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| posted on 27/6/08 at 07:17 PM |
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random question!
Here we go.
Just got a new house and the aerial has fallen off. This has been down a while but a cable from a sky dish is fed into the house. If i connect a sky
dish to this without suscribing, will i recieve terrestrial TV?
Many thanks.
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Marcus
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| posted on 27/6/08 at 07:45 PM |
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No, you may get some channels, but most need a card (free from sky)
Marcus
Because kits are for girls!!
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iank
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| posted on 27/6/08 at 10:20 PM |
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The dish will work with a FreeSat box to get the free satellite channels.
http://www.freesat.co.uk/
[Edited on 27/6/08 by iank]
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Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
Anonymous
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Macbeast
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| posted on 28/6/08 at 04:35 AM |
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Think you want to clarify the question - eg why would you want to connect a Sky dish to a Sky dish ?
By terrestrial TV do you mean BBC 1 BBC2, ITV, Ch4, 5 as transmitted analogue from your local transmitter on a hill ? Or Digital terrestrial TV as
transmitted to Freeview boxes ?
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MikeRJ
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| posted on 30/6/08 at 06:57 PM |
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A second hand basic Sky box (cost pennies on eBay etc.) will get you the BBC and ITV channels but not channel 5.
For a one off price of £20 you can get a "FreeSat From Sky" card that will let you view a few other channels including channel 5. The
selection is a bit poor however, (you can't even get "Dave" which you can with a Freeview box.)
http://www.sam-radford.me.uk/ftv.htm
Alternatively for £50 you can get a new FreeSat box
that gives you around 80 channels including the standard terrestrial ones. This is a different service to the Sky one (it's developed by the
BBC and ITV) but uses the same satellite, so you can just plug a box in and go (still no 'Dave' however  )
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chrsgrain
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| posted on 30/6/08 at 08:26 PM |
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WTF is 'Dave'? Just wondered really (don't have a TV!)
Chris
Spoing! - the sound of an irony meter breaking...
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iank
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| posted on 30/6/08 at 09:00 PM |
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Dave is pretty much continuous repeats of Top Gear, Red Dwarf and QI.
I miss not having a TV (was without for 5 years), it's there mainly for playing DVD's and the missus/kids.
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Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.
Anonymous
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 1/7/08 at 08:15 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by iank
Dave is pretty much continuous repeats of Top Gear, Red Dwarf and QI.
I miss not having a TV (was without for 5 years), it's there mainly for playing DVD's and the missus/kids.
since I moved house I haven't even watched any tv channels, just played the x-box on it (sterio plugged in and house shaking  ). The freeview
box is still packed away and I'm not missing it at all
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