i recently bought a stb from china CUI8-Ri have been manually scaning for channels i go to the frequencies where the channels are and get channel quality 70-90% but it says no channels found , any ideas
Digital TV is broadcast in many different ways - An australian digital STB will generally not work in NZ. 'Some' overseas boxes may support different standards etc.
An automatic scan will most likely not work. If you input the channels and frequencies for your location from this table you 'may' get something... http://www.freeviewshop.co.nz/digital-terrestrial-i-8.html
But the box may not be able to decode our digital tv.
EDIT: Is there a webpage for that product? If so the standards it supports are probably listed. Someone may be able to tell you what it means.
Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself - A. H. Weiler
Sorry mate, been there and done that and I highly suggest it won't work.
Your device will play 'files' of our broadcast standard, but not be able to receive this content via the tuner. In my case it was a combo DVD and DVB-T receiver unit that I was trialling. It would play from the disc, but not be able to play from received signals.
http://www.chinavasion.com/product_info.php/pName/hdd-multimedia-player-dvr-with-dvbt-hidef-up-to-1080i/ here a link with spec that i found becouse i have no idea what im looking for
ok yea i suppose i should learn a lesson from this $30 will never buy a one that will work here , ohwell at least iv go a media player now, if i didn't have a revue , thanks for all your help
For what its worth I have a Zinwell box (NZ new) that the firmware was playing up on. Its well known that they sell the same box under the olevia name in Hong Kong. I installed the HK software and had to do a manual tune - the channel frequencies dont match NZ. Dont know if your hardware was supposed to work in HK?
For example I had to work out what channels my freeview picks up on and key in the corresponding frequencies in and then the box would tune in.
Here is a list: http://www.freeviewshop.co.nz/digital-terrestrial-i-8.html
On the zinwell I had to key in a 6 digit frequency - e.g. channel 33 570000 You also have to enter a 'spacing' of 8Mhz that we use here - the default was 6 or something for HK.
Dont know if yours lets you enter the channel and key in the frequency?
Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself - A. H. Weiler
I get Freeview in AUckland from Waiatarua (the first line). So I had to tune in 3 'channels' (muxes).
So I had to key in channel 29 - enter the frequency of 538000 and set the (I think it was called spacing) to 8. Also there was a priority field which has to be set to HIGH.
So you repeat that for channel 33 570000 and channel 45 666000 and now I have all the freeview channels.
I expect if they add new channels to freeview I might have to manual tune again (certified NZ hardware/software is supposed to pick up new channels automatically)
Dont know what values you can set on yours...
Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself - A. H. Weiler
B1GGLZ: No. You would have to replace the tuner, not the firmware.
Nah a digital tuner is usually a digital tuner, it's just that the units often aren't set up to decode that from the broadcast source rather than from an exiting file, either on a network, usb or optical disc.
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