Bargain Alert: New Ferguson HD DTT/Sat Combo Box - €63 before postage

philahern

STB wrote: »

Is there an option in the hdmi and audio settings to change to PCM audio ???

If there is, change it to that and reboot the box.

The options for digital audio are LPCM and BS. It defaults to LPCM, I changed the BS and rebooted and no difference.

Kristopherus

philahern wrote: »

The options for digital audio are LPCM and BS. It defaults to LPCM, I changed the BS and rebooted and no difference.

Tried the same and nothing changed. Anyway, if Ferguson have acknowledged that there's a fault, hopefully an update in a week or 10 days may not be too long to wait.

Anyone know the settings for BBC 4. It did'nt come up in my search:(

Tony

Kristopherus wrote: »

Anyone know the settings for BBC 4. It did'nt come up in my searh:(

Its not on until 7pm

Edit: Thanks to Mike at freesat.ie for sending the streams to ferguson

seligehgit

Yes there appears to be a lip synch problem,bought mine from Satsklep.I have sent them a mail re problem.As asked earlier does this device not recognise a 1 terrabyte external hard drive???

Gerry Wicklow

Kristopherus wrote: »

Anyone know the settings for BBC 4. It did'nt come up in my search:(

BBC4 is also Cbeebies
10803 H 22000

Kristopherus

Gerry Wicklow wrote: »

BBC4 is also Cbeebies
10803 H 22000

Got it. Thanks.

Set up the 120 Combo for my pal this evening. Same synch problems in both DTT & Sat. He has a big 47in full HD Phillps monster in his lounge. Have to say the HD channels looked absolutely fabulous when connected up via hdmi. Have him set up so that he can watch via hdmi or scart. Scart also connected to his dvd recorder and a second hdmi going to his external hdd so that he can record to dvd or hdd. All working a treat, except for the lip-synch problem.

Now how to get his Magic Eye to send a signal to the monstrous 32in crt he has in the bedroom. Anyone got any ideas? It is not a $ky eye.

O'Prez

I've tuned in 3 versions of ITV HD...channels 707 and 479 have major sync issues. Channel 125 is great. Over all very pleased with the box so far. Amazing HD picture on my 42" Philips. Had a go at the media player earlier. Played MKV files ok but AVI was a non starter (they must have the dvix codec but I'm almost sure they were xvid).

What does the percentage bar mean in the info dialogue window...and the 2 bars on the left? The percentage one on my perfectly synced (and perfect picture) is 16% to 18% most of the time).

Kristopherus

O'Prez wrote: »

I've tuned in 3 versions of ITV HD...channels 707 and 479 have major sync issues. Channel 125 is great. Over all very pleased with the box so far. Amazing HD picture on my 42" Philips. Had a go at the media player earlier. Played MKV files ok but AVI was a non starter (they must have the dvix codec but I'm almost sure they were xvid).

What does the percentage bar mean in the info dialogue window...and the 2 bars on the left? The percentage one on my perfectly synced (and perfect picture) is 16% to 18% most of the time).

Could you have a look at the best one and give the transponder details. I've edited all my channels down to the bare minimum & I don't wish to have to scan again:eek:.

Thats a very low value to even see an image.

O'Prez

Kristopherus wrote: »

Could you have a look at the best one and give the transponder details. I've edited all my channels down to the bare minimum & I don't wish to have to scan again:eek:.

It's 10936/22000/V ..Let me know how that goes on your end. I'm still arsing around with it and am getting sync issues with the Irish channels.

How do you add a channel manually without having to go through all that scanning lark?

Tony

O'Prez wrote: »

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How do you add a channel manually without having to go through all that scanning lark?

Go to TP list and do a transponder scan

O'Prez

Brilliant. Thanx Tony.

I see BBC HD and BBC One HD in my channel line up but clicking on em just brings up a blank screen with a No Signal message. What's the story with that?

Fowler87

Like everyone else, I got my ariva box today it and am quite happy with it so far. Picture quality is great esp in hd and liking the pvr recording option . Its user friendly and overall its a good purchase. Hopefully the audio sync will get sorted, however its not as bad as I thouht it would be..

seligehgit

There appears to be no sign of NME TV,it is'nt scanning at eurobird 1 frequency 11,642 SR 27500 FEC 2/3,not sure if it's H or V.Ditto I can't detect Movies for Men+1??

