Thread: Sky Picnic sagem mpeg4 box for sale in currys

They will reappear in Northern Ireland to be sure they will.

Quote: Originally Posted by samyc This is happening to me too. Bought two of these STBs in the past week and having the same problem with both. Any suggestions out there for a fix? Is it any particular channel causing this? I don't have the same box, but do have a different Sagem freeview box. it will quite often lock up but ONLY on BBC channels. The picture will freeze but the sound continues, then after 30 seconds or so the box shuts...

Mine won't manually tune any more. I'm sure it did when I first got it. As soon as you hit OK it says no channels found without even searching. Any one else got this?

when you can can you post some pics of the receiver and the gui and epg did yours have the blue stickers over some thing on the outer box. Quote: Originally Posted by Winston_1 Got one yesterday in PC World, Newport, Isle of Wight. Can't get Freeview in Ventnor where I stay but there was a lift last night and I was able to download Caen transmitter. It ignored French LCN's and put wverything in the 800's. Pictures were pasty...

Hmm the plot thickens! Next time i go in currys i'll ask them to see what they say. andy

I had a quick glance at the spec in the manual and was pretty sure I saw the HD stuff (without an HD output). I guess the Picnic team didn't get around to writing their own manual and just took a copy from the French box. Thought a TNTHD box for £20 was too good to be true! EDIT: And Currys/Dixons/PCWorld agree; It's gone from their sites.

Quote: Originally Posted by Charnham my local Currys Digital is closing, I wonder if that might happen here as well I remember when Dixons was on the high streets and Currys Digital was supposed to replace it. No what will there be?

ooh, maybe its because sky didnt want them sold?

Quote: Originally Posted by Colin_London did Sky really think they would be allowed to broadcast (non-DVB-T2) MPEG4 HD? My understanding of Picnic was that they planned to use the more efficient compression offered by MPEG4 to fit more SD channels in to their DVB-T bandwidth. IIRC, initially it would have been four channels replacing their current three. I don't recall any proposal dfor a Sky HD service. I can't remember how far...

One really annoying feature. When on standby the unit shows the time on the front display. But it also has a single Red LED on the front, right next to the first digit of the time display, and much brighter than the display itself. It's hard to read the first digit of the display because of the bright LED. Once you switch it on though, this is a fine Freeview box, I'm very happy with it.