freesat question

[dirky dirk]

hi,
a friends new house has e a sky dish and two cables, but no sky box,
so the idea is to get a freesat box, but that only has one in socket,
how do i get round that please?

thanks in advance

[Pitre]

Plug in either cable, it should work fine but you won't be able to record one channel whilst watching another...

[Radec]

Unless you are set on recording I'd just buy a sky box, can pick them up second hand for about £20 odd to use for Freeview, you'll get all the free channels plus some more than you would with Freeview/Freesat.
The boxes are fast and the guides etc have the best interface.
If you get one from around your area then it should have already been set to regional TV stations/news etc without a viewing card.

[Condi]

Radec said:

Unless you are set on recording I'd just buy a sky box, can pick them up second hand for about £20 odd to use for Freeview, you'll get all the free channels plus some more than you would with Freeview/Freesat.
The boxes are fast and the guides etc have the best interface.
If you get one from around your area then it should have already been set to regional TV stations/news etc without a viewing card.

Is it still possible to buy "hooky" cards from the internet and such like?

Asking for a friend.

[Evercross]

Some Freesat boxes have more than one LNB input to allow recording/viewing of different channels at the same time.

Condi said:

Is it still possible to buy "hooky" cards from the internet and such like?

Not for a loooong time now.

[Zoon]

Pitre said:

Plug in either cable, it should work fine but you won't be able to record one channel whilst watching another...

I seem to remember some of the old Humax boxes could record one channel and watch another with one feed if the channel was on the same frequency band and polarisation.

[48k]

Check that the TV doesn't have freesat built in already before buying a separate box.

[Timothy Bucktu]

Condi said:

Is it still possible to buy "hooky" cards from the internet and such like?

Asking for a friend.

Not these days.

[dukeboy749r]

Sorry it's not directly related to the OP's original post, but rather than simply start a new thread, I thought I'd ask here.

Moving from SKY to Freeview - with Virgin fibre (350Mbs).

Aerial is being installed prior to the SKY service ending. I wonder if the following box is what other Freeview users might choose?

Many thanks for any guidance and tips!

https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/tv-and-home-entertai...

[S6PNJ]

Yup, looks good - I've been a Humax user for at least 15 years or so, now on Freesat not Freeview. I've bought from their refurbished outlet before - same box you are looking at but 2TB and £10 less. https://www.humaxdirect.co.uk/refurbished/humax-au...

[anonymoususer]

Zoon said:

Pitre said:

Plug in either cable, it should work fine but you won't be able to record one channel whilst watching another...

I seem to remember some of the old Humax boxes could record one channel and watch another with one feed if the channel was on the same frequency band and polarisation.

Yep I think that was courtesy of a link through on the back of the box It certainly applied to the Humax FOXSAT-HDR box which was a cracking piece of kit

The chaps suggesting buy an old sky box is a good idea and you can get them for less than £20 now often under a tenner. One downside is that there will be programmes in the EPG that you can't access and I seem to recall it was hard to make up a favourites list and exclude the channels you couldn't access.
A freesat HD box is probably an easier option

[anonymoususer]

dukeboy749r said:

Sorry it's not directly related to the OP's original post, but rather than simply start a new thread, I thought I'd ask here.

Moving from SKY to Freeview - with Virgin fibre (350Mbs).

Aerial is being installed prior to the SKY service ending. I wonder if the following box is what other Freeview users might choose?

Many thanks for any guidance and tips!

https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/tv-and-home-entertai...

That is a goiod box another good one is the Manhattan T3R box

[Condi]

You can buy a BT Youview box on ebay for about £50. Can record channel and watch another, all the usual stuff, but much cheaper than paying £250 from Currys for essentially the same thing. Has all the streaming apps on as well.

[dukeboy749r]

Many thanks for the replies related to my query (apologies OP).

Plenty of alternatives to look at then!