Gerry Wicklow

http://en.kingofsat.net/freqs.php?&pos=28.2E&standard=All&ordre=freq&filtre=Clear

Gives all satellite settings.

Kristopherus

O'Prez wrote: »

It's 10936/22000/V ..Let me know how that goes on your end. I'm still arsing around with it and am getting sync issues with the Irish channels.

How do you add a channel manually without having to go through all that scanning lark?

Tony beat me to it.:). I have the synch problem on ITV 1 HD. I'm connected by scart only & I got a lot of blanking out on the HD channel.

Tony

O'Prez wrote: »

Brilliant. Thanx Tony.

I see BBC HD and BBC One HD in my channel line up but clicking on em just brings up a blank screen with a No Signal message. What's the story with that?

Did you set the sym rate to 2300 ?

O'Prez

Tony wrote: »

Did you set the sym rate to 2300 ?

I did indeed our Tony...Gerry Wicklow gave me that tip Anyway you must be commended on your excellent after-sales service.

ShamoBuc

O'Prez wrote: »

I did indeed our Tony...Gerry Wicklow gave me that tip Anyway you must be commended on your excellent after-sales service.

Didn't you know? Tony is actually a computer with AI working 24/7 !!!

O'Prez

I heard he's a bit of a RAM alright? Geddit? Computer? RAM...Ram? I'll get me coat

Tony

O'Prez wrote: »

Anyway you must be commended on your excellent after-sales service.

Thanks for the kind words .

ShamoBuc wrote: »

Didn't you know? Tony is actually a computer with AI working 24/7 !!!

I'm not so sure about the I in AI

seanmack

Box arrived yesterday (thanks Tony) installed and everything seems OK using SCART on an old tube TV and have not noticed the sync issue, but then have not looked very closely!!

While trying to go throught the Ch. list and set it up as I want have noticed a few stations missing e.g. CBS Reality and CH 4 HD have scanned twice and even tried scanning individual transponders with no joy.

If anyone has any ideas please.

OK now time to RTFM

seligehgit

Tried recording with a 16GB pen,recorded perfectly but I was unable to view the majority of other channels,excepting Irish terrestrials and a few others???All the rest have a black screen while recording?

willyb007

seligehgit wrote: »

Tried recording with a 16GB pen,recorded perfectly but I was unable to view the majority of other channels,excepting Irish terrestrials and a few others???All the rest have a black screen while recording?

I presume you are recording a Sat channel? In which case you can only record and view off of the one transponder it is broadcast over. Example Record BBC 1 NI can view BBC 2 NI and DTT but wont allow you to view any other Sat channel until the recording has stopped.

jonas7

Got this yesterday but can't seem to get saorview channels on it yet, they just come up as scrambled even though I have an analog arial. Anyone know why this might be?

willyb007

Received the box yesterday cheers Tony! Initial impressions are quite good! Amazing quality of picture on HD Channels. Box menus are quite handy to navigate through. Have noticed slight sync issue but not as bad as i had imagined. All in all am quite happy with it. Will have more of a fool around with it Monday when finished working.

I also tried playing my avi videos through the media player but only sound, video codec is not supported. Just wondering can this be resolved via a future firmware upgrade?

willyb007

jonas7 wrote: »

Got this yesterday but can't seem to get saorview channels on it yet, they just come up as scrambled even though I have an analog arial. Anyone know why this might be?

Not sure if this helps but i choose Germany as the country i scanned for as I had read it on here somewhere before. Worked fine for me. I presume its a UHF aerial you have?

user1842

philahern wrote: »

Gonna leave it for now and come back to it later. Thoughts so far:

Positives -

• Picture looks great.
• Box looks small and neat
• Record on same mux and also record sat watch dtt
• MkV playback looks great
• Easy to arrange channels with editor
• Time between channel changes is fine for me

Negatives -

• USB in the front
• Audio sync problem
• Extra info is not available in epg, just the program title
• Haven't been able to get web radio working

The USB port at the front is easy to change to the back but you need to open the box and void the warranty. The port is connected to the main-board with a cable that can be unplugged. I just unscrewed the USB port and placed it where the RS232 port in the back is (unplugging and getting rid of the RS232 port). The screw holes are the same size so all you need to secure the USB port it is two small bots and a few washers.

