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Originally Posted by Stuart C
 to the forum.
Unless you are willing to pay a subscription, you won't get anything from the NTL box, I am afraid.
The best way to get freeview (assuming you are in a good reception area) is to go down to your local electrical shop and buy a freeview box (you can get them from about £20 up now). |
if anyones got a few networked pc's and wants to get into DVB DTT then id advise them to look into getting a cheap DVB-T USB card with a BDA driver, a copy of JTVLAN add-on and WebScheduler
http://forums.dvbowners.com/index.ph...per\.conf+file
set it up for multicasting and watch the CD+ quality .ts streams on any PC or TV attached machines with VLC pointing to 224.0.0.1:7777
shame the same cant be done with the NTL STB's as they dont have AV streaming server software built in.
funny thing is, you could do that on your PC if you buy a DVB-C PCi card with cam and were able to use your NTL SmartCard in that slot, shame NTL dont sell these options or even offer them as an extra rental option, then you could make your own cable based (TW/HDTV-ntl/SDTV)DVB AV server without hopeing that one day NTL might put that now basic want/wish on one of their rented STB's in the future that never arrives.
on the point about
"the pace receive you have is for a cable network and belongs to ntl "
"give the stb back to your mate and let him give it back to ntl/telly " both assume that NTL/TW did not already bill the original guy, and hence its his property to do with as he wishes.
"if he used that stb to subscribe to the service and he dont have it he will be billed for the replacement if they come to collect it." made me laugh now (long time past, but never fully cleared up and refunded me), as they once took back my box after i canceled the account (receate included), and still charged my account for the price of a replacement box to the tune of £300.
the thing is, NTL dont care about these boxs, and infact, assuming this is a billed for box in perfect working order,if the lad were to ring up NTL and ask them to re-activate it on the basic minimum package they would not allow it..........
now thats a wast of perfectly good kit, and one more non-subscriber, probably justifyed by the fact that they couldnt charge the £15.00 STB rental per month for this now end-user owned box.