GIGASET M740 AV in Australia?

[sc101]

Hi,

can anybody tell me if the GIGASET M740 AV would work in Australia. I think the issue could be the receiver channel allocation. Germany uses 8 Mhz is that correct? Australia uses 7 MHz VHF/UHF channel allocation.

Can anyone tell me if the M740 AV would work with 7MHz?

Here is an extract from the Australian Standarts Document "Requirements for receivers - VHF/UHF DVB-T television broadcasts":

The minimum DTTB receiver requirements and recommendations for Australia are as follows:
(a) The receiver shall operate in a 7 MHz VHF/UHF channel allocation with possibly higher powered analog PAL signals present in adjacent channels—digital channel allocations range from 174 MHz to 820 MHz, some with 125 kHz offsets.

Thanks Lars

[1701D]

Hi,

can anybody tell me if the GIGASET M740 AV would work in Australia. I think the issue could be the receiver channel allocation. Germany uses 8 Mhz is that correct? Australia uses 7 MHz VHF/UHF channel allocation.

Can anyone tell me if the M740 AV would work with 7MHz?

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Thanks Lars
I think not. Currently the system is sold exclusivly in parts of europe. The only country, which has (I believe) a similar 7MHz Channel system is italy. the box is not sold in italy. And I haven't seen a way to change that matrix.

kind regards

Klaus

[ms20de]

Germany uses 8 Mhz is that correct?
7 MHz for VHF and 8 MHz for UHF

[sc101]

I have also found the quote below in this forum (http://www.dtvforum.info/index.php?showtopic=25095). So I guess that means it doesn't work in Australia :(


If you look at continental Europe frequency allocations their channel 5 is our channel 6, this offset in channel numbers continues until channel 9A, which is European channel 9, and then the channel numbers are identical.

At UHF the correlation is a little different. We do not use their channels 21-27
We use a 7 MHz spacing and Europe uses a 8 MHz spacing even though Germany for instance only uses 7 MHz per channel, 1 MHz is kept for compatibility with the rest of Europe.
Channel numbering is the same in both continents, however a European channel can be upto 4 MHz off our frequencies for that channel.

[[z]bender]

I have an M740AV in Australia, and it works just fine, thanks!

The problem is....I can't seem to make any firmware updates, and I have no way of tracking down the IPTV stack that *was once* loaded into the box, but which was lost when the box was reset.

That is, this exact unit I'm watching *right now* had DVB-T and UDP/IP Multicast MPEG-2 channels on it from a service provider.

I think this thread is dead, but feel free to message me.

[[z]bender]

Actually, I got the firmware to update, but it doesn't seem to auto-tune into channels that use UHF rather than VHF.

Anyone out there in 7MHZ land who has any ideas?