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Digital recorder on MMDS area

  • 02-12-2009 03:50PM
    #1
    campo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,369 ✭✭✭


    Hi I know you cant get a DVR in a MMDS are well not in my area anyway but can I get my own PVR that I can use in conjuction with the basic set top box from Chorus / NTL and if so where


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  • #2
    KeRbDoG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,452 ✭✭✭KeRbDoG


    campo wrote: »
    Hi I know you cant get a DVR in a MMDS are well not in my area anyway but can I get my own PVR that I can use in conjuction with the basic set top box from Chorus / NTL and if so where

    I'm on a MMDS system in my estate and I have a UPC Thomson box, so I'm unsure why yea say yea can't get one.
    Yea on UPC right? Was it Chorus or NTL before UPC?


  • #3
    campo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,369 ✭✭✭campo


    I was a Chorus customer pity as friend has a DVR in the city and it is fair handy


  • #4
    Solair
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    I don't know why UPC can't offer a DVR to customers in the ex Chorus MMDS areas.

    I know they use DVB-T over the MMDS network in those areas so the UPC cable boxes cannot be used, but there are loads of DVB-T based digital video recorders out there for use with digital terrestrial tv.

    The Chorus Digital MMDS boxes are basically just Sagem DVB-T boxes with an encryption module. I can't see how it's so difficult for them to find a similar unit with a hardrive built in!

    I realise it might not be the same as the service in the cable areas, but the MMDS service is drastically different anyway!


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