sub:
Has anyone had one of these installed in their bedroom? If so, how noisy is it in the middle of the night when it's deathly silent in the house?

Can you it be put into standby (from the remote), so that hard drive shuts down and stops spinning?

lchiu7:

sub:
Has anyone had one of these installed in their bedroom? If so, how noisy is it in the middle of the night when it's deathly silent in the house?

Can you it be put into standby (from the remote), so that hard drive shuts down and stops spinning?

Hi Sub. Do you know if this will work with gbpvr?? I know it's a PVR itself but sometimes I want to take the recordings I make and move them elsewhere or view elsewhere which the T-Box won't allow I presume.

So most of the times I would record using the T-Box but sometimes capture its composite or s-video out and record using gbpvr. So gbpvr needs to be able to remote control the unit via an IR blaster (I use the USB-UIRT).

chiefie: @Sub, there's hint of hard drive clicking, even when it's on standby. The noise is noticably lower than our ticking clock, but not enough to annoy us.

sub:

lchiu7:

sub:
Has anyone had one of these installed in their bedroom? If so, how noisy is it in the middle of the night when it's deathly silent in the house?

Can you it be put into standby (from the remote), so that hard drive shuts down and stops spinning?

Hi Sub. Do you know if this will work with gbpvr?? I know it's a PVR itself but sometimes I want to take the recordings I make and move them elsewhere or view elsewhere which the T-Box won't allow I presume.

So most of the times I would record using the T-Box but sometimes capture its composite or s-video out and record using gbpvr. So gbpvr needs to be able to remote control the unit via an IR blaster (I use the USB-UIRT).

I dont know. I'm just gonna get one out of curiousity. I wont be trying to capture recordings from it with GBPVR.

chiefie: What's the sweetener you're getting?? I didn't get any sweetener at all :-( (unless Zaptor is the new TV/HomeMedia service subscriber?)

zaptor: Hmmm... perhaps it was unwise of me to mention it

It's not a massive thing, but, it's certainly a deal breaker taking into account the MySkyHDi termination fee, which is calculated at $300 - ( x $25), so for me it'd be $75 (as I've paid for 9 months worth already).
Having said that, it "saves" me over $270 for the remaining 3 months which I can use towards the TC triple package.

kiwipawl: Well I thought Telstra Clear had finally got their act sorted. YEA RIGHT.

Telstra booked  my T-Box install for last Friday morning.  They rang and left a message on my answer phone at 12 to ring back to confirm the install for Friday morning. My Wife rang back at 1215 to say it was alright to do the install and they said they would ring back when they were on their way to install it.

As she hadn't heard from the them by 2.00 she rang them back only to be told that it was to late and they  couldn't intstall it untill Wednesday between 0930 and 1230.

I took this morning off to be there for the install and the got a call from the tech at 1200 saying he was on the way. 1220 he turned up disconnected all of the old equipment and de-provisioned the old modem.

Telstra couldn't provison the new modem for the T-Box and he couldn't get a answer from Telstra as to when they could.

He then went away and did a couple of uninstalls came back and still couldn't re-provison the new modem. He went away again and has just come back @ 500ish and still can't provision it. He reconnected my old box but couldn't set up the EPG as the old modem had been de-provisioned.

The tech installer told me that Telstra will ring me when they have it sorted and to arrange another time for the re-provisioning of my modem so they can setup my T-Box.

So far I've wasted a days leave, still have my standad set-top box with no EPG and are going to have to take more time off to hopefully have my T-Box installed.

The tech was great and I have no problems with him and I am so glad I am not a tech installer for Telstra. They must get so frustrated with all the problems beyond their control and they are the people on the coal face dealing face to face with the customers.

I am giving Telstra until the end of this week to sort the issues out or the only job they will be doing here is another uninstall and the Sky tech will be doing the install.

I have waited patiently for over 2 years for their PVR and this is the final straw, its looking more like farwell to Telstra hello Sky everyday now.

Come on Telstra sort your act out, luckily for them their TV support isn't taken into consideration for the best internet provider awards!!!!!!