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0 BBC HD to become BBC2 HD

Published on 7^th March 2013 by Jon Scaife in Freesat.

I’ve been a little slow getting round to updating content on the site recently, and this news was one item that got left behind. The BBC have announced that BBC HD is to be replaced by BBC2 HD. The majority of content on BBC HD was from BBC2 anyway, so most will notice little difference,… Read more »

0 Broken Fonera ruins Freeview reception

Published on 1^st December 2011 by Jon Scaife in Freeview. Updated 17^th January 2012.

Your Freeview TV reception could suffer interference at the hands of devices that shouldn’t be operating anywhere near the same frequency.

0 Designing a Home Theatre Room & Lounge

Published on 16^th November 2011 by Jon Scaife in Misc Audio, Misc TV. Updated 6^th February 2013.

How to design and layout a Home Theatre Room for superior audio quality, use optimised room ratios to avoid room modes & position speakers.

0 Copy files from Humax PVR 9200T to PC

Published on 16^th October 2011 by Jon Scaife in Freeview, Misc Media Software. Updated 26^th June 2012.

I own a couple of Humax PVT-9200T dual freeview PVRs, both of which are now quite full with recorded programs. Humax have provided a program called eLinker, but it isn’t very good. A good alternative is Humax Media Controller but unfortunately it doesn’t work with Windows x64, as Mike Dimmick explains. Thankfully, Mike has also… Read more »

0 BBC 1 HD and ITV 1 HD

Published on 12^th November 2010 by Jon Scaife in Freesat. Updated 24^th January 2012.

A quick update on getting BBC 1 HD and ITV 1 HD in Media Center via freesat. A full transponder scan will reveal these channels now on channels in the 1270’s. In some cases 1270 and 1271, or in my case 1272 and 1273!

0 ITV-HD as a proper channel

Published on 25^th March 2010 by Jon Scaife in Freesat. Updated 5^th February 2013.

ITV-HD is finally available as a proper channel. For anyone manually tuning a freesat box of Media Center PC you need to add 10832MHz with 22600 ksymbols on horizontal. 2 extra channels should appear called 10000 and 10001. I can’t remember the channel numbers (and I have now renumbered them) but there were between 1000… Read more »

3 ATI BBC HD Fix!

Published on 26^th January 2010 by Jon Scaife in Freesat, Misc Software. Updated 17^th September 2012.

Further to my post yesterday, I discovered, via Nigel Dessau’s blog (closed by AMD since this article was published), that ATI will be releasing a fix for this issue in the Catalyst 10.2 (February 2010) release. This is fantastic news, thank you ATI!

0 Update on BBC HD / ATI corruption issues

Published on 25^th January 2010 by Jon Scaife in Freesat, Misc Software, Windows Media Center. Updated 17^th September 2012.

Just a quick update on a about problems with BBC HD in Windows 7 Media Center when using ATI video cards.

0 A temporary workaround for the ATI / 7MC / BBC-HD problems

Published on 21^st December 2009 by Jon Scaife in Freesat, Misc Software, Windows Media Center. Updated 5^th October 2011.

–update– This issue has now been fixed by a driver update from ati. For more info see the on the issue

0 Extra Freesat channels

Published on 8^th August 2009 by Jon Scaife in Freesat. Updated 5^th October 2011.

Update: ITV-HD has changed. See this It seems that Windows Media Center 7 doesn’t find all the channels that are FTA on the main UK Satellite group, the Astra 2D group at 28.2º East. I imagine many Freesat boxes wont either. Here are the frequencies for a few fully Free-To-Air English language channels available on this… Read more »