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

Harcrid

Ok great. Hopefully Ferguson are quick with the new FW.

Mexecutioner

groom wrote: »

I don't know if anyone else noticed but the PDF manual attached elsewhere in this thread has some very small but dodgy images under the Media section. Very strange thing to see in such a document.

Dodgy to you maybe, and what about the other poster here who couldn't bring himself to spell out the word 'porn' & wrote 'p**n' instead?

Grow up FFS.

lucernarian

Mexecutioner wrote: »

Dodgy to you maybe, and what about the other poster here who couldn't bring himself to spell out the word 'porn' & wrote 'p**n' instead?

Grow up FFS.

Whoa now, that's a bit of an overreaction? They're entitled to their opinion, even if the pictures don't bother me. It's quite peculiar to see in a manual though!

theShire

Mexecutioner wrote: »

Dodgy to you maybe, and what about the other poster here who couldn't bring himself to spell out the word 'porn' & wrote 'p**n' instead?

Grow up FFS.

I wrote it that way so it wouldn't be flagged as inappropriate.

I would assume that we're all grown ups here but I'm still entitled to filter my content as and when I wish.

Harcrid

I have had my first play with the Ariva 120 just now. I am afraid to say it's already back in the box as the audio sync issues are too bad to put up with. Some channels seem almost perfect but then others are way out. I still have high hopes though.

The menu system is very good and the remote is perfectly responsive. Tuning the channels was very straightforward also This has the makings of a very good combo if Ferguson can come up with a software update to fix the audio problems. But until they do I am afraid I won't be using mine.

Harcrid

Double post

IrishHomer

The audio synch drives me nuts too i really love the fact it reads the sky card even for the premium channels like Sky sports!

I will be taking mine on holiers to Spain in August to watch the last major golf chanpionship of the season on Sky sports

Tony

IrishHomer wrote: »

I will be taking mine on holiers to Spain in August to watch the last major golf chanpionship of the season on Sky sports

Its a handy feature alright but bear in mind that it most likely will not update the card subscription but I think a couple of weeks should be ok.

willyb007

Bought one of these Combo Boxes off of Tony last week for the father, Have to say we both are extremely impressed with it and all its features. The lip sync issue is not as bad for me as others have posted with theirs. The Ariva Editor is the only way to go to set up the Channel List as its easier in my opinion. The Media player is a bonus MKV's play great on it and PVR functions are fine for me. So impressed with it I have cancelled my own S*y subscription in favour of buying one for myself. (From Satsklep) Would have gladly bought from Tony again but understandably he has frozen it from his site pending a new firmware upgrade.

All in all a quality purchase for the price. Cheers Tony!

IrishHomer

willyb007 wrote: »

Bought one of these Combo Boxes off of Tony last week for the father, Have to say we both are extremely impressed with it and all its features. The lip sync issue is not as bad for me as others have posted with theirs. The Ariva Editor is the only way to go to set up the Channel List as its easier in my opinion. The Media player is a bonus MKV's play great on it and PVR functions are fine for me. So impressed with it I have cancelled my own S*y subscription in favour of buying one for myself. (From Satsklep) Would have gladly bought from Tony again but understandably he has frozen it from his site pending a new firmware upgrade.

All in all a quality purchase for the price. Cheers Tony!

The cost fo the box is very cheap compared ot the cost of Sky subs.

thfcem

did anyone get the lnb out feature to work? seem to be no signal on my sky box even when the ferguson 120 is switched off

cheers

willyb007

IrishHomer wrote: »

The cost fo the box is very cheap compared ot the cost of Sky subs.

Exactly for little more than my €67 per month subscription, You can buy a box with built in Media Player that gives you HD Channels! A better quality picture than what I had. Hard to see where ya can go wrong!!!

Vince Cable

theShire wrote: »

I wrote it that way so it wouldn't be flagged as inappropriate.

I didn't know Ned Flanders was a mod on this forum.

O'Prez

Vince Cable wrote: »

I didn't know Ned Flanders was a mod on this forum.

