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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