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  • 13-10-2012 6:27pm
    #1
    craig_b
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 141 ✭✭


    Alright lads can anybody help me out, I have been looking for a combo reciever to recieve satellite and saorview but which can record say UTV and watch BBC at the same time, is there any boxes with this capability because all I can find is boxes which record English while watching Irish and vice versa!! :confused::confused:


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  • #2
    John mac
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,140 ✭✭✭John mac


    something with triple tuner perhaps. http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=80302126


  • #3
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    Or forget "crippled" Combos. For UK TV without a sub you can't beat a Freesat HD PVR.

    When a Saorview PVR is out (shortly) a two box solution will be superior.

    A triple tuner box will fall short on UK EPG, none are 100% Saorview or Freesat compatible and when the 2nd mux starts (probably Q1 or Q2 of 2013) you'll need either a quad tuner or two box solution.


  • #4
    craig_b
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 141 ✭✭craig_b


    Cheers for the help lads I bought an Amiko Alien 2 Triple Tuner today and it works a treat, I can record 2 stations and watch one either satellite or terrestrial and it has great features for the price (€194) I'm just trying to suss out now how to install cccam and oscam on it, so if anybody has any info on that please pm me because alot of people won't talk about it on forums which is starting to annoy me, i can't get a straight answer off anyone!


  • #5
    sligotrain
    Closed Accounts Posts: 148 ✭✭sligotrain


    watty wrote: »
    Or forget "crippled" Combos. For UK TV without a sub you can't beat a Freesat HD PVR.

    When a Saorview PVR is out (shortly) a two box solution will be superior.

    A triple tuner box will fall short on UK EPG, none are 100% Saorview or Freesat compatible and when the 2nd mux starts (probably Q1 or Q2 of 2013) you'll need either a quad tuner or two box solution.

    Why would the second mux require a two box Saorview/Freesat solution? The second mux is really a second channel of extra Saorview programming isn't it? When the second mux has been fired up the only material difference I can see is extra channels being made available through the Saorview route.

    Two box "solutions" aren't ideal at all - too much fiddling with too many remotes for my liking. And try explaining to a seventy plus year old why they can't now just use one remote to switch between Irish and UK channels.

    My parents have a combo box and like it. I retune it when necessary. I wouldn't have a combo box since I use a HTPC and get everything in one place, and can pipe TV around my network, both Wireless and on my Homeplug circuit. Can even get streaming onto my iphone....


  • #6
    MBSnr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,216 ✭✭✭MBSnr


    sligotrain wrote: »
    Why would the second mux require a two box Saorview/Freesat solution? The second mux is really a second channel of extra Saorview programming isn't it? When the second mux has been fired up the only material difference I can see is extra channels being made available through the Saorview route.

    I guess 'cos a standard combi only has one DTT tuner. Take Maghera my DTT transmitter.
    Mux 1 Maghera is Ch 48
    Mux 2 Maghera is Ch 55

    So if I'm watching Ch48 programmes but want to record Ch55 programmes I can't unless the box has twin tuners. Or at least that's my understanding.


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  • #7
    STB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,178 ✭✭✭STB


    MBSnr wrote: »
    I guess 'cos a standard combi only has one DTT tuner. Take Maghera my DTT transmitter.
    Mux 1 Maghera is Ch 48
    Mux 2 Maghera is Ch 55

    So if I'm watching Ch48 programmes but want to record Ch55 programmes I can't unless the box has twin tuners. Or at least that's my understanding.

    Yes this correct. It may not bother people who just want to watch TV rather than record everything.


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