I’ve been waiting for feedback on the new setpal tuners that have hit the market recently (in the guise of the Daewoo & Labgear boxes), but it’s all gone very quiet.
Does this mean the performance of these boxes have not lived up to the reputation that was set for them, or is it just that noone is buying them?
Views from anyone who’s bought one, please.
I was wondering,
do we have to retrn the onnet boxes and the onmail kits, because we dint actually own them did we – they were only leased form itv / on digital foir thge duration of their use.
please could somebody tell me what will happen with onmail kits ands onnet boxes?
james
Ok, so there has been all of the talk about what is or isn’t included in the new Pace box in the way of decoders. Can somebody with one of the boxes say if there is just a card slot, or a space to fit a CAM? If ITVD are getting rid of their boxes to Russia or elsewhere, the Pace box with a CAM might be the next box.
It really gets my back up to hear people who don’t like football blaming the Football League for the closure of ITV Digital. In my opinion, and many many others for that matter -ITV Digital was doomed from the start.
I found an article which explains clearly why football is not to blame – it’s just the final nail in the dodgy coffin of ITV Digital….
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http://www.dtg.org.uk/latest/latest_itvdig.htm
“As so often in such crises, the history is complex; however the final straw, that may break the company’s back, is quite simple: the contract with the Football League……..”
“In itself this would not be disastrous. There isn’t a broadcaster in the world that hasn’t paid too much for sporting rights … and survived to tell the tale.”
Please read for the full story.
Gavin
Would they be able to claim their money back confused: 
I have a very nice Sony integrated ITV Digital tv. If they were to close what happens to the digital tv?
My little sticker I have stuck on my hand controller has already got the black ink coming off. Could it be meant to last as long as ITV Digital, if that is the case it’s not long. I had to rub it so hard to make it stick. Big tears are appearing in my eyes but I fear my little sticker will soon be no more.
Hi just thought i’ll post the first post of the year with two questions:
Hows the problems going with the cards anyone still affected?
Did you get a reply from ITC when you e-mailed them, cause i didn’t!
There was nothing wrong with the, nothing at all compared to things in the past, all we were disussing where rumours, nothing else.
I’m sure you have read the Sunday Times (27-Aug-2000):
quote:[Trade minster] Byers has ordered an industry body, Digital TV Group (DTG) to find suppliers willing to manufacture a decoder box that will cost no more than £25.
Ministers envisage problems over the issue of videos or extra television sets in the kitchen or bedroom, which will also need spearate decoders
Here’s my solution: make this box have the ability to “reproduce” the analogue system: once functioning, it will output BBC1 on channel 37 (say), BBC2 on 39, channel 3 on 41, channel 4 on 43 and channel 5 on 45. There would then be (on say 45) the normal set-top-box operation.
You would have the normal RGB and PAL SCART connections too.
But if this box did this, you could fit it onto a video recorder, and be able to use it in exactly the same way after analogue shutdown. If you made these boxes, it would be possible to switch off analogue and flog it’s frequencies very soon.
All that would happen for most people is they would get a much better picture, and they could get the benefits of the additional free-to-air channels too.
If a bit of reaseach was done first, I bet it would be possible to have the box automatically select the “old” analgoue frequencies, so a video or TV needs no retuning.
Where people have distributed the TV ariel to second or third TVs and videos, the “analogue” signal would reach these too.