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Old 15-03-2015, 20:38
dave104
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hi!
usual problem...... decent programs worth recording all seem to come on at the same time, and allowing for a few minutes either side of the recording you can't watch a 3rd channel.

so I bought a quad LNB (ebay) and hope to feed this into my living room with 4x coax cables. I've never seen or know if a quad tuner freesat box exists, so was planning to add another humax to my existing dual tuner humax. Great, but the remote controls aren't specific to each box - i.e one remote controls both boxes and causes mayhem!

Can anyone give me any bright ideas on this please? any suggestions of alternate dual tuner boxes that avoid my remote control clash? and would this quad LNB (not yet fitted) even work on my generic ex-sky oval type dish? (I have a cheap chinese satellite finder kit).

Thanks so much,
Dave
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Old 15-03-2015, 20:44
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Quad tuner Freesat boxes do not exist. However there is no problem adding a second Humax freesat box. The remote controls supplied for all HD boxes (Except the Youview boxes) can easily be set to 6 different operating modes. This means you can use up to 6 boxes in the same room (5 if one happens to be a Youview box)

http://myhumax.org/forum/topic/multi...hdhdr-remote-2

Quad lnb's are available for your dish, (or even 8 outputs) . Sky normally fit quad lnb's anyway.
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Old 15-03-2015, 21:02
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great, thanks for the link Graham! will check out another box.
cheers!
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Old 15-03-2015, 21:08
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great, thanks for the link Graham! will check out another box.
cheers!
I have four Humax PVrs in the same room, 2 HDR FOX T2's, 1 Foxsat-HDR and 1 HDR1000S.
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Old 16-03-2015, 18:52
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4 tuner system is putting all your eggs in one basket, PVRs do fail at the worst possible time...

9pm TV is a problem some nights.

I have a twin tuner Humax Freesat, plus a couple of Freeview PVRs, and 4 other USB stick recording units / TV's around the house. All are HD, apart from a couple of SD USB TV recorders

Anything "important" is double banked.

And with earlier record start times, and over-run added.

And best of all......... BBC iPlayer !!
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Old 16-03-2015, 21:09
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If you do run out of tuners when wanting to record too many programmes at once then BBC programmes(*) are the first to consider to omit and leave them for iPlayer. That way you don't have to wait for the ads to play on the commercial TV catch up services.

(one Freesat PVR and three Freeview/Youview PVRs here - COM7 channels such as BBC4 HD always recorded on Freesat due to the lower power on Freeview leading to occasionally dodgy reception)

(*) But not live sport events as these may not show up on iPlayer and you still want to record them if you are chase-playing.
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Old 16-03-2015, 23:14
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thanks so much for all the replies guys, seems like job done to me now so I'll fit the quad LNb, put in the extra cabling, get another humax box, and sit back and enjoy!!!

I just previously had thought about building a Windows media PC with several tuners, but keep thinking back to when a mate done this and every time I went to his house the TV had a "blue screen of death" on it! I also didnt realise that iplayer was buried in the high 900's of channels on the humax, as our "expensive" Sony blue ray & surround sound system used to run iplayer but now it can't since BBC recently updated iplayer. grrrrr!
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Old 20-03-2015, 10:25
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I also didnt realise that iplayer was buried in the high 900's of channels on the humax,
Just press RED when on a BBC channel and it should offer iPlayer to you from the digital text menus.
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