Moulin85 Posted May 7, 2013 Share Posted May 7, 2013 Hi, can any of the satellite experts help please.We’ve got Freesat via a Pace ‘box but this unfortunatelydied during our last trip over. We brought it back to the uk in the hope ofgetting it repaired but our son has offered us his redundant Sky HD boxinstead.My question is, Will it work? Our dish only has 1 cable to the ‘box, but HD systems have 2. If it will work which input do weconnect to the dish? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoneySuckleDreams Posted May 7, 2013 Share Posted May 7, 2013 the two feeds are not relevent to HD. You need two feeds if you want to view a channel whilst recording another (in general). Is it a Sky Plus (Sky+) box? i.e. does it have the recording facilities? I think you can plug your cable into either connection on the back, I think they are labelled Tuner 1 and Tuner 2 - so stick it into 1 to be safe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moulin85 Posted May 11, 2013 Author Share Posted May 11, 2013 Hi, thanks for the reply, sorry not to respond earlier but it wouldn't post for some reason! (?)Yes it is a Sky+ box, I hadn't thought about the record aspect.Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulT Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 Buy yourself a dual LNB and some cable and use the two inputs so you can record and watch. If you replace the LNB carefully it should still be in alignment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnOther Posted May 11, 2013 Share Posted May 11, 2013 Without a subscription you won''t be able to record anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin963 Posted May 12, 2013 Share Posted May 12, 2013 I may be over-interpreting but I wonder if the o/p is actually also asking whether an HD box will work with a standard definition TV.If so the answer is - generally speaking - yes. I believe that every HD box has at least ONE Scart (Peritel) socket on it and you can use this to hook up non HD equipment.Sorry if I've just given a lesson on egg-sucking.... The rest of the advice given is also of course entirely relevant, and the point about the subscription! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Department71 Posted May 18, 2013 Share Posted May 18, 2013 Ok taking this a stage further, if I had a twin LNB and as said you can't record if you don't have a subscription does the box have two outputs, IE could I say watch UK television on one tuner and record another channel via a dvd recorder on the other tuner output? or am I talking rubbish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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