Looking for a box

bazery

Hi all,
Been doing a lot of reading here and I can't make my mind up what box will suit my needs,
I have 28.2 setup on the sky dish but plan on setting up a second dish for saorsat at 9.
What I want is to be able to pause, and rewind live tv and the option to have a full 7 day epg so that we can record shows. I've been reading up on dreamboxes but they are hugely expensive. I have a budget of around 180-200 to spend on the box and would like something that runs smoothly. I'm not afraid of linux gear but am unsure of what to buy. I see most people like the humax foxsat box but would this suit my needs?

bazery

I've been looking some more, would this work to record a different channel while watching one

http://www.hdtvdreambox.com/products/Sunray4-HD-SE-%252d-Triple-Tuner-%252b-Wifi-%28SR4%29.html





or should i go for the 800 hd

Newtown90

That sunray is a triple tuner but the silly thing about it is that you can only use one tuner at a time so you can't have something terrestrial recording while you watch a satellite channel..

I got a dm800hd from satboxes.com, and bought one of the cheap saorview usb tuners and plugged it into the 800hd..

Works grand as a dual tuner, can record a saorview channel while watching a sat channel or vice versa!:D

bazery

That would have been one of the main reasons I would have bought that box, I'm thinking of getting a vu+ duo clone, It has dual sat tuner and can get a usb dvb-t,
I would get a 800hd but is it true you can only record the channel you are watching. also I'm living in the back and beyonds so no saorview for me, I'm looking into saorsat instead!

Newtown90

Well a dvb-t tuner i pointless to you then m8 if you can't get saorview..

a dm800hd only has one tuner hence why you can only watch one channel..

the Vu duo clone sounds good, just have no experience with them..

best of luck