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    Question Digital Terrestrial / PVR Advice

    Hi Folks,
    Got good advice before on a sat box (SF8008 - great job, still going strong) about 2 years ago.
    Hoping the community and give me their 2 cents again on a Digital Terrestrial / PVR device.

    Looking for a Freeview HD PVR essentially, for the parents (mid 60's).
    Anything on Argos or local electronics is pure dung basically from what I make out - the likes of Humax / Manhattan.

    Requirements:
    - Needs to be Freeview HD capable through an RF antenna. (They live in N.Ireland so if its Freeview HD compatible, they should get some of the RTE/Saorview broadcasts as well.)

    - Easy to use

    - 250GB or more storage space (I may clone the disk and swap with larger, if possible)


    Nice-to-Haves but not essential:

    - Freeview Play support
    - Wifi (for Freeview Play and box updates)

    - DVD / Blu-Ray playback


    Do any 3rd party device support Freeview Play?
    Cant find much info when looking it up, all very basic, only the Humax or Manhattan boxes.

    @Mods - Maybe I am asking in the wrong forums for this, please move to correct if so.

    An help/advice is appreciated.

    Regards,
    S

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    Was this the right area to post?

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    You wont get Freeview Play on an Enigma2 receiver.

    Any E2 receiver with a terrestrial Tuner and HDD will do. But I suppose let them have ago with yours first to see if they can get hang of the GUI.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sonic1 View Post
    - DVD / Blu-Ray playback
    You won't get that on an Enigma2 receiver either, as Blu-Ray disks are encrypted.
    MiracleBox Prem Twin HD - 2@DVB-T2 + Xtrend et8000 - 5(incl. 2 different USBs)@DVB-T2[terrestrial - UK Freeview HD, Sandy Heath] - LAN/USB-stick/HDD

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    Quote Originally Posted by birdman View Post
    You won't get that on an Enigma2 receiver either, as Blu-Ray disks are encrypted.
    Yes you can.
    https://github.com/Taapat/enigma2-plugin-blurayplayer
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    Quote Originally Posted by Huevos View Post
    I wasn't aware that this would decrypt encrypted Blu-ray disks, but it seems that libaacs (which it would need) is available.
    I was sure I'd read that it couldn't (but no idea where I did so).
    MiracleBox Prem Twin HD - 2@DVB-T2 + Xtrend et8000 - 5(incl. 2 different USBs)@DVB-T2[terrestrial - UK Freeview HD, Sandy Heath] - LAN/USB-stick/HDD

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    Ok, well setting aside Enigma2 for the moment, and bluray, is there any better branded boxes that would have the Freeview Play features?

    I'm just surprised there isn't more offerings out there.
    Is BT YouView any good?

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    Youview+ ("Youview plus") seems to be what you want if you want Youview with off air recording and playback to/from a HDD.
    Last edited by BrokenUnusableAccount; 09-12-21 at 15:53. Reason: fix mangled sentence

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