TubeStick
Mark
<https://www.equinux.com/eqnetwork/store/products/tubestick.html?country=178>
Cheers ... Mark
Jonathan White
Anyone know what the PVR software's like? Media Central always seemed a
bit.. flakey to me. Mind you, might be the only alternative given
Elgato have apparently fallen out with Miglia.
<http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/03/12/elgato.ends.miglia.bundle/>
Jon
Caol MacThòmais
> Now available to UK customers (DVB-T Tuner) - works out to about £35.
£35.71 including the 2.65% Egg charge for overseas transactions...
> <https://www.equinux.com/eqnetwork/store/products/tubestick.html?country=178>
I have wanted to try one of these for ages, now the price is right and I can.
Thanks,
kt.
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Jerome O'Donohoe
> On 2007-03-12 21:44:12 +0000, Mark <captai...@gmail.com> said:
>
> > Now available to UK customers (DVB-T Tuner) - works out to about £35.
>
> £35.71 including the 2.65% Egg charge for overseas transactions...
>
> >
> <https://www.equinux.com/eqnetwork/store/products/tubestick.html?country=1
> 78>
>
> I have wanted to try one of these for ages, now the price is right and I
> can.
>
I suspect that the stick is the very same as the original Miglia TVMini.
Not a bad thing at all. One is workign very nicely in the back of my
mini.
Mark
(in article <1huvy1l.12o00vf6kgfgzN%jer...@foobar.com>):
I've been wanting one of these things - but for the 'right' price.
This is it!
Tom Warner
> Now available to UK customers (DVB-T Tuner) - works out to about £35.
>
> <https://www.equinux.com/eqnetwork/store/products/tubestick.html?country=178>
Does that have a standard co-ax input or does it work only with the
supplied aerial?
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you would have good people doing good things
and evil people doing evil things.
But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Jerome O'Donohoe
> Mark <captai...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Now available to UK customers (DVB-T Tuner) - works out to about £35.
> >
> > <https://www.equinux.com/eqnetwork/store/products/tubestick.html?country
> > =178>
>
> Does that have a standard co-ax input or does it work only with the
> supplied aerial?
It will have a standard coax input, usually by way of a little adapter
to a weeny rf plug.
Caol MacThòmais
> On 2007-03-12 21:44:12 +0000, Mark <captai...@gmail.com> said:
>
>> Now available to UK customers (DVB-T Tuner) - works out to about £35.
>
> £35.71 including the 2.65% Egg charge for overseas transactions...
>
>> <https://www.equinux.com/eqnetwork/store/products/tubestick.html?country=178>
>
> I have wanted to try one of these for ages, now the price is right and I can.
Just arrived, Jerome: it certainly does look like the Miglia thing.
Does not work with the tiny aerial in the flat, but then I didn't
expect it to, am going to plug it into the rooftop aerial later and
give it a go.
First impressions to follow.
kt.
--
'Doc, I can't stop singing the green green grass of home.'
'That sounds like Tom Jones syndrome.'
'Is it common?'
'It's not unusual.'
Caol MacThòmais
>
> First impressions to follow.
No TV reception in my flat, freeview.co.uk confirms this. I suppose I
should have checked first: £35 wasted, until 2010. Cannot believe not
even two miles from Bristol city centre I cannot get freeview. Perhaps
the big hill is in the way.
Bah.
--
Man goes to the doc, with a strawberry growing out of his head.
Doc says 'I'll give you some cream to put on that.'
David Kennedy
> On 2007-03-15 16:37:20 +0000, Caol MacThòmais
> <caol.ma...@gmail.com> said:
>>
>> First impressions to follow.
>
> No TV reception in my flat, freeview.co.uk confirms this. I suppose I
> should have checked first: £35 wasted, until 2010. Cannot believe not
> even two miles from Bristol city centre I cannot get freeview. Perhaps
> the big hill is in the way.
>
> Bah.
>
That TV license really looks good value now eh ?
--
David Kennedy
Mark
(in article <45f9960a$0$8728$ed26...@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net>):
Mine came this morning. Will have a play tomorrow night or Saturday.
Quick look in the guide says something about having to 'de-authorise' it to
use it on a different computer...wonder what that's all about..?
Mark
PeterD
> On 2007-03-15 16:37:20, Caol MacThòmais <caol.ma...@gmail.com> said:
> >
> > First impressions to follow.
>
> No TV reception in my flat, freeview.co.uk confirms this. I suppose I
> should have checked first: £35 wasted, until 2010.
Double whammy for me. I should've scoured the specs more closely - it's
USB 2.0 only, and our current top spec machine is the last of the USB
1.1 iMacs. Poo. But we can't get Freeview anyway. Big poo.
--
Pd
Caol MacThòmais
[TubeSTick]
>
> Mine came this morning. Will have a play tomorrow night or Saturday.
>
> Quick look in the guide says something about having to 'de-authorise' it to
> use it on a different computer...wonder what that's all about..?
