Sky TV

[Ruprect]

I've been thinking about getting Sky, but 40 pm seems like a lot. I only want the extra sports channels, not bothered about all the other sh!te, yet I still have the internal repulsion at the thought of lining murdoch's pockets. I think Chicane is right (though I would like to be able to watch the 20-20 cricket world cup )

[richard-af]

I've been thinking about getting Sky, but 40 pm seems like a lot. I only want the extra sports channels, not bothered about all the other sh!te, yet I still have the internal repulsion at the thought of lining murdoch's pockets. I think Chicane is right (though I would like to be able to watch the 20-20 cricket world cup )

Take a long nap, say 2 years, then, upon waking, get down to Woolies and buy all of the sports vids compilation sets for a fiver each. Fresh (to you) footie, cricket, etc., and not an advert in sight! No muss, no fuss! Put that in your pipe Mr. Murdoch!

[milanbenes]

my house is nearly finished, and all the satellite cables are in.

And now I am thinking what I need for the satellite tv.

What size dish to pickup UK satellite tv in central europe ?

Motorised or not ?

In the beginning I don't want to subscribe to the 40gbp per month services because a, I'm a cheapskate and b, we don't watch so much tv, and c, I'd like to see what the free to air stuff is like and theoretically if we have a big enough dish and motorised we should be able to get a lot of free stuff

So, what size dish ?

Motorised ?

What decoder ?

My house is cabled up with satellite cables in each room and from what I understand I need to buy a satellite master switch to distribute the data

anyone know anything about this ?



TIA,

Milan.

[richard-af]

Isn't SKY really just equivalent to Freeview plus an occasional trip to Blockbuster? I except Sports from that, as I hate them.

[barely_pointless]

I get a offer flyer from Fox about every other week with a reply paid envelope, I put as much junk mail I can find, such as Gold Amex, meat offers, furniture offers and so forth and neatly fold them all so they fit in the Fox envelop and then post it. I don't go out of my way to do it, it's opportunist.

Just my little effort at recycling.

I also do it with pretty much every other "unsolicited" postage paid contracts, and how do I watch what I want to ? On the internet, it's all there via uk/euro torrent sites, I get Top gear sans adverts when I want it.

I reckon I've cost murdoch alot more than he's cost me in the last few years.

[Ruprect]

I get a offer flyer from Fox about every other week with a reply paid envelope, I put as much junk mail I can find, such as Gold Amex, meat offers, furniture offers and so forth and neatly fold them all so they fit in the Fox envelop and then post it. I don't go out of my way to do it, it's opportunist.

Just my little effort at recycling.

I also do it with pretty much every other "unsolicited" postage paid contracts, and how do I watch what I want to ? On the internet, it's all there via uk/euro torrent sites, I get Top gear sans adverts when I want it.

I reckon I've cost murdoch alot more than he's cost me in the last few years.

[Euro-commuter]

my house is nearly finished, and all the satellite cables are in.

And now I am thinking what I need for the satellite tv.

What size dish to pickup UK satellite tv in central europe ?

Motorised or not ?

In the beginning I don't want to subscribe to the 40gbp per month services because a, I'm a cheapskate and b, we don't watch so much tv, and c, I'd like to see what the free to air stuff is like and theoretically if we have a big enough dish and motorised we should be able to get a lot of free stuff

So, what size dish ?

Motorised ?

What decoder ?

My house is cabled up with satellite cables in each room and from what I understand I need to buy a satellite master switch to distribute the data

anyone know anything about this ?



TIA,

Milan.

Google for dish size, you should be able to find maps that show effective coverage by disk size. 1m prob enough. You're closer to the satellite but off its track.
Decoder? A digibox.
Distribution? Be aware of the problem, which is that the digibox sends a voltage up the cable to the dish, to choose horizontal or vertical polarization. Obviously you can not have both H and V simultaneously on a single LNB (that's the receiver block on the dish). You can buy double-LNBs so that in effect each of 2 digiboxes has its own dish receiver, sharing the physical dish reflector. But you will need 2 separate down-cables for the 2 LNB elements.


Correction: see bottom of this page for dish sizes, depends on channel: map

[bobhope]

Much as I hate to line Murdoch's pockets - it's got to be Sky+.

[richard-af]

Isn't there similar non-Sky technology to do what Sky+ does?

[milanbenes]

thanks EC

Milan.