Recent content by John T

Thanks Lone, done that got the T shirt, still the same but no matter. What has miffed me rather is that Topfield have removed the "Skip" option (which I found useful) because people were confusing it with the "Delete" option. Sigh, another case of dumbing down for the dumbest I guess!

Confusion reigns. Channel 5 has disappeared again. However Five T2 Reg2 has suddenly started showing subtitles! I have now updated the Topfield TF5010PVR with the latest firmware version, also have Predator 362 loaded. All we use it for is Channel 4 and 5, never tried the others, will look at...

Thanks for you help Mickha, I have now reloaded Predator 3.24, Channel 4 decoded OK also Five T2 Reg2, but not Channel 5, exactly as before. Sadly that version of Channel 5 has no subtitles, which are almost essential for me. However I then went into the set up and altered the box number to...

Yes 3.56 is loaded. It also says that the smart card is NDS but not decoding. I will first try reloading 324, which I believe was the one I had previously, though I am not certain. Then I will look for the latest and try that.

Sorry, I thought that as I had been using it for a couple of years or more everyone would realise that I had placed my Sky card back into the Sky box from time to time. The card works perfectly in the Sky box, also until I updated the Dragon Cam I could receive Channel 4 but not 5 O.K...

I have been using a Dragon Cam in my Topfield 5510 to receive Sky FTV for a couple of years with no problems. However recently it fails to decode Channel 5, though it has no problem with Channel 4. Thinking it might be the predator s/w needing updating I loaded Predator 5.56. Sadly the result...

Thanks Dogmatix, that makes me think it may be the Topfield. It is most unusual for contact to fail once working if not disturbed.

I use the Dragon cam with a Sky card to recieve the "free" channels. All is fine except every week or 2 the Topfield says there is no card inserted. I have to remove and re-insert the card (not the cam) an indeterminate number of times to get the Topfield to recognise it. Anyone else...

The crane is raised in order to raze the building to the ground.

The important thing is they are both travelling in the same (roughly) direction, so I don't see the problem. If they were converging then yes.

OK, deep breath, here goes. Without realising I have been playing and decoding recorded items. When listing archived items, prior to playing there is a column, which may or may not contain a $ sign, this is the Scrambled Item. If the $ is green then it has been descrambled as recorded, if...

Ok, hands up, I confess, I am relying on the manual. :mad: As it has been accurate for everything I wish to do I ASSUME it will be accurate when it says you can. What I will do, as soon as I have some spare time, is record a coded channel without the card in, then play it back as per...

I have a Topfield TF5010, and with that you can record an encoded channel then decode it on play back, though I have never need to.:cool:

I have 100% signal rate, but my quality is about 85%, at times (rarely) I get pixillation. I assume that the high signal strength is due to electric pylons running East/West just south of me, anyway it makes it difficult to align the dish even with a meter. The point being that signal rate is...

I was going to suggest that the last one was missing, but then I realised that would be a wheel of death, not life.:-DOH!