<div class="gmail_quote">On 19 November 2011 20:56, Jason Haar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jhaar-ourshack-com@whanau.org">jhaar-ourshack-com@whanau.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi there<br></blockquote><div>...</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">I've heard that NZ (I'm in Chch if that matters) can pick up some<br>
Australian channels over Satellite, so my questions are:<br>
<br>
1. does the Satellite dish need to be pointed in a particular<br>
"different" direction than it would for "Freeview NZ" satellite?<br></blockquote><div> </div><div>No, it's the same satellite (Optus D1: Sky, Freeview, SBS, Nine, Gem, Go)</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
2. I "google-saw" some old posts about issues with polarity (polarity!!<br>
why do we even need to know about such things!!!) screwing up recording<br>
NZ and Australian shows. It was implied that was a red-herring and a<br>
single tuner should automagically know what to do with each channel - so<br>
I just wanted to check if that was the case<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Both SBS (Tasmania) and Nine are on vertical polarity beams and Freeview and Sky are horizontal. It is not possible to tune a horizontal and vertical beam on the same lnb simultaneously. This is not a problem if you have only a single tuner since they are on separate multiplexes anyway. But if you want to record more stuff simultaneously, it would be wise to have a dual lnb as well as well as multiple tuners. If you want Nine, Gem, Go, you will also need a DVB S2 tuner.</div>
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4. The Big One: What's the best satellite USB tuners? I'm wanting a new<br>
smaller backend server and being able to throw out the PCI card and go<br>
USB tuner would help a lot. But I don't know how reliable USB tuners<br>
are? Once they're plugged in, are they rock solid or do they flake out<br>
on occasion? Also, can you record more than one show simultaneously on<br>
them (like PCI), or are they a one-show-at-a-time kind of thang<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Some people say USB is fine. My personal experience with a Volar HD (DVB T) is that it has recording artefacts that my HVR 1200 does not have from the same aerial. I suspect it varies from tuner to tuner.</div>
<div><br></div></div><div>Brendan</div>