Interesting.. so an upgrade to another standard such as ADSL2+ would be possible.

I’ve had the PRV since Saturday, and must say it’s the most useless PVR I’ve come across. You can’t record 1 channel and watch another channel at the same time. Most of my recordings have failed, even when the box only needed to access one channel.

And before any says you need to have freeview to multi record or watch a channel and record another channel at the same time, I do have an aerial attached and all the freeview channels are coming down via the aerial with a 100% signal strength and 95% quality but the box will only record from a DLS source of the channel and won’t let you watch a freeview channel at the same time. I would not go for it if you are still deciding to buy it.

Unfortunately, it is not the same as plugging another router in. A separate vLan (Virtual Network) is set up on the router for the video streams so you cant get access to them from anywhere else, and this functionality is not available on your average home router. Even if it where, you would not have the details to set it up yourself.

However, you can change the SSID and WEP Key (or alternative) on your speedtouch router to match your old one and therefore your devices will not need to change anything.

This is how I achieved the same thing.

Have fun.

Absolutely

I've had mine for nearly a week now and it's great, the freeview channels are tuned in the way you describe and it's recording from them. I've recorded a couple of things at the same time and watched something else. Sounds like yours isn't working properly. Have you called Tiscali?

Thanks for that theshinydemon. I have a set top aerial with a booster I can get some freeview channels (mainly the BBC's, ITV's channel 4's) no problem.. but others (channel 5, bid tv etc) the signal is too low quality to get a picture. So if I plug this aerial into my new STB, does the STB get channels which are available on both freeview and Tiscali (channel 5 for example) from the aerial or ADSL ? If this makes sense? LoL

I found this statment on Tiscalis own website from this URL : http://www.tiscali.co.uk/presscentre...vpackages.html

The company will also launch a new set top box in July 2007, with a 160Gb, Hi-Definition enabled, personal video recorder (PVR), allowing subscribers to record any shows they choose and watch in Hi-Definition if they have an HD TV.

Does this mean the new box is HD Ready?

if it has a 160gb hard drive how come it only records 50 hours???

Because it records in HD quality maybe

It's industry practise to split the hard drive, sky do it, it enables them to push their video on demand content to the box. So the 50 hours will probably be for half that hard drive.

Since this is IPTV, doing that would make no sense. What would be the benefit to Tiscali? Unless of course it's set aside for caching of on-demand HD content.

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Hi,
Your setup must be wrong. Either wonder through the settings yourself, or call customer care and they should be able to talk you through it

Which ever one provides the best signal

I was asked to clarify this for you.

There is no concept of the DSL signal quality, the stream either works or not. DTT on the other hand, has some measures of reception strength and error rate. In normal operation, where a channel has both DTT and DSL availability, the STB will try the DTT signal and only fall back to the DSL version if the DTT reception doesn't meet a threshold value.