Digital USB 2.0 DVB-T HDTV TV Tuner Recorder & Receiver

freeze4real · 03-12-2010 06:08PM

What's media portal?

Does you need extra gadgets to run this in your pc.

ninja 12 · 03-12-2010 07:39PM

freeze4real wrote: »

What's media portal?

Does you need extra gadgets to run this in your pc.

MediaPortal is a free program , used for playing music , movies , photos and for watching / recording tv .

When I boot my media pc in the living room , MediaPortal automatically loads , and I use a remote control to select what I want to watch instead of a keyboard or mouse , this makes it feel more like a piece of av equipment and less like a pc .

http://www.team-mediaportal.com/

Hope this helps .

freeze4real · 03-12-2010 07:44PM

ninja 12 wrote: »

MediaPortal is a free program , used for playing music , movies , photos and for watching / recording tv .

When I boot my media pc in the living room , MediaPortal automatically loads , and I use a remote control to select what I want to watch instead of a keyboard or mouse , this makes it feel more like a piece of av equipment and less like a pc .

http://www.team-mediaportal.com/

Hope this helps .

Does it get other Stations apart from rte rte2 tv3 and tg4.

ninja 12 · 03-12-2010 07:50PM

freeze4real wrote: »

Does it get other Stations apart from rte rte2 tv3 and tg4.

I have all of the freesat channels as well , but I have a satellite card in my htpc , as well as the usb DVB-T dongle .

What channels you get depends on what hardware you put in to it .

freeze4real · 03-12-2010 07:56PM

ninja 12 wrote: »

I have all of the freesat channels as well , but I have a satellite card in my htpc , as well as the usb DVB-T dongle .

What channels you get depends on what hardware you put in to it .

I only have the dvb-t dongle. And I'm getting four stations only. How much does the satellite card cost.

ninja 12 · 03-12-2010 08:14PM

freeze4real wrote: »

I only have the dvb-t dongle. And I'm getting four stations only. How much does the satellite card cost.

The card I have was about €30 + shipping from England . It's DVB-S , newer/ better cards are DVB-S2 .

Re. your 4 stations , using my dongle , I have RTE 1 , RTE 2, TV3 , 3E ,RTE News , TG4 and RTENL test channel .

ninja 12 · 03-12-2010 08:16PM

Original poster / Mods ,

Apologies for dragging the thread off topic a bit

CreepingDeath · 03-12-2010 09:09PM

Got mine and it works

( I got a DVB-T card )

Ordered 23/11/10 and arrived today, from ebay seller herofengstore2009.

Link of seller and items

I tried it at work in the city centre and got no channels in the scan.
I brought it home to Lucan and retried the scan... no channels.

Then I read about the orientation of different aerials, so I put the little mini aerial horizontally and retried the scan.
It picked up 17 channels, 6 video and the rest audio.

Video
RTE One
RTE Two
TV3
TG4
RTE News
3e
Then a test transmission screen of RTENL and the following audio channels

Audio
RTE Radio 1
RTE 2FM
RTE Lyric FM
RTE Radio na Gaeltachta
RTE Radio 1 Extra
RTE Pulse
RTE 2XM
RTE Choice
RTE Gold
RTE Chill / RTE Junior

Thanks OP for the bargain alert, definitely a great little gadget for the price of a mouse !

pissed · 06-12-2010 04:46PM

Not having much luck ordering one of these. Originally ordered from the link in the first post then the guy disappears. Got refund from paypal. Ordered from ellieshang and paid for on the 20th nov and still no sign of it....

.

Anyone who ordered and received from ellieshang how long did it take to arrive?

Newtown90 · 06-12-2010 04:58PM

pissed wrote: »

Not having much luck ordering one of these. Originally ordered from the link in the first post then the guy disappears. Got refund from paypal. Ordered from ellieshang and paid for on the 20th nov and still no sign of it.... .

Anyone who ordered and received from ellieshang how long did it take to arrive?

Ellieshang takes bout three weeks!!...

But it does come!! hahah

Soarer · 06-12-2010 05:22PM

Got mine from Ellieshang today!:D

So as I don't have to go back through 25 pages of carp, can anyone tell me what programs/software I need to install to get things running smoothly?

I'm running Vista with Media Centre.

Newtown90 · 06-12-2010 05:31PM

Soarer wrote: »

Got mine from Ellieshang today!:D

So as I don't have to go back through 25 pages of carp, can anyone tell me what programs/software I need to install to get things running smoothly?

I'm running Vista with Media Centre.

Programs i've tested it with:

Blaze, VLC, MediaPortal, Windows Media Centre...

eden_my_ass · 06-12-2010 05:35PM

xp90 wrote: »

Excellent for watching the Saorview service at $9/€6.48

http://cgi.ebay.ie/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320498773576&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT#ht_5602wt_905

Can the original link be removed, this seller has vanished, I've just gotten a paypal refund to prove it after raising a claim against them (wouldn't answer emails), and from reading above it seems others have too, but as long as the link remains there more people will be caught out....hopefully this ellieshang is a bit better, certainly more communicative

Soarer · 06-12-2010 05:37PM

Glenviewjf wrote: »

Programs i've tested it with:

Blaze, VLC, MediaPortal, Windows Media Centre...

Thank you kindly good sir.

