Where Does Cable Dbox Go From Here ?

[PaphosAL]

Does anyone actually realize that for ANY site to implement such a crass notion would involve ALL the Admin of that site going to prison, FFS?

[Dark Matter]

My Dbox I’m afraid will become redundant after it’s been a trusty old servant for the last 6yrs…..kids will have to do with freeview….

If this is all about getting slys sports & movies on HD then bring it on, but they better exchange my 2nd subbed box for a HD box.
If this change happens and they don’t get all the HD channels within 6 months then I’ll be switching to satellite.

This change will happen as Nostradamus prophesised

Quatrains - Century VIII

97
At the end of the Var the great powers change;
near the bank three beautiful children are born.
Ruin to the people when they are of age;
in the country the kingdom is seen to grow and change more.

great powers must be V*M, Tivo & Cisco.....


ps if I do switch to satellite and get the mother of all motorised dishes and it gets blasted to bits by a lightening bolt 21/12/2012 then I’m turning to religion and becoming a monk.
Cheers

[humforce]

the dbox,s will become redundant as there are more free chnls on freeview
ill be back to surfing the skies with the dishes for the motorsport
there is no chance of me paying the free tv slayer for anything {sly}

[scruff1963]

I use my box (dm500 not a dbox2) for streaming from the pc to my tv so nothing will change here at all.

I would use a dbox2 for the same purpose

[RoYaL KiD]

a DBOX2 like any other Enigma/neutrino based open source linux receiver is more than a STB. It can be used for streaming TV/radio to countries which cant receive english TV. it can be used as a Box to build Apps, Addons, and test files. It can also be used as a door stop.

[Alien Heads]

It can also be used to make me £80 towards my Christmas shopping money

[Timmaa]

I'll be getting the satellite dbox2 out of the loft and plugging the redundant Sky dish into it in the hope I can get a better selection of FTA; Virmin's isn't even up to terrestrial freeview standards. I've sourced a UK enigma satellite image to begin with. I'm hoping the config is similar enough that I can take the satellites.xml from that and bob it into the Commando11.3 image.

@satsearching: I'm pretty sure you're a sat dbox man? Can I do that? I have some time off work coming up so I'm hoping to get a few hours free to tinker around in the next few days.

edit: Well I've been playing around today. I got an enigma image up and running and am now using C11.3 on Astra28E. I'm guessing this is a combination of BSB and freesat transponders. There are a few more channels than Virmin but the majority of them are garbage. There are a couple more +1 channels, music and a kids channel or two.

edit2: FWIW I've noticed that an enigma scan yields a more complete set of results. Neutrino satellite scanning is pretty flakey generally. However, channel navigation in enigma is generally a pain in the ass. I'll do a bit more tinkering over the next few days.

[ManofScience]

yeah, the cable FTA channels are a bit disappointing but i find i download most films/tv shows i want to watch as i know have a fully functioning HD Media Centre built from a small form factor PC using media Browser : media browser - i may yet get a DVB-T card for it.

i don't miss the sports/movie channels so freeview is almost enough for me and i don't like the VM boxes, too slow, sluggish, unfriendly channel lists.

[PaphosAL]

Originally Posted by Timmaa

...Well I've been playing around today. I got an enigma image up and running and am now using C11.3 on Astra28E. I'm guessing this is a combination of BSB and freesat transponders. There are a few more channels than Virmin but the majority of them are garbage. There are a couple more +1 channels, music and a kids channel or two.

edit2: FWIW I've noticed that an enigma scan yields a more complete set of results. Neutrino satellite scanning is pretty flakey generally. However, channel navigation in enigma is generally a pain in the ass. I'll do a bit more tinkering over the next few days.

Interesting...

Are you saying that the Commando 11.3 image is quite happy on a Satellite dBox2 'out of the tin'? To improve it's Scanning capabilities, it might just be a case of fine-tuning the default German satellites.xml file, which is of unknown age and origin. And maybe the Scan settings themselves? H and V gobbledegook, etc...

Cheers- AL

Cheers- AL

[Timmaa]

Al,

Not straight out of the tin, no. I got the satellites.xml from the proboards enigma image and placed it next to the cables.xml softlink in /shared/tuxbox of the Commando image.

The Neutrino scanning interface isn't as intuitive as with enigma (even though it's my first taste of enigma) and it's possible I was doing something wrong, but the scan results weren't consistent. And a 'full' scan didn't unpack as many channels as the enigma scan. As you say, the satellites.xml may need a tweak to make it more Neutrino friendly. This morning I've moved back to enigma and taken an option to filter out encrypted channels