> Hi Carl,
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> thanks for your reply, it did get me on the right track... this is someth=
ing that
> would partially do the job. The TV where I have all the boxes by, is not =
an HD ready
> TV is just an old CRT one, but as we like it I didn't get a new one. I gu=
ess I have
> to move on, as the HDMI type of systems provide better offerings. from th=
e link you
> sent me I got to an HDMI to cat5/cat6 converter which would do nicely to =
get the
> signal up to the room, and they are not that expensive. I then just need =
one 4 input
> to
> 2 HDMI outputs switch and some sort of remote control "magic eye" and I w=
ill be
> sorted. if I need to keep the SCART based connections I suppose I can get=
 some HDMI
> to SCART converters.
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> Thank you.
> Best Regards
>                      Luis

Santa brought our family a Humax HDR-Fox-T2 HD PVR for Christmas. This is t=
he Freeview version of the satellite receiver that Humax make for the UK ma=
rket, and has an Ethernet port on it, that will connect to things like Face=
book, twitter, iPlayer, etc through the Humax Portal.=20

But as a bonus it allows other devices that are DLNA compliant to play file=
s stored on its hard drive, over the Ethernet. There is a suitable program =
that runs on a PC that will do this.

There is a group that have done other software for it, which can be downloa=
ded in to the box, as it runs Linux as its background OS, and they can remo=
ve the encryption from the stored files, and do remote EPG setup from anywh=
ere in the world. Check their forum at http://hummy.tv/forum/

I haven't checked to see if the same features are available on the satellit=
e versions of the box, but there are forums on that link for them as well.

The HDR-FOX T2 cost =A3199 plus shipping from Humax Direct. The HD-FOX T2 n=
on-hard drive version can be got for just under =A3100, and you can add a U=
SB HD to it to do recording. One of the guys uses one as a slave player on =
his HDR-FOX T2.

See http://humaxdirect.co.uk/index.asp for their online shop.


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