[mythtvnz] Best type of splitter for Sky + MythTV DVB-S

[Steven Ellis]

Steve Hodge wrote:
> On 2/5/07, *Steven Ellis* <steven@openmedia.co.nz
> <mailto:steven@openmedia.co.nz>> wrote:
>
>     Steve Hodge wrote:
>     > Surely if Sky stay on V and FreeView is on H, dual LNB (or a dual
>     > ported LNB) is the only workable solution?
>     Which "officially" speaking you can't fit on a Sky Dish anyway. 
>
>
> So Sky might expect us to replace the dish?
It is Sky's dish and Sky's LNB.
>
>     > 1. Splitter with all ports power pass - can't record both
>     FreeView and
>     > Sky at the same time, presumably.
>     Big problem - So can't do
>
>
> Does anyone know what happens if you try this? In my brief testing the
> other day Sky seemed to work fine and FreeView was a bit stuttery, but
> I'm not sure if that was a conseqence of trying to run both at once or
> not.
Doesn't work. Tried it, and you will loose reception on the V when
MythTV selects H.
>  
>
>     At the moment this is going to hurt FreeView a lot more than Sky.
>
>
> Yes. And there doesn't seem to be much incentive for Sky to play ball
> unfortunately.
There is some, problem is the rumour of them waiting for D1R so they
don't need to go to HPol.

Steve

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