Cable box

[Islam]

Looking to buy a cable box for hd channels. At the moment I have a cable connection coming into my house. Do I need virgin broadband for it to work.
What box would you recommend budget around £200-250. Both sat and cable

 

[FrozenFlash]

If you don't have a dish a sat box won't work. A combo wouldn't make sense either. A cable box is what you sound like you want and it requires an active VM broadband connection. I've only been reading up about boxes for a few days but I'm pretty sitr that's how it goes.

I'm in the same boat as you but want a cheaper box. Maybe around the £100 mark on average. I'd like two tuners so I can record and watch different channels too. I hope I'm not being rude to ask this on your thread but it'd make little sense to make another one with such a similar question.

 

[gmangt4]

This is a good thread for you to read

http://www.techkings.org/general-cable-tv/58489-cable-boxes.html

Also a new box has appeared on the market if you google technomate tn-nano se M2 plus, its triple tuner 2 x cable and 1 x sat and takes an internal HDD

 

[Islam]

I've got a dish and I currently have a skybox running ok but want hd channels. I was thinking off using sat and cable so I can record at the same time as watching something else.

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Would I need two cable wires going into the box or does one do the job

 

[FrozenFlash]

Would you not need to have two separate subscriptions (lines) to be able to do that?

 

[gmangt4]

Yes you would need a feed to each tuner, majority use a splitter
You can get a combo line that clears sat and cable or a line for each.

 

[gibbletts]

No you don't if it's a twin tuner module it splits it internally would have a look here as mentioned Technomate TM-Nano-SE M2 PLUS Enigma 2 Linux HD PVR TRIPLE TUNER Combo 1x DVB-S/S2 + 2x DVB-C Receiver a bargain