Bargain Alert: New Ferguson HD DTT/Sat Combo Box - €63 before postage

STB

Ferguson Ariva 120 Combo

Brand new from Ferguson, the Ariva 120 Combo available now from all the polish sites... lowest i have seen is 275zl which is €70 (before postage).

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SPECIFICATION
STB Type: DVBS/S2/T Combo Receiver
Main Chipset: ALI 3602B
CPU frequency: 333MHz
Flash Memory: 1PC 32Mbit/4Mbyte
SDRAM Memory: 2PCS 32MX16bit/64Mbyte DDRs
Active Ant Power 5VDC @ 50mA MAX,Overload Protection

Plays MKVs, USB Record, Timeshift, Web Radio. User Manual

Over to you Tony.....

Gerry Wicklow

Makes €70 for a bare-bones Aldi box look a bit lame and €200+ for a dodgy Triax way OTT.

STB

It doesnt have MHEG5 for text/interactive features nor is it certified by Saorview.

Will it work.... Yes, I dont see why not.

Biffo The Bare

That is a carbon copy of the Yamada box I bought in Maplins for €55. Which gets all of the Saorview channels including RTE2 in HD.

darth_maul

Biffo The Bare wrote: »

That is a carbon copy of the Yamada box I bought in Maplins for €55. Which gets all of the Saorview channels including RTE2 in HD.

but its not a combo dtt/sat reciever

liamtech

STB wrote: »

Ferguson Ariva 120 Combo

Brand new from Ferguson, the Ariva 120 Combo available now from all the polish sites... lowest i have seen is 275zl which is €70 (before postage).

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Remote



SPECIFICATION
STB Type: DVBS/S2/T Combo Receiver
Main Chipset: ALI 3602B
CPU frequency: 333MHz
Flash Memory: 1PC 32Mbit/4Mbyte
SDRAM Memory: 2PCS 32MX16bit/64Mbyte DDRs
Active Ant Power 5VDC @ 50mA MAX,Overload Protection

Plays MKVs, USB Record, Timeshift, Web Radio. User Manual

Over to you Tony.....

To be honest this looks absolutely brilliant - for that price i have only a few question's? WHERE CAN I GET ONE!!!;)

Can some one throw up a link to one of the sites that is in english - ive been looking at it and id say this will be MASSIVELY popular as a no bells and whistles Combi Box for Ireland! AND FOR 70EURO.. id imagine 90 odd with postage - SERIOUSLY WHERE CAN I GET ONE!!!!!

STB

Satsklep.pl is the only english one - they charge 54zl for UPS delivery (€13), but they dont have the 120s at the moment - they only have the Ariva HD 200 Combo which is €100.

Use a translator.

Other reputable site - 263zl (even cheaper).

http://www.dmtrade.pl/index.php?p1368,ferguson-ariva-120-combo&utm_source=radar.pl&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=2011-05&utm_content=57238653

http://www.ceneo.pl/;004+sAriva~~MHD~~M120~~MCombo

comet

wow! thanks for the post STB.
This looks to be exactly what I've been waiting for over the last few months, a combo box at a decent price.

STB

Hmmm... actually as low as 249zl which is €63 before postage. Quite insane.

http://www.sklep.awhandel.pl/go/_info/?id=268&partner_id=97979797&code=8ffdeac4ac8e545137b0adeb5d275c24

Best of luck with the polish.

Tockman

Use google chrome browser. it translates websites extremely well.
Above website wont ship to ireland

dmtrade total including delivery to ireland is €100.50
dosn't look ceneo will delivery either

STB

I suggest people wait til Satsklep get them in which is €83 all in.

Otherwise pay the €100 all in, its still €50 cheaper than retailers over here for the cheapest combo box.

Unless Tony @ satellite.ie gets them in.

