Comments on: Freesat on Sky Dish

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By: satandpcguy

satandpcguy — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:29:46 +0000

Humax make a very good HD PVR, that allow you to watch one channel and record another – see the deals available on joinfreesat.co.uk…right hand side…

Hotbird is another satellite group located at 13 east. It covers most of Europe. It carries mainly European channels (Sky Italia, Polsat, Cyfra, Nova, Polska). There are not many English language channels on there for free (BBC World, CNN and one or two others only)

By: lento

lento — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:53:00 +0000

Question: What is a decent freestat box? I want 2 channel hard drive recorder. It seems that there is not much choice and why are they so expensive (compared to f/v).

Also I am hearing about a satellite called Hotbird (?) is it better than the free stat one?

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By: satandpcguy

satandpcguy — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 07:30:34 +0000

If you want to watch one channel and record an other at the same time then there are two methods:

Get a Sky+ box and pay a subscription. With a Sky+ receiver, you MUST pay sky something per month to acivate the hard drive functions: either £10 per month, or go for their cheapest TV package – £18 per month.

Or get an other receiver (and card if required) hooked up to the dish..

By: IAN

IAN — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:38:54 +0000

I HAVE RECENTLY HAD ‘FREESAT FROM SKY’ FITTED AND RATHER BELATEDLY HAVE REALISED THAT I CANNOT RECORD PROGRAMMES FROM IT, EXCEPT PERHAPS FOR THE ONE I AM WATCHING.
IS THERE ANY WAY I CAN DO THIS ? SKY SAY THAT I MUST BECOME A SUBSCIBER AND HAVE SKY + FITTED – IS THIS TRUE ?

IAN (18-2-10)

By: satandpcguy

satandpcguy — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:35:54 +0000

Lynsay:
a sky+ box uses two cables from the dish, as it has two tuners inside the box, which allows you to watch one channel and record another at the same time. a basic box only has one cable input as it cannot allow you to watch more than one channel as it only has a single tuner inside.
A sky card is paired to a sky box – and if not paired you will not be able to view the Sky Sports or Movie channels – although other chanensl should be available.

others:
Sky TV channels and Fresat TV channels come from the same satellites and use the same frequencies. so if youy want ot swap a sky receiver to a freesat receiver you just change the cables around – you do not need to move the dish!
Any PVR receiver, like the Sky+ or Freesat+ ideally requires two cables to be connected from the dish to the receiver…allowing you to watch one channel and record another at the same time. So you will need an LNB with at least 2 outputs, or more if you have more receivers to connect.

Normally you cannot use the same single cable one two receivers at the same time. if one receiver is looking at a verticale polarisation channel and the other is wanting to look at a horizontal polarisation channel then one receiver will work and the other may not – and there is a possinility of damaging the LNB and receivers. You can use a STACKER system, that mixes two signals down to a DESTACKER that unmixes the signals and allows two receivers to use one single cable.
Hope this helps.
Regards

By: JOE

JOE — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:24:28 +0000

Can You Use the sky and freesat at the same time, like split the cable??

By: Steven

Steven — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:08:24 +0000

Thanks to all for the thread and answers , from what I have read I can use the old Sky mini dish, but to use a freesat receiver with HD and record funtion I need to upgrade LND to a Quad to receive more channels and HD. If I am wrong could some one update me.

By: Lynsay Duncan

Lynsay Duncan — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:27:40 +0000

Hi,
My sky+ box has broken so I purchased a standard sky box in its place however it only has space for 1 input cable from the dish and I have 2 cables set up for the sky+. Do I need an adaptor or should 1 of these cables attached to my new standard box give me sky anyway?
I tried but it did not work. Or is it the sky+ viewing card not compatible with normal box?
Thanks
Lynsay