RobinB
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- May 6, 2008
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- Age
- 65
- My Satellite Setup
- Pace Sky box, 1.9M dish
- My Location
- Spain - Near Alicante
Bush HD freesat box. (UK retail price £120)
Right I have tested the freesat box.
I plugged it in directly to my dish, no realignment needed.(1.9M)
Its quite a dinky little box. Only indicator on front is the blue power indicator (the humax box has a digital readout as well as on TV number)
I was surprised to see a power adapter had to be used rather than plug it directly into mains.
As soon as I plugged it in it did a signal test, I was getting 80 % or better signal strength (it said if less than 50% you have to realign dish)
First thing it insisted I do was do a firmware update, this took about 20-30 minutes.
After that had been done you can then proceed with using it.
Before it does a tune you have to put in a valid UK postcode, I first put in our one from Wales.
It then scans the channels, this takes about 5 minutes, with this postcode all the Welsh channels are grouped in the first few channels.
I decided then to do a new scan with a Bristol postcode.
This gave BBC 1 West as the first channel.
No BBC2, ITV 1 or Channel 4, (5 is coming soon).
For the full line-up see the attached PDF
I then put in a London postcode (as I know from the skybox you have to select London region to get ITV)
This produced the ITV signal but the BBC1 London (as the first channel was no signal) but you could select other BBC regions without doing a new postcode & re-scan.
The picture is very crisp & clear, no blocking on movement on the channels, the odd channel was a little intermittent due to I presume low signal level on those channels.
I did not try the High definition output (only the BBC showed a TV channel available in HD)
Sound excellent (there is a optical output which I did not try)
EPG not quite as slick a the skyboxes, does give programme overview, you can also set reminders several days ahead.
Overall Seems to work well with good picture and sound, only 1 surprise was how hot the box was even when in standby, highly suggest it be given plenty of air space around it.
Cheers
Robin....
Right I have tested the freesat box.
I plugged it in directly to my dish, no realignment needed.(1.9M)
Its quite a dinky little box. Only indicator on front is the blue power indicator (the humax box has a digital readout as well as on TV number)
I was surprised to see a power adapter had to be used rather than plug it directly into mains.
As soon as I plugged it in it did a signal test, I was getting 80 % or better signal strength (it said if less than 50% you have to realign dish)
First thing it insisted I do was do a firmware update, this took about 20-30 minutes.
After that had been done you can then proceed with using it.
Before it does a tune you have to put in a valid UK postcode, I first put in our one from Wales.
It then scans the channels, this takes about 5 minutes, with this postcode all the Welsh channels are grouped in the first few channels.
I decided then to do a new scan with a Bristol postcode.
This gave BBC 1 West as the first channel.
No BBC2, ITV 1 or Channel 4, (5 is coming soon).
For the full line-up see the attached PDF
I then put in a London postcode (as I know from the skybox you have to select London region to get ITV)
This produced the ITV signal but the BBC1 London (as the first channel was no signal) but you could select other BBC regions without doing a new postcode & re-scan.
The picture is very crisp & clear, no blocking on movement on the channels, the odd channel was a little intermittent due to I presume low signal level on those channels.
I did not try the High definition output (only the BBC showed a TV channel available in HD)
Sound excellent (there is a optical output which I did not try)
EPG not quite as slick a the skyboxes, does give programme overview, you can also set reminders several days ahead.
Overall Seems to work well with good picture and sound, only 1 surprise was how hot the box was even when in standby, highly suggest it be given plenty of air space around it.
Cheers
Robin....