Comments on: Foxtel iQ

By: Nino

Nino — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:02:16 +0000

HI guys I have also been tinckering with the IQ box and I have recorded to my dvd recorder, it’s as easy as video out from IQ and video in to recorder works everytime and no quality loss whatsoever..

By: Kensington69

Kensington69 — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:30:05 +0000

Hey tech heads: There has been allot of effort displaced in the search for the best way to download from foxtel IQ to the HD or DVD burner on your PC. i am impressed and if anyone has a mac?? thats the sexy lil usually white computers that PC would like to be… have you tried it to a Mac??

By: cavalier

cavalier — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:40:08 +0000

I have a Foxtel IQ. I have a tv tuner in my pc. There is 2 outlets on the back of the IQ, using standard male/female tv coax cable.
I’ve hooked it up, tune it in on my pc & play the recorded program on the IQ & record it on to my pc. I then convert to XviD & back it up on my harddive & disc.
Don’t know if any of you have tv tuners etc on your pc’s, but I have found that the most simple, cheapest & easiest way to do it!

Hope that helps all of you???!!!

Take Care

By: Bulldog

Bulldog — Tue, 27 May 2008 01:35:16 +0000

I’ve been using the PC based capture cards for a while now, it’s not ideal but “slightly” better than using the DVD recorder in that I don’t need to record straight to disk and after capture the file can be manipulated and edited to your hearts content. Results vary, but the newer cards I have used tend to be built around digital content with analogue inputs a secondary consideration and the quality ranges from fair to poor. DScaler seems to be the program of choice for most, my HTPC is in pieces right now but I’m getting the IQ HD installed next week so I might drag it out and put it back together again.

If anyone has a link to some of the more interesting info on the IQ HD would love to have a read of it.

By: Paddy

Paddy — Wed, 14 May 2008 06:41:34 +0000

Anyone tried the above then?

By: slim 408

slim 408 — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 05:53:12 +0000

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By: Mike Hunt

Mike Hunt — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 06:14:02 +0000

I used one of the cables in the link above, its just a matter of playing with the settings in the recording program provided with the cable. Picture is fine and loads of settings are available, and sound has to be set to line in for it to sync with the picture, and there are loads of sound settings too.

I didn’t use the s-vid cable just the red white and yellow composite, the cable is available for about 35 inc postage from hong kong. I pretty cheap soultion, as long as your pc or laptop meets the requirements and you have sufficient hard disk space etc.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:12:05 +0000

Pleased that worked for you! How did you get it working though - with one of those cables you linked to above or via s-video and audio cables as others of us have also done?

There is a post on here way back where I talk about having success recording (in real time) to a PC by attaching via an s-video cable and audio cables and using a piece of 3rd party software (such as iuVCR). However, I found any program longer than about 60-75 mins would start losing audio synch which was very annoying. Finally I just bought a $299 MTV 250GB DVD recorder from Coles and now I use that which makes excellent recordings.

Foxtel are releasing the HD iQ in April (according to the Foxtel engineer I had at my place just a few days ago) so maybe, just maybe, they’ll enable the USB port - but somehow I doubt it.

By: Mike Hunt

Mike Hunt — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:22:51 +0000

Ok hang I take that all back, It works fine.
I can record to my laptop as a mpeg-2 or avi with audio, Yay! Finally a solution

By: Mike Hunt

Mike Hunt — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:05:57 +0000

Wow, finally some good news!

I can record the input and save as mpeg or avi or whatever, and I can choose the picture size etc, and choose compression. I recorded 59 seconds of miami ink to a .avi file and it took up 1.5gb! but i can change the compression or compress after.

The only problem is the sound, for some reason I can only record picture as tv input, or sound as microphone input, not both together.. Bit i’m thinking if I get the one off ebay from Hong Kong it has only usb on the pc side of the device and it says it captures video and audio through the usb cable. Is this crap or not? Can somebody with a bit more knowledge let me know before I purchase a useless paperweight from ebay