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This video was requested by a number of customers. It basically shows how you can transfer your TV show recordings from your external hard drive onto you PC or Laptop Computer and watch them using a program called VLC Media Player from a company called Videolan.
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January 21, 2012************************************************************************************** Tips & Tricks for Getting the Best from your External Hard Drive when used with a PVR Ready ReceiverWatch the video above for a best practice guide for using external hard drives in conjunction with PVR Ready Receivers. By following some sinple tips and tricks, you can extend the life of your hard drive and ensure the integrity of the file system on the said external hard drive. ************************************************************************************** How to Convert TV Recordings from a PVR Ready ReceiverThis is just a quick video to show how you can take the recordings from your PVR Ready receiver and convert them to an Xvid AVI type file that will be pretty much universally compatible across a range of devices, both fixed and mobile. The Xvid/MP3 video/auido standard is pretty much playable in every device. By using the format factory program, you can easily achieve this conversion. One you have the recording transfered from your external hard drive and on to your PC or laptop Computer, just follow the instructions in the video above. This video applies to the majority of PVR Ready Receivers. ************************************************************************************** How to Recover Lost Space on an External Hard Drive after Formatting from NTFS to FAT32Periodically we are asked by customers about an issue that can occur when formatting an Enternal Hard Drive from NTFS to FAT32. Depending on the size of your external hard drive and the program that you used to convert from NTFS to FAT32, the size of the drive after the formatting process can be reduced dramatically. For example, a 1TB drive becomes something like a 200-300GB drive. This isn’t desirable at all and you have lost a lot of usable space on the external hard drive. What we have found in our own tests is that generally speaking, if you are to format a drive from NTFS to FAT32, then if the drive is under 500GB, then the process works really well with the vast majority of programs. Once you go above 500GB, then a fair percentage of the time, this problem can rear it’s ugly head. So what can you do? If you look in the above video, you can see how to recover the lost space on your external hard drive and re-convert it to FAT32 from NTFS and get it to recognise the fully capacity of the drive. ************************************************************************************** How to Format / Convert your External Hard Drive from NTFS to FAT32While some of our boxes will recognise both NTFS and FAT32 file systems on an external hard drive, some do not and only work with FAT32. The video above shows how you can easily convert from NTFS to FAT32. This video guide may also be of use to owners of Xbox 360s and PS3s who wish to format an External Hard Drive from NTFS to FAT32. ************************************************************************************** January 20, 2012How to Check & Test your Internet / Broadband SpeedIn this video guide from TV Trade, we show how you can test both the upload speed and download speed of your broadband. A lot of people pay for a certain internet speed from their broadband provider and don’t get anything near what they should. With the launch of Netflix here in Ireland and the UK, it’s important to check your internet connection to ensure maximum performance and a number of customers have asked us to this up this video to cover this. This is a very simple way of testing your broadband speed. Unfortunately, even if you are not getting the broadband speed from your provider that you are paying for, a lot of the time, they can wriggle out of it by simply saying that the broadband speeds that they advertise are maximum speeds. This is true and depending on your contention ratio (number of people who share your line) and peak times of the day, this speed can vary significantly. You are always, where available, better to go for a contention ratio of 1:1, which means you don’t share with anyone and also if you are thinking of streaming films from the likes of apple TV or Netflix, then you are best to go with a provider that has no data cap (you can download as much as you like). We, at TV Trade have a wide selection of Networking equipment including… to help in your netflix viewing. ************************************************************************************** TV Wall Brackets (13 – 65 Inch Swivel & Fixed) – Now in StockAs part of our ever growing product range, we have now added a section for TV Wall Brackets. They come in both Swivel and Fixed type and are suitable to mount a TV on a Wall from 13″ up to 65″.
See below for videos on how to mount your TV on the wall. Please note that the videos below show how to hang a TV on a Solid Block Wall. Please consult a professional if trying to mount on a Plasterboard Stud Partition type wall as there is different criteria needed. ************************************************************************************** January 17, 2012How to tune in Channel 5, Ch 5 +1 , 5 USA & 5* on a Free To Air Satellite ReceiverThe video above shows how to tune in the new family of channel 5 channels that have been added to Free to Air. The channel range now includes…
The frequency to tune in the new channels is below
************************************************************************************** January 14, 2012The Difference Between MK4 & MK3 LNBsWe are always getting asked by customers about the difference between Mark 4 (MK4) and Mark 3 (MK3) LNBs and how to interchange or adapt either for use with an older or newer Sky Satellite Dish. Have a look at the video and see the differences explained and find out what products you would need to adapt a MK4 to MK3 and vice versa. ************************************************************************************** January 4, 2012How to Tune in UTV on your Sky or Sky+ Box
This is just another quick video in our series of sky videos showing how to add UTV to the other channels on a sky or sky+ box. UTV isn’t on the the EPG with an Irish Sky viewing card and must be tuned in manually on the sky box. ************************************************************************************** Older Posts » |