Hahahahahahaha

Lpfsox

Tony wrote: »

Thanks for the kind words but I must apologise that the lip sync issue was not spotted by me before we shipped any receivers.

oh god Tony I was not criticising in any way - I just didn't have the time to set up the receiver and when I saw the posts about the sync issue I figured I'm as well leaving it where it is safely in it's box until it's sorted. Can't fault how you've responded to the problem at all and am genuinely very pleased and impressed with your customer service. The sync thing is not your fault and you've nothing at all to apologise for

John mac

will it play mkv's and flac files via the network ? or is it only via usb.
Thanks J

Tony

I did not take that at all from your post Thanks again to you and everyone here for their patience and understanding.

Lpfsox wrote: »

oh god Tony I was not criticising in any way

gman2k

I got one also in the post last week from Tony, but it's still in the packaging also!

Tony

gman2k wrote: »

I got one also in the post last week

I hope not, it was sent by courier

Kenny Powers

I scanned Astra 2A and Eurobird they both seem to have the same ch? Which ones are best to use Astra?

pissed

Decided to take mine back out of the box, have spent the last hour or two sorting the channels via the Ariva Channel Editor ..... word or warning, scan both satellite and terrestrial before you go to sort them. I learned the hard way. Had all my satellite channels in order and went and done a terrestrial scan thinking it would just add them in at the end. The whole list gets messed up again. All sorted now. Think this was mentioned earlier but on the scan it picks up 2 ITV HD channels. One is really out of sync but the second looks almost perfect. The good one is at 10936MHZ / 22000 / V.

Hav'nt had time to check out recording or time shift as of yet, leave that for another day.

Gerry Wicklow

pissed wrote: »

Think this was mentioned earlier but on the scan it picks up 2 ITV HD channels. One is really out of sync but the second looks almost perfect. The good one is at 10936MHZ / 22000 / V.

10936 has ITV Granada with the ID 3851. This is full HD 1920x1080
You will also see STV with the ID 3855. This is also full hd but offers different movies sometimes
ITV HD London on 10832 is only 1440 res

willyb007

Gerry Wicklow wrote: »

10936 has ITV Granada with the ID 3851. This is full HD 1920x1080
You will also see STV with the ID 3855. This is also full hd but offers different movies sometimes

Savage Cabbage Gerry!:D Knew that STV showed different movies but not that it was in HD! Will be adding this to my channel list in the morning.

An.Duine.Eile

I have the box connected with both HDMI and SCART. Lip sync can be totally out on HDMI even on TV3 but switch to the scart connection and lip sync is okay. Scart is the best option until lipsync sorted.

Have the Ariva HD combo as well, it never had an issue with sync on HDMI, so feel confident that Ferguson can sort it.

Any ETA on new firware ?

BTW anyone work out how to save the channel listing to Usb.

Harcrid

I had a few free hours today so I decided to give this box a little more play time.

I connected up with scart since a lot of people have reported no problems using it and it certainly is much better now. I spent some time scanning the satellites and adding the terrestrial channels. I then exported to the Ariva channel editor to rearrange everything the way I wanted.

I then decided to give the HDMI a try again and it was actually much much better than when I first tried it yesterday. There is still a slight delay on some channels, particularly the HD ones but it is so slight now that I dont even notice it. I am much happier with it and will be using it full time from now on.

Vick7

An.Duine.Eile wrote: »

Any ETA on new firware ?

Is new firmware definately on the way?

Tony

Vick7 wrote: »

Is new firmware definately on the way?

As previously mentioned in post 290

"Just got a response from the technical manager at ferguson :"


"Hello
Yes we found this problem.
New s/w will be available next week.
Our engineers are working on it right now.
Anyhow please help us to record streams of
channels that makes the worse feeling "

mick_ser

anyone have any problems tuning in the bbc streams? i cant seem to..thanks:)

Moon54

Vick7 wrote: »

Is new firmware definately on the way?

