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Freeview Receivers for the Avant TV

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ouverture
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ouverture Posted: Tue, Jun 19 2012 11:13 PM

my old ( 1997 ) Avant with VHS is becoming a bit of a dinosaur, I guess time marches on, but for terrestrial TV ( before the digital freeview upgrade in April ) it was fine for the bedroom.

now the VHS player on it has packed up, which we used to record TV programmes ( over 100 tapes), so we cannot even watch all the old stuff we recorded that we never got round to seeing in the least few years, so the Avant is now consigned to playing DVD's, we use a very nice Panasonic DVD A360 player and the B&O DVD Controller, so watching the odd DVD in the evening is all the Avant is currently used for, better than nothing I suppose. 

I know my Avant is too old for STB-C , it is serial number 123xxxxx, and Type 81/33, so that route is not possible, so I am quite curious if people in my shoes are just putting up with getting a Freeview box and plugging into the spare scart socket at the back of the Avant, and using the remote that comes with the Freeview box, or has anyone found a more interesting way to get Freeview on an old Avant by chance, ideally still using the faithful Beo4 remote.

 

 

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If you sell it you will not get anything for your Avant. So, buy yourself a technisat etc. freeview box and use it with 2 remotes... I can not suggest any better solution since I'm doing also the same in the company ;)

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ouverture
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ouverture replied on Wed, Jun 20 2012 8:51 AM
I might get an Apple TV then, with modded Beo4

http://dk.bosscom.com/files/pdf/Bi1%20manual%20for%20Apple%20TV%20-%20vers1.pdf
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kallasr replied on Wed, Jun 20 2012 10:11 AM

I don't know about pricing etc. but there might be an alternative:

http://linvis.de/shop/index.php/cat/c7_Apple-Steuerungen-Controller.html/XTCsid/fec12252b07562e16105d18bb1ce51f2

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Ralf

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ouverture replied on Wed, Jun 20 2012 8:24 PM

yes, that would do it, the manufacturer looks like oneremote.dk

http://w3.oneremote.dk/oneremote/relay_faq_full.asp?faqid=faq218.htm

I will have to email them and ask if they support any UK Freeview boxes

Ideally one that does HD - the standard in the UK is DVB T2

http://www.dtg.org.uk/consumer/dvbt2.html

 

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