connecting a PVR to a Satelite Decoder

[Rogers]

Hi fellas,
I work in Africa a lot of the time and keep a home there.
Pay TV there is provided by DStv Africa (Multichoice). They have their own decoder (which comes with the satellite dish) provided with the service.
Anyway I want the functions of a PVR (hard disc capacity, pause live TV, record two channels, edit etc). I was thinking of getting the Humax PVR 9200.
What I would like to know is whether its possible to hook the PVR to the decoder and still enjoy all the functionalities of the PVR.
How would this be done given that at the moment a single digital coaxial cable (video and audio) runs from the satellite dish to the decoder and then I connect the decoder straight to the TV using composite (banana pins) cables.
Your help will be very much appreciated.
Cheers
Rogers

[LV426]

No. These boxes can only receive off-air UHF DVB-T transmissions (from an aerial, from a ground-based transmitter, on UHF channels 21-69). They CANNOT record from any external source.

The nearest easily obtainable thing would be a HDD-DVD recorder coupled to the decoder using an AV Connection (audio left, audio right, plus video or better still SVideo, or even better still, RGB, depending on what the decoder can output).

Do bear in mind though, the number of programmes you can receive at any one time from a given source (eg satellite) is limited by the number of tuners (decoders) you have. If you have one satellite box, then you can receive one programme. You can record it, or watch it, or both. But you can't watch one and record a different one. For that, you'd need two satellite boxes. No amount of clever behaviour in a recorder can make your satellite decoder receive more than one programme (unless, of course, it was designed to do so - unlikely).

[rhubarbe]

The Kaon KVR-1000 series, twin tuner satellite PVRs, can record six channels simultanelously to HDD. Whether this records the transport stream only and not six separate channels is not made clear by the markeitng men who write the glossies. i know that the Nebula DigiTV card can record a whole transport stream and that's only a single tuiner.