Sorry for the short notice, I've only just found this one myself as I've been looking for a HD recorder/pvr (not SD) for a good price.
Topbuy.com.au is selling an "OMNI D550 Twin Tuner High Definition Digital TV PVR Recorder 500G HDD" as their "Steal of the Day". It's on sale for $369 until 12pm tomorrow.
I've just ordered mine, can't wait to get it! Thought I'd share the info!
~ P.B.
Where do you get the guide data for it? PVR (Personal Video Recorders) implies detailed guide data, where as this looks to me like a DVR (Digital Video Recorder - glorified VCR that records to hdd). I could be mistaken though.
dual tuner/recorder DVB-T units work something like this;
you have 1 HD channel which consumes a wad of bandwidth.
you have multiple SD channels which consume less bandwidth, as such you can say watch ABC HD, whilst recording ABC2 (SD sub channel) and another HD channel with the other tuner..
you cannot record ABC HD, 7HD and watch say 9HD at the same time.
as for the PVR "guide data" aspect its relying on the existing EPG data which as most PVR/DVB people know is a joke-most broadcasters intentionally put crap data into it or not at all so jokes like TIVO/Freeview get a look in.
honestly i wouldnt consider buything this when you can pickup a decent quality Homecast unit for $500 retail which support IceTV and ethernet based network connectivity etc.
Oh yeah, I can see how that works..
Presumably then if the processor and data channels were wide enough you could record 3 channels and watch a 4th then!!
ie Record ABC1, ABC2 on Tuner 1
and Record SBS1 and watch SBS2 on Tuner 2..
"Twin tuners - record 2 channels and watch third one at the same time! "
Huh? How does that work?
Record 2 channels and watch one of them at the same time maybe.. but watch a third?
I'm pretty sure you need 3 tuners to watch/record 3 channels.
OK price, although I'd much prefer to see a smaller HD unit at a lower price.