Freesat with PVR

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Maplin are selling HD freesat receivers with the option to connect an exteral HDD via USB for a PVR function. This sounds ideal as you could increase the size of the HDD as required or use more than one and could record HD content now. My concern is how easy is it use and to make timed recordings? Also could you use a twin LNB on an existing Sky dish so as to use Sky as well without realigning the dish?
 

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I don't know but if you wait on a little Humax are bringing out a HD box with PVR for Freesat that sounds pretty tasty:

From the JoinFreesat forums:

Humax has assigned one of its top development teams to the Freesat digital television recorder and they have completed the first stages of software integration and finalised the hardware design. Once testing of this stage of development is complete the more advanced features for Freesat will be worked on and tested.

Because of the complex nature of the development of such an advanced recorder product Humax will dedicate an appropriate period to ensuring the good operation and stability of the product before releasing to market. It is currently estimated that the product will be available suitably in advance of the Christmas 2008 season.

The product will be a twin tuner satellite recorder with an appropriately large capacity hard disk, although the exact size has yet to be finalised. The connectivity will be identical to the FOXSAT-HD, but unlike the FOXSAT-HD it will not have an analogue component output.

Post by a Humax Representative From the Join Freesat forums in response to some questions about capacity, format and quality:

The capacity is as yet undetermined, because the HDD market is changing and so are the needs of the product. I don't know if it will be for launch but we are likely to offer an option for higher capacity no matter what we choose and the product should be able to archive to an external USB HDD anyway so I don't think the capacity matters much.

It records whatever the broadcaster sends 575i, 720p and 1080i are all broadcast formats. 1080p is not yet even a broadcast format and will not likely be for many years, however in theory the box supports recording and playback of 1080p/25 or 24p. I doubt anyone would broadcast in this format unless it was a very specialist film channel and in my opinion they are horrible formats anyway.

The product is a mass market product, however Humax is striving to better the quality of the audio/visual experience each time. We have taken note of the views of the reviewers of the Foxsat-HD and continue to strive for better results.

As for the alignment question, I don't know a definite answer as I've never had Sky but I think they both use the Astra satellite and thus I think the alignment is the saem for both.

Finally be sure the Maplin box (if you decide to go down that route instead of tthe Humax is for BBC Freesat as Sky have their own different version without Free HD, called Freesat also).
 

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