How much bandwidth down a coaxial cable

[bethanyrayne]

I would like to know how many programs can realistically can a coax cable deliver i.e bandwidth limitations.

I have dual Nova 500's which gives me 4 tuners and with multi record is capable of recording many channels. How many can a coaxial cable cope with?

[martint123]

Hundreds of thousands.
Don't forget all these things are coming down your coax already, it is just down to you how many you can decode at a time.

You may need amplifying splitters if you got for dozens of tuners, but that is power not bandwidth.

[Graham]

From early December, your Freeview will look something like this ...

http://www.ukfree.tv/txdetail.php?a=SN576153

With five tuners, you may be able to record all UK Freeview channels simultaneosuly (one mux will be DVB-T2 for HD). But, I seem to recall from my own experiments a while ago, GBPVR is programmed to only record a maximum of five channels per mux/tuner.

[sub]

But, I seem to recall from my own experiments a while ago, GBPVR is programmed to only record a maximum of five channels per mux/tuner.

I'm not aware of any limitation like that. Multi-record should be able to record however many channels you have on that mux.