freesat+pvr
can anyone tell tell me if the new humax freesat+pvr, will be able to record in 5.1 surround from bbc hd channels ,or any hd channels that will be availible hopefully soon.
is that the new one that has just been released at £299
Yep -we await a unit with baited breath!
so it's actually been released now?
Why do you need two cables from dish to box, why can't the signal be split at the box end??
It's exactly the same in that respect as the Sky+ boxes. In very rough terms, it's because each channel is a separate transmission, not a whole load of stations multiplexed together as happens in terrestrial TV.
If memory serves me certain channels require that the LNB on the dish is set to Horizontal and others to Vertical.
With this in mind you need two cables because the dish has a separate LNB (all built in to the same unit) connected to each cable.
Therefore with two cables (and effectively two LNBs) the box can decode and record both channels (regardless of the V or H requirement).
its' true some channels use vertical polarisation and others horizontal, but this is not the reason for two cables, even the sd boxes with single tuner receive channels on both poles, they do it by voltage switching between 13v/18v which in turn switches the lnb between vertical and horizontal poles.qwerty69:If memory serves me certain channels require that the LNB on the dish is set to Horizontal and others to Vertical. With this in mind you need two cables because the dish has a separate LNB (all built in to the same unit) connected to each cable. Therefore with two cables (and effectively two LNBs) the box can decode and record both channels (regardless of the V or H requirement).
the reason for twin lnb/two cables is that in simple terms a sat signal cant be split like a terrestrial aerial signal just with a splitter.so basically as pvr's have twin tuners you need two feeds.
What he said ^
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We're hoping to test the Humax Freesat PVR in our next issue, out on December 11th. So we'll check it out.
Andy Clough is Brand Editor of What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision and whathifi.com