Cable Forum - What have you just bought?

I'm very interested in how you get on in some weeks or months if you would kindly share your experience.

Personally I didn't like the experience, I did mouth off I accept that. No good for me.

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Originally Posted by thenry (Post 36204008)

I'm very interested in how you get on in some weeks or months if you would kindly share your experience.

Personally I didn't like the experience, I did mouth off I accept that. No good for me.

Jaymoss

03-10-2025 20:24

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Originally Posted by SnoopZ (Post 36204027)

I will let you know how it all goes but I've got no reference point as to what is good or bad to work from.

What is good so far for me is if I select a TV or Movie it seems to look and play great and also works with subtitles via VLC without issue.

Trying Live TV is a learning curve for me, it took me a while to find some UK shows in the Tivimate TV Guide from the 1000 of stations so I know I have to organise those.

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I will let you know how it all goes but I've got no reference point as to what is good or bad to work from.

What is good so far for me is if I select a TV or Movie it seems to look and play great and also works with subtitles via VLC without issue.

Trying Live TV is a learning curve for me, it took me a while to find some UK shows in the Tivimate TV Guide from the 1000s of stations so I know I have to organise those.

Use the smarters app go into live TV and search UK. all in very simple catagories on there

SnoopZ

03-10-2025 20:26

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Apologies for all the double posts it seems to do that to me today if I try and edit on mobile.

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Originally Posted by Jaymoss (Post 36204029)

Use the smarters app go into live TV and search UK. all in very simple catagories on there

Will give it ago after I get home from working this late shift.

SnoopZ

04-10-2025 10:16

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£50 Tesco Gift Card via Everup for the 5.1% discount.

If I do this every week I'll save £2.55 a week on food shopping and still get my Tesco Clubcard points.

thenry

04-10-2025 10:26

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Originally Posted by SnoopZ (Post 36204027)

Reference points would be zap times. Buffers. Downtime. Skips.

I liked how large the playlist was. I also liked the fact Italy was working. Recent raids mean the likes of Italy, Netherlands, BeIn were down for other providers. I think I was too rash yesterday sorry. I just got annoyed seeing yet another provider with a similar playlist to others.

Jaymoss

04-10-2025 10:37

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Originally Posted by thenry (Post 36204071)

This is because like I have repeated they are all using the same xtream code reseller credit panels . You imagine the bandwidth and server space and equipment to receive and then restream global tv is required to stream literally 1000s of channels 24 hours a day and the bandwidth required to serve all the connections and then there is the cost . How many of these server farms for illegal streaming do you think there are globally ? In the days of card sharing it was a lot easier and cheaper to set up so there were more unique providers iptv is a totally different story

SnoopZ

04-10-2025 11:59

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Originally Posted by thenry (Post 36204071)

Reference points would be zap times. Buffers. Downtime. Skips.

I liked how large the playlist was. I also liked the fact Italy was working. Recent raids mean the likes of Italy, Netherlands, BeIn were down for other providers. I think I was too rash yesterday sorry. I just got annoyed seeing yet another provider with a similar playlist to others.

No offence taken I was just happy I was able to sort this out myself as previously I thought it was done by contacting a dodgy guy down the pub.

I'm still learning just need to sort the TV guide out so it's trial and error but it definitely bye bye Virgin Media TV as there is no point in me paying for that especially as I hardly ever use it.

thenry

04-10-2025 12:18

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It's a hobby. You'll learn, upgrade, have fun and enjoy the satisfaction.

Pub guy goes to prison.

Re: the EPG. Unless supplier provided you'll have to pay for third party support.

I use Google to look up EPG. Sky recently got rid of their web based EPG to a lot of people's annoyance but there are alternatives

https://www.cableforum.uk/board/show...php?t=33713376

Jaymoss

04-10-2025 12:38

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Originally Posted by thenry (Post 36204079)

If you want a hobby buy yourself an engima 2 based box build your own bouquets on it and build your own epg. None of it costs a lot. I used to own a Mut@nt HD2 box threw a 120GB ssd in it to record . Set it up for freesat and put and iptv sub on it too. That was time consuming but fun (well for me anyway) and then of course you can record and pause live tv . If you sub allows multi screen you can pay for the second and record and watch live tv like on the first gen hd sat boxes cuz of course you lose all the on demand channels with iptv over VM/Sky so recording becomes a thing again . There is a lot of fun to be had

thenry

04-10-2025 13:01

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:LOL: that's deep. I can't be arsed with recording. Plus my subs are 1 connection go anywhere. The majority of stuff is available on demand either from provider or iPlayer, channel 4, etc.

Did you ever mess with technomate nanos with removable modules? Prior to streaming the function of having two feeds cable and satellite

Jaymoss

04-10-2025 13:08

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Originally Posted by thenry (Post 36204084)

The Mut@ant had 3 tuners 1 cable and 2 sat they were modular

Jaymoss

04-10-2025 20:19

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Windows 10 pro key to set up a clean install on an old windows vista laptop 74p activated just fine

peanut

04-10-2025 20:35

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A pair of clean lugholes. £60 for 5 min treatment (suction) wax removal from SpecSavers.

Needs must as requested by audiologist as having new moulds (or molds) and a new pair of hearing aids at the end of the month.

Still it's done, made a bit of difference though at least.

Jimmy-J

05-10-2025 07:28

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Originally Posted by Jaymoss (Post 36204109)

Windows 10 pro key to set up a clean install on an old windows vista laptop 74p activated just fine

That's a good buy, seen any cheap keys for Windows 11?

US Vietnam Webbing M56 Suspenders / US Vietnam M56 Pistol Belt / M56 Field Pack Canvas Vietnam M56 Butt Pack / and a US M56 First Aid Compass Pouch.

Jaymoss

05-10-2025 09:13

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Originally Posted by Jimmy-J (Post 36204122)

Message me mate the same place has them for 90p of course you take the punt but so far I have never have one fail and never had one flag later either and I have used loads. I did have bad keys off ebay but not here

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