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ITTSB Blog Specific => ITTSB - Small projects by Kiriakos & User reviews => Topic started by: Kiriakos GR on March 09, 2015, 08:18:24 AM
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Recently Greece changed their TV broadcast system to digital.
The solution for a TV set with analogue tuner is the addition of an external digital tuner as the one bellow.
This tuner has no major issues other than at every channel change the picture needs two seconds to synchronize with the sound.
In those two seconds the picture seems as in slow motion.
The Greek distributor of those no-name products seem unable to supply any firmware update and all that it does is trying to convince his customers that this is normal.
What I did by sacrificing the 5 years warranty shield was to have a look of this tuner internals, so to discover the true manufacturer of it.
Unfortunately there are no indications or clue of who made it, my advice to other consumers is to not follow my example.
What I would suggest if you are unhappy with such a product is to return it and get your money back.
In my case this tuner has no serious issues and I can almost ignore the problem.
Either way, bellow is pictures of this tuner internal world.
It build quality is not bad, and this is good news.
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According to my experience as DVBT has already in Athens for many years, all (20-30 euro) recievers are rather same.
I can imagine that when the analog switch off , was take place in Volos, there must was problems in market ,regarding availability and price.
In Athens when was the switch off, i remember that many stores had run out of recievers, and others had raised prices too. But I had take care to buy a reciever before analog switch off ;)
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At the time of analog switch off I won an PHILIPS 25" from a neighbor, he got a fresh TV instead getting the receiver.
This old PHILIPS 25" was in the bedroom and had very few operation hours over it, the tube is delivering a sparkling clean picture.
Getting an receiver after receiving this still valuable gift, was as to be a chain reaction. :)
My small disappointment about the receiver goes to the fact that I would expect it to be as fast at switching channels as most modern televisions do.
What I was not prepared, is to settle for less by buying a receiver build after 2012 = a modern one..