[totalitarian]

I've got rid of virgin media tv as there was very little I watched aside BBC, ITV and channel 4. I currently have an android box for xbmc and was going to buy a freesat/freeview receiver to record watch terrestrial tv. Is there anything that could combine the 2?

I basically want a box that can record / series link terrestrial tv and let me fire up xbmc / showbox for movies etc.

It needs to be simple enough for the whole family to use and have the ability to series links tv. Really I want to avoid having to build a PC to do this and use an android box if possible.

Any suggestions?

[noggin]

You can certainly run TV Headend with a DVB-T/T2 (for Freeview HD) or DVB-S/S2 (for Freesat HD) on a Raspberry Pi 2 or similar along with Kodi and the PVR plugins. Works quite well. You'll probably need an external USB HDD for PVR recording.

[totalitarian]

I'd prefer an android solution rather than raspberry pi. On a related note, does kodi support series link?
If I wanted to record and watch a different channel or record two shows at once, will I need some sort dual lnb on my sat/freeview aerial ?

[Mark142]

What about the openelec / wetek box. They come with built in tuners and can run either android or openelec

[noggin]

I'd prefer an android solution rather than raspberry pi. On a related note, does kodi support series link?

Android trickier - though there are boxes with DVB-S2/T2 integrated tuners, they don't always integrate with Kodi, so you have to switch to a (often not very good) separate player app for TV viewing.

If I wanted to record and watch a different channel or record two shows at once, will I need some sort dual lnb on my sat/freeview aerial ?

Yes - for DVB-S/S2 you need an LNB feed per tuner (as the LNB only sends a 1/4 of the frequencies down the cable and is remotely switched by the tuner to the right 1/4) Some solutions are clever and will only use one tuner for multiple services on the same transponder, but to guarantee to be able to watch one channel and record a different one, you need two tuners AND two LNB feeds.

For Freeview HD you can just split a single aerial feed between multiple tuners.