Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Information and Services in Turkey Section => Television & Satellite in Turkey => Topic started by: ECHOSTAR on May 18, 2008, 20:20:52 PM
-
Hi All
I am Thinking of starting A Sling Box Host, This Means that you will be able to get uk tv Via the internet. I am testing a stream at this moment for those interested you can for free access the stream we are sending.
We are streaming over 260 tv and radio BBC1 ITV Sky Sports Etc All I Need is your feed back regarding quality you will have full control of the box. The movie channels require a pin which is 1234 please do not abuse give other people a chance to see this otherwise I will close it.
The test will be for 1 week, you will need to down load the sling box Desk top player
For windows and mac down load from this page http://downloads.slingmedia.com/go/desktop-uk
Alias Is Garys
Finder Id is 6BCBF639-A513-7F4296D9-AE40-66A9914E
Password is 0987654321
Administrator is NOT Ticked
At this moment I do not have the time to answer questions, if you have a problem working the sling box media please read the information on their web site but would like the feed back good/bad alike Pleas not that only one person @one time can access this demo please be patience
Thanks have fun
I deleted the other post as it was the same message :)
-
Hi Gary.......just caught the end of Mrs Bucket and The start of The Good life. Picture quality was adequate,fairly good colours and just a little fuzzy at the edges. I would accept this for what it is but if the picture was on my TV I would not accept it. This was on a 15"monitor, I dont think the picture would go much bigger without loss of quality. Sound quality through external speakers was OK.
This was streaming UK Gold....I assume that was the only channel on the Demo as I could not access anything else. :)
-
Hi Brian thanks for the comments, seems that i could use a better upload speed than what i am using, you have full control of the box which carries BBC/ITV Movies And Sky Sports ETC approx 260 Channels the remote appears when you move your curser to the left of the picture and then the picture reduces in size to show the remote.
picture quality on a normal tv should not be a problem iam bringing back a svga to RGB Converter which also resizes the picture so possibly start with a smaller picture on the pc with better definition then play about with the converter
all Comments received with thanks
-
I tried it last night and got all the channels and radio stations - I ticked an admin box I think when I couldn't get connected. Quality comments almost exactly the same as Brian's - perfectly watchable on the old lappy but it will probably struggle on a larger screen as it is right now.
-
Thanks alot keith For reports as i mentioned above will do some more test when i am back in fethiye
Please Keep comments coming
Ps Who was watching the Adult Channel ;)
-
I was watching it but not through choice (not after 3 minutes anyway!). I kept switching to BBC but it kept going back to either Adult or GemTV (Online shopping)!!
Steve
-
Thanks Steve
someone here was playing around with a remote as i got two boxes using the same frequency will try to screen the box in question
-
pretty good, looks bad full screen on 19" screen.
Looking forward to it full time and maybe more usres?
-
Downloaded fine but maybe I am being dense as when I tried to select a programe to watch it just went to set a reminder...this programe has started etc etc....could not watch anything live. Is it because of the time difference here in Turkey.
Great idea though.
Fi
-
Hi Fiona
Just checked it to make sure there is no problems its still working ok possibly your download speed have another play remote control is on the left hand side if you move the curser across
-
I would like if possible reports from any other parts of turkey ie kas bodrum istanbul ect so if there is any one from these parts reading this topic please give a report
as i said before good or bad
Thanks
-
Echostar, the time on the setup box is incorrect, its saying 16:40 which is stopping me choose to watch things 'live' it only allows me to set reminders.
-
Thanks for pointing that out problem has been sorted if this happens again select channel number then ok this is this way i have
been doing it therefore did not see the other problem people having.
or up/down then the ok button as some of you have already found out
keep the comments coming
-
That sorts out my original querie as I had the same time as the other poster. Will try it again later and see if its sorted.
Cheers
Fi
-
Scunner, u been watching on the Busses?
-
Hi Gary, I just tried it this morning and would echo other comments. Picture was OK, a bit blurry round the edges. Looks good though!
Denise.
-
As a further thought to the blurry picture when you are setting the programme using the reality remote you are normally hunched over the computer like neanderthal man as you would when using your computer.
Sit back about six feet, more if your eyesight allows and you will find quite an improvement in perceived picture quality.
Garry....if you get this off the ground do you have any idea of costs? :)
-
SLINGBOX HOSTING
Thank you all for your reports, I have to do alot more test yet ie so you can watch on a conventional tv this would improve the quality and to record Lets see if we can get the required bandwidth to make this a viable project Cost,service provider premises here in the uk for the project iwould like to do this in turkey but i do not belive that the ptt can supply the upload bandwidth and uploading the streams via satellite Can Be expensive, we will have to see
for people intrested i will post on the forum asap, you will find it will go quite for a while as i have alot of work to do.
I shall be closing the stream down to night midnight uk time
Thank you all once again
Gary ;)
-
Hi All
Iam back in fethiye now and have done some more test it seems that some of you have not optomized the settings for the player hence the reports please try the parameters below.
I am Thinking of starting A Sling Box Host, This Means that you will be able to get uk tv Via the internet. I am testing a stream at this moment for those interested you can for free access the stream we are sending.
We are streaming over 260 tv and radio BBC1 ITV Sky Sports Etc All I Need is your feed back regarding quality you will have full control of the box. The movie channels require a pin which is 1234 please do not abuse give other people a chance to see this otherwise I will close it.
The test will be for 1 week, you will need to down load the sling box Desk top player
For windows and mac down load from this page http://downloads.slingmedia.com/go/desktop-uk
Alias Is Garys
Finder Id is 6BCBF639-A513-7F4296D9-AE40-66A9914E
Password is Fethiye
Administrator is NOT Ticked
Get Player Screen up
Click on player
SlingPlayer options
Tick automatic
Optimizations
Tcick the next 5 boxes below
Then Apply
Then Ok
Go back to options
Encoding
video bit rate=704
video frames per sec = fullrate
I frame interval =5
video smoothness = sharp
Video resolution = 640x480
Audio bit rate stays the same
Then Apply
Then ok
then go to view on player tool bar
go to view
go to wide screen
then in the same drop down go to fit tv to player
that should be it
At this moment I do not have the time to answer questions, if you have a problem working the sling box media please read the information on their web site but would like the feed back good/bad alike Please not that only one person @one time can access this demo please be patience
Thanks have fun
can some one put this back in to the right topic tnx
-
Hi Gary.
Downloaded Slingplayer which took about 15 mins, followed instructions, except password is fethiye with small f. Incredible reception, although a bit slow and fractured when changing channels etc. Plugged in my 80cm HD LCD TV and even better. Especially if you sit back. How long is it likely to be before you can set up Host?
Regards
Phill
-
Hi Gary......any news as to whether this project is going to be launched.[?] :)