unicable / sky / freesat +?

[mesaka]

Having invested in a new HD TV I am wondering how to populate it with HD material. I do not want to pay for SKY HD so I thought I would go the freesat plus route but I still want to maintain my sky subscription (with accompanying TiVo) for the sport. In addition I live in a house where the cabling for a new satellite feed is very difficult to add. So I am considering the following and wondered if anyone knows whether it will work.

I plan on buying a Humax FOXSAT-HDR. This needs two sat cables as an input (it is twin tuner). As I can't easily run a new cable run I will instead invest in a new inverto unicable lnb. At the end of the cable run I will then use the available splitters to feed my old grundig single lnb skybox plus two cables to feed the humax. It seems a neat solution and the least disruptive. However, I am unsure whether the grundig sky box can operate ok with the unicable / splitter. Does anyone know for sure? Alternatively can anyone else think of a better plan?

thanks!

 

[Analoguesat]

According to this link:

-http://www.inverto.tv/downloads/support.php?id=619

very few receivers currently support unicable technology - and Sky boxes are not one of them!

 

[Lazarus]

According to this link:

-http://www.inverto.tv/downloads/support.php?id=619

very few receivers currently support unicable technology - and Sky boxes are not one of them!

Exactly - a difficult one to counter for the hard core who seem to think Sky are exclusive pioneers of DSAT technology and content!

 

[Robbo]

You may be able to give yourself two-feeds using a Stacker-destacker, This would enable you to run a Humax Foxsat HD, and the old Sky box, i.e one feed to each. The quality of the existing cable must be good though, and you'd still hav eto change the LNB for at least a twin.(quad if its a Sky dish, as there are no twins)

 

[mesaka]

Thanks for the suggestions - as I suspected this will not be easy. However, I think I have an alternative plan that might work. I can easily add a very short cable feed to another part of the house. I then add the Iverto lnb model which has both a unicable port and a legacy port; the Sky/Tivo is fed from the legacy port and the Humax is fed from the unicable feed which can be split. To distribute the sky/TiVo to our main TV I additionally use the slingbox/slingcatcher equipment we already have at home - I travel a lot for business so have to use the slingbox but the slingcatcher does not need to come with me - I can use my laptop). I just sent an email to ivento to check if the legacy and unicable ports both work at the same time. If they do then I think its a workable solution. I'll post here to let you know...