Televes 7118 Set Top Box

danjo-xx

Neighbour just popped in with photo copied doc's of this yoke that Extravision are promoting. Made in Spain.

Never heard of the make myself but as STB's go is this any good or even worth considering leaving aside HD which I'm not interested in. Prefer a well known brand name myself.

Televes 7118 : Specks

watty

Televes *IS* a well known, well established brand. Maybe not in "High street" Ireland though. But I wouldn't buy this box anyway.

However it's a very basic box that doesn't have Freesat EPG / Auto tuning. Should be about €30 to €40 without a dish and LNB.

I'd recommend a Freesat certified box if it's for UK channels and something else if it's for Feeds, Motorised etc.

Manual http://www.televes.com/inting/producto/catalogos/dth_receivers.pdf

It's about €50 to €80 online ex postage which seems expensive for what it is.

€45 in Power City.

Doubtful if any better than the Philex B&Q did with €66 including all fittings, Dish and LNB, which works fine.

The Cush

Televes are a well known maunfacturer of TV receiving equipment, aerials etc.

That xtra-vision unit is a standard SD FTA receiver and OK for €60 (without dish).

watty

http://www.powercity.ie/?par=10-23&brands=TELEVES

TELEVES FREE TO AIR SATELLITE
TV7118

ONLINE Price : € 44.96
Free nationwide delivery.

But unless you are very cash strapped get at least a Freesat branded box, and ideally a DVB-S2 HD Freesat box even if you have no HDTV.

This €81 system (dish , LNB, philex setbox and fittings) is what B&Q did have for €66. I don't think they have them right now
http://www.powercity.ie/?brands=PHILEX&pages=1&par=10-23

PHILEX 60CM FREE-TO-AIR SATELLITE KIT
COMPLETE KIT WITH ALL YOU NEED
TO RECIEVE FREE-TO-AIR DIGITAL
SATELLITE TV & RADIO

(powercity can't spell)

Fixed post code Freesat
http://www.powercity.ie/?brands=GRUNDIG&pages=1&par=10-23

GRUNDIG SD SATELLITE RECEIVER
GUFSAT02SD
ONLINE Price : € 62.96
SAT4FREE SD SATELLITE RECEIVER
EASY TO USE SAT4FREE MENU SYSTEM

Grundig don't exist anymore. Not sure who makes it or price.

I'd not really limit to Xtravision.

See the Satellite suppliers sticky too http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=155714

steveon

The Televes box sold in Xtravision are made by Comag a well known german manfacturer, who also make the same boxes, although different case for Lidl. They are cheaply made and shouldnt be sold here in my opinion as they dont come fitted with a UK/Ireland plug as they come with a 2 pin European moulded plug instead.

watty

It's illegal to supply retail with two pin plug. Seeing as there are screw on 3 pin adaptors, that make it just as if the flex had a 3 pin, there is no excuse.

The Comag's are AFAIK (could be wrong) Chinese made. Not made in Germany.

St Senan

Televes http://www.ciao.co.uk/Televes_7118__7525491

Triax http://www.triax.co.uk/upload/sr110_instruction_leaflet.pdf

Lidl/Aldi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvercrest_SL65

These 3 are same receiver the only differance is that Triax have a more robust remote control The menus are the same for the 3 receivers

steveon

Forgot about the Triax version...best of the lot...remote is a heavy one mind...but the buttons get stuck easily.

mixed up

Hi i have just got a televes 7118 set top box i have sky in the house but didn't want to have to pay for multiroom.I was just wondering if i can connect the televes box to the sky dish or will i have to put up the dish i got with the televes box set.

danjo-xx

watty wrote: »

However it's a very basic box that doesn't have Freesat EPG / Auto tuning.

Do you mean that you have to manually tune in all 200 or whatever... stations?

From link above re power city..

