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| Thread ID: 116736 | 2011-03-17 23:54:00 | Digital Satellite TV, STB's and a DVR | garyasta (1151) | Press F1 |
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| 1187081 | 2011-03-17 23:54:00 | I have an LCD TV and receive transmissions via satellite (no terrestrial reception) in New Zealand. I am using a Pioneer DVR-520H-S (80GB HDD) DVD recorder and two STB's to set up my reception and recording of TV transmissions. I need the two STB's as I wish to view one channel on TV while I record another on the DVR. Both STB's can only tune one channel at a time. At present, I have set up the system so that I can do what I want, but this arrangement restricts some of the attributes of the STB's and some from the DVR. If I attach a diagram, I might be able to explain the setup better, but the basic setup is as follows; Antenna>>>Splitter-Antenna A>>>STB-A>>>Composite Leads (AV)>>>TV STB-A>>>Composite Leads>>>DVR Recorder Antenna>>>Splitter-Antenna B>>>STB-B>>>HDMI Lead>>>TV DVR Recorder>>>Component Leads>>>TV As you can see, the antenna leads only go into the STB's. and not into the DVR recorder. I have seen a couple of diagrams that suggest interconnecting the antenna outputs from some of the boxes, and other suggestions that say that there shouldn't be any antenna interconnection. Any suggestions. If needbe, I can send STB and DVR spec's, connections, etc. |
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| 1187082 | 2011-03-18 00:24:00 | unless your DVR can decode the sattelite signal there would be no reason to connect the aerial, and if that was the case you wouldn't need a stb either. A much more elegant solution would be a dual tuner sattelite PVR basically doing the job of all 3 devices in one box. I know myfreeview have these for terrestrial but I think I've seen sattelite ones as well. Do you have both stb's connected to the DVR and the TV ? seems unecessary if so cant you just dedicate one for recording and one for viewing ? |
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| 1187083 | 2011-03-18 01:17:00 | Didn't you ask the same question and get the same advice on geekzone? | psycik (12851) | ||
| 1187084 | 2011-03-18 01:52:00 | Yes I have posted on Geekzone, I am doing the rounds so that I can get the best coverage of responses. Yes the DVR HDD will only accept inputs from a STB (not direct from the antenna), I am using it to record and for time-shift viewing. STB-A is connected to both the recorder and the TV so that I can see what is being recorded, on the DVR while viewing the channel, and for setting up, etc. If I don't wish to view this channel, then I use the output from the STB-B for viewing (not connected to the DVR). I initially had a Hills HSM075 STB (single tuner) but wanted to record and view on two different channels. Splurging out on a new dual-channel receiver wasn't an option. The second STB (B) is an UltraPlus 700HDMI PVR. Only the STB-A is connected to the DVR as well as being connected to the TV. |
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