Brisbane channels & IceTV

capercat · **27th October 2005, 08:46 AM**

Hi there

I'm very new to all this and am currently setting up a Toshiba QOSMIO G20 (got a great price from Megamart at around $3800) but I'm having trouble finding channel 10. All the other channels work fine, although SBS is a little fuzzy.

I'm hoping someone can shed some light on the following questions:

(1) Can you manually enter a channel frequency into MCE? And if so does anyone have the frequency for channel 10?

(2) Also how do you tell which channels are HD. When I scan I find9 channels and some duplicates of the others. A number of the channels found have a frequency = 0. Is this relavent or have any meaning?

(3) Has anyone used the IceTV guide? What do people think is the best EPG out there at the moment?

Thanks
Brett

barty1978 · **27th October 2005, 09:05 AM**

Brett,

To answer your questions...

1) There is no easy way of manually entering frequencies into MCE. You can hack the psisdecd.dll, but it is a bit of effort to do this. If you run a windows update and install Rollup2 and the Patch then you do not need to hack the dll.

2) HD channels are scanned into MCE with "HD" in the channel name. MCE gets the channel name from the Transport Stream which is broadcast by the TV station. Are you sure you have a Digital TV tuner in the machine. From my brief search, I could not find any reference to a digitial TV tuner. Obviously, if it is only an Analog tuner then you will not receive HD.

3) I can't comment on ICE TV. But I can comment on BladerunnerPro, which is easy to setup and has not given me any grief in the couple of months that I have been using it for. If you have a HD TV, I would also recommend running Impact's awesome CreateHD app which copies all SD EPG data into HD data to be used in the guide.

By the way, I'm also in Brisbane. So if you really get stuck, I may be able to help.

Cheers,

danielicetv · **27th October 2005, 10:21 AM**

Hi Brett,

I believe that the Qosmio only has an analog tuner still, there is no digital model as yet. With analog tuners there is no HD.

Having said that there is no reason why the 5 main channels shouldn't show up properly.