I was under the impression 'freeview' was a united front of the free to
air channels against paytv (eg. foxtel/austar and any incoming iptv
offerings) more so now that digital free to air now has a lot more
channels[1] and some paytv like features (digital, show information
etc), it kind of seemed like a marketing ploy.
certainly onehd is a reasonably good answer to the growth that fox
sports has been making with foxtel.
personally, i dont mind paying for tv each month to enjoy the specialty
channels which would never make free to air, but which for me make tv
worth watching. i also enjoy watching a movie free of ads, and enjoying
tv shows with smaller and somehow less annoying ad breaks.
air active is cool as well. nice digital radio in a large variety of
genres, with no ads or talk.
Dean
[1] most of which arent very good
Rick Welykochy wrote:
elliott-brennan wrote:
Just picked up a Beyonwiz DP-P2 sans Freeview (who
needs less functionality advertised as more?)
Freeview is a con. Checkout an FAQ on the subject.
<http://www.dtvforum.info/index.php?showtopic=77923>
The video on the machine is some odd
format/container??? (.tvwiz) which seems specific
to Beyonwiz.
I have a DP-S1. A recording is stored in lots of small chunks
named serially as 0001, 0002, etc.
When you download all of the segments, simply do this:
cat 0* > {recording-name}.ts
which creates a (slackly headed) transport stream in MPEG-2 format.
MPlayer and VLC can play .ts files just fine.
cheers
rick
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