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!
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0Creating a new DIY HTPC from scratch
Pulling together a lot of previous posts here is a guide on how to build and set up a fully featured DIY HTPC from scratch…
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0Channel Logos (formerly on Theme7mc.com)
The Theme7mc site seems to have been pulled, and locating the resources that used to be on it isn’t straight-forward. As a former contributor I was keen to find where the contents had gone and am pleased I can point people to the Theme7mc archive post on Hack7mc.com where they can all be found.
0ITV-HD as a proper channel
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 and 1100 I think.
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0A temporary workaround for the ATI / 7MC / BBC-HD problems
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This issue has now been fixed by a driver update from ati. For more info see the [intlink id=“48” type=“post”]latest article[/intlink] on the issue
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0Extra Freesat channels
Update: ITV-HD has changed. See this [intlink id=“92” type=“post”]newer article[/intlink]
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 satellite cluster…
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0Get free-to-air HD Satellite TV for under £100
I recently got fed up with my poor TV reception and inability to get BBC via Freeview and decided to investigate Freesat. Looking at the high street the best deals I could find were £70 for a viewer box + £80 for installation (a total of £150). For recording facilities this rises steeply to over £300 for the box + installation. This looks to me a bit like an early-adopters-tax so I decided to search for alternatives. The outcome of my research was that it is easy and relatively cheap to obtain and install all the necessary equipment to set up Freesat on a PC. As it happens I actually already had a media PC so this solution was ideal for me.
“Hi James I realise it has been a long while, but I just checked this on windows 11 (build 23H2)…”