✭✭✭Richard


    maxg wrote: »
    Simply buy a sagem STD81 picnic box from a currys in NI for 19.99 and you get all what you want execept hard disk.

    and except any Irish channels! UK freeview boxes don't currently receive MPEG 4


  • #5
    fat-tony
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,711 ✭✭✭fat-tony


    Richard wrote: »
    and except any Irish channels! UK freeview boxes don't currently receive MPEG 4
    I don't have one myself, but this unit seems to support MPEG4, and at the price cannot be beat:D
    whole thread here http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055700768&page=3


  • #6
    The Cush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,852 ✭✭✭✭The Cush


    Richard wrote: »
    and except any Irish channels! UK freeview boxes don't currently receive MPEG 4

    The Sagem receiver was developed for the now cancelled Sky Picnic pay-tv service on UK DTT which planned to use MPEG-4 encoding following Ofcom approval.


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  • #7
    cutback
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 70 ✭✭cutback


    That Sagem box is great value but after using my Freesat PVR for the last 1/2 year I've become spoilt and I'd love to have something similar for RTE etc.


  • #8
    Richard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,439 ✭✭✭Richard


    The Cush wrote: »
    The Sagem receiver was developed for the now cancelled Sky Picnic pay-tv service on UK DTT which planned to use MPEG-4 encoding following Ofcom approval.

    Fair enough. I didn't know that. I imagine they'll be popular here in the North West of England from next month.


  • #9
    STB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,178 ✭✭✭STB


    Richard wrote: »
    Fair enough. I didn't know that. I imagine they'll be popular here in the North West of England from next month.

    They will be of little use in the UK Richard as they are DVB-T boxes. Whilst the UK will be using MPEG4 encoding, it will be on the DVB-T2 platform.


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