UK TiVo

[aliennz]

I am a kiwi living in the UK and will shortly be returning to NZ. It has been suggested that I should buy a TiVo here and send it home with other stuf I will be freighting. Only problem is that I don't know what to buy! I understand that I need a series one stand alone model but the information I have found when searching web sites here is not very specific. It seems that the only TiVos available here Thomson models. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[thomson]

I am a kiwi living in the UK and will shortly be returning to NZ. It has been suggested that I should buy a TiVo here and send it home with other stuf I will be freighting. Only problem is that I don't know what to buy! I understand that I need a series one stand alone model but the information I have found when searching web sites here is not very specific. It seems that the only TiVos available here Thomson models. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

The Thomson models are fine (they are a Series 1 TiVo running v2.5.5 of the software). I have not yet tried to get one working against the emulator (but hear it is possible). There are a number of people using them with the latest OzTivo boot image (which uses the v3.0 software against the existing NZ emulators) without issues.

[aliennz]

Thanks, that gives me confidence that I can go ahead and buy one of the many boxes I see here on e-bay. Really appreciate your help.

[catdog]

Just to confirm it works ok, I am running a Thompson PVR10UK in New Zealand with the emulator without any issues

[DJC]

Just to confirm it works ok, I am running a Thompson PVR10UK in New Zealand with the emulator without any issues

Yep same; setup and running off emulator on thomson unit.

Now, catdog do you have sound coming out of your tuner on the 3.0 unit? I don't (hiss) but video is fine ... have mucked around with iicset manually, no help, and modded ukchan (nz) in a number of ways no luck.

[thomson]

do you have sound coming out of your tuner on the 3.0 unit? I don't (hiss) but video is fine ...

You might want to have a look at the changes to the ukchan30 module in this thread. I am still a little at a loss why people would run the 3.0 software on the UK units... I originally thought it was because the v2.5.5 software might not work against the emulator, but apparently it does...

[catdog]

Now, catdog do you have sound coming out of your tuner on the 3.0 unit? I don't (hiss) but video is fine ... have mucked around with iicset manually, no help, and modded ukchan (nz) in a number of ways no luck.

I am just using AV input & output rather than using the tuner so can't help you there. I would like to use the tuner for FTA channels and AV inputs for sky channels but am not sure how to configure this (and risk breaking something which is currently working fine!)