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BBCi and Freesat
Is there any way to record BBCi on my Humax freesat box ?
I can on my Humax Freeview box, by selecting channels 301, 302, etc. However I have just purchased a Freesat box to be used in my main TV room and want to record the practice from F1 on BBCi (this will become more important as the year progresses as I believe some qualifying will be on BBCi and some of the Moto GP races fro 125 and 250). I cant find the BBCi channels as channels 301, 302 etc. dont exist on the Freesat Box and when I tried to record a BBCi channel last night on the Freesat box nothing happened. I will be very disapointed if I cant record interactive as this was one of the prime reasons for purchasing a freesat box |
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Is there any way to record BBCi on my Humax freesat box ?.....
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I will be very disapointed if I cant record interactive as this was one of the prime reasons for purchasing a freesat box
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Is there any way to record BBCi on my Humax freesat box ?
I can on my Humax Freeview box, by selecting channels 301, 302, etc. However I have just purchased a Freesat box to be used in my main TV room and want to record the practice from F1 on BBCi (this will become more important as the year progresses as I believe some qualifying will be on BBCi and some of the Moto GP races fro 125 and 250). I cant find the BBCi channels as channels 301, 302 etc. dont exist on the Freesat Box and when I tried to record a BBCi channel last night on the Freesat box nothing happened. I will be very disapointed if I cant record interactive as this was one of the prime reasons for purchasing a freesat box |
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I believe some qualifying will be on BBCi
Whereas you can watch it on the red button or the web site as well, ALL qualifying is on BBC1 (except Brazil which is on BBC2), and ALL the races are on BBC1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/moto...ne/7755219.stm |
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To the best of my knowledge you can't, but it may be possible to set it up in non-Freesat mode and somehow record that. I'm sure someone else with better knowledge than me will be along soon though
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With the greatest of respect, if this was one of the prime reasons for buying the box, wouldn't it have been better to have checked this out before handing over the cash?[/quote]
You are quite correct, however I made an assumption based upon the fact that the Humax Freeview box could record interactive, and wouldnt have thought that a new product would have reduced Functionality. And to be honest after reading through this forum I don’t think I could have confirmed one way or another. Which is the reason I posted this thread. There seemed to be a suggestion that you could set the interactive stations manually. But no explanation of how this would work. |
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If you are already able to record the interactive channels on your Humax 'Freeview' box why is there a necessity to do so on the 'Freesat' box? I'm not saying that it wouldn't be nice to have the option.
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According to the BBC, this is not true.
Whereas you can watch it on the red button or the web site as well, ALL qualifying is on BBC1 (except Brazil which is on BBC2), and ALL the races are on BBC1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/moto...ne/7755219.stm |
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If you are already able to record the interactive channels on your Humax 'Freeview' box why is there a necessity to do so on the 'Freesat' box? I'm not saying that it wouldn't be nice to have the option.
So now looks like I will have to have SKY+ HD, Freesat and Freeview all in the main veiwing room. I dont really want to only be able to watch the practice seessions and MotoGp sutff in the bedroom as I normally have a few mates round and a few of us propped up on the bed with a few beers going down may offend the wife |
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The red button streams are unavailable in non-freesat mode and even if they were how would you know which stream would carry the video you wanted to record unless the beeb advertised which they intended to use
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I've no idea. Which is why I was in pains to point out in my post that my knowledge of this is very limited. The reason I even put it forward as a possibility was that I remember doing something similar with EyeTV in the past - I'm certainly not trying to tell anybody that you definitely can with this box.
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..and even if they were how would you know which stream would ....
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No need for the explanation, but thanks anyway.
![]() It would certainly be pretty nice to be able to record these streams from time to time...I'm sure someone will come up with something. This whole discussion has tempted me to have another look at the EyeTV thing again... |
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It would certainly be pretty nice to be able to record these streams from time to time...
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Can Bob Cat explain why it is not possible to tune these streams in non freesat mode, when it is possible on the Panasonic Freesat TVs, and most FTA boxes/software?
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