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hmc

hi, we have a humax downstairs and its wonderful. now want similar in sons room and i think i need a freesat + in my room as i have a sky box no subscription?
is it worth buying 2nd hand or the cheapest new? very short of funds but dont want rubbish
driving myself mad on ebay and the like lol

russ331

Try http://www.humaxdirect.co.uk/prodCat.asp?cat=factory

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Be aware that adding new tuners to a Satellite system is far more complicated than adding tuners to Terrestrial TV via an Aerial. Enough outputs on the LNB at the end of the satellite dish arm will be required. Each one can tune one channel at a time, with a dual tuner box, it will require two feeds. Depending upon when the sky box was fitted, there might be from one to four Satellite outputs available minus the ones used downstairs. All the upstairs ones would need cabling from the dish which is not a minor task.

That is unless you use some remote system but that means the channels are limited, watching the same upstairs as downstairs.

TV Aerials are far simpler and can have many tuners connected to one Aerial providing there is some amplification and splitting of the signal.

hmc

there is no sky downstairs only in the 1 bedroom upstairs. i thought it would be a case of unplug one and plug the other in

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hmc wrote: »

there is no sky downstairs only in the 1 bedroom upstairs. i thought it would be a case of unplug one and plug the other in

In that case, yes it would. Very easy to do.

Timeshifting is great

What you need to look at depends upon the number of satellite feeds. Whether it is old sky with one channel/one feed or a Sky+ dual feed system which allows watching one channel while recording another. Not much point buying a dual tuner system if you only have one satellite feed. Although it isn't really that big a job adding another cable or changing the LNB for a multiple output LNB such as Dual or Quad LNB. Sky LNB's are quite inexpensive costing around £5 to £7 for a Quad LNB allowing four channels to be tuned at once, possibly in multiple rooms if cables are installed.

Look at the back of the sky box or the number of cables coming from the wall.

It wasn't all that clear what you intended from your original post. FreeSat as it would be for you and Freeview for your Son?

I thought that Sky might be downstairs, which might mean far more work than you had thought about.

hmc

thanks for the reply. downstairs has freeview and we have a humax recorder. son has freeview so want a freeview+ , main bedroom has sky(as no ariel from roof) bog standard sky no sky+ or sub.