Freesat AND Freeview... Possible? (1 Viewer)

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I am just wondering whether it is possible to have a mixture of DVB-T and DVB-S2 TV cards working in Media Portal?

If it is, then how does this affect things like recording, and the TV guide?
 

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    Yup works fine. I have 3x Freeview and 1x Freesat (DVB-S2).

    You tune in all the channels, then you can "combine" the similar ones together. i.e. BBC1 on Freesat with BBC1 on Freeview etc.

    The tv guide is taken off the air, and you can specify which cards to use for which channels.

    You can also just use xmltv and the radiotimes listing.

    The TV server is clever enough to figure out what needs to be used for recording and so on.
     

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