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Originally Posted by AMCross
trapdoor
how is you reception ?
put a friends tuner in the wifes bm last night and although the channels picture quality was slightly better the amount of channels was very poor
i know the area may have been an issue but i would have thought that more than 5 digital channels was not asking too much
i wish i could get hold one one of these to work in the uk
RealOEM.com BMW E83N X3 3.0si DVB-T Set-top box
hybrids seem to be fetching £450/£550 on the bay  |
Ah, now heres the rub ... I don't live in a particularly good area for Digital TV. I live on the English side of the Bristol Channel and we get WELSH digital tv
... problem is that it's variable as we loose 3 of the 6 digital multiplexes when the tide comes in!
However, when I'm in a good reception area, then the Hybrid seems to work quite well. It's not very well 'featured' as a digital tuner - no real EPG and a vary curious way of displaying available channels. Also, it appears to just add new channels whenever it comes across them (you don't seem to have to do a rescan) but it doesn't REPLACE the old channels, so if you move to a different transmitter area you will get two instances of each channel but obviously only one will work.
I am more concerned whether the tuner will continue to work when we switch over and the transmission standard changes from 2k to 8k - many set top boxes will cease to work, and I cannot find any specs on the BMW Hybrid module to say it's compatible with 8k mode.
I didn't pay that much for my Hybrid and offset the cost by selling my Analogue tuner - I was just lucky and jumped in when someone listed one for a 'buy-it-now' on ebay at a low price. For the amount I use it though, I wouldn't want to pay anywhere near the £500 they seem to be fetching at the moment, and the price is going to rise the nearer we get to DSO.