Hi
Guide data for ‘House’ on TV 3 seems to be missing (8.30pm Tuesdays). I did a successful daily call about an hour ago, but House does not appear in the list of shows I can record.
I am using Postcode 02124 (if that makes any difference).
Is there any way I can help to get this up to date? I have checked http://orac.caffeine.co.nz/shows, which has an entry for House, but can’t see any way to change the dates etc.
Cheers
Tony
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Hi
Newbie here. I have just put ozTiVo_installer_Philips_1.6.2_20080604.iso onto my UK Thomson TiVo (using internal modem for guide data and Minicom over serial cable for checking config). I have a couple of problems, one with the tuner (probably) and one with the RF out.
I get through the setup and can download from the emulator (I can see descriptions of which programmes are on, no problem).
However, Live TV fails nearly always (problem 1). On rare occassions it works but I get scratchy reception. I am using the tuner input (RF in to antenna). Plugging the same antenna input into my TV or video gives pretty decent reception on all channels, and crystal clear on three or four of them.
Also, I have the RF out on the TiVo going into my TV (I can’t use the SCART), and so I have to tune my TV to get the TiVo OSD. The required tuning is very close to Prime TV. As a result, I have Prime TV audio and interference on the screen (problem 2). I can see no way to change this tuning (I have used palmod_config but it has made no difference, perhaps because ukchan30.o rather than palmod.o is automatically used for the Thomson).
Does anybody have any suggestions? I was hoping (perhaps rather optimistically) to avoid the fairly massive NZ-specific Thomson .iso download. I have done some googling and scanned the forums, but I really don’t know where to start.
Tony
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As an FYI, TelstraClear are changing the line up of the Digital TV according to a letter received today. The chages take effect from 1 February 2010 as follows;
Cheers
Neil
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My guide data shows Channel 17 as DTA – however when I select it via the Saturn box, I get Fashion TV – anyone else have this ‘issue’?
I note that Sky list 17 as FashionTV but the line up I’m getting dor DTV is certainly not for FasionTV…
Never noticed it before… not even sure what DTA stands for…
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Neil
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Well, woke up in the morning and the TiVo wasn’t working.
Further investigation (using the channel signal strength monitor in the TiVo menu) revealed that there was no digital signal coming in, and I could pinpiont the time rather well by tracking which suggestions had been recorded at what time. Had our TiVo died?
Analogue channels on the TV were working, apart from Prime which was missing. A visual check on the roof showed the ariels (VHF and UHF) looked fine, and the neighbours were watching both analogue and digital without problem (so not a transmitter issue).
The missing Prime analogue was the clue – seems that one ariel (VHF?) provides TV1-TV3 analogue, and the other (UHF?) provides Prime analogue and all the digital channels. After the TV Man ™ climbed up to the roof, it was identified that something (lightning strike? high static in the air?) had fried not only the VHF+UHF combiner box, but also the distributor box in the attic which splits the ariel to the 4 points around the house. Very fortunately, the Signal booster, TV and TiVo were unaffected by this – anything that could take out the first two boxes in the chain could easily knock out the TiVo tuner as well, I’d have thought.
Cost to fix – $250, for replacement units, callout and labour. All done just in time for the evening TV shows. Might be an idea to get a surge protector in the line to protect the TiVo in the future?
Strangely, I remember no electric storm that night, although it could just be a high static in the air or something. I have the broken units for investigation but not much I can do with them anyway.
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Well, woke up in the morning and the TiVo wasn’t working.
Further investigation (using the channel signal strength monitor in the TiVo menu) revealed that there was no digital signal coming in, and I could pinpiont the time rather well by tracking which suggestions had been recorded at what time. Had our TiVo died?
Analogue channels on the TV were working, apart from Prime which was missing. A visual check on the roof showed the ariels (VHF and UHF) looked fine, and the neighbours were watching both analogue and digital without problem (so not a transmitter issue).
The missing Prime analogue was the clue – seems that one ariel (VHF?) provides TV1-TV3 analogue, and the other (UHF?) provides Prime analogue and all the digital channels. After the TV Man ™ climbed up to the roof, it was identified that something (lightning strike? high static in the air?) had fried not only the VHF+UHF combiner box, but also the distributor box in the attic which splits the ariel to the 4 points around the house. Very fortunately, the Signal booster, TV and TiVo were unaffected by this – anything that could take out the first two boxes in the chain could easily knock out the TiVo tuner as well, I’d have thought.
Cost to fix – $250, for replacement units, callout and labour. All done just in time for the evening TV shows. Might be an idea to get a surge protector in the line to protect the TiVo in the future?
Strangely, I remember no electric storm that night, although it could just be a high static in the air or something. I have the broken units for investigation but not much I can do with them anyway.
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I was told recently that Harvey Norman and others would have access to sell TiVo sometime early this year. The HN salesman reckoned prices would drop with non-exclusivity.
Anyone else heard anything?
Also about three of the HD units have sold recently on Trademe at about 1/2 to 2/3rds the new price, whereas the traders there that want near enough to Telecom’s price and in some cases more don’t seem to be successful in selling them.
Amazingly the good value ones were all won in competitions.
All the best for 2010!
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I was told recently that Harvey Norman and others would have access to sell TiVo sometime early this year. The HN salesman reckoned prices would drop with non-exclusivity.
Anyone else heard anything?
Also about three of the HD units have sold recently on Trademe at about 1/2 to 2/3rds the new price, whereas the traders there that want near enough to Telecom’s price and in some cases more don’t seem to be successful in selling them.
Amazingly the good value ones were all won in competitions.
All the best for 2010!
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I can confirm that an Australian TiVoHD works in New Zealand!
The in-laws picked up a $498 160Gb unit from JB HiFi for us.
Before opening the box I activated the TiVo on the New Zealand TiVo website (mytivo.co.nz) but I don’t know that this makes any difference.
During guided setup no channels were found during the scan, but I expected that was due to the old software not supporting H.264/AAC broadcasts.
Once guided setup was complete, the system information screen showed that the software version was 8.2a01-2-663 and the country was Australia.
It was then necessary to force 3 ‘daily calls’ and reboot untill the software updated to version 11.3b2-01-2-663. It still was not possible to find any channels during a scan.
The trick then is to go to settings>channels>channel list>change area code.
Selecte "No" when asked if the information (Antenna, area code) is correct. You then get prompted as to which country you are in! You then select NZ (obviously) and don’t get a choice of area code. You can then sucessfully scan for NZ channels!
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I can confirm that an Australian TiVoHD works in New Zealand!
The in-laws picked up a $498 160Gb unit from JB HiFi for us.
Before opening the box I activated the TiVo on the New Zealand TiVo website (mytivo.co.nz) but I don’t know that this makes any difference.
During guided setup no channels were found during the scan, but I expected that was due to the old software not supporting H.264/AAC broadcasts.
Once guided setup was complete, the system information screen showed that the software version was 8.2a01-2-663 and the country was Australia.
It was then necessary to force 3 ‘daily calls’ and reboot untill the software updated to version 11.3b2-01-2-663. It still was not possible to find any channels during a scan.
The trick then is to go to settings>channels>channel list>change area code.
Selecte "No" when asked if the information (Antenna, area code) is correct. You then get prompted as to which country you are in! You then select NZ (obviously) and don’t get a choice of area code. You can then sucessfully scan for NZ channels!
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