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Lee

Dont retune it to Spain. I had that same sinking feeling myself when I tried that option and though what have I spent my money on. Or words to that effect.

Set it to search all channels from the drop down menu on the software. For some reason I found setting it to Spain and it picked nothing up. When you set it to scan all frequencies, I found that here you could get reception.

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dunerider

Cracked it....

the last 2 pieces of info i needed where all houses have to have a working arial and do not tune to Spain.

so with a little more perseverance i discovered

1 the arial upstairs in our apt was indeed dead, but the one in the lounge was live
2 the connector on the coaxil cable in the lounge was too loose to make a decent connection to the arial socket in the tv stick.
3 we used a vista pc with windows media centre and the first scan found 6 channels, but when we replaced the coaxil and made a firmer connection we found 40 channels. (Used vista as it would scan without making you select the country).

Once we had 40 channels on the vista PC, i swapped back to the XP PC with ArcSoft Total Media, by bypassing the TV setup where you get asked for your country and just going to EPG it will then prompt to scan. This also then found 40 channels.

It took a while for EPG to download via the arial (I can't use internet tv gude as my internet connection here is 3G/GPRS with limits on download).

My reward for my tenacity meant i could see the spanish sport channel and watched the very exciting final tennis match where spain won the Davis cup.

I also did abit of surfing and found Pride and Prejudice where i could swap it to English.

I could also watch a load of programs in spanish with spanish subtitles - if you have a certain level of spanish watching with sub titles helps understanding.

So to date - I'm a happy bunny.

Hopefully I'll watch spanish TV with subtitles for 1/2 hour each day and brush up on listening skills. with careful use of TV guides it will be possible to find VO programs, the TV stick i have also allows you to record (1/2 hour program normally requires 1gb of disk space) the tv stick also has live pause but you need a reasonable spec pc for this to be useful. my laptop is dual core/1024 mem/2 years old so not terribly high spec.

So all in all if you have £40 to spend and fancy a few extra channels go for it its a one off cost to buy the stick, or go out and get a spanish freeview box and plug it into your TV - its a better than nothing option for those without satellite dishes or are relunctant to subscribe to a rebroadcaster without any guarantee of future service.

I'll report back in a few weeks with more detail of the type of programs i find with VO - unless Lee beats me to it!!

Lee

The Spanish freeview TDT website now lists the television channels that broadcast with the second sound channel, which in a lot of cases is the English sound track. Some listed are only for sterio sound.

http://www.tdt1.com/canales-television-alicante.php

It gives people a good idea of just how many of the Spanish freeview TV channels do come with half a chance of hearing English broadcast with the programs they are showing

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