Satellite Receiver for Middle East Use

[Sontawila]

Hey Guys,


I live in the Middle East and recently bought Humax Foxsat HDR. Unfortunately, I found out, since I don't have freesat, that non freesat channels you can't set timer to record nor can you transfer recorded SD media to USB storage.



After reading through multiple sites I came to the conclusion that there is no way around it. So I decided to just return it and buy another model that can be used to get free channels from Arabsat, Nilesat, Hotbird and:

1- Has HD output (preferably component)

2- Can record up to 2 channels and watch a third
3- Can arrange the channels as I see fit (humax starts the channel list from non freesat from 5000)
4- Set a timer for recording (one program or more?) that can bet set to record programs daily on a specific time without the use of EPG (Some channels doesn't have EPG)
5- Overall fast menus
6 (Optional)- Can copy recorded files to external storage via USB
I've went through a lot of threads and the amount of info avilable is overwhelming. I have a humble knowledge of satellites (I dont know what is freesat nor freeview) so I was hoping that you guys help me out figuring out which would be suitable.


Any suggestion?

[Sontawila]

also:
7- Ability to sort channels alphabetically

[cactikid]

depends how much you want to spend vu+ duo is one of the best supported boxes at the moment and there are plenty of posts around

[Sontawila]

Thank you for the reply. I dont have a price in mind but I assume somewhere between 300-400 euros.

As for posts, I really read a lot but I cant figure out which would work for me. I did that I ended up with the humax freesat mess

[cactikid]

think the duo is around ?339 now,what skills do you have,with this box plenty of people can advise you whats needed