Not yet, but keep an eye on this page for the latest one;
http://www.ferguson-digital.eu/en/download/HD-Satellite-Receivers/ariva-120-combo/

The one installed on mine, atm, is the latest 2.13B5 version,
hopefully a new one will address the lip sync issue.
Earlier, a BBC HD channel I came across, had the Audio test screen up and the audio was hitting about 6-7 on the Audio Late section.

John mac

has anyone set one of these up through an Amp ? i know on my amp i can set delays for lip sync issues. May work for someone.

Moon54

I've made a cleaned up channel list if someone wants to try it out.:)
http://www.mediafire.com/?kqe9y3piyekfqnm

Let me know if you find anything left out.

bmaxi

Has anybody got the Sky white FTV card to work? I can see the details of it in "Conditional Access" but the channels are not showing up.

Just noticed, looking back, that Kristopherus managed this. How did you do it? Even scanning the TPs doesn't show up 5*

darth_maul

bmaxi wrote: »

Has anybody got the Sky white FTV card to work? I can see the details of it in "Conditional Access" but the channels are not showing up.

Just noticed, looking back, that Kristopherus managed this. How did you do it? Even scanning the TPs doesn't show up 5*

when scanning the TP's make sure that FTA is set to NO

Have a Sky FTV card in mine and its clearing them just fine

Also try going into Antenna setup and checking LNB frequency is Univeral 9750-10600 on both 2A AND EUROBIRD (mine was set at this but needed to be changed and changed back)

bmaxi

darth_maul wrote: »

when scanning the TP's make sure that FTA is set to NO

Have a Sky FTV card in mine and its clearing them just fine

Also try going into Antenna setup and checking LNB frequency is Univeral 9750-10600 on both 2A AND EUROBIRD (mine was set at this but needed to be changed and changed back)

Thanks, I had just sussed that myself. Whether 5* and Sony are worth the hassle of deleting 900 stations is debatable. :rolleyes:
Has anybody come up with a quick way of deleting unwanted stations? i don't know how those programme editors work, wouldn't even know how to load them. Don't recognise that .abs file, is it one you can open?

darth_maul

bmaxi wrote: »

Thanks, I had just sussed that myself. Whether 5* and Sony are worth the hassle of deleting 900 stations is debatable. :rolleyes:
Has anybody come up with a quick way of deleting unwanted stations? i don't know how those programme editors work, wouldn't even know how to load them. Don't recognise that .abs file, is it one you can open?

if you only scan the individual TP's for the scrambled channels you want you won't have loads of channels to delete.

One_More_Mile

mick_ser wrote: »

anyone have any problems tuning in the bbc streams? i cant seem to..thanks:)

Can I re-ask this question? Anyone get the BBC streams running???- will be handy for the music festivals coming up

willyb007

One_More_Mile wrote: »

Can I re-ask this question? Anyone get the BBC streams running???- will be handy for the music festivals coming up

I am uploading my completed New Channel List & Favourites to here for anyone interested in downloading it. I have put a lot and lot of time in to compiling this just the way I want it. I have Channels organised in favourites also. The TV & Radio channels are based upon the order FTA Channels are listed on a S*y Box with a few exceptions. BBC & ITV Streams are also on this and have their own section in the favourites. If you choose to use it you might have to manually change name of the favourite groups on the combo box itself as the editor seems to have a glitch in that respect. Hope you will enjoy it if you choose to use it!

http://www.mediafire.com/?ffjsx0dixdpal49

PS: Bear in mind i am using the Carinn Hill Transmitter so you prob wont pick the Irish Channels up depending on where you are in the Country!

TJM

Great little box barring the audio sync issue. Incidentally, is anyone else seeing audio sync problems on terrestrial tv also, or is it only me?

O'Prez

TJM wrote: »

Great little box barring the audio sync issue. Incidentally, is anyone else seeing audio sync problems on terrestrial tv also, or is it only me?

TV3 and 3e are particularly moody in the lip sync department for me.

swoofer

try the pause trick while watching dtt, press pause, then revert back to live.

gb--

Deedsie

Any word on when this might be available again Tony? Waiting to order one off your site.