It does say that 5 authorisations can be made of the Tube software, but
Media Central only has one activation.
kt
--
What's brown and sounds like a bell? DUNG
Caol MacThòmais
<davidk...@nospamtodaythanksverymuchforthekindofferyoubastard.invalid>
said:
I have not had a TV before, so no licence here yet, and now I shall not
be getting one. I suppose officially I should as I have a TV tuner,
only it will stay in its cardboard box until I find a better home for
it.
kt.
--
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me on?" I said, "Well I'll give you an audition, but I'm not promising
you anything."
Caol MacThòmais
Ah, but you do have a pretty iMac, though. Clouds and linings and all.
kt.
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I said "No, just a watch."
Jerome O'Donohoe
> On 2007-03-15 16:37:20 +0000, Caol MacThòmais <caol.ma...@gmail.com>
> said: > > First impressions to follow.
>
> No TV reception in my flat, freeview.co.uk confirms this. I suppose I
> should have checked first: £35 wasted, until 2010. Cannot believe not
> even two miles from Bristol city centre I cannot get freeview. Perhaps
> the big hill is in the way.
>
schoolboy error!
Jerome O'Donohoe
<davidk...@nospamtodaythanksverymuchforthekindofferyoubastard.invalid
> wrote:
That TV license also allows you to have a nice wee dish & receiver
obtainable from eBay for £buttons and receive freesat for no further
cost. Aerials are aerials, be they dishy or twiggy.
PeterD
> That TV license also allows you to have a nice wee dish & receiver
> obtainable from eBay for £buttons and receive freesat for no further
> cost.
And does this £buttons aerial allow anyone regardless of location (in
the UK) to pick up Freeview? What particular spec are we searching for
on the holy site of eBay?
--
Pd
David Kennedy
> On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:54:13 +0000, David Kennedy wrote
> (in article <45f9960a$0$8728$ed26...@ptn-nntp-reader02.plus.net>):
>
>> On 15/3/07 6:27 pm, Caol MacThòmais wrote:
>>> On 2007-03-15 16:37:20 +0000, Caol MacThòmais
>>> <caol.ma...@gmail.com> said:
>>>> First impressions to follow.
>>> No TV reception in my flat, freeview.co.uk confirms this. I suppose I
>>> should have checked first: £35 wasted, until 2010. Cannot believe not
>>> even two miles from Bristol city centre I cannot get freeview. Perhaps
>>> the big hill is in the way.
>>>
>>> Bah.
>>>
>> Welcome to the club.
>>
>> That TV license really looks good value now eh ?
>
> Mine came this morning. Will have a play tomorrow night or Saturday.
The only thing I can think of to do with mine is make a paper plane.
David Kennedy
> On 2007-03-15 18:54:13 +0000, David Kennedy
> <davidk...@nospamtodaythanksverymuchforthekindofferyoubastard.invalid>
> said:
>
>> On 15/3/07 6:27 pm, Caol MacThòmais wrote:
>>> On 2007-03-15 16:37:20 +0000, Caol MacThòmais
>>> <caol.ma...@gmail.com> said:
>>>>
>>>> First impressions to follow.
>>>
>>> No TV reception in my flat, freeview.co.uk confirms this. I suppose I
>>> should have checked first: £35 wasted, until 2010. Cannot believe not
>>> even two miles from Bristol city centre I cannot get freeview.
>>> Perhaps the big hill is in the way.
>>>
>>> Bah.
>
>> Welcome to the club.
>>
>> That TV license really looks good value now eh ?
>
> I have not had a TV before, so no licence here yet, and now I shall not
> be getting one. I suppose officially I should as I have a TV tuner, only
> it will stay in its cardboard box until I find a better home for it.
If you buy a TV in the UK the retailer is obliged to supply your details
to the licensing authority...
David Kennedy
>>
> That TV license also allows you to have a nice wee dish & receiver
> obtainable from eBay for £buttons and receive freesat for no further
> cost. Aerials are aerials, be they dishy or twiggy.
Please tell me how to get these things from ebay for a few buttons. They
all seemed to wand cash last time I looked.
Sak Wathanasin
> Just arrived, Jerome:
Ditto.
> it certainly does look like the Miglia thing.
EyeTV doesn't recognize it; hopefully, it can be hacked because "The
Tube" software that it comes with is just ghastly. Firstly, it pissed me
off something awful with its "you have to create an account at Equinox,
reg the s/w then have to de-auth to use on another Mac" policy. Why
bother? The USB thingy effectively acts as a dongle.
Be that as it may. Fired it up, auto-tune, it picks up the Freeview
channels, and puts them in some random order. Eg it had BBC News 24 on
ch 1, BBC on 3 etc. What the? The Miglia/EyeTV just does it right -
their channel assignments match that of the FreeView channels as
published in Radio Times etc. OK, so I start dragging the channels
around to get them into the order to which I am used to, and after about
3 goes, it locks up. Force quit time - in fact I had to force quit it
about 6 times in an hour; says something about the quality of the software.
