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Set top Receiver question

  • 17-09-2012 9:43am
    #1
    peterjmaxwell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 100 ✭✭


    Hey guys,

    First time posting in this forum, just looking for a quick bit of advice re: the digital switchover.

    Girl in work here asked me about this and I don't know too much about it. She lives in Wexford and currently has a Grundig GUD 1500xi receiver (http://www.grundig.co.uk/GUD1500XI.html) and has a regular antenna for receiving her terrestrial stations. So she's been advised to get a Triax st-hd 537 as it'll do both freeview and saorview.

    My question is will the Triax work for both? From what i can see the Triax is a satellite receiver so will receive Freesat but she doesn't have a dish.

    Are there any better set top boxes that she can view freeview and saorview on?

    Thank you very much for reading!


Comments

  • #2
    Peter Rhea
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,285 ✭✭✭Peter Rhea


    If she has reliable UK terrestrial reception, there's no need for satellite.

    Any Saorview receiver will also work with the standard definition Freeview channels. I'm assuming she does not have a HD tv, so no point going for Freeview HD.


  • #3
    The Cush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,845 ✭✭✭✭The Cush


    peterjmaxwell wrote: »
    So she's been advised to get a Triax st-hd 537 as it'll do both freeview and saorview.

    Wouldn't go for the 537 - http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056168690

    The newer Walker WP645TS-HD or Triax TSC114 maybe.


  • #4
    peterjmaxwell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 100 ✭✭peterjmaxwell


    So I'm guessing she doesn't need a satelitte compatible receiver. any idea if she'll need to connect two seperate aerials for freeview and saorview or should one do both?


  • #5
    Peter Rhea
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,285 ✭✭✭Peter Rhea


    She should know from experience with the Grundig box, if the Freeview signal is reliable enough for any kind of enjoyable viewing (ignoring the Freeview programmes carried on UHF ch. 45, which currently clashes with Mt. Leinster Saorview: to be resolved with a change at Mt. L. after switchover).

    There may already be a suitable aerial system in place, although reliable Saorview reception from the Mt. Leinster transmitter can't be guaranteed until the channel change after switchover.


  • #6
    STB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,178 ✭✭✭STB


    peterjmaxwell wrote: »
    So I'm guessing she doesn't need a satelitte compatible receiver. any idea if she'll need to connect two seperate aerials for freeview and saorview or should one do both?

    Whoever put her onto that Triax combo must be trying to shift them themselves. Bad steer.

    If she is getting Freeview stations now off that MPEG2 box then all she needs to do is update the box (to an MPEG4 one) so that it also picks up the Saorview stations. That means replacing that box with a "Freeview HD" that does all, i.e. the Freeview stations (Mpeg2 DVB-T), the Saorview Stations (MPEG4 DVB-T) and the Freeview HD stations (MPEG4 DVB-T2).

    Here is a box that is cheap and is doing both off aerial.
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056755177

    Depending on the aerial she has she may not have to do anything with the aerial. But she will not know whether or not the aerial needs to changed until after October 24th as Mt Leinster which is the local Saorview transmitter is moving frequency to Ch23 (from Ch45) which could be an issue if she has a grouped aerial.

    Regardless get the box first (as the one she has will never do Saorview anyhow), the aerial can be sorted out next month, if its grouped to pull in a certain frequency range.


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