inabsentia
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- My Satellite Setup
- Echostar 3000IP VIA, Skystar2 PCI c/w ProgDVB 4.85, Pace & Onn Terrestrial PVR's
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Hi.. been away from here for WAAY too long, so I hope I'm posting this in the right place!!
OK, I'm running an Echostar 3000IP VIA and a SKYSTAR2 PCI card off a dual LNB. I've been holiding off updating the Echostar until HD came down in price and also added PVR functionality.. it seems that time has now arrived!
I was in Maplin's at the weekend and saw both the FORTECSTAR and the MVision HD200 so I'm looking for some pointers as to the plusses and minuses of each receiver. I've seen the review of the MVision HD200 in WotSat which seemed pretty positive other than it seems to be hot running. I also like the idea of it having DVB-T too that the FORTECSTAR doesn't (seem to) have, but that wouldn't be a 'deal breaker' if the FORTECSTAR is the better box.
As my dish has a 36 volt motor, I realise I would have to keep that recceiver to move my dish- would I be able to loop the dish input through either of these receivers to the Echostar?
Would I be correct that you can attach external hard drives to the USB ports of either of these two receivers to record the DVB stream and then attach that drive to a PC and extract the footage for authoring onto DVD?
Any feedback would be gratefully received..
Thanks
OK, I'm running an Echostar 3000IP VIA and a SKYSTAR2 PCI card off a dual LNB. I've been holiding off updating the Echostar until HD came down in price and also added PVR functionality.. it seems that time has now arrived!
I was in Maplin's at the weekend and saw both the FORTECSTAR and the MVision HD200 so I'm looking for some pointers as to the plusses and minuses of each receiver. I've seen the review of the MVision HD200 in WotSat which seemed pretty positive other than it seems to be hot running. I also like the idea of it having DVB-T too that the FORTECSTAR doesn't (seem to) have, but that wouldn't be a 'deal breaker' if the FORTECSTAR is the better box.
As my dish has a 36 volt motor, I realise I would have to keep that recceiver to move my dish- would I be able to loop the dish input through either of these receivers to the Echostar?
Would I be correct that you can attach external hard drives to the USB ports of either of these two receivers to record the DVB stream and then attach that drive to a PC and extract the footage for authoring onto DVD?
Any feedback would be gratefully received..
Thanks