Eurosport on 19e

juzzthefuzz · 17-08-2008

Is Eurosport still available on analogue 19e?

**Analoguesat** · 17-08-2008

Yes it is - 11259V

juzzthefuzz · 03-09-2008

Awesome, Do you know if it'll be there long. A friend of mine is tired of paying Sky subscription for just eurosport so he wants to find a cheaper alternative without reverting to the dreaded BBCi. Cheers

**Analoguesat** · 03-09-2008

Nobody can answer that - it could be 3 or 4 years down the line, it could be next month.

Whats wrong with BBCi? get the right receiver and you can tune them like any other channel without having to go through that hellish slow clunky red button interface.

**irart** · 04-09-2008

The programmes on astra 1 analogue Eurosport are the German ones but with English commentary. Sky show British Eurosport 1 & 2 and the programmes can be different.

**rolfw** · 04-09-2008

I actually prefer the programming with the Analogue version on Astra 19.2, the only difficulty these days is finding a decent working analogue receiver. There are often a few on Ebay

, but given their age, many will not last long.

juzzthefuzz · 04-09-2008

The problem with bbci is the coverage is that they may show, for example, a whole 5000m race where no-one from the Uk is in it and completely forget an even such as high jump where we had a silver medallist. And the commentators go on for hours about irrelevant ramblings. This was a case from this years olympics.

**irart** · 04-09-2008

My old analogue box finally passed away some while ago, so got myself a Technomate 5000 DAPCI (both analogue and digital) from Ebay

last year for £40 and it's still going strong.

**rolfw** · 04-09-2008

Yes, bought a couple of them myself on behalf of customers, in fact there's one on Ebay

at the moment, but not the P version.

wendyg · 05-09-2008

I think my analogue box is finally dying, so that's useful information.

wg

**Analoguesat** · 05-09-2008

French supermarkets like Bricomart (sp?) still sell new analogue boxes so next time you take a trip over to stock up on wine pick a box

**rolfw** · 05-09-2008

That surprises me Ross, as I haven't seen them in places like Leroy Merlin or any of the big supermarkets like Carrefour or Géant recently.

**Analoguesat** · 05-09-2008

Cant confirm it personally (its a loooong way to France from here folks

), but I was told this reasonably recently

I may be wrong - the stores may have switched over to TNT Sat boxes instead.

Are there any members having a trip to france could confirm for us one way or the other?

juzzthefuzz · 05-09-2008

Off subject a little here, does anyone know what PID values are? Im looking into buying a new reciever, the Technomate TM5200D to be precise, and the description says about manually entering PID values.

**Analoguesat** · 05-09-2008

Programme identification (s) and they are something that only occurs in digital channels.

There are various sorts of pids - audio & video are the main ones, and most frequency sites list them. Most of the time there are no need to manually enter pids - the receiver deals with them automatically.

**irart** · 05-09-2008

The Technomate 5200D is a digital box, it will not receive analogue channels.

wendyg · 08-09-2008

analoguesat: monitoring Ebay

for a 5000 DAPCI is easy; finding time to go to France is hard.

wg

**Analoguesat** · 08-09-2008

Theres a 5000 DACI on at the moment.

220276447131

currebnt bid £5.50!

DanielP · 11-09-2008

Don't bother with eBay- you can get a brand new Metronic analogue "original" box for £23!

_http://www.pixmania.co.uk/uk/uk/236264/art/metronic/analogue-demodulator-orig.html

Does a good job for me and also runs cool to boot. Even if Europsort only lasts a couple more years, this is value for money in my book. Then you can use it as a handy doorstop!

Daniel

**irart** · 11-09-2008

I would still go for the Ebay

option, as you will have the digital channels as well as the analogue ones. You will receive the German digital version of Eurosport which is exactly the same as the English analogue one, apart from the language of course. However, you would have to find something else to use as a door stop though when analogue finally disappears!

Boratscousin · 24-09-2008

For Info I bought in France a new analog receiver 'Strong' brand for 40 euros at Darty (TV/electronics store) in August.

dardruba · 24-09-2008

I want programmes that BBC would never cover, such as the Roller Ski champs this weekend. I watch it on the backroom TV on a analogue Pace box on a RF loop from the digital TM1500 box, and long may it continue.

But, being greedy I'd like to watch it quietly on this PC screen upstairs.
Here I've got SkyStar2 digital and can get Eurosport on 19E with German commentary on my ProgDVB program.
When I recently re installed ProgDVB I saw on the setup screen the chance to click a button to receive Analogue TV.

Could that mean Analogue Sat TV and is there a way for me to get Analogue Sat TV displayed on the ProgDVB program?
Could I split the incoming signal between SS2 and a new Hauppage analogue pci card (if there is one) using a A/B switch?

iandoh · 25-09-2008

Originally Posted by dardruba

I want programmes that BBC would never cover, such as the Roller Ski champs this weekend. I watch it on the backroom TV on a analogue Pace box on a RF loop from the digital TM1500 box, and long may it continue.

But, being greedy I'd like to watch it quietly on this PC screen upstairs.
Here I've got SkyStar2 digital and can get Eurosport on 19E with German commentary on my ProgDVB program.
When I recently re installed ProgDVB I saw on the setup screen the chance to click a button to receive Analogue TV.

Could that mean Analogue Sat TV and is there a way for me to get Analogue Sat TV displayed on the ProgDVB program?
Could I split the incoming signal between SS2 and a new Hauppage analogue pci card (if there is one) using a A/B switch?

simple. No.

jamie1992 · 3 Weeks Ago

Originally Posted by DanielP

Don't bother with eBay- you can get a brand new Metronic analogue "original" box for £23!

_http://www.pixmania.co.uk/uk/uk/236264/art/metronic/analogue-demodulator-orig.html

Does a good job for me and also runs cool to boot. Even if Europsort only lasts a couple more years, this is value for money in my book. Then you can use it as a handy doorstop!

I bought one of these last week. I'm pleased with it overall.
The only issues I have are
- a very slightly soft picture (but still much nicer than dvb!)
- no tunable audio, and 6.50 is not included as a preset
- a software bug where, if you disable its "pseudo-panda" audio de-emphasis, or tune to a preset channel which uses J17 or 50us instead, you have to turn the receiver to standby, and then back on again to get it back.

But it's still *much* better than my Conrad Electronics "eurosky" branded receiver.

DanielP · 3 Weeks Ago

I noticed that mine was pretuned and only had English language for Eurosport. To be honest, I find the setup systep a bit confusing, because there is no OSD. I have a monobloc LNB and I always need to hit the toneburst button three times before I get Europsort up. I tried saving the settings, but it doesn't seem to stick. But none of these are major problems.

I think that the analogue pic quality is amazing, though miss the digital sound. I get a few minor "sparklies", but can't be bothered to do any adjustments, as the issue is not that bad (even in a downpour).

I just hope that Eurosport stays live for at least a couple more years.

Daniel

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