Freesat advice

[BarnatosGhost]

This is a bit of a sanity-check for my plan.

The new house has a satellite dish with dual LNB (lines into the lounge) but no aerial. I've checked it with an old sky box and basic freesat works fine in the lounge.

What I want is Freesat+ HD in the lounge, and normal freesat in 2 of the bedrooms.

So, I'm going to buy a quad LNB, which is easy for a monkey like me to install on the existing dish, run a single line into each bedroom and bung an old sky box on the end of each.

This will work perfectly and make me look good.

Then, I'll buy a Grundig or Samsung Freesat+ HD box for the lounge, using the existing 2 lines, because the Humax one, whilst well-regarded, has a simply grotesque UI that will drive me mad and totally bamboozle the wife.

Oh, Wise Beards of the CG&S sub-forum - am I doing anything wrong?

[igiveup]

All sounds good to me.

[audi321]

Yep.....that will work nicely

[Irrotational]

yep that will work...

you *can* get octo LNB's apparently if you want HD everywhere....I've never done this personally.

http://www.maplin.co.uk/octo-lnb-97911?c=froogle&a...

A different shop has one for £18!?!?

You could also get a central computer to act as a freeview HD box and stream to all the rooms but that may be a level of complexity you dont want to go to!!

[FlossyThePig]

Don't forget that most Freesat boxes can get BBC iPlayer if you can connect to your router (I use ethernet over mains).

Humax have just added ITV Player which should get rolled out to other manufacturers later (this year?). According to joinfreesat 4OD and Demand 5 will be added as well.

Irrotational said:

you *can* get octo LNB's apparently if you want HD everywhere

You can get HD through one feed, that's how I watch it on my Freesat enabled TV. You only need twin feeds for a Freesat+ box (watch one programme while watching a second, or record two programmes at the same time).

[onlynik]

BBC iPlayer and ITV Player Channel 901 and 903.

http://www.freesat.co.uk/what-you-get/on-demand-tv...

[HellDiver]

BarnatosGhost said:

Then, I'll buy a Grundig or Samsung Freesat+ HD box for the lounge, using the existing 2 lines, because the Humax one, whilst well-regarded, has a simply grotesque UI that will drive me mad and totally bamboozle the wife.

Oh, Wise Beards of the CG&S sub-forum - am I doing anything wrong?

Buying a Grundig or Samsung is the only mistake you're making.

I don't understand why you think the Humax's UI is difficult to use. It really isn't - even my technologically retarded mother (67 years old and baffled by FM radio) can work a Humax with little training.

[Irrotational]

FlossyThePig said:

You can get HD through one feed, that's how I watch it on my Freesat enabled TV. You only need twin feeds for a Freesat+ box (watch one programme while watching a second, or record two programmes at the same time).

Sorry you're right - it's to use + boxes not get HD - apologies!

[Bikerjon]

I'm in a similar situation and about to embark on a switch from Sky to Freesat. I've done all the cabling with the twin cable stuff and now just need to decide on which Freesat HD box to buy. Just want 1 HD box to start with then once I know it's all OK with iplayer etc I'll get another box that that does recording too. Humax seems to generally come top but are any of the other (cheaper!) boxes worth considering?

[custardkid]

With one signal cable into a Humax freesat HD box you can record 1 thing and watch something else, but the channels you can chose from are limited

having done the research, and played with the folks samsung PVR, sky + boxes, the Humax stuff is much more relable and isn't too complicated / does what you want it to.

they are expensive but good!

Custard

[FlossyThePig]

onlynik said:

BBC iPlayer and ITV Player Channel 901 and 903.

http://www.freesat.co.uk/what-you-get/on-demand-tv...

As I said above, ITV Player only works on Humax boxes at the moment.

http://www.itv.com/help/itvplayervideohelp/freesat...

[bob1709]

Hi all newbie on the block,

I just wanted to say i am using a humax hdr and find the user interfae simple to use and the picture on the hd channels is amazing.I have had my other room already cabled in advance with twin rg6 thick coax in prepareation for another box and will probably be another humax when they come down in price.If i can find any fault at all is that its a bit slow booting up from old otherwise i am very pleased with it.