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Old 28-10-2013, 11:56
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State now - newbie and not that technologically minded. I have in the bedrooom a freesat HD viewer (cheapy) that works perfectly fine. (running of sky dish - sky HD downstairs main room)

I hog the TV downstairs and the missus will often watch upstairs, but she is wanting something in which she can record to, something similar to the Sky box downstairs. I don't want multi-room.

This is where my knowledge runs out. I assume there is a recording device with a built in freesat tuner, so I can remove the old cheapy freesat viewer and have an all in one device?

Would like to record 2 things at once and any built in catch up would be good, although no access to broadband router unless it has built in wireless also.

Money although not really an issue - don't want to go mad. Really appreciate some direction and advice/recommendations
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Old 28-10-2013, 12:49
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The best ones are the Humax boxes, and the Freetime one has the best potential for catch-up.
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Old 28-10-2013, 13:10
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Sounds like the Humax HDR-1010S would be ideal. All that you want - with WiFi (2 sat feeds needed,
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Old 28-10-2013, 13:23
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Why do they need 2 feeds? I was hoping to plug and play what I have without getting someone in to feed another cable in from the box.

Just reading about the freetime....watching programs passed by scrolling backwards through the guide......how does this work? does this need the box connected to the router to get this if I didn't buy the wifi enabled model
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Old 28-10-2013, 14:02
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Why do they need 2 feeds? I was hoping to plug and play what I have without getting someone in to feed another cable in from the box.

Just reading about the freetime....watching programs passed by scrolling backwards through the guide......how does this work? does this need the box connected to the router to get this if I didn't buy the wifi enabled model
You need 2 feeds from a suitable LNB so you can record 2 different channels or record 1 and watch another at the same time.
It's basically to do with the satellites beaming some channels horizontaly and some vertically, which satellite boxes can't get the broadcast from both at the same time without an extra feed.
You can still use 1 feed, but you'd then be limited to what you can watch and record at the same time.

The backwards TV guide is having BBCiPlayer,ITVPlayer,4OD & Demand 5 built into the EPG so instead of launching each of the indubitable players you can just scroll backwards through the EPG to catchup what you may of missed.
Yes you need the box connected to a router. The HDR 1010s has Wifi built on or you can just connect to router via Ethernet cable if you prefer, or the HDR 1000s which would need Ethernet cable or a Wifi dongle to connect to router.
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Old 28-10-2013, 20:29
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You need 2 feeds from a suitable LNB so you can record 2 different channels or record 1 and watch another at the same time.
It's basically to do with the satellites beaming some channels horizontaly and some vertically, which satellite boxes can't get the broadcast from both at the same time without an extra feed.
You can still use 1 feed, but you'd then be limited to what you can watch and record at the same time.

The backwards TV guide is having BBCiPlayer,ITVPlayer,4OD & Demand 5 built into the EPG so instead of launching each of the indubitable players you can just scroll backwards through the EPG to catchup what you may of missed.
Yes you need the box connected to a router. The HDR 1010s has Wifi built on or you can just connect to router via Ethernet cable if you prefer, or the HDR 1000s which would need Ethernet cable or a Wifi dongle to connect to router.
Thanks for the info, nice and clear - understood
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