OK, relaunch - aha! there's an upgrade to 1.0.2. OK download that. Wait,
restart. Open live TV window. Picture quality good, but wait: I get
picture breakup everytime I move the mouse. I'm using it on a 1.42 GHz
G4 iBook, which was plenty fast enough for EyeTV. Play around switching
channels, and it's really slow picking up channels. Up/down arrow key a
couple more times and ... it locks up. Force quit/relaunch.
What's this bloody software wrtten in? Basic? Java? Whatever it is, it's
deadly slow and crashes a lot.
Next: I can't find the EPG. Does it have one?
I bought this as a cheapish backup/spare for the Miglia/EyeTV that is
now installed on my desktop, but so far it looks like a real waste of
money. You're much better off paying up the extra for the full
Elgato/EyeTV combo.
Jerome O'Donohoe
At the moment there are several Sky Digiboxes there about to sell for
£10 to £12 in the next hour, and a sky dish, new is £17. A Freesat
access card costs £20
http://www.freesatfromsky.co.uk/
so for roughly £45 or £50 you are up and running with most of the
freeview channels (all except E4 and More4, I think) and all the radio
channels you could ever hope to find, better quality than DAB.
If the idea of installing a dish is a bit too scary, they'll install a
new one for you with a receiver and card for £150, which is the same
price as installation of a decent terrestrial antenna
Jerome
Jaimie Vandenbergh
<davidk...@nospamtodaythanksverymuchforthekindofferyoubastard.invalid>
wrote:
Last time I bought a TV was about five years back, but that time I was
given a small name-and-address slip to fill in with anything I liked.
Cheers - Jaimie
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PeterD
> PeterD <pd....@dsl.pipex.invalid> wrote:
>
> > Jerome O'Donohoe <jer...@foobar.com> wrote:
> >
> > > That TV license also allows you to have a nice wee dish & receiver
> > > obtainable from eBay for £buttons and receive freesat for no further
> > > cost.
> >
> > And does this £buttons aerial allow anyone regardless of location (in
> > the UK) to pick up Freeview? What particular spec are we searching for
> > on the holy site of eBay?
>
> At the moment there are several Sky Digiboxes there about to sell for
> £10 to £12 in the next hour, and a sky dish, new is £17. A Freesat
> access card costs £20
>
> http://www.freesatfromsky.co.uk/
>
> so for roughly £45 or £50 you are up and running with most of the
> freeview channels (all except E4 and More4, I think) and all the radio
> channels you could ever hope to find, better quality than DAB.
Good info - thanks for that.
On a similar tip, I've just found that by plugging my aerial cable into
the NTL socket sticking out of the wall, I can get the five terrestrial
channels crisp and clear. Is that digital, or is cable still analogue
signal? I guess analogue, as I don't have any digital decoding
capability.
--
Pd
Jerome O'Donohoe
Cable is both digital and analogue, generally the five channels are on
every cable even if "disconnected", as it's more work to actually
disconnect at the cabinet end - if your box is de-authorised and taken
away that's usually enough for them.
PeterD
> PeterD <pd....@dsl.pipex.invalid> wrote:
I wish I'd realised that eight months ago. We've just suffered that long
with tv just okay enough to make it sort of tolerable. Any worse and
we'd have paid some bloke to fiddle about with the aerial, but the only
time it's really been a pain is during the rugby, when you can't see the
scores or the players well enough to know who's got the ball.
And now we've finally got Channel 5, but it appears Xena is no longer
on. That was the only reason Ch5 was worth having, and now it isn't.
--
Pd
timpent
> Caol MacThòmais wrote:
>
> Be that as it may. Fired it up, auto-tune, it picks up the Freeview
> channels, and puts them in some random order. Eg it had BBC News 24 on
> ch 1, BBC on 3 etc. What the? The Miglia/EyeTV just does it right -
> their channel assignments match that of the FreeView channels as
> published in Radio Times etc. OK, so I start dragging the channels
> around to get them into the order to which I am used to, and after about
> 3 goes, it locks up. Force quit time - in fact I had to force quit it
> about 6 times in an hour; says something about the quality of the software.
>
> OK, relaunch - aha! there's an upgrade to 1.0.2. OK download that. Wait,
> restart. Open live TV window. Picture quality good, but wait: I get
> picture breakup everytime I move the mouse. I'm using it on a 1.42 GHz
> G4 iBook, which was plenty fast enough for EyeTV. Play around switching
> channels, and it's really slow picking up channels. Up/down arrow key a
> couple more times and ... it locks up. Force quit/relaunch.
>
> What's this bloody software wrtten in? Basic? Java? Whatever it is, it's
> deadly slow and crashes a lot.
>
My experiences exactly... crashes, v poor picture and sound quality,
even when connected to our normal tv aerial which picks up Freeview
fine. It'll have to go back I'm afraid.
Tim
Mark
(in article <1174348356....@p15g2000hsd.googlegroups.com>):
Anyone experiencing kernel panics since installing this thing?
Mark