Hope they fix the HDMI sync issue soon. Great piece of kit though.

seligehgit

O'Prez wrote: »

I've tuned in 3 versions of ITV HD...channels 707 and 479 have major sync issues. Channel 125 is great. Over all very pleased with the box so far. Amazing HD picture on my 42" Philips. Had a go at the media player earlier. Played MKV files ok but AVI was a non starter (they must have the dvix codec but I'm almost sure they were xvid).

What does the percentage bar mean in the info dialogue window...and the 2 bars on the left? The percentage one on my perfectly synced (and perfect picture) is 16% to 18% most of the time).

Used the transponder you quoted 10936/22000/V but sadly the lip synch problem is still apparent on my ITV HD.Tried to record onto my 1TB iomega screenplay plus multimedia player/hard drive.Picture freezed from time to time,quite a poor recording.Hopefully it was a once off problem,my mate has advised me that this device is'nt compatible with a hard drive in excess of 750 GB??There is certainly a problem with the box recognising it as an usb device.Pretty concerned with previous posters comments re weekly recording commencing on the date they were entered!!!:eek:

user1842

Just another update on the Media Player.

Confirming that it will not play the standard definition DIVX or XVID codec.

However it will play the high definition DIVX and XVID codec with excellent results.

This must be a bug. Do you think I should email Ferguson about this so they can fix it?

willyb007

seligehgit wrote: »

Tried to record onto my 1TB iomega screenplay plus multimedia player/hard drive.Picture freezed from time to time,quite a poor recording.Hopefully it was a once off problem,my mate has advised me that this device is'nt compatible with a hard drive in excess of 750 GB??There is certainly a problem with the box recognising it as an usb device.:eek:

Can this box handle usb powered 2.5" hard drives? Or do they have to be mains powered?

comet

willyb007 wrote: »

Can this box handle usb powered 2.5" hard drives?

Yes it works with USB powered drive.

comet

dmclean1842 wrote: »

Just another update on the Media Player.
Confirming that it will not play the standard definition DIVX or XVID codec.
However it will play the high definition DIVX and XVID codec with excellent results.

That is really anoying

seligehgit

Anybody pick up BBC interactive,Sky interactive?Transponders?

O'Prez

So then...some fixes I'd like to see:

The lip sync issue.
Better codec support in the media player.
Info for the terrestrial channels.
Today I noticed that the EPG has a bug in that when scrolling down to see what's coming up a lot of the channel fields remain blank until you click the actual channel and only then will info appear in the EPG.

Other than that though, crackin' little combo. I love the fact you can get real hands-on with the editor on your PC too.

comet

Yep hopefully these fixes come to fruition.

Question regarding the remote, it feels really flimsy and the buttons aren't great. Whats the position if it breaks.
Would it be possible to get another one of them or would it be possible to get some kind of generic remote for the box?

seligehgit

Tried transponders listed on this page http://info.international-satellite.com/articles/bbc_europe.html,no success.:(

user1842

O'Prez wrote: »

So then...some fixes I'd like to see:

The lip sync issue.
Better codec support in the media player.
Info for the terrestrial channels.
Today I noticed that the EPG has a bug in that when scrolling down to see what's coming up a lot of the channel fields remain blank until you click the actual channel and only then will info appear in the EPG.

Other than that though, crackin' little combo. I love the fact you can get real hands-on with the editor on your PC too.

Another update on the media player.

While playing HD movies after about 10 to 15 mins into any HD film I play the box freezes and needs a restart. If you restart the box and fast forward past the stall point it kinda works, however it just stalls again 10mins later.

Im using a powered 500GB hard-drive so I dont think its that but it might be.

