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Best saorview hd recordable box around?

  • 19-04-2012 10:36am
    #1
    JonnyM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 889 ✭✭✭


    Just wondering whats out there and what peoples thoughts are?

    What have people got themselves and whats the best price etc.

    Cheers


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  • #2
    zg3409
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,035 ✭✭✭zg3409


    JonnyM wrote: »
    Just wondering whats out there and what peoples thoughts are?

    What have people got themselves and whats the best price etc.

    Cheers

    There is no true dual tuner Saorview approved recording box available. The best Saorview approved are single tuner models. thus you can only watch the channel you are recording. Another catch is series link is not being broadcast by RTENL yet, so no way of automatically recording a series.

    RTENL say once a dual tuner box approved box comes out they will start sending series link information.

    So single tuner is only option for the moment, without series link. There are reviews of some boxes out there. The triax tsc114 (see other thread) has recording, and the UK channels via a dish. There are some good reviews of the features here:

    http://www.tvtrade.ie/saorview-combo.html

    Click on video guides. It's not great at recording the BBCs etc as it does not have a 7 day satellite guide.

    Hopefully a better approved box will be launched in the next year.


  • #3
    snaps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,138 ✭✭✭snaps


    forgive me if im wrong but cant you watch one channel on the same transponder (mux) as your recording? you can on satellite.


  • #4
    zg3409
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,035 ✭✭✭zg3409


    snaps wrote: »
    forgive me if im wrong but cant you watch one channel on the same transponder (mux) as your recording? you can on satellite.

    You can, but a second mux is going to be launched at some stage in the next year, so it's not a really long term solution.

    People are comparing the features of Sky+ and UPC+, allowing watching of some channels and not others, while recording is not really what the average person expects.


  • #5
    snaps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,138 ✭✭✭snaps


    2nd mux? What channels?


  • #6
    zg3409
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,035 ✭✭✭zg3409


    snaps wrote: »
    2nd mux? What channels?

    The current mux is 100% full. TV3 and installing a HD studio at the moment. If any other channel wants to go HD then the 2nd mux will need to be launched.

    There is also Dail TV (available online the past few years). This will also insclude Seanad TV and apparently Stormont TV from the north. This was supposed to be launched a year ago (they have a full TV studio already). The politician ae running scared as once it is launched people will ask how much it costs, and it will be a bad news story. Hence the delay. It will be another TG4. Hopefully it will carry some spanish football or a good shopping channel after hours.


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