Originally Posted by
number6
If you have a friend in the UK then you might be able to source a UK model cheap enough if you hang out at Ebay long enough. Still unless you have someone who can bring it as luggage with them when they come and visit you p+p will set you back about the same as the US p+p does.
Actually shipping from the UK is even worse... you are looking at GBP70 to ship a Thomson unit from the UK. With the prices of the units over there you are looking at around the NZ$700 mark to land a UK unit here.
Originally Posted by
number6
So someone over here would have to merge the UK palmod channel table into the Aus PAL mod file
This is not as big a job as it sounds... I have just had a look at the palmod code from the AUS site, and the "New Zealand" setting would have definitely only worked for a Philips Tuner. Is a very simple modification to get it going for a Samsung tuner. I have the cross-compiler going for the UK-2.5.5 kernel and will have a look next week at getting a US-3.0 version up and running at which point I will post a NZ Philips/Samsung version of palmod. Will let the AUS people know so that the changes will make their way into the new releases. I have posted some (untested) code here: PAL Tuner in NZ
If anyone is interested, the following is an example of my UK Tuner kernel module, tuned and made very lean for WGTN viewers 
I like to keep kernel modules small and to the point... Essentially it is a cut down version of the existing ukchan module, but directly maps the channel frequencies with their stations numbers (TV1-3,C4&Prime).
Code:
static int getFreq_x(int chan, int u1, u32 *p1, u32 *p2)
{
u32 f = 0;
u32 freq = 0;
static struct {
int chan;
u32 freq;
} chans[] = {
{ 0, 0 },
{ 1, 45250 }, /* freq: 1 - TV1*/
{ 2, 182250 }, /* freq: 5 - TV2*/
{ 3, 224250 }, /* freq: 11 - TV3*/
{ 4, 55250 }, /* freq: 2 - C4*/
{ 5, 783250 }, /* freq: 60 - Prime*/
{ 0, 0 }
};
if (chan > 0 && chan < 6) {
freq = chans[chan].freq;
f = (freq-471250)*1000 + 510150000;
}
*p1 = f;
if (freq > 385250) {
*p2 = 2;
} else if (freq > 137250) {
*p2 = 1;
} else {
*p2 = 0;
}
/* setup NZ (NICAM) ONLY sound - see page 22 of msp34x0g_4pd.pdf */
iicw4(0x88, 0x10, 0x00200008); /* B/G NICAM Stereo (only) */
return 0;
}
Headend slices are just as easy to modify and load (only need to be done once), and the nztivo.slice's load without issues - although I have a stripper program that reduces the slice information so that it only contains the channels that I am interested in. This really speeds up the loading of slices.
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