We’re looking to upgrade to Freeview HD signal and are looking for suggestions or recommendations.

We have a Thomson PVR10UK and a newish Panasonic Viera TV (TH-L19X10Z). Currently we have RF from the aerial on our building in to the Tivo and RF out to the TV. Is it possible to make use of the better quality SCART connections? Should we try to find a Freeview Terrestrial decoder with SCART connections eg. http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/List…x?id=313547395

While I’m at it – could we also use a SCART output from the Tivo to the TV? Perhaps a SCART to Component connection?

Any suggestions very welcome!
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For those who have not seen it, Telecom currently have the Tivo HD and wireless adapter for NZ$499 instead of the normal $750.
http://www.telecom.co.nz/mytivo/pricing
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Has anyone else in the last few days noticed that their Seasons Passes are no working properly?

For example One News was not recorded on Sunday night, but future ‘episodes’ had the double tick next to them.
The SP for Shortland Street has no ticks beside any future episodes. On Sunday we selected last nights episode and chose ‘record this episode’ so that it had the single tick next to it, however it still did not record last night. The TiVo did not complain of any conflicts.
Other seasons passes are exhibiting the same thing, with future episodes no longer scheduled to record (but listed), or scheduled to record but just don’t get recorded.
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Since I watch a lot of Japanese anime, which comes in MKV files with Japanese soundtrack and English subtitles, this is something I’d really like to do.

Normal MKV->AVI converters simply lose the subtitles – no good for me. Some MKVs can be transferred without conversion but again lose subtitles.

I’ve heard of some MKV->AVI converters which render the subtitles into the video, though not found any that are free. These are good, but it would be best to have subtitles as a true subtitle stream.

Apparently there are numerous little utilities that can extract the subtitle stream, then another converts the mkv to a mp4, then the extracted subtitles can be changed to another format, then added in to the MP4 as a subtitle stream which the TiVo HNP will correctly transfer over… but I’ve not found anything that can do this in one go, not anything to do the dmuxing or adding MP4 subtitles stream without a lot of cost.

I wonder if anyone has anythingto do this? It would be a great utility if you could simply drop an MKV into a tool and it output an mp4 with subtitle stream, but I suspect I’d have to write this myself – and I’ve nowhere near enough knowledge of video to do this. At least you’d be able to assume 4:3 or 16:9 screen ratio… there’d be the issue of picking a subtitle and audio track though.

Anyone have any ideas?
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Seems that the Caspa interface has added a bunch of new stuff — games, weather, horoscopes, world clock — into the ‘Showcases’ menu on the TiVo which work for everyone.

I have no idea when this arrived — it certainly wasn’t there before they removed the Telecom-only CASPA firewall, and it wasn’t there shortly after either. All seems to work fine though, albeit a little slow sometimes.

They have integrated support for Picassa and Photobucket, but not for Facebook or YouTube as yet.

I wonder what other things will appear in there without any fanfare?
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My Tivo is running out of guide data, if I force a daily call via Tivoweb, it goes through housekeeping, clock setting and gets as far as downloading…then after 2 or 3 minutes it comes up ‘failed, call interrupted’ any ideas?
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I have noticed that programs in the TiVoweb guide for Prime that shows that are on in the evening are duplicated 12 hours later. ie. New Tricks on Monday 8:30pm also appears on Tuesday morning.
If the guide is checked on screen the duplications do not appear but if a season pass is set for New Tricks the TiVo will record one on Monday night and another on Tuesday morning (which is actually infomercials).

One other oddity is that when the ‘second showing’ of a program is broadcast the guide on screen shows the ‘false’ name (Swat USA) of the program on the left hand side of the screen but the actual program name on the right hand side of the table (Home Shopping).

This occurs on other shows as well with the ones I have noticed being in the 7:30 pm – 10:30 pm time slots.
I have this problem on 2 TiVos. One is on postcode 2112 (AK FTA and Freeview) and the other 2121 (AK FTA).

Has anyone else noticed this / got any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.
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Just in case anyone not on the mailing list is interested, TiVoHD 320Gb and wireless networking adaptor available at mytivo.co.nz for $750 plus ‘standard shipping charges’. Offer ends 31 August.
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Yet another bug in the TiVoHD – sound effects stopped working. Audio of live TV and recorded shows was fine, but there were no menu sound effects and no FF/RW sound effects. A reboot fixed it.
About time Hybrid fixed some bugs and released a new software version I reckon.
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As of 1st July, the Caspa downloads work with ALL ISPs, not just Xtra. I tested this last night and it works as expected, although its initially rather slow.

However, at the moment, only Xtra have them unmetered, which means that you’ll be paying for 1GB of your download allowance for each film you download. Hopefully other ISPs will see the benefit of unmetering the traffic too…

I assume they have done this because they realise the restrictions and the FUD put out by Telecom (it only works for Telecom customers) have hit their sales rather badly.
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