Peter D

You could also try an indoor antenna. Works for a lot of people.

I'm thinking of buying a P1 but have a question to ask. I have read a fair bit about a problem with audio synching. When HDMI is used for video and the audio is passed diretcly to a Receiver via Optical/Coax Digital, the audio can be out of synch with the video. What I have not been able to ascertain, is whether this is a common problem affecting most people trying to do this, or does it only happens to some people. I currently use a Teac 800 HD STB connected via DVI to an Hitachi 42PD8800TA plasma with the digital audio going to an Onkyo SR600 receiver. This works fine. I always use the receiver for audio, never the plasma's speakers.

I thought that VideoRoDo was already doing that - merging all the 32Mb chunks into one file.

Bandwidth is a problem on satellite and will be better when the new satellite goes up. On cable, they will free up a lot of bandwidth when analogue is turned off (this month if I remember correctly). I believe that Big Pond cable takes the equivalent of just two channels.

I don't believe that the BeyonWiz or any STB outputs broadcast TV at 60 Hz. FTA TV in Australia is 50Hz. However, a PC TV card works find with a PC Monitor that is 60Hz.

Melbourne digital was supposed to go to Foxtel 2 weeks ago. I have not checked whether it did. Foxtel also announced that FTA HD will be broadcast Foxtel later this year.

Channel 9 has not yet learnt that there is no point advertising their programs on TV as there is no one watching channel 9 to see the ads.

There are converters and adapters. Adapters are just a plug adapter. Converters have electronics in them and are relatively expensive. I have a universal remote control that talks to a PC via a serial connection. It only works with converters, and only a couple of brands work (Belkin and Keyspan, I think).

Depends on what you need the cable for.

I was in JB Chadstone about 10 days ago and there were piles of STBs. A few days later there were next to none.

It was announced in December. Previously it was December 2008. http://www.minister.dbcde.gov.au/media/med...leases/2007/003

It was announced in December. Previously it was December 2008. http://www.minister.dbcde.gov.au/media/med...leases/2007/003

The networks have no say in the matter. The legislation does not allow the commercial networks to set up a second SD channel til next year. They have only just been allowed to add unique HD content.

Won't work. The monitor is only 60Hz. You need 50Hz in Australia.

probably most unlikely. But if the networks got together and produced a box and it was the only way to get a decent EPG it could be seen as not competitive.

probably most unlikely. But if the networks got together and produced a box and it was the only way to get a decent EPG it could be seen as not competitive.

What I find interesting is the way that "FreeView" is a packaging of all the different content providers into one service - kind of like the way Pay TV works. Could be some risk of breaching the TPA here depending on exactly how it is done.

I'm a bit confused as to what FreeView is. The web site (freeview.co.uk) suggest that it is just the name given to Digital TV in the UK. Where it is different to Australia, is that it offers all the FTA channels plus many other channels some of which (it not all) come from PayTV (such as Sky news). I don't see a specific FreeView box. Just any old Digital TV box will do.

Get an IQ for Foxtel ASAP. That will also do as an interim for FTA TV as all FTA stations are now fully digital on Foxtel cable. Do not get a SD recorder as you will miss out on recording the new HD only material that is being broadcast. Get an HD PVR that can also transfer files to a PC (even if it is only via USB and sneakernet). Do any DVD recording on the PC. I suspect you will only write to DVD if you start running out of disk space. and you have something you really want to keep

There is a new Teac model that came out 2 weeks ago. Sounds like you have the old model. What is the model number?

I was in JB during the week discussing PVRs. They guy said they were slowly phasing out SD PVRs in favor of HD. People who buy PVRs are only interested in HD. But they will only stock models that worked. He was pushing BeyonWiz big time.

Unless you have an upscaling DVD player, I would use componet for DVD and HDMI for HD STB.

I know the content is different - but compressing HD down to SD quality so you can put it on a DVD sounds like sacrilege. Having said that, I kind of do that now. I always watch HD (when it is the same content as SD). But when I want to record something, I use the tuner on my computer, but only record the SD version for two reasons - takes up less space on my computer disk and I currently need to put it on a DVD to watch in my lounge room.

There are lots of HD PVRs. It does not make sense to have a DVD Recorder in an HD PVR as you can only record half an hour of HD on one DVD.

And all of the above suggestions are SD. With HD material that is not on SD being broadcast, you may really want an HD box. However, you do not get a DVD recorder on an HD box.