Just one more query, you can transfer non-freesat channels to freesat so that 5000 up are available in freesat mode and this appears to be the best way to operate. With my lash up in the UK I don't have diseqc and I am manually moving the dish to pick up 19.2 or freesat. When you transfer the channels from non freesat to freesat does this carry the diseqc information across so that tuning to 5000 up in freesat mode will send the right diseqc control to the dishes?
For carrying recordings from freeview to Spain I have now bought a 1TB portable disk and formatted it with Linux Ext3 so that I can use HD over 4GB.
I change the Freeview HD recordings to ac3 audio with ffmpeg and transfer them to the the disk using AV2HDR and EXT2volume manager, all under windows. If anyone wants more info on this please ask.