Tony

I'll be getting them in ok , ferguson will be shipping from Friday they tell me although these dates always slip . I wont be doing it at the satskep price though unfortunately as I dont think its sustainable from a support point of view as we would be selling at very near cost price .

If you want to use HD you will also need a HDMI cable which is not supplied wth the box.

The boards user discount will apply though (hope the mod here does not mind me mentioning that , i'll delete otherwise)


They should be fine though so I dont think there would be any problems ordering from Poland . The 120 is a 100E with terrestrial added and I know that works with a network connection so there maybe third party firmware released to use a sky card etc.

Just bear in mind though that this does not have mheg 5 so RTE digital text will not work nor will any future interactive service.

satman18

is it possible to buy combo boxes suitable for ireland in say france/spain. what price, would any one know

jamescc

looks good here is a translation:

Manufacturer: Ferguson
Combo tuner, allowing satellite and digital TV programs with DVB-T MPEG-4
Superior image quality in both high-resolution HD and standard SD card. Ariva 120 Combo is a home entertainment center via USB with the possibility of recording, timeshift and support for MP3, OGG, FLAC, JPEG, MPEG, MKV.
Although the receiver two-head (so-called combo) is the current consumption in standby mode does not exceed 1W.
The card reader hidden under a flap on the front panel allows you to watch pay TV in High Definition (refers to deals in which the card can be purchased on the same code) . Ariva 120 Combo is the most comprehensive source of digital terrestrial and satellite HD.
Specifications:
Reception of channels of high definition (HD)
Support for Dolby Digital Plus (EAC3)
PAL upscaling to 720p or 1080i
Supports 32 programmable timers
Separate lists of favorite channels, TV and Radio
Quick search channels (QuickFind)
Supports teletext and subtitles
DiSEqC 1.0, 1.1, Unicable and DiSEqC 1.2, USALS
Support for MPEG-2, MPEG-4, MPEG-4 AVC/H.264
Input, Output
HDMI with HDCP
LAN (RJ45), USB 2.0, RS-232
2x RCA (Cinch), Analogue Audio
Optical digital audio output
1 x SCART

Pilot
Ariva 120 Combo comes with an extremely convenient and intuitive remote control symbol RCU-500. The pilot can easily operate all the functions of the receiver.
Processor
Ariva 120 Combo is built based on the advanced main unit (CPU), a renowned manufacturer ALi. M3602B-performance processor (333MHz), working with DDR memory provides the highest available sound quality DolbyDigitalPlus and digital video in High Definition.

Bozacke

Now that it's translated to English can someone translate to laymens terms?

It appears you can record programs from Sat & DTT to an external hard drive, but am I correct in assuming it's not a true PVR - can you pause re-wind live TV or watch while recording in time-shift mode?

Does this box only have a single Sat and a single DTT tuner, in other words can you watch one Sat channel and record another or watch one DTT channel and record another, if not can you at least watch one Sat/DTT channel and record a DTT/Sat channel?

JCB1

Tony, any idea on what price you will be selling at (including the boards discount) ?

Dymo

Is there a PVR included in that box? Or can I record to an external HD.

Tony

JCB1 wrote: »

Tony, any idea on what price you will be selling at (including the boards discount) ?

Let me check its ok to post this with a mod and i'll get back to you.

Edit: We'll be doing a special boards user only voucher which will price the box at 99 euro including vat . We only use VAT inclusive prices on our site (as per the law of the land) unlike some of our competitors.

With thanks to marclt for allowing this to be posted

Tony

Dymo wrote: »

Is there a PVR included in that box? Or can I record to an external HD.

it would be the deal of the century if it had pvr included. You can use an external hard drive in exactly the same way as the ariva 200

liamtech

Looks like a great no bells/whistles box for the irish market - seriously considering it for a second TV and for my mothers house -

Id say it will be massive in Ireland - think about it -

Sky Dish 40 odd quid
Basic UHF Aerial + mount 40 odd
Cable 20odd
and this box for a hundred odd

Thats 200 odd for a complete FTA system in ireland (DIY obviously!)

