Tag: IQ2

Setup Foxtel IQ or Foxtel IQ2 with the Vulkano Flow

Hopefully you’ve had a chance to check out the unboxing video of the Vulkano Flow over here which went up yesterday. Of course, unboxing it is one thing but setting it up is an entirely different matter. In Australia, the odds are that you’ll set this up with a Foxtel IQ or Foxtel IQ2 as …

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Live Streaming Television with Vulkano

A while back I wrote about how I was looking at options to stream live television and my focus upon the Slingbox products but I never got around to purchasing one. Don’t get me wrong, I think the technology is fantastic but I’ve just not seen much in the way of innovation or the extension of …

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Troubleshooting Your Foxtel IQ2

This evening, it appears that our Foxtel IQ2 cable box died after exhibiting some strange behaviour in the form of: inability to time shift live television (the show on screen would pause but could not be unpaused), recorded content would not playback, restarting or resetting the unit would eventually result in the box going back …

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Get the Most Out of Your PVR

Personal Video Recorders (PVRs) are becoming more common these days in the form of things like the TiVo, Optus MeTV and the Foxtel IQ and IQ2 devices just to name a few. The ability to record and timeshift content is a great convenience when there are regular programming clashes involving the shows you really want …

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Timeshifting Television – Intelligent Media Consumption

A little while back, the missus and I decided to get the Foxtel IQ2 as we had bought a full high-definition television and wanted to make full use of it. Also, with the demands of work and the incredible timing of phone calls at home when watching live, it proved difficult at times to catch …

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IPTV – The Future of Multicast Content Delivery

At home in our living room, we have our LCD TV hooked up to the Foxtel IQ2 (which is a fantastic device by the way) but there are times when we both want to watch something at the same time and time shifting is simply not an option. One such case tonight was when I …

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