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[Varche]

Although we have managed for over a year without any form of Tv recording following the demise of yet another Video recorder, it is time the Varche household moved into the noughties technology wise. 

We have Sky no package with two std boxes and thus a twin LNB.

Been looking at secondhand/refurbished 160Gb sky plus box on Ebay- about £50 including a handset.

Do you have to install the second feed for it to work? Is there anything else around that sort of price that I could go for that wouldn't require upgrading to a quad LNB and the hassle of pairing card to new box?

[Martian]

Do you have to install the second feed for it to work?

No, the second feed simply gives you the ability to watch one channel while recording another.
You will however have to pair the card to the box, and you will also have to pay Sly (no, that's not a syntax error) £10 a month for the recording feature to be enabled.

Is there anything else around that sort of price that I could go for that wouldn't require upgrading to a quad LNB and the hassle of pairing card to new box?

Something like >THIS< is probably your best bet.
Granted it is £150, but you'll end up paying Sly £120 per year just for the ability to record their content only.....at least with the Humax you can record whatever signal you choose to select.

[VXL V6]

For Humax kit it's always worth checking the 'Managers Specials' on their website:-

http://humaxdirect.co.uk/

Often they have refurbished or end of line kit with warranty at a good cost saving.

[Kevin Wood]

Sky turned on the Sky+ functionality gratis for me. Just a bog standard £20 a month deal.

I think on earlier boxes they misbehaved a bit without twin feeds. The Sky+ HD box I've got you can just tell it it only has one feed and it copes OK. For the cost of a new LNB and some coax I'd hook up a second feed I must get round to hooking up the second feed.

[Lazydocker]

I may have a spare Quad LNB kicking about somewhere

I really must upgrade my dish and LNB to an Octo though so I can have the Freesat hooked up on the Telly

[bootie]

Mr. V we have a Humax freesat box and it works fine although we are changing dish shortly and going to a quad LNB but at the moment, on a single LNB it works fine.

Jon

[Varche]

Mr. V we have a Humax freesat box and it works fine although we are changing dish shortly and going to a quad LNB but at the moment, on a single LNB it works fine.

Jon

Does that record then?

[bootie]

Yes, but obviously only the programme we are watching (at the moment)
still trying to figure out, well not me but SWMBO, how to record live so we can watch films and stuff without the adverts.... she's like me, refuses to read destructions until pulling hair out time!!!!!
Don't know about you but we are right on the cusp of the footprint, hence having to change dish from one with 3 support arms to a newer dish with just a single support, one of the arms just gets into the signal path and when the signal is poor, wind rain/low cloud we do get a break up.

[Entwood]

Humax Freesat box is excellent. With 2 line feeds in you can watch one programme whilst recording another, sometimes 2 depending on which channels, or record 2 whilst out. Can also do "live pause" where you pause a live programme then play from that point on .. usefull when the phone goes !!! Play a recorded whilst recording another, record a "series" or a regular time easily. IMHO it is a very good setup.