Should be popular in these recessionary times - If only ferguson would do a MHEG5 box

marclt

How does the box deal with changes in channel frequency... you get it quite abit on satellite that channels will move. Many people end up losing the channels and find doing a search too complicated.

Tony

liamtech wrote: »

- If only ferguson would do a MHEG5 box

I've been asking them for years, the answer I got was "nobody uses that". Unfortunately ferguson are not very pro active with what we tell them is good for the market . I also asked them to put the USB socket on the back but alas that request was met with silence.

Tony

Channel frequency changes are very rare on terrestrial but satellite would need to re tuned. There is the option of a USB channel update but that will not suit everyone.

marclt wrote: »

How does the box deal with changes in channel frequency... you get it quite abit on satellite that channels will move. Many people end up losing the channels and find doing a search too complicated.

TJM

How does it differ from the Ariva 200 combo box?

marathont

If it did have MHEG5 (or any other combo box) would it be able to use BBC sport Multiscreen etc ? or just Text. Also I presume that no FTA boxes can access SKY News Red button service ?

STB

marathont wrote: »

If it did have MHEG5 (or any other combo box) would it be able to use BBC sport Multiscreen etc ? or just Text. Also I presume that no FTA boxes can access SKY News Red button service ?

You dont need MHEG5 to access the BBC sports multiscreens, they are broadcast in the open as seperate channels. You can just add them to the channel list or have a seperate one for them in the favourites menu.

Yes they are 2 single tuners. These are PVR enabled which means you can record to them. But they play AVI and MKVs straight off from that USB port too which means you can have your recordings and your movies on the one USB drive operated by the one remote control of the box.

Most peoples channels lists are the same.....nothing to stop having a regular updated channel list that can be simply uploaded via USB.

It is good to see them coming down this far. Triax will have to rethink their price point. I think we all have a fair idea of the unit costs are.

foxirl

Tony wrote: »

Let me check its ok to post this with a mod and i'll get back to you.

Edit: We'll be doing a special boards user only voucher which will price the box at 99 euro including vat . We only use VAT inclusive prices on our site (as per the law of the land) unlike some of our competitors.

With thanks to marclt for allowing this to be posted

Good stuff. Whats the difference between this and the ariva 200

Trevord

marathont wrote: »

If it did have MHEG5 (or any other combo box) would it be able to use BBC sport Multiscreen etc ? or just Text. Also I presume that no FTA boxes can access SKY News Red button service ?

I wouldn't worry about MHEG5 for freesat multiscreen. You can store the multiscreen channels as individual channels on these FTA boxes. MHEG5 might be more important alright if you want whatever Saorview will offer using it.

I think that nothing but a sky box with do the sky red button.

Tony

foxirl wrote: »

Good stuff. Whats the difference between this and the ariva 200

They both do the same thing. I've not studied the specs in detail

liamtech

Tony wrote: »

They both do the same thing. I've not studied the specs in detail

Your right though its a pity the USB port is at the front - i prefer having my USB HDD plugged in the back

tvercetti

could someone give me a rough idea of what channels I would expect to pick up with this box, provided i had a UHF aerial and sky dish, (is the sky dish a necessity?), thanks

Bozacke

Hi Tony,

I understand this box doesn't have it's own hard drive, but it can record to an external hard drive.

Can you confirm if you can you pause re-wind live TV or watch while recording in time-shift mode?

Also how many tuners does it have? Does this box only have a single Sat and a single DTT tuner, in other words can you watch one Sat channel and record another or watch one DTT channel and record another, if not can you at least watch one Sat/DTT channel and record a DTT/Sat channel?

