Just seen an old piece about how to get BBC interactive services with an FTA decoder.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=457742

I’ve tried but can’t manually tune my VPID and APID (got an old decoder) anyway apparently it works so hopefully other forum members can at least profit from this.

Nick.

Did anyone try the BBCi channels?

I would be interested to know if it works, before I buy one of these cheapy decoders
Nick.

I've not tried it but I know they're tagged as data streams.....
89 francs for a cheapo Smart Rapido II btw

Tagged as data streams, what does that mean? (the dumbed down version would be good)

Basically a "real" DVB-S box will see them as data streams; blind scan should find them or as the DS thread points out, putting in V/APIDs will get you the channel directly.

So what box have you that's deficient?

"Lob Rockster
Basically a "real" DVB-S box will see them as data streams; blind scan should find them or as the DS thread points out, putting in V/APIDs will get you the channel directly.

So what box have you that's deficient?"

I have an old box (5 yerars) bought in Turkey complete with Turkish manual, as I said I can't tune in manually the VPID and APID or at least I don't know how to.

just buy a cheapo box with English manual and interface

if it does not work, take it back.

I hardly use BBCi btw