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Cheap freesat box that can do the following...
chris_elevate
26-03-2015
I've worked out a solution that will solve a problem bicrky but wondered if anyone can suggest a box does the following:

Free sat box (I have one spare cable to my dish that's not being used

And it has the following features:
PVR with HD (doesn't need to have much storage tbh)
Can be controlled by a phone app (or magic eye might be a possibility)
Has a coax aerial out
Has the ability to get audio out out of the box
Is at a reasonable cost too!

That's hopefully all!

Thanks for any suggestions you can give.
chrisjr
26-03-2015
By coax aerial out do you mean it has a built in modulator so that you can feed whatever satellite channel you are watching over normal coax aerial cabling to other TVs in the house as you can with Sky boxes?

If so then you are likely to be out of luck. I don't know of a single Freesat box with modulator on board. If you want that facility then you are looking at an external device to do the job.

A Sky box without sub would work as a sort of Freesat substitute though if you are not concerned about having the Freesat EPG. Though without paying Sky a tenner a month it won't be able to record.
grahamlthompson
26-03-2015
No freesat box has an aerial out. If you mean send the pictures via a coax link to a remote TV like a Sky box is capable of then simply add a TV modulator.

eg

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RF-MODULAT...item1e98f7e88e


The Humax HB1000S paired with a usb hard drive will meet your other requirements.
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