USB freeview dongle

Craig321

Craig321

Craig321

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Hi,

I'd love to have freeview on my PC along with some recording tools - like a Sky+ on my PC.

My sisters friend has a Freecom freeview stick - like a USB flash drive with an aerial port on the back. It works very well, clear picture and all.

Now, our freeview works perfectly on our big TV. So if I bought one of these Freecom freeview USB sticks and plugged it into a proper aerial (none of this small, portable antenna stuff, that plain wouldn't work!) would it work just as well as freeview does on our big TV?

EDIT

Just been looking a little more and found the same product, and found another with analogue for £20 more. Now of course, that's a waste of money, especially as analogue is going to be turned off eventually... but if I wanted to watch whatever channel was showing on our Sky box would I need to get the analogue one?

With our Sky setup you can go onto any TV, do a channel scan (or just go to 6 if it's automatic) and find whatever's showing on the Sky box. Would I be able to do this on the freeview stick?

Thanks,
Craig.
 
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:cool: Hi,

If I am right in what you are wanting, there are x2 ways that I have used to get either sky or free veiw on your PC.

If it it just free veiw? then you will need either a pci-tunner card, or a usb dongle....I use the usb dongle and have ran a coax lead from the main house ariel via a signal booster box and that works fine.

If it is sky you want? you can run the coax lead from your sky box RF2 connector to your card or usb dongle, or you can also use aset of them video/audio transmitters and then tune it in.

The thing with the sky methed is that if the pc is not in the same room as the sky box, you will need the transmitters and a pci-card or a usb dongle that has audio/video jacks to connect the transmitter-up.

Hope that this helps. ;)
 
broady212003 said:
:cool: Hi,

If I am right in what you are wanting, there are x2 ways that I have used to get either sky or free veiw on your PC.

If it it just free veiw? then you will need either a pci-tunner card, or a usb dongle....I use the usb dongle and have ran a coax lead from the main house ariel via a signal booster box and that works fine.

If it is sky you want? you can run the coax lead from your sky box RF2 connector to your card or usb dongle, or you can also use aset of them video/audio transmitters and then tune it in.

The thing with the sky methed is that if the pc is not in the same room as the sky box, you will need the transmitters and a pci-card or a usb dongle that has audio/video jacks to connect the transmitter-up.

Hope that this helps. ;)
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Hello, thanks for the help.

It's mainly the freeview I'm after... but on all our analogue TVs we're able to do a scan / go to channel 6 and it displays whatever's showing on Sky with no further setup. Will I be able to do this with a USB freeview stick or would the stick need analogue as well to do that?

Also, did you need the booster to make it work properly?

Thanks,
Craig.
 
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:cool: Hi Craig,

The usb dongle I use has a dual tuner (An & Digi) and I find that the analogue will pick up the sky but the Digi dose'nt :(

For the free view I would guess that it depends on how far away from the main tv transmitter you are, but I would always use a booster as it stops the free view signal from freezing etc.

In fact I get a better picture on my pc than I do on the main house TV, so I watch a lot of tv on my pc :)

Bye 4 now Paul ;)
 
Thanks Paul, I have been suggested a booster a couple of times now.

If I was to get the freeview dongle I'd have to put a wire round the house which I guess would come out to around 20m. I guess I'd need a booster at the beginning/end to make it all work better?

Thanks,
Craig.
 
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