NTL PVR †“ anything on horizon?

[Derek]

Originally Posted by simpsonsFAN

Optical - The connections are on the back of the PACE di4000 series, but no achall plug was put on the back of the box to cut costs, I *would* PM you a link with instructions on howto add one, but alas you disabled Private Messenging.

And as all the boxes are the property of Ntl taking a dremel to the back of it wouldn't be a very good idea.

Originally Posted by simpsonsFAN

5.1 - You do realise that currently NO tv channel broadcasts in 5.1 sound in the UK, on any platform (cable, sky, DTT, etc), execpt for the ODD movie on sky movies, but seing as NTL encode these at a higher bandwith than sky, you will get better picture with NTL on premium channels.

The Sky channels are not re-encoded by Ntl. They go out at the same bandwidth so should look the same.

[Tristan]

No, SimpsonsFAN is right. The Sky Sports channels, and probably the Sky Movies channels as well, are received in raw format via fibre from Sky, and are MPEG'd and multiplexed by NTL themselves.

[rdhw]

Originally Posted by bobsta

Unless anyone knows of an RGB SCART to Component convertor?

See http://www.keene.co.uk/cgi-bin/codesearch.pl?RGB2C for an example of such a converter.

[captain747480]

See my post on Digital Spy for the NTL CS line on PVR

http://forum.digitalspy.co.uk/board/...57#post3357957

[simpsonsFAN]

Originally Posted by Tristan

No, SimpsonsFAN is right. The Sky Sports channels, and probably the Sky Movies channels as well, are received in raw format via fibre from Sky, and are MPEG'd and multiplexed by NTL themselves.

Yep, as are most of the premium channels and sky one is also (although not sky mix), I find that these channels look alot better on NTL than they do on SKY.
lol, almost makes you forget that the rest look terrible.
-Chris

[bobsta]

Thanks for the link rdhw - great. Just got the save up the pennies now!

[supagooner]

Just found this: http://www.ntl.com/locales/gb/en/inv...-Final-UBS.pdfSee page 10, loks like sometime in 2005???????

Or, page 11 of the same presentation, as posted previously in this thread:

Originally Posted by rdhw

See http://www.keene.co.uk/cgi-bin/codesearch.pl?RGB2C for an example of such a converter.

Thanks for that link, I could use that with my DVD player. I do realise that I could get a new DVD player that has RGB output (mine was an early imported US unit), but I`m loathed to get rid my current player as it will take just about anything I throw at it, DCD, VCD, SVCD, XSVD, etc.