At the risk or repetition & to help others reading this thread…you can still record on a Freesat system with just a single LNB feed. What you can’t do without two feeds is to record one thing whilst watching another, or record two channels at the same time.
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Except that with pairs of channels that have the same polarity you can. Just loop the LNB input across to the second LNB input 
Yes, but for most people it’s less confusing to state the simpler option.
Certainly is for me, but I can’t think of anything I want to record so the inability to do so is acedemic. 
I’m becoming less of a dumbo as I read more about satellite TV and its inner technical workings, and, like David_Spardo, there is little that I see that I want to record, but I know now that my existing single LNB is sufficient to watch a really good film or documentary at the same time as I’m recording it. I have my collection of DVDs so don’t really mind doing a bit of satellite TV recording of something special now and again, which I can make a DVD of to add to the collection.
This is an aside, but years ago, watching French TV, before I had satellite TV, I managed to get the VHS/VCR system going to record the history of the Crazy Horse Saloon, broadcast on a Sunday evening, and also a Sunday evening variety show, with all its French naughtiness – never to be seen again on today’s TV. (My assumption).
I have no idea now how I managed it, after buying cables and special plugs to connect the VCR to the computer, I digitised those VHS tapes, YouTube’d both programmes as examples of French culture, as it was then, but Google wouldn’t allow it – too lewd! It wasn’t IMO, but the USA can be surprisingly prudish.
Can you set a restriction to only show outside of the USA.
I’ve no idea…all I know is how to upload videos. I’ll look into it.
No, you don’t need a wideband LNB to receive 4K channels. Any channel, regardless of what the resolution is, can be received via a standard LNB or wideband LNB. The wideband LNB just gives you more independent tuners allowing you to record more programs simultaneously.
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Be careful about this. Using a wideband LNB may require the cable to be upgraded, particularly if your in a marginal signal area, such as a large chunk of France. Many installations use WF65 or similar cable, which is mostly OK for standard LNB systems. Wideband LNBs may require WF100 or similar cabling.
It’s complicated, and can be dependant upon the individual installation, and you may not find out unless you try. I suggest you get an LNB that has wideband outputs and a minimum of two standard outputs, like the following
That way, if reception is dodgy with the wideband part of the LNB, you can switch to the standard LNB outputs.
Well, I shall be taking this one step at a time. Am hoping that the old LNB will work because my ladder climbing days are over, not that I can’t, just don’t look forward to it. Can, but don’t want to!
My new Freesat satellite receiver is due tomorrow and am looking forward to getting rid of Sky!
I think I will be climbing that ladder, as I see that the dish is filthy! But I’ll wait until I see the need, or not, of a new LNB.
Thanks for the link - what’s the spirit level all about? The old LNB hasn’t got one.
The LNB doesnt have a spirit level the dish arm does. The LNB is rotated to an azimuth angle.
I used a spirit level when I drilled the holes for the plate that holds the dish in place on the wall, then tilted the dish vertically and swung it horizontally until I got a good signal - and then tightened all the nuts to hold it in place. There was a lot of going up and down the ladder back then! Use a damp towel over the dish, the technician said, to instil a fuzzy snowflake reception, then fine-tune the adjustments until the fuzziness went, then remove the towel.
Hope I don’t have to do a whole load of adjustments again. Will report back.
Added note - remember that the technician assembled the dish to the correct angle for whichever satellite it was to be aimed at, at garden level, and left it to me to get it up the ladder and fix it on the wall and do the fine-tuning …was much younger then!
It looks like the LNB is pretty horizontal but are usually rotated to a slight angle, cant remember what it is but will have a look tomorrow if its not raining too hard. That all said I did rotate my dish by a couple of degrees as it improved the signal a little more.
Unfortunately some selfish git built a Chateau right in the line of sight of the satellite, unless I cut a 10 feet hole in its roof I can’t get a signal 
My brother had this problem years ago in the Pas de Calais and the satelite bloke fixed his dish to a scaffolding tube out in the garden (he did happen to be a sky engineer on holiday). Worked a treat too.
The chateau is rather large so the dish is going to have to go on the end of the barn quite some distance away, I get Sky Go through the internet so the dish job is quite far down my large to do list.
Use this
Put your location in and select 28.2 Astra … and it will show you a map. You can drag the pointer to exactly where your dish is. It will tell you the ‘LNB skew’ which is the rotation angle in degrees from the vertical for the LNB at your location. Negative values are a rotation anti-clockwise when looking from the front. It’s also useful if you think you may have an obstruction as it shows you on the map exactly where the dish should point.
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Thanks Hairbear, I have my sat finder and app, it was for Bonzocat that I mentioned it.
Mine was meant for Bonzocat as well really, or anyone else who might find it useful.