Magnet Tv

whomitconcerns

Hi All,

The apartment I am moving into has Magnet installed. I have looked at their website and its not great for info. Basically I am wondering if firstly they are any good? Secondly do they have HD? Thirdly, just general feedback...its very hard even on boards to find anything recent on their BB or tv?

Thanks!!

zg3409

Assuming you are on magnet with Fibre yes it can be very good.

The broadband can be very fast if you pay.

The TV service offers recording and series linking. Not quite as good as a Sky+ box but better than current UPC box.

They usually offer phone in a bundle. I have heard of someone haggling their bill down from 80 per month to 50 per month (after they are out of the years contract.) so there may be room for negotiation in year two.

Here is the TV box user guide:
https://www.magnet.ie/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Full_TV_User_Guide2.pdf

The bundles do add up however. People rarely use their landline much these days. All of the main TV channels are available for free these days.

If you have a good job and can afford the extra dosh then they seem to be quite good. I am not sure on what HD they offer. I could try find out tomorrow from a user.

whomitconcerns

Thanks for the response! i finally got info from them. They have BBC HD and RTE 2 HD and thats it...with no plans for any others....thats pretty poor from a company touting itself as at the forefront!

Also found out that it has the fibre bb in the house and they have the 60mb option...so it should be plenty fast..make a nice change from teh vodafone I used to have. 65 yoyos for bb, phone and tv and the + box you mention..so will run with it as is.

djimi

Check out UPC before you commit to anything; I suspect you may get more for your money in terms of HD channels and what not.

whomitconcerns

so basically i had no choice other than magnet. So I got the Magnet in. BB is super fast.

The TV is crap...menu and features are terrible and change channel is very slow.....live pause blanks the screen, recording is not very user friendly....not very impressed so far

vibe666

I'm in the same boat (i.e. magnet FTTH, great broadband, but crap TV) and i'm wondering if it would be possible to use a TV card in a PC instead of the magnet box so I can use windows media centre or something like that to record TV?

whomitconcerns

http://www.ehow.com/how_12150315_tv-off-motorola-pvr.html

shows how to record off of the output ports..well seems to say that its possible anyway...but I cant see how you could read the streams on a PC directly

vibe666

i was more thinking of using a TV card directly without the motorola PVR at all if that's possible.

failing that i imagine that ditching the magnet TV entirely and making do with whatever is available on saorview would be my only option, although i'm not sure how strong the saorview tv signal will be in clonee with no external antenna.

whomitconcerns

yeh i have been looking into that also, as I have a media pc hooked up also, but havent found anything yet. but its probably not allowed anyway in the T&Cs as it would be open to piracy, etc then.

vibe666

i currently have my motorola tv box feeding the tv into a htpc anyway so it wouldn't be any different except for not needing the motorola box at all.

EDIT: I just cancelled the TV altogether, it's fecking woeful and I'm sue I can get everything TV related that I need either via saorview or online without using their TV service at all.