Looking For Some Advice

[Andy_Hazza]

Hi Andy, Another question sorry, If I change my lnb like you suggest and then fit a splitter in the loft to feed the 2 Sky boxes plus the VU+ Solo 4k box will the Sky boxes still work ok with a Unicable lnb

Yeah they will work just fine buddy.


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[Andy_Hazza]

You can even get Unicable LNB's with Legacy ports for your 2 sky boxes. Just a thought.


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[maxal]

That's interesting, thanks for all your help.

[gibbletts]

The only question I would have is why buy a 4 k box when there is nothing in 4K to watch on it, if you are just using a fixed dish you'll need sky q to watch anything, even with a motorised dish there is very little

[maxben]

This is my my solution to enable unicable II on the Solo 4k and various other STBs that use universal LNBs, probably a bit more expensive but very versatile and of course can be adjusted/changed very easily if all the cables terminate in the loft as mine do.

I have a quatro LNB on the dish pointing at 28.2 which connects with multicore coax cable to an Inverto Unicable II multiswitch

as the Inverto has passthrough ports I use these to connect to the Ankaro legacy/universal multiswitch which has 8 ports out so effectively an octo LNB.

The inverto switch needs power, the Ankaro doesn't

As I said a very versatile setup able to adapt to any STB configuration.

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[maxben]

Unicable II LNBs with 4 legacy ports were not available when I set mine up, I need 3 minimum, can you give a link to them ?

[Andy_Hazza]

The only question I would have is why buy a 4 k box when there is nothing in 4K to watch on it, if you are just using a fixed dish you'll need sky q to watch anything, even with a motorised dish there is very little

Quite a few 4K channels with a motorised dish setup.


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[Andy_Hazza]

Other brands not going the FBC tuner route, just Vu+. Thank god we have Vu+ for innovation eh?........


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[twol]

Other brands not going the FBC tuner route, just Vu+. Thank god we have Vu+ for innovation eh?........


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More like thank you Arm & Broadcom for the design and chips

[Andy_Hazza]

Yes Vu+ are releasing FBC tuner slots this year.


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[twol]

Yes Vu+ are releasing FBC tuner slots this year.
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Is that on-board or separate tuners? Because Broadcom do a chip for the board otherwise I guess its our Samsung friends (hope not )

[Andy_Hazza]

I'm just going on info from Anga Show and FBC tuners were separate on display.


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[dfox]

I have an Inverto Unicable II/JESS LNB and I am able to record 7 different programmes on different transponders. With a traditional LNB like yours you will be limited to what you can record.


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Andy, can you explain how this works and how you are able to record 7 different channels on different transponders? Is this from one STB? Would it work with a HD2400 or would it just work with a 4K receiver?

TIA

[Andy_Hazza]

Andy, can you explain how this works and how you are able to record 7 different channels on different transponders? Is this from one STB? Would it work with a HD2400 or would it just work with a 4K receiver?

TIA

It will only work on the Vu+ Solo 4K receiver as that has the FBC tuners. FBC standing for Full Band Capture. The soon to be released Vu+ Ultimo 4K and Vu+ Uno 4K also uses FBC tuners whereas the new Mut@nt @ Xtrend 4K receivers have gone the traditional tuner route.
Basically it depends what Unicable LNB you use too. My LNB is an Inverto Unicable II LNB or better known as a JESS LNB. My version is a 32 channel one so in my tuner configuration setup I have tuner A to SCR 1, tuner C to SCR 2 right through to SCR 7. At the moment tuner B is still hooked up to my traditional Sky Zone1 dish but am looking at hooking a motorised dish setup at a later date. So 7+1 gives be basically 8 tuners from a twin tuner setup. So I can record 7 channels using different transponders and watch another. SCR means Satellite Router Channel I think.
My JESS LNB only uses one cable so I have that fed into my loft, and I have a splitter that feeds 2x Vu+ Solo 4Ks.


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[dfox]

It will only work on the Vu+ Solo 4K receiver as that has the FBC tuners. FBC standing for Full Band Capture. The soon to be released Vu+ Ultimo 4K and Vu+ Uno 4K also uses FBC tuners whereas the new Mut@nt @ Xtrend 4K receivers have gone the traditional tuner route.
Basically it depends what Unicable LNB you use too. My LNB is an Inverto Unicable II LNB or better known as a JESS LNB. My version is a 32 channel one so in my tuner configuration setup I have tuner A to SCR 1, tuner C to SCR 2 right through to SCR 7. At the moment tuner B is still hooked up to my traditional Sky Zone1 dish but am looking at hooking a motorised dish setup at a later date. So 7+1 gives be basically 8 tuners from a twin tuner setup. So I can record 7 channels using different transponders and watch another. SCR means Satellite Router Channel I think.
My JESS LNB only uses one cable so I have that fed into my loft, and I have a splitter that feeds 2x Vu+ Solo 4Ks.


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Cheers Andy, understand it now.