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RE: [OT] Freeview PVRs


  • Subject: RE: [OT] Freeview PVRs
  • From: "Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 21:37:53 -0000


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Family Berry
> Sent: 03 January 2006 16:25
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [OT] Freeview PVRs
>
> Phil,
> Do you have a Sky box ?

No...

> If so, can you use the Humax to record Sky
> channels?

Not as far as I'm aware - if I understand correctly the Humax (like the
DHD4000 and pretty much all other Freeview PVRs that I have seen so far)
have no analogue to digital encoder built in. They simply record the
transmitted bitstream (extracted from the multiplex).

Phil




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