Trevord

tvercetti wrote: »

could someone give me a rough idea of what channels I would expect to pick up with this box, provided i had a UHF aerial and sky dish, (is the sky dish a necessity?), thanks

Currently you'd get 8 Irish channels

plus these http://www.freesat.co.uk/what-you-get/our-channels

plus Sky News and a few additional music channels

plus some other UK ethnic channels

(In short you won't get any channel with the word "Sky" in in other than SKy News)


Yes you need a dish

Tockman

tvercetti wrote: »

could someone give me a rough idea of what channels I would expect to pick up with this box, provided i had a UHF aerial and sky dish, (is the sky dish a necessity?), thanks

You should be able to pick up all the saorview channels with your aerial. rte1,rte2,tv3,3e,rtenews,rtejr, rte+1 and tg4.

You'll also be able to tune in all these channels (have a look here) http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055520627

With your sky dish.

STB

tvercetti wrote: »

could someone give me a rough idea of what channels I would expect to pick up with this box, provided i had a UHF aerial and sky dish, (is the sky dish a necessity?), thanks

A Sky dish (or any 60cm satellite dish) will work - you do not pay sky - these are all free channels. you just buy the box and connect to your existing dish. Its all perfectly LEGAL I must add too.

Typical list (all are free)
1 RTÉ 1
2 RTE 2 HD
3 TV 3
4 TG 4
5 3e
6 RTE News Now
7 RTE+1
5 BBC 1 HD
6 BBC 2 NI
7 BBC HD
8 UTV
9 ITV1 HD
10 Channel 4 HD
11 Channel 4 +1
12 FIVE
13 E4
14 E4+1
15 More4
16 More4 +1
17 BBC Three
18 BBC Four
19 ITV2
20 ITV2+1
21 ITV3
22 ITV3+1
23 ITV4
24 ITV4+1
25 Film4
26 Film4 +1
28 BBC NEWS
29 Sky News Ireland
30 CNN
31 CNBC
32 Bloomberg
33 Euronews
34 CBBC Channel
35 CBeebies
36 CITV
37 POP
38 Tiny Pop
39 Tiny Pop +1
40 Kix!
41 PopGirl
42 PopGirl +1
43 jazeerachildren
44 CBS Action
45 CBS Drama
46 CBS Reality+1
47 Zone Horror
48 Zone Horror+1
49 Film24
50 True Movies
51 True Movies 2
52 movies4men
53 mov4men+1
54 movies4men 2
55 mov4men2 +1
56 BBC ALBA
57 BBC PARL'MNT
58 S4C
59 S4C2
60 Luxe TV HD
61 Fitness TV
62 Men & Motors
63 Horse & Country
64 Fashion TV
65 wedding tv
66 BET
67 BET +1
68 Food Network
69 Food Netwrk+1
70 Rural TV
71 Controversial tv
72 Sumo TV
73 The Vault
74 Chart Show TV
75 NME TV
76 Flava
77 Bliss
78 Scuzz
79 Flaunt
80 ROCKWORLDTV
81 Clubland TV
82 oMusic TV
83 BBC STREAM-0
84 BBC STREAM-1
85 BBC STREAM-2
86 BBC STREAM-3
87 BBC STREAM-4
88 BBC STREAM-5
89 BBC STREAM-6
90 T7 STRM-0
91 T7 STRM-1
92 Al Jazeera Eng
93 France 24
94 Russia Today
95 PTV Prime
96 Abu Dhabi TV
97 PCNE Chinese
98 QVC
99 Thane Direct
100 Travel Channel
101 Travel Ch +1

liamtech

tvercetti wrote: »

could someone give me a rough idea of what channels I would expect to pick up with this box, provided i had a UHF aerial and sky dish, (is the sky dish a necessity?), thanks

Damn! Pipped at the post by STB - Il get you next time!!!

DOnt forget Sky News, CCTV, Press TV, WTF, StarzTV and Dance Nation - and the many more i cant remember!

Gotta say its a pretty good channel line-up for 0Euro a month![/B]:D;):D;):D

O'Prez

I don't suppose it comes with a 7 day EPG for both the terrestrial AND satellite channels...does it?

