Hello guys, thanks for the help on this. I've looked at some of the approved receivers for DTT service and they're all DVB-T tuners but as T2 is backward capable with T maybe I should have a T2 tuner. What about text services and EPG for DTT service. I think the box would need MHEG-5 middleware for text services to work. Can the DM8000 have the MHEG-5 middleware loaded on?

Thanks again.

Hello,

This is my first post here so I hope it's not too dumb of a one for this Forum. Ok I'm in Ireland and I subscribe (pay for) to several satellite services and also have the free Irish Saorview Digital Terrestial Television (not many channels yet but is still an option for me). What I want is the one box to receive my sat channels and my DTT channels, so can the DM8000 HD PVR do that for me? If it can do I need to add certain tuners to my order when purchasing the receiver?

I would also like to be able to use the box to play recorded movies, homemade movies and digitally purchased movies, can the DM8000 HD PVR do that and what formats can it play? I would be connecting it to an AV receiver so the sound would be passed through.

Also, I noticed that a lot of satellite receivers don't transmit Dolby Digital sound via the HDMI output and you have to use Optical or Coaxial, why is this? I know the DM8000 HD PVR does not have a HDMI output but I would still like to know why DD does not pass through HDMI and also if DM have any satellite receivers that do pass DD through the HDMI output? btw, why does the DM8000 HD PVR not have a HDMI output?
How many sat cards can the receiver hold and is there anything that the receiver won’t decrypt?

Last of all, what’s the deal with the crappy clones, how does one tell them apart from the real deal, I mean tell them apart when purchasing and not a few weeks later when they crap out?
Thanks,
Paul