Freesat/Sky (1 Viewer)

[bailey]

I have just purchased a freesat box for the motor Home and use the dish Fantastic My Question is i have Sky in the house and i am p****** of with the Monthly subsciptions for next year i intend to get the all singing HD Freesat box as i have the old Sky Installation will i have to run more coax from the dish for HD and change the lnb

Bill

 

[lunarman]

You can just use the standard SKY dish. I felt the same as you paying £40+ a month for programs I rarely watched. I bought an HD Freesat box connected it to the sky coax and now receive HD BBC and ITV with no trouble

Lunarman

 

[johng]

hi all... can someone tell me what I will get with this box, using the dish I have set for normal sky (I paid a £20 one off for a card, which gives me the normal free sky stuff)

how much are the boxes? ..

the TV is HD, so if this box will decode that, then it would be great :thumb:

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[wivvy's dad]

Freesat boxes start at about £80, and fit right onto the end of your existing satellite feed - no need to change anything. Just plug-n-play as they say.

Best thing I ever did over a year ago, stopped giving that barsteward Murdoch any more of my hard-earned.

 

[bailey]

Freesat boxes start at about £80, and fit right onto the end of your existing satellite feed - no need to change anything. Just plug-n-play as they say.

Best thing I ever did over a year ago, stopped giving that barsteward Murdoch any more of my hard-earned.

I Thought that in order to get HD on freesat you would have to have a dual LNB

tHANKS

 

[lunarman]

Not so. You do need an HD ready tv of course.

Lots of information available here http://www.freesat.co.uk/

Lunarman

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[wivvy's dad]

I Thought that in order to get HD on freesat you would have to have a dual LNB

tHANKS

Nope, just go to the HD channels.




The Beeb is rolling out much more HD content right across the board fairly soon, but that is actually a secret, and you didn't hear it from me, no Siirreeeee

 

[johng]

thanks all

so, £80, already have a quad lnb, and I will get the free HD channels, and most, all of the free non HD ones I get now, (sky 3, E4, C5 etc)

:thumb:

.. another question.. does an £80 freesat box have any recording capability?

 

[wivvy's dad]

thanks all

so, £80, already have a quad lnb, and I will get the free HD channels, and most, all of the free non HD ones I get now, (sky 3, E4, C5 etc)

:thumb:

.. another question.. does an £80 freesat box have any recording capability?

You won't get Sky on Freesat, but you will - of course - if you keep your Sky box going

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[johng]

ahh .. ok thanks Wivvy's dad..

so use the freesat box mainly for HD stuff... google is my friend, I will see what channels actually are on freesat..

 

[johng]

ok looked at the channel listing.. freesat does the handful of channels I watch :thumb: so a freesat+ box would record.. this is perfect, thanks


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but £200 ... - I really want to be able to record, as I am rarely near the tv .. hmm.. second hand box on ebay maybe...

 

[slobadoberbob]

have you considered

Have you considered a free to air saterlite system? more channels.

Bob

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[Geo]

thanks all

so, £80, already have a quad lnb, and I will get the free HD channels, and most, all of the free non HD ones I get now, (sky 3, E4, C5 etc)

:thumb:

.. another question.. does an £80 freesat box have any recording capability?

I would think not
A Humax HD Recorder (works like a Sky Box) record one while watching another, re wind live TV etc
retails around £220.00

 

[bailey]

I would think not
A Humax HD Recorder (works like a Sky Box) record one while watching another, re wind live TV etc
retails around £220.00

That was my next Q what is the best Freesat Box for Home i did hear good comments about Humax also how can you use the Sky box if you cancel the subsciption

Bill

 

[Stewart J]

thanks all

so, £80, already have a quad lnb, and I will get the free HD channels, and most, all of the free non HD ones I get now, (sky 3, E4, C5 etc)

:thumb:

.. another question.. does an £80 freesat box have any recording capability?

You'll need a freesat box with a hard disc drive, then you can watch one and recorder another channel/s (some allow recording 2 channels I believe) I think you'll need to double your budget but its a one off payment.

Tesco's have some offers on at the mo heres one of the better models:-

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Stewart

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[Geo]

You'll need a freesat box with a hard disc drive, then you can watch one and recorder another channel/s (some allow recording 2 channels I believe) I think you'll need to double your budget but its a one off payment.

Tesco's have some offers on at the mo heres one of the better models:-

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Stewart

That one is not a recorder is it??

 

[novawight]

you can get a humax box with recorder, but you will have to a dual coax from dish , i think i am right on saying this but technology moves so quick these days might well be out of date

 

[Dodgey]

you can get a humax box with recorder, but you will have to a dual coax from dish , i think i am right on saying this but technology moves so quick these days might well be out of date

Yup, feed out of the LNB per tuner, ie a freesat box that can record one channel while you watch another has two tuners hence a twin LNB required, typical of the sky+ setup, or if you already have sky+ and go freesat plug and play in theory.

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[Gonewiththewind]

Freesat boxes start at about £80, and fit right onto the end of your existing satellite feed - no need to change anything. Just plug-n-play as they say.

Best thing I ever did over a year ago, stopped giving that barsteward Murdoch any more of my hard-earned.

Correction mate ARGOS do a FreeSat Box For £29

Don

 

[keith]

Correction mate ARGOS do a FreeSat Box For £29

Don

Not HD though. HD one £69.99

 

[Scout]

I would think not
A Humax HD Recorder (works like a Sky Box) record one while watching another, re wind live TV etc
retails around £220.00

got one does the biz

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[Stewart J]

That one is not a recorder is it??

Profound apologies cut and pasted the wrong one here is correct link:-

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Stewart

 

[Scout]

I seem to recall humax having some grade B recorderson thier website, I needed mine in a hurry so bought at argos, but its great

 

[bailey]

I seem to recall humax having some grade B recorderson thier website, I needed mine in a hurry so bought at argos, but its great

Like you i got a Humax hd Fantastic at first i purchased a Grundig BIG BIG Mistake after 2 days it kept looseing channels so returned to Argos and got full refund

Bill

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