TV Tuner required
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wong

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232 months

Wednesday 25th November 2020
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I moved from Hong Kong, taking my ~ 10 year old, 42inch, HK spec, Panasonic plasma with me. However, it cannot tune into the UK system.

I have used it with a Chromecast and that works OK.
Is there an external TV tuner that I can plug in to it to get Freeview etc?

Mr Pointy

12,571 posts

175 months

Wednesday 25th November 2020
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wong said:
I moved from Hong Kong, taking my ~ 10 year old, 42inch, HK spec, Panasonic plasma with me. However, it cannot tune into the UK system.

I have used it with a Chromecast and that works OK.
Is there an external TV tuner that I can plug in to it to get Freeview etc?
You can use an external recorder such as those from Humax or Manhatten, assuming your TV has HDMI inputs of course:

https://www.humaxdirect.co.uk/freeview.html
https://manhattan-tv.com/boxes



deckster

9,631 posts

271 months

Wednesday 25th November 2020
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Don't need the expense and complexity of a recorder. There are a million freeview tuners on Amazon.

wong

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1,369 posts

232 months

Wednesday 25th November 2020
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Thanks. So any Freeview tuner from Amazon (~ £30) should work.
Yes, it has HDMI inputs.