Hello there,
I live in a small clock made up of 8 council and leaseheld ex council flats.

I receive a satellite and a terrestrial signal from a dish (on the roof I guess, have never seen it!) . It comes via a wall plate with a socket for Antenna and a socket for dish.

I ca receive Satellite services fine via the tuner in my PC and seem to be able to tune in to Astra and some other satellites (Hotbird for example).

Anyway... I would like to get a HUmax Foxtel or another dual tuner Freesat PVR but am not sure if I would be able to use both tuners.

I notice the Humax has two satellite in sockets. Would I need two separate feeds to use both tuners? Counld I split the one feed coming from the wall socket?

I'd be grateful for any help and advice as I only really want to get the Foxtel if I can use dual tuner function to record two things at once...

Thanks very much in advance!

G

The foxsat-hdr can be used with a single cable with some restrictions on what you can record as a 2nd channel and will have a more limited 3rd viewing choice. It has a tuner 1 out connection that can be used to feed the 2nd tuner. For most situations about 50% of the channel line up is available for the 2nd tuner to record.

A dual tuner receiver needs two two feeds, with only one feed you can record one channel, and watch anything else on the same multiplex, unless you link in the second tuner (if it gives you the option to patch the IF output into the second tuner which will simulate having two feeds) , where you can watch anything else sharing the same satellite, band and polarisation as the first tuner which will give you a little bit more choice.

Only the Humax sat tuners have the capability of accessing two channels from the same transponder at the same time. There's not much on the freesat epg in the high frequency band (mostly radio and a few of the less popular TV offerings). As a consequence pretty close to 50% of the total channel count is available for recording on a hdr's second tuner when tuner 1 is recording a low band channel.

It's often possible when recording a channel like BBC 1 with regional variants to simply record a BBC region with the same polarity as the second channel you want to record. Not ideal but compared to any of the other twin tuner boxes a massive improvement.