Moon54

willyb007 wrote: »

I am uploading my completed New Channel List & Favourites to here for anyone interested in downloading it.
http://www.mediafire.com/?ffjsx0dixdpal49

Thanks for that list.
I didn't have CBeebies and a few others on my list.
Nice one.

willyb007

Moon54 wrote: »

Thanks for that list.
I didn't have CBeebies and a few others on my list.
Nice one.

Your Welcome! Took me a lot of hours (Over 2 days!) and patience to compile it! Running back and forth from the box! Glad you appreciate my effort!:D

Tony

Deedsie wrote: »

Any word on when this might be available again Tony? Waiting to order one off your site.

I'm just waiting on the new firmware , we have plenty of stock. I asked the technical manager in ferguson for an update and he replied this morning.

"I hope on monday
we are making it right now"

Edit: Thanks again to Mike @ freesat.ie for uploading the streams ferguson requested

One_More_Mile

willyb007 wrote: »

I am uploading my completed New Channel List & Favourites to here for anyone interested in downloading it. I have put a lot and lot of time in to compiling this just the way I want it. I have Channels organised in favourites also. The TV & Radio channels are based upon the order FTA Channels are listed on a S*y Box with a few exceptions. BBC & ITV Streams are also on this and have their own section in the favourites. If you choose to use it you might have to manually change name of the favourite groups on the combo box itself as the editor seems to have a glitch in that respect. Hope you will enjoy it if you choose to use it!

http://www.mediafire.com/?ffjsx0dixdpal49

PS: Bear in mind i am using the Carinn Hill Transmitter so you prob wont pick the Irish Channels up depending on where you are in the Country!

Thanks for making this available willyb007- Just what I was looking for.

Appreciate the effort!

Deedsie

willyb007 wrote: »

I am uploading my completed New Channel List & Favourites to here for anyone interested in downloading it. I have put a lot and lot of time in to compiling this just the way I want it. I have Channels organised in favourites also. The TV & Radio channels are based upon the order FTA Channels are listed on a S*y Box with a few exceptions. BBC & ITV Streams are also on this and have their own section in the favourites. If you choose to use it you might have to manually change name of the favourite groups on the combo box itself as the editor seems to have a glitch in that respect. Hope you will enjoy it if you choose to use it!

http://www.mediafire.com/?ffjsx0dixdpal49

PS: Bear in mind i am using the Carinn Hill Transmitter so you prob wont pick the Irish Channels up depending on where you are in the Country!

My area is served by woodcock hill. Will your download work for me? Can I exit the individual Irish channels and keep the fat channels? Thanks for posting.

philahern

Deedsie wrote: »

My area is served by woodcock hill. Will your download work for me? Can I exit the individual Irish channels and keep the fat channels? Thanks for posting.

I'm woodcock hill too and it worked for me. The favs were still there but you have to rename them.

galait

I have just bricked mine , A temporary problem I hope , I was updating the channel list from USB and my 11 mth old Son just pulled the USB out and it rebooted.

ASH is the messge on the box and no output to screen , According to the WEB the only recover is via Serial cable using RS232 port , I have the Firmware and Cable and I am just looking for the software required to flash it.

Many thanks in Advance.

Tony

galait wrote: »

I

Many thanks in Advance.

You can get this at www.ferguson.pl if you don't want to wait for the updated firmware

willyb007

Deedsie wrote: »

My area is served by woodcock hill. Will your download work for me? Can I exit the individual Irish channels and keep the fat channels? Thanks for posting.

Yes the Sat Channels will work, Not sure about the Irish Channels though. If they don't work you can delete the Irish Channels from the list and do another Terrestrial Scan and save to USB by going to "Tools" - "Upgrade by USB" flick across to "Dump File" and Select. Before removing the USB ALWAYS select "PVR" - "Remove devise safely" Bring it to your computer to organise your Channel List with the Ariva Editor. (You can use my list as a template in another window) When done export your completed list and save it with an extension of abs (that is .abs from a drop down list)

Though this will take time as doing a Terrestrial Scan will mix up already stored list. This tho is the only way around it if the Irish Channels don't wonk for you! It can be quite frustrating but very satisfactory when done!:D