I'll grab Mediaportal and give both it and Media Centre a try.

fdevine · 06-12-2010 05:41PM

eden_my_ass wrote: »

Can the original link be removed, this seller has vanished, I've just gotten a paypal refund to prove it after raising a claim against them (wouldn't answer emails), and from reading above it seems others have too, but as long as the link remains there more people will be caught out....hopefully this ellieshang is a bit better, certainly more communicative

No issues here with ellieshang - delivery was very quick

eden_my_ass · 06-12-2010 05:45PM

fdevine wrote: »

No issues here with ellieshang - delivery was very quick

So it seems, its the original seller link that has turned into a bit of a fly by night!

coolmoose · 07-12-2010 03:36PM

I just got mine, ordered from zhubaochao2010 on the 24th Nov for €11 including shipping.

http://cgi.ebay.ie/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180537402607&ssPageName=ADME:B:EOIBSA:IE:1123

Arrived this morning, very well packaged. It's working perfectly, picked up all the Irish channels and the DAB stations, integrated with WMC 7 flawlessly, the included BlazeDTV software is actually quite good. Very impressed with the item, and seems like a good seller, 99.3% 440 feedback.

johnny_adidas · 07-12-2010 03:59PM

received mine from ellieshang but it doesnt pick up any channels unfortunately (no lights on the stick either).

got a second one as an xmas pressi so hopefully it will work for them being nearer the big smoke

Newtown90 · 07-12-2010 04:28PM

johnny_adidas wrote: »

received mine from ellieshang but it doesnt pick up any channels unfortunately (no lights on the stick either).

got a second one as an xmas pressi so hopefully it will work for them being nearer the big smoke

Sure you can always try connect it to an outside aerial!

Should do the job like with the adapter linked in this thread!!

CreepingDeath · 07-12-2010 05:14PM

johnny_adidas wrote: »

received mine from ellieshang but it doesnt pick up any channels unfortunately (no lights on the stick either).

I just realised one thing I done which may have boasted the signal.
The little aerial is magnetised.
I stuck mine on the metal part of a coffee trolley.

It's possible that the contact with a larger metallic object meant that the coffee table legs acted as a larger aerial.

Wouldn't do any harm to try sticking the little aerial on to any larger metal object and try to rescan the channels again.

* Although I'm in Lucan, so I'm probably in a good signal catchment area.

Ronan Raver77 · 07-12-2010 06:40PM

I watch this service on my Mac.Stations bbc 1 2 itv 1 2 3 4 channel 4,channel 5,E4 More 4..Lots more have a look im using it a month or so and its free.Total of 42 stations music,news etc

http://www.filmon.com/tv/?mid=13

Newtown90 · 07-12-2010 06:54PM

Ronan Devitt wrote: »

I watch this service on my Mac.Stations bbc 1 2 itv 1 2 3 4 channel 4,channel 5,E4 More 4..Lots more have a look im using it a month or so and its free.Total of 42 stations music,news etc

http://www.filmon.com/tv/?mid=13

So this is off topic and nothing to do with a dvb-t usb tuner...

Ronan Raver77 · 07-12-2010 06:59PM

Glenviewjf wrote: »

So this is off topic and nothing to do with a dvb-t usb tuner...

Sorry Glenview i just thought of tv stations you can view on a laptop as i was reading this thread.

Coolmoose the listing has ended for that product:(

http://cgi.ebay.ie/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180537402607&ssPageName=ADME:B:EOIBSA:IE:1123

ninja 12 · 07-12-2010 07:09PM

johnny_adidas wrote: »

received mine from ellieshang but it doesnt pick up any channels unfortunately (no lights on the stick either).

got a second one as an xmas pressi so hopefully it will work for them being nearer the big smoke

Glenviewjf wrote: »

Sure you can always try connect it to an outside aerial!

Should do the job like with the adapter linked in this thread!!

The light only comes on when in use - watching a station or listenong to radio (on mine anyway )

I chopped the little antenna off the cable and put a normal co-ax connector in it's place on the end of the cable , and have it connected to a set of rabbit ears in the attic - perfect signal .

Use this page to find your nearest transmitter / transponder frequency -

http://www.mpeg4ireland.com/dtt-muxes

coolmoose · 07-12-2010 07:22PM

Ronan Devitt wrote: »

Coolmoose the listing has ended for that product:(

Just saw that there now, pity, must be out of stock or something. Plenty of sellers with them for sale in the UK too, worth a look. Cost a small bit more but better than taking a gamble with some of the HK/China based sellers.

messinkiapina · 07-12-2010 09:27PM

Ronan Devitt wrote: »

I watch this service on my Mac.Stations bbc 1 2 itv 1 2 3 4 channel 4,channel 5,E4 More 4..Lots more have a look im using it a month or so and its free.Total of 42 stations music,news etc

http://www.filmon.com/tv/?mid=13

Nice, ty for the link

bmaxi · 07-12-2010 10:09PM

Ronan Devitt wrote: »

I watch this service on my Mac.Stations bbc 1 2 itv 1 2 3 4 channel 4,channel 5,E4 More 4..Lots more have a look im using it a month or so and its free.Total of 42 stations music,news etc

http://www.filmon.com/tv/?mid=13

Am I missing something? It says $9.95/month

messinkiapina · 07-12-2010 10:18PM

bmaxi wrote: »

Am I missing something? It says $9.95/month

Yea can't figure that out either. I didn't register an account or anything but i'm able to watch all the UK channels anyway? I guess its a trial or something. It's letting me watch through my ipod too, would be sweet if this lasts but surely not.

Ronan Raver77 · 07-12-2010 11:01PM

Its free guys I saw that myself when i first viewed the site but its 100% free.Have it on now watching sky news:D

long_b · 07-12-2010 11:43PM

Anyone know what kind of range the Mt Leinster transmitter has? I'm in South Kildare

Digital USB 2.0 DVB-T HDTV TV Tuner Recorder & Receiver

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