Freesat+ and Saorview Box

dicey2

Apols if this has been asked before - I did a search but couldnt find anything.

Can anybody recommend a box that can give me Saorview and Freesat+

Thanks

dowtchaboy

dicey2 wrote: »

Apols if this has been asked before - I did a search but couldnt find anything.

Can anybody recommend a box that can give me Saorview and Freesat+

Thanks

So far there is nothing that is 100% Freeview+ and 100% Saorview - and there is unlikely ever to be (certainly not "certified") - but here's 2 threads:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056284276

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056086354

Digifriendly

dowtchaboy wrote: »

So far there is nothing that is 100% Freeview+ and 100% Saorview - and there is unlikely ever to be (certainly not "certified") - but here's 2 threads:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056284276

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056086354

Your links are right but just to clear up any confusion - Freesat+ is FTA satellite and Freeview + is UK DTT. They're different ways of getting fee channels - Freesat via a satellite dish and Freeview via a terrestial aerial.

championc

Get yourself a Combo Box (the Ferguson Ariva 120 looks perfect) and just add a USB Hard Disk. This will allow you to receive and record BOTH Freesat (satellite) channels and Saorview (terrestrial) channels

locum-motion

I bought a Ferguson Ariva 120 a couple of weeks ago. Cost me €150 (I didn't see the thread that says you can order them much cheaper from some Polish website. Then I got a 1TB hard drive from PC World for €65.
They seem to work fine together. I get the Digital Terrestrial Television channels (RTE 1, 2, News, Jr, TV3, E3, TG4) and free satellite ones (all of the various regional versions of BBC & ITV, Channel4, E4, More4, Film4, all of their +1 versions, and a whole lot of other crap like shopping channels)
I can record from one channel, while watching another.
Criticisms: Whoever did the programming for it needs to take a serious lesson in user friendliness, perhaps from the people who programmed Sky boxes. Print on on-screen-display is way too small and in a poor choice of colour for the print and background. The display is also cluttered with unneccessary info. Makes me miss the nice big yellow print on blue of the Sky box.

A friend got a hard drive from some other friend with about 450 movies on it, about 500GB worth.
I thought, Great, I'll copy them over to my new 1TB drive. When I plugged it into my new box, though, it wouldn't play them. I can hear the movie allright, but all that comes up on screen is "Video Codec not Supported".

dowtchaboy

Digifriendly wrote: »

Your links are right but just to clear up any confusion - Freesat+ is FTA satellite and Freeview + is UK DTT. They're different ways of getting fee channels - Freesat via a satellite dish and Freeview via a terrestial aerial.

Yes - my typo - I meant to put "Freesat+" not "Freeview+" per his original enquiry.

Qwerty?

locum-motion wrote: »

I bought a Ferguson Ariva 120 a couple of weeks ago. Cost me €150 (I didn't see the thread that says you can order them much cheaper from some Polish website. Then I got a 1TB hard drive from PC World for €65.
They seem to work fine together. I get the Digital Terrestrial Television channels (RTE 1, 2, News, Jr, TV3, E3, TG4) and free satellite ones (all of the various regional versions of BBC & ITV, Channel4, E4, More4, Film4, all of their +1 versions, and a whole lot of other crap like shopping channels)
I can record from one channel, while watching another.

Can you confirm if it is possible set it to record a program on next week, or series link a program with this box???

Compton

you mean timeshift?

locum-motion

Qwerty? wrote: »

Can you confirm if it is possible set it to record a program on next week, or series link a program with this box???

You can programme it to record in the future, alright, and it does give you the option of setting it for Once, Daily or Weekly, but it's not Series Link as such. I presume that if the programme isn't on at the same time each week, you could be snookered, same if a news programme overruns because of a big story. I haven't actually tried yet, but if it transpires that it does work like series link, I'll post back again.

dicey2

but you cant do series link with the Ferguson Ariva 120. thats why im looking at freesat+ boxes that can do saorview as well

Macy0161

dicey2 wrote: »

but you cant do series link with the Ferguson Ariva 120. thats why im looking at freesat+ boxes that can do saorview as well

There's nothing that can do that at the moment. It has been suggested that a Freesat+ receiver that will handle Diseqc, and a dish/ lnb for saorsat may provide a solution to this. However, this isn't in anyway confirmed as being a workable solution.

Gerry Wicklow

dicey2 wrote: »

but you cant do series link with the Ferguson Ariva 120. thats why im looking at freesat+ boxes that can do saorview as well

The problem is there is no real demand for such a box apart from here. In UK anyone using FreeSat woud not need terrestrial.

championc

Gerry Wicklow wrote: »

The problem is there is no real demand for such a box apart from here. In UK anyone using FreeSat woud not need terrestrial.

In the same way they are not bothering to manufacture TV's with both tuners. Thankfully I got my Panny G20B before they stopped doing them.

dicey2

but sureley there are boxs with fressat+ and a dvb-t connection which in theory would give you saorview?

or am i been stupid!

championc

dicey2 wrote: »

but sureley there are boxs with fressat+ and a dvb-t connection which in theory would give you saorview?

or am i been stupid!

That's the thing - there aren't

So European Combo Boxes would seem the only real option where you can have every channel that Freesat can give you but without the EPG.

bpmurray

I have an AZBox receiver with both DVB-S and DVB-T tuners, with which I can receive Both satellite & Saorview channels. Is that the kind of thing you mean?