cannot record more than 2 channels

[Larry-G]

Indirectly it does.
It's unlikely that anyone who can help will be running a 3.1 image, or anything close to it. So no-one will be in a position to look into possibilities.

Not every one uses the latest and greatest and it's still irrelevant to this thread as the issue is not image related.

 

[birdman]

then I say for the very last time that he must have been very unlucky to have tried for over 2 months but on every occasion had used 3 different transponders (because that is why it wouldn't have worked).

Up until a few months back there was an issue with the TimerSanity check code for a timer that meant it incorrectly flagged that there would be no tuner free - when there would.
All this required was to (roughly) have one long timer overlap two others.
It took my box 15 months to hit it. Once it had it hit it every few days.
It really depends on the timing of series that you record.

 

[adm]

then I say for the very last time that he must have been very unlucky to have tried for over 2 months but on every occasion had used 3 different transponders (because that is why it wouldn't have worked).

Possibly not that unlucky. With so few channels on each transponder and/or the channels being duplicates of each other (regional variations of the same channel on the same transponder) I'm not surprised that the OP often cannot find anything to watch on the transponders being used for recordings. UK terrestrial via an aerial is somewhat different in this respect because there are many more, and varied, channels on each MUX. Furthermore all regional variations are not crammed into the MUXs thus minimising duplicate information. Only a small sub set of the regional channels is on on each transmitter.

I often see no free tuner when trying to watch live TV on satellite when recording 2 HD channels but then my fall back is to switch to my 3rd and 4th tuners which are connected to UK terrestrial via an aerial. I prefer satellite because of the way HD satellite surround sound audio is handled by AV amp but I usually use the terrestrial tuners for auto timer recording of SD channels to keep the satellite tuners free for live/timeshift TV.