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BBC Starts FTA from July10th
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<blockquote data-quote="cjgall" data-source="post: 22573" data-attributes="member: 175963"><p>Many none sky tuners have superb tuners and offer many more features. For instance I have a Topfield 4000PVR which has a built in 40GB harddisk, double tuner, two PCMCIA CAS slots, optical output, ten favorite lists etc, etc. I don't have to pay extra for time shifting and recording like you do with Sky+. You can record one program and watch another as long as the polarity and band are the same. </p><p>Although strickly speaking the Topfield is not a FTA tuner, it doesn't come with any form of CAM so for all intents and purposes it is a FTA tuner out of the box.</p><p>I usually get a signal quality of 100% on the Topfield. I never get more than about 75% signal quality on my Grundig sky digibox.</p><p></p><p>I live in the Netherlands so have a CanlDigitaal card, which btw are not legally available elsewhere. Dutch TV channels transmit virtually all programs in there original language. This gives a choice of several films and series in English each evening. </p><p></p><p>German TV, is virtually all FTA on Astra 1, this includes ARD & ZDF although English programs are always dubbed in German. Also the Germans have got there act together when it comes to transmitting the EPG as they do not use a propriety system like Sky and CanalDigitaal do which makes the EPG useable on FTA/UCAS tuners. I only get now and next when viewing Dutch TV channels on the Topfield. Many German channels transmit there EPG for a whole week which makes recording very easy.</p><p></p><p>Now that the BBC have sorted out there EPG differences with Sky, in particular the regional problem, I believe that the way is open for ITV to go FTA when there contract with Sky runs out (next year?). For example ITV1 would be able to tansmit regional programs on 103 in the EPG depending on your address and make the other regions available elswhere in the EPG.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cjgall, post: 22573, member: 175963"] Many none sky tuners have superb tuners and offer many more features. For instance I have a Topfield 4000PVR which has a built in 40GB harddisk, double tuner, two PCMCIA CAS slots, optical output, ten favorite lists etc, etc. I don't have to pay extra for time shifting and recording like you do with Sky+. You can record one program and watch another as long as the polarity and band are the same. Although strickly speaking the Topfield is not a FTA tuner, it doesn't come with any form of CAM so for all intents and purposes it is a FTA tuner out of the box. I usually get a signal quality of 100% on the Topfield. I never get more than about 75% signal quality on my Grundig sky digibox. I live in the Netherlands so have a CanlDigitaal card, which btw are not legally available elsewhere. Dutch TV channels transmit virtually all programs in there original language. This gives a choice of several films and series in English each evening. German TV, is virtually all FTA on Astra 1, this includes ARD & ZDF although English programs are always dubbed in German. Also the Germans have got there act together when it comes to transmitting the EPG as they do not use a propriety system like Sky and CanalDigitaal do which makes the EPG useable on FTA/UCAS tuners. I only get now and next when viewing Dutch TV channels on the Topfield. Many German channels transmit there EPG for a whole week which makes recording very easy. Now that the BBC have sorted out there EPG differences with Sky, in particular the regional problem, I believe that the way is open for ITV to go FTA when there contract with Sky runs out (next year?). For example ITV1 would be able to tansmit regional programs on 103 in the EPG depending on your address and make the other regions available elswhere in the EPG. [/QUOTE]
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