ConnectCom.tv

Connectcom.tv was formed for the purpose to provide community and Individual television services to residents on urbanisations new and old on the Costa Blanca.
Our expertise is based on over 25 years experience with Communications, Broadcast and Reception with a multitude of installations. Solutions in networking and CATV.
The primary engineers past installations cover Spain, USA, France, Czech Republic, Portugal, Germany, UK, Italy, Sweden, Southern Ireland, Canary Isles. Prime engineers accredited with BEng in Electronic engineering.
City and Guilds in Telecoms (Telephone eXchange Electronics) TXE2: TXE4:TXE4a

Specialists in Computer & Internet Technologies, Computer Programming (VB6, Flash 8 & CS4) Signals, Telecoms and Communication, Engineering Mathematics, Digital Signal Processing and Digital Media.
Communications and networking in multi mode and single mode fibre optic infrastructures, cat3/4/5/5a/and 6 structured cabling systems.

This blog is a news portal for new products, systems, services plus discussions and tutorials related to this business.
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Friday 28 February 2014

IPTV NetBox verses CDN systems

IPTV Internet TV ( No Satellite dish required)
NetBox IPTV systems verses CDN systems.
NetBox
There are several versions of the "Net Box" some are connected direct to a server and are easy to operate, they are reliable with a good source of English TV channels, these are classed generally systems, user frsiiendly similar in operation to your SKY box about 299€ including first years subscription
Other versions of the Net Box  also connected to the Internet they allow  you to Scan the internet via a media player called XBMC.
 XBMC's large, complex, and multi-platform nature, it is nearly impossible to release a totally bug-free version, it is not user friendly and is geared more for the enthusiast who wants to connect to multiple internet streaming services, these services are renown for considerable downtime and searching for another service is often a task you will be doing on a regular basis. They also suffer especially on HD stuttering of the  IPTV stream causing poor reception. Multiple stream sources from amatuer sites make this service complicated to operate.
NetBox ( XBMC) is about 150.00€ it's OK and reasonable value for what it does but don't expect it to meet broadcast standards.
XMBC is a free service readily downloaded from the internet, so anyone who wants to get a cheap TV service can buy an Android TV box from such as Amazon for approx 80.00€, make sure that you have a good after sales service if you buy from a supplier in Spain.
We think Android systems are not that reliable (ever had problems with your Android Phone) they are "Buggy" and ask yourself why is there so many versions of it!

CDN (Content Delivery Network)  is a large distributed system of servers deployed in multiple data centers across the Internet. The goal of a CDN is to serve content to end-users with high availability and high performance.
These services are stable and connected to  professional server systems  with extensive upload bandwidth and can cope with thousands of streaming channels at the same time via the internet, the recommended internet speed is 2 Mbps although we have seen them work as low as 750 Kbps, they are superior to other services on sale and can stream HD with no problems and are up to broadcast standards.
The box we supply also includes  90 TV channels, lots of Radio channels, most Sports including SKY Sports, BT Sports etc Added benefits are Discovery channels, History, Nat Geo, SKY Movies, many other SKY channels as well plus a extensive selection of Irish TV.. Also Video Club with numerous movies ( changed on a monthly basis).
This  TV service is excellent and in our opinion the best there is available today. We supply this box at 285.00€ which includes first years subscription, installation (Costa Blanca South) and all cables HDMI and LAN.

Sunday 2 February 2014

ASTRA 2E UPDATE

The new Astra 2E satellite is in it's final position and in mid February some English TV channels will migrate from Astra 1N (Which will move to a new position to serve the German TV community) there will be some loss of the TV service mainly on the Costa del Sol, we have no reason to suspect there will be any drastic change on the Costa Blanca. Astra state that if you already receive TV from Astra 2F (which we do) there should be no change with Astra 2E as it is the same design (we will wait and see)

IPTV Demo ( Internet Protocol Television) This integrated system is the best there is over 90 TV channels.