Technical Specifications
TELEVES SATELLITE RECEIVER
FREE-TO-AIR DIGITAL SATELLITE
FULLY DVB SATELLITE COMPLIANT
ELECTRONIC PROGRAMMING GUIDE
TV & RADIO WITH
NO SUBSCRIPTION OR MONTHLY BILLS
PERFECT FOR ASTRA 28.2
ALL THE BBC AND ITV CHANNELS
HI-FI STEREO SOUND
ON SCREEN DISPLAY
SIGNAL LEVEL & QUALITY INDICATOR
INFRA RED REMOTE CONTROL

carbsy

mixed up wrote: »

Hi i have just got a televes 7118 set top box i have sky in the house but didn't want to have to pay for multiroom.I was just wondering if i can connect the televes box to the sky dish or will i have to put up the dish i got with the televes box set.

You can connect the Televes to your existing sky dish assuming your LNB has more than one output.Have a look where the LNB is on your sky dish and check if there is another connection right next to where the existing cable is connected to.

If not you have 2 options.One is to replace the existing LNB with a dual (2 outputs) or quad (4 outputs) version and then connecting your Televes to this.The other option is as you have already stated, to put up another dish.

carbsy

danjo-xx wrote: »

Do you mean that you have to manually tune in all 200 or whatever... stations?

From link above re power city..

That EPG will just show now and next, i.e. what is on now and what is on next.The Freesat EPG shows 7 days iirc.

watty

danjo-xx wrote: »

Do you mean that you have to manually tune in all 200 or whatever... stations?

From link above re power city..

not all individually...

You have to do a network scan 1st. Then it adds them all.
If you lose a station you have to initiate a rescan and re-delete the junk.
Occasionally you have to add a transponder manually via parameters from www.lyngsat.com

It's only got now next.

A Freesat or "sat4free" branded box:

• No need to add transponders
• No need to manually re-scan, automatically retunes.
• Interactive red button services for BBC work
• 1 week detail program guide
• Digital Satellite text (not just Teletext).

The basic FTA generic boxes do none of this. BBC does no regular teletext for cheaper sat box.

I don't recommend these cheaper boxes unless you are broke.

danjo-xx

watty wrote: »

not all individually...

You have to do a network scan 1st. Then it adds them all.
If you lose a station you have to initiate a rescan and re-delete the junk.
Occasionally you have to add a transponder manually via parameters from www.lyngsat.com

It's only got now next.

A Freesat or "sat4free" branded box:

• No need to add transponders
• No need to manually re-scan, automatically retunes.
• Interactive red button services for BBC work
• 1 week detail program guide
• Digital Satellite text (not just Teletext).

The basic FTA generic boxes do none of this. BBC does no regular teletext for cheaper sat box.

I don't recommend these cheaper boxes unless you are broke.

Thanks a million for that advice *thumbs up* hard to get my head around all this when past my sell by date:D

Antenna

I haven't used this Televes 7118 receiver, but its inclusion of a UHF modulator would be useful to a lot of people (send to other TVs around the house).

Can someone confirm the modulator is compatible with the sound (6MHz) of our TV system (i.e. PAL-I) ?

The specs here say nothing about the modulator of this receiver, just that it has one:
http://www.televes.com/inting/producto/catalogos/dth_receivers.pdf


Also the specs say the receiver has no teletext. Is teletext passed on to the TV's own teletext decoder as normal? (try Channel 4 which has teletext or P888 subtitles on BBCs ITVs)

irishcsifan

Hi Guys.

Does anyone know how to unblock the password on this set top box. The guy who installed password protected the installation section and forgot the password. Is there anyway to unblock it.

kbell

Did you try 0000 ?

Why_So_Serious?

danjo-xx wrote: »

Neighbour just popped in with photo copied doc's of this yoke that Extravision are promoting. Made in Spain.

Never heard of the make myself but as STB's go is this any good or even worth considering leaving aside HD which I'm not interested in. Prefer a well known brand name myself.

Televes 7118 : Specks

does any1 know wat exact channels you get with this box?? is it just all the bbc's and itv's or is there others??

The Cush

Why_So_Serious? wrote: »

does any1 know wat exact channels you get with this box?? is it just all the bbc's and itv's or is there others??

With a dish pointing to 28°E (i.e. Sky dish) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_free-to-air_channels_at_28%C2%B0E