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  • Moneymaker
    Moneymaker Posts: 1,984 Forumite
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    edited 13 January 2012 at 4:42PM
    You can save money by learning about technical stuff. Read all you can find on the Internet. Once you get into it, it's really not complicated. Start with the "Understanding Sky Digital & Freesat" eBook (free).
    http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Understanding+Sky+Digital+TV%22


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  • Moneymaker wrote: »
    You can save money by learning about technical stuff. Read all you can find on the Internet. Once you get into it, it's really not complicated. Start with the "Understanding Sky Digital & Freesat" eBook (free).
    http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Understanding+Sky+Digital+TV%22


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    You know that is exactly right I do need to do more things for myself and start learning again. Thanks for the link I will try it.
  • Moneymaker
    Moneymaker Posts: 1,984 Forumite
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    The Internet has opened a world of opportunity for anyone who wants to learn. A lot of the information is free (and some is not worth the pixels it's written with - choose your "experts carefully). Some of the information has been collated into "eBooks" (and you may have to pay for the work that went into it). There's no guarantee that the paid stuff is any better than the free but it usually comes with a money-back guarantee.

    There's also a load of stuff on "You-Tube" such as this:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdBINEM3uS4
  • almillar
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    OK Taffyscot, that does make sense if it's in the manual to go from satellite into LNB 1 then from OUT to LNB 2.
    So, to record stuff, press guide, then OK for all programmes, then up, down, left or right to select the programme you want to record, then press the record button (red dot, not the completely red button). If it's a series you want to record, instead of the record button, press OK, then you can select to record just this one, or the whole series. It'll also offer you the choice between HD and SD if there is a choice.
    Don't be scared of it! When you're in the menus, it'll often tell you what different buttons do along the bottom of the screen.
    Recorded something? Now press 'Media' and you'll see your recordings. Goto what you want to play (up and down and OK buttons) press OK, then OK again (resume playback, which will play from the start if you've never viewed) and the programme is playing! Let us know how it goes!
  • almillar wrote: »
    OK Taffyscot, that does make sense if it's in the manual to go from satellite into LNB 1 then from OUT to LNB 2.
    So, to record stuff, press guide, then OK for all programmes, then up, down, left or right to select the programme you want to record, then press the record button (red dot, not the completely red button). If it's a series you want to record, instead of the record button, press OK, then you can select to record just this one, or the whole series. It'll also offer you the choice between HD and SD if there is a choice.
    Don't be scared of it! When you're in the menus, it'll often tell you what different buttons do along the bottom of the screen.
    Recorded something? Now press 'Media' and you'll see your recordings. Goto what you want to play (up and down and OK buttons) press OK, then OK again (resume playback, which will play from the start if you've never viewed) and the programme is playing! Let us know how it goes!
    Thanks so much for the simple explanation that is what I need. I will try it tomorrow as it is freezing cold in the front room where the humax box and telly is, have to warm it up in there. Fingers crossed for me. Even something as simple as press okay then press okay again might just work.Thanks again
  • almillar,
    thanks ever so much. I finally got it working after days of fruitless messing about and me thinking "oh no the remote isn't working" and not being able to do all the commands on the box itself. I was on line looking at getting a new remote and my son said he would look at it. Lo and behold it just needed new batteries and I was able to watch Mrs Brown's boys pre recorded. Yippee would never have got it without you telling me to press the media button. Cheers mate
  • Apologies for hijacking this thread; I've just registered and can't see how to start a new thread.

    4? years ago I bought a Maplin kit of dish and a Fortec Star fs-4200. This came with a single point LNB. I then bought a Sony Freeview HDD RDR HXD995. I have never managed to get it to record.
    Can this be rectified or should I buy a Humax?
  • clydey wrote: »
    ...I've just registered and can't see how to start a new thread...
    Go up a level and click on a button that looks like this...
    newthread.gif
    Are you for real? - Glass Half Empty??
    :coffee:
  • almillar
    almillar Posts: 8,621 Forumite
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    If you've only got 1 connection on the LNB, you can't record and watch something else, that would need 2 runs down from the sat dish. You'd want to connect an output (possibly labelled VCR) on your free satellite box, to an input on the Sony, hopefully a SCART lead if the connections are available. You then want the Sony to record from an AV channel.
    A Humax Foxsat HDR would get you a proper dual tuner HD Freesat recorder, with a proper programme guide, record 2 or record 1/watch 1, iPlayer etc if connected to broadband, and would be MUCH easier to use than faffing around with 2 devices.
    It will work with the single feed, but you'll be stuck with 1 channel still, unless you give it another feed from the dish.
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