Geekzone giveaway: SmartVU+ Android TV Freeview Receiver

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#2617719 7-Dec-2020 18:15

Actually it would allow me and my fiancée to start watching TV again. Our apartment has a defunct UHF cable running all long the living room and nothing in our actual theatre room. The cable actually got damaged and cut from when we had recent building renovations(we aren't the only ones complaining about this and there are a few long stories too about other things). It would go a long way and we'd have more reasons to use the theatre room for quality time.

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#2617721 7-Dec-2020 18:18

I'd give it to my mum whose normal SmartVU box seems to be failing...

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#2617724 7-Dec-2020 18:29

This is timely. I would replace my parents SmartVu dongle which has proven unfit for purpose when watching cricket as it overheats after a couple of hours and stops working.

I was there yesterday, wish I'd known then so I could have taken a photo of their setup.

I'll have to get creative.

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#2617765 7-Dec-2020 20:00

This is an approximate representation of my current setup:

Something better than this would be useful.

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#2617772 7-Dec-2020 20:11

I would donate it to my father in law so he can finally ditch sky

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#2617837 7-Dec-2020 21:54

Bananabob:

So we have this real old Dish TV T1050 so it would be great to replace it with the SmartVU. The Android TV being an added bonus.

Yup, that's our setup too. Attached to a dumb 20-year old 32" TV. Does @bananabob's photo work for a second dip?

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#2617840 7-Dec-2020 22:06

My TV is stuck at the corner where the antenna point is. This would be great to free the TV from its “shackles”so it can be at a more ideal position.

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#2617860 7-Dec-2020 23:31

still using a 'dumb' plasma, which this would certainly smarten up!

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#2617862 7-Dec-2020 23:50

Good timing!
Having problems with TV Mosaic and they’ve shut down so no more updates. :(
This little box would be a nice replacement.

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#2617884 8-Dec-2020 07:35

This would be a great upgrade for the built in smarts of my LG TV which has stopped updating for 3-4 years now.

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#2617889 8-Dec-2020 07:53

I'd use it to replace our ancient DVB-S box Digistar 811- it's done well for its time, but I'd love to be able to watch "live" TV at a nice resolution. Would primarily use it for the streaming option as it would be nice to be able to watch TV that doesn't skip/jump every time the dog bounds across the deck (cable runs under the deck and is prone to vibration). And it has to be rebooted every so often or else the picture becomes.... umm.. don't know how to describe it but it ain't nice.

Skippy has nothing on him.

As for a pic, well, not much point, system is that old and poor resolution, any pics of it come out poorly as well. But I'll try...

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#2617906 8-Dec-2020 08:48

Id give it to my 90yr old neighbour who comes over 4 times a week cause she cant remember how to use her chromecasts. And has the weirdest old Panasonic freeview box Ive ever seen.

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#2617922 8-Dec-2020 09:26

At the moment I'm getting by with the Freeview built into my old TV (the old Freeview, not the newer on demand one) and an old Chromecast.

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#2617940 8-Dec-2020 10:06

My "Smart" TV doesnt do freeview so this would definitely help in that regard!

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#2617994 8-Dec-2020 10:34

Currently use Chromecast Ultra or PC connected via HDMI

So would be great to have something like this for freeview

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