Free Sat or Free to Air?

alexmaxoks

Wizard007 wrote: »

RTE will never be free to air.

all 4 Irish stations going free to Air with Mvision HD 300 Combo. all you need - just plug in an existing Terrestrial antenna. I think 90% of Ireland covered. In Dublin works even with indoor antennas

St Senan

alexmaxoks wrote: »

all 4 Irish stations going free to Air with Mvision HD 300 Combo. all you need - just plug in an existing Terrestrial antenna. I think 90% of Ireland covered. In Dublin works even with indoor antennas

Wizard was refering to was satellite.

alexmaxoks

scaller wrote: »

Wizard was refering to was satellite.

this is a combo box. sat and Terrestrial. and does not have to be returned after purchase:p

St Senan

alexmaxoks wrote: »

this is a combo box. sat and Terrestrial. and does not have to be returned after purchase:p

we all know what sort of box it is but rte are not free to air on satellite

alexmaxoks

scaller wrote: »

we all know what sort of box it is but rte are not free to air on satellite

I do not remember saying it free to air on sat. I just gave an option how to watch it free ))

St Senan

alexmaxoks wrote: »

I do not remember saying it free to air on sat. I just gave an option how to watch it free ))

And again i say wizard was refering to satellite to the OP

recycler1

alexmaxoks wrote: »

all 4 Irish stations going free to Air with Mvision HD 300 Combo. all you need - just plug in an existing Terrestrial antenna. I think 90% of Ireland covered. In Dublin works even with indoor antennas

To get back to the original question: Freesat or FTA.

The above box appears to be another option. It allows a standard, i.e. non-digital, TV pick up both FTV and Digital Terrestrial signals. IMