Use Starview 4 as DTT Receiver?

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  1. shanno06

    shanno06 Member

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    Hi,

    I'm in Ireland

    So I have a Starview 4 that is useless at the moment. I am wondering can I use it to pick up the Digital Terestial Television Channels that are currently being broadcast in Ireland (i.e. RTE 1,2 TV3,TG4,RTE News Now,Few Radio Channels).
    I connected my Aerial to the cable in on the box and did a scan under the "NTL" heading but as I suspected I got nothing. Do I need a specific firmware to do this as all I have is the firmware that used to get all the channels before Nag 3.
    Thanks.
     
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    Different tuners. You won't get the DTT broadcast with the starviews cable tuner.
     
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    Ok that's grand. I can get the DTT channels anyway with my TV's built in MPEG-4 tuner. I just can't record with the TV.
    Also on a completely different topic, do you happen to know if Sony's Play TV Device that works with the PS3 has an MPEG-4 tuner?
    Thanks.
     
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    Read something a while ago about them. As far as I'm aware they do both Mpeg-2 and Mpeg-4 and they release patches for them to improve performance. Google is your friend there I'd say.
     
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