Zardoz

O'Prez wrote: »

I don't suppose it comes with a 7 day EPG for both the terrestrial AND satellite channels...does it?

Only 7 Day EPG for terrestrial I'd imagine.

reaper180

great price for a combo box considering i paid 170 for mine,,@tony would you preprogram the box or would you give us a channel list to transfer onto box

O'Prez

Zardoz wrote: »

Only 7 Day EPG for terrestrial I'd imagine.

Fanny

Tony

reaper180 wrote: »

great price for a combo box considering i paid 170 for mine,,@tony would you preprogram the box or would you give us a channel list to transfer onto box

I'm sure we could put up a channel list but usually someone here beats me to it :-) Bear in mind that the the terrestrial freqs vary by area so I usually do a satellite list only.

Tony

I cannot confirm anything as we do not have the box yet. Tuner wise exatly the same as the 200

Bozacke wrote: »

Hi Tony,

I understand this box doesn't have it's own hard drive, but it can record to an external hard drive.

Can you confirm if you can you pause re-wind live TV or watch while recording in time-shift mode?

Also how many tuners does it have? Does this box only have a single Sat and a single DTT tuner, in other words can you watch one Sat channel and record another or watch one DTT channel and record another, if not can you at least watch one Sat/DTT channel and record a DTT/Sat channel?

O'Prez

Tony will you post up whether or not the EPG will be 7 days on both inputs when you have it in stock? This box looks very sexy indeed.

liamtech

O'Prez wrote: »

Tony will you post up whether or not the EPG will be 7 days on both inputs when you have it in stock? This box looks very sexy indeed.

I can pretty much guarantee it will not have 7 Day EPG for the satellite, as it is not a Freesat Box- With one or two exceptions Freesat Boxes are the only ones with 7Day EPG for satellite stations - I would obviously be DELIGHTED to be wrong about this

That being said this is a very tempting box - i will more than likely grab one just to have, and maybe another for my mothers house -

Sponge Bob

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O'Prez

liamtech wrote: »

I can pretty much guarantee it will not have 7 Day EPG for the satellite, as it is not a Freesat Box- With one or two exceptions Freesat Boxes are the only ones with 7Day EPG for satellite stations - I would obviously be DELIGHTED to be wrong about this

That being said this is a very tempting box - i will more than likely grab one just to have, and maybe another for my mothers house -

I bought the Triax TR 112 last week and it's a buggy little sh*t. Audio sync problems...auto installation doesn't work etc. I think I'll sacrifice the 7 day EPG and go with one of these too when my Sky subscription is up at the end of next month. The Triax just might be re-packaged up and given as a *ahem* birthday present to a family member. What a guy!

cgc5483

O'Prez wrote: »

I bought the Triax TR 112 last week and it's a buggy little sh*t. Audio sync problems...auto installation doesn't work etc. I think I'll sacrifice the 7 day EPG and go with one of these too when my Sky subscription is up at the end of next month. The Triax just might be re-packaged up and given as a *ahem* birthday present to a family member. What a guy!

You'll still have the 7 day EPG on the Saorview channels with the new Fergusson Box.

The €99 is a great deal. Will get one for my father. Was nearly going to get a new TV for him as he has a 7 year old 32" CRT that i couldn't justify paying €100 for a saorview box but he hates someone wasting money on something when the old one still works. Just installed Satellite in house for him so this looks like a great option.

Tony

O'Prez wrote: »

Tony will you post up whether or not the EPG will be 7 days on both inputs when you have it in stock? This box looks very sexy indeed.

Sure will

Tony

liamtech wrote: »

I can pretty much guarantee it will not have 7 Day EPG for the satellite,

I'd agree with that unless someone writes firmware for an internet based EPG

Tony

No totally unrelated, I was not aware of this . It will be 99 + delivery

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Can you??