Its a pitty as the quality is superb.

channelsurfer2

ok i tried to get sky news but an astra scan dosent pick it up says no signal on 12207? also can anyone tell me how to add astra 2d to it as it only gives me a choice of astra 1 astra 2a 2b and 2c? spent ages rescanning but it seems I cant master it yet...also c4hd i cant get thanks

user1842

channelsurfer2 wrote: »

ok i tried to get sky news but an astra scan dosent pick it up says no signal on 12207? also can anyone tell me how to add astra 2d to it as it only gives me a choice of astra 1 astra 2a 2b and 2c? spent ages rescanning but it seems I cant master it yet...also c4hd i cant get thanks

Do a TP scan on ASTRA 2a. It should pick it up. 12207.00, V, 27500

seligehgit

Where can you do a transponder scan on Astra 2B?It isn't listed?

channelsurfer2

dmclean1842 wrote: »

Do a TP scan on ASTRA 2a. It should pick it up. 12207.00, V, 27500

did that says no signal received? I had it on the initial set up but deleted it by mistake..

Gerry Wicklow

http://en.kingofsat.net/freqs.php?&pos=28.2E&standard=All&ordre=freq&filtre=Clear

Gives all the current satellite settings

One_More_Mile

channelsurfer2 wrote: »

ok i tried to get sky news but an astra scan dosent pick it up says no signal on 12207? also can anyone tell me how to add astra 2d to it as it only gives me a choice of astra 1 astra 2a 2b and 2c? spent ages rescanning but it seems I cant master it yet...also c4hd i cant get thanks

Ya Sky news didn't come up for me either or CITV- can someone spell it out for me how to add these. I tried adding the frequencies etc in the TP list but the channels don't appear up in the listings????
Thanks

Kristopherus

channelsurfer2 wrote: »

did that says no signal received? I had it on the initial set up but deleted it by mistake..

Funny that. I scanned & got 2 x Sky News plus Sky News Interactive plus a hybrid version of Sky. The Interactive version shows 4 screens, but I couldn't find a way to view/enlarge any screen. Must be open to $ky viewers only.

ShamoBuc

Kristopherus wrote: »

Funny that. I scanned & got 2 x Sky News plus Sky News Interactive plus a hybrid version of Sky. The Interactive version shows 4 screens, but I couldn't find a way to view/enlarge any screen. Must be open to $ky viewers only.

Exactly what I got aswell.

O'Prez

I recorded 2.5 hours of TV3 earlier which had sync problems and the recording had no sync problems.

STB

O'Prez wrote: »

So then...some fixes I'd like to see:

The lip sync issue.
Better codec support in the media player.
Info for the terrestrial channels.
Today I noticed that the EPG has a bug in that when scrolling down to see what's coming up a lot of the channel fields remain blank until you click the actual channel and only then will info appear in the EPG.

Other than that though, crackin' little combo. I love the fact you can get real hands-on with the editor on your PC too.

Better codec support - most boxes dont play video files at all. this is pretty good given its price.

Epg loading - this is normal behaviour of all combo/fta boxes. It is loading the info from each transponder - there is no central transponder for all channels for channel data. This is how the 28.2 satellite are set up. It cannot be fixed. The data is controlled.

The terrestrial info is a strange one and obviously a problem with that chipset (it also happens on the Edisions which are Ali chipsets as well). Firmware should fix it.

The voice sync is a definite firmware bug.

There is a real good editor that I have posted before that exports to various boxes from the king of sat data. Effectively a blind scan without scanning. I have told Tony about it. I dont know if he has tried it. I am reluctant to put up the link until someone has tried it on the Fergusons. I dont want to kill people boxes. So can someone tell me what format the channel list files are in ?

O'Prez

They're in .abs

galait

Got 2 from Satsklep and lip sync issue via scart very apparent on DTT , Also did anyone manage to connect it to a network , Tried Static and DHCP and no joy , The cable is fine as Xbox Live works fine.


Anyone see this twat reveling in our misfortune

http://www.tvtrade.ie/ferguson-ariva-120-combo.html

darth_maul

galait wrote: »

Anyone see this twat reveling in our misfortune

http://www.tvtrade.ie/ferguson-ariva-120-combo.html

Amazing from a man that stocks the Triax ST HD 537 with all its problems, has he actually road tested this, it has far far more issues still than the ariva 120e had on its first firmware revision