Freesat and freeview through one box?

[Muddymike]

Does such a thing exist as a box that combines freesat from the dish and Freeview from the aerial?

Mike

[GB]

When you say 'combines', you don't mean combine the signal, do you? That's not possible for various reasons, eg time delays in broadcasts.

If you mean that you want the two receivers combined in one box, I can't see much demand for that, so I doubt it's available. Why do you need that, btw?

[Michael Chare]

Some of the Linux receivers will allow you to have both types of tuner. These are generally aimed at the German market and don't have T2 tuners

If you want T2, you could use a Nano USB stick

Whether you regard these as Freesat and Freeview is certainly debatable. They will certainly receive a picture though.

[F]

Is

what you're looking for?

[rbel]

If you mean satellite and Freeview tuners I put together a box a couple of months ago around a TBS 6982 satellite tuner card and basic PC components and am about to add a TBS 6280 Freeview card to it.

[Dave Liquorice]

As it happens this was mentioned in the CPC flyer that dropped on the door mat this morning:

AP02526 HD Satellite and Terrestial Receiver

AP02501 HD Satellite/Terrestial Combo Receiver

Note they are generic recievers so you won't have the Freesat and Freeview EPGs available.

A quick google on the makers model number showed them to be avialable from other suppliers, Amazon, Maplin etc. Shopping around for best price is probably required.

[harryagain]

Panasonic TVs have both built into the TV, no boxes neccessary. I imagine others do as well.

There are lots of channels not on both freesat and freeview.

[Brian Gaff]

Not that I've seen, but i think Panasonic have tvs that do both. Brian

[tim......]

only one box under the TV

and perhaps more importantly:

only one remote

tim

[Dave Plowman (News)]

I have a box which does both. Made by Vision.

[GB]

Only one remote. Ah, bliss! :)

[Timothy Murphy]

Could you be more specific, please? What is an example of such a "Linux receiver"?

[Dave Liquorice]

Yep our Panasonic does, it sits on DSAT, better picture quality and more channels to skip through (not watch they are all in the main crap).

That depends on the Freeview service you have. ATM the only channels I can find on Freeview (just done a "new channel" search) here that aren't in the Freesat EPG are the soon to be launched BBC HD Freeview services (BBC Three HD, CBBC HD only, no sign of BBC Four HD or BBC News HD). The LNB feed to the telly is playing up so I'm not going to do a new channels scan on that...

All we have on Freeview are 26 TV channels (only 20 or so in reality when you take out the HD duplicates and a couple of +1's) and 11 BBC only national radio stations.

[Michael Chare]

See

I would suggest any of the receivers that Vix runs on.

The advantage of Vix is that there is good UK support.

The Vu+ products are well established. The Gigablue products are cheaper.

You need to be careful about Freeview HD as in the UK you need a Tuner that does DVB-T2

The PCTV Nano USB stick does DVB-T2 should work with these receivers - but I have not tried.

I should point out that Linux receivers whilst very flexible, do require what you might call advanced support. Daily operation is easy enough though.

[tim......]

I forgot

So it can be used with a TV that only has one "Scart In" connection (if such things still exist)

tim

[GB]

I use SCART still. The thing is that you can usually daisy-chain SCART devices. Most have an input as well as an output.

[Muddymike]

Is that the BT Vision box? If not please let me have the model number.

Mike

[Martin Brown]

Depends what you mean by "combine the signal". It is perfectly possible to merge the signals from VHF, TV and Satellite onto a single high quality cable run it to where it is required and then split it off to three separate outputs.

High end Panasonic sets do it as standard.

[Muddymike]

What I would like is one box that received both freesat via the dish and Freeview via the aerial and feed the selected channel via one Scart lead to the TV.

Why? Because I have a good quality pre digital flat screen TV I want to wall mount in a guest bedroom with the minimum of cables, and remotes.

Mike

[Dave Plowman (News)]

No - came from CPC, and sorry, it is badged MVision. A quick look shows they no longer do it. It does HD from satellite, but only SD FreeView, and I'd not recommend it for anyone wanting a simple answer. Operating it is a bit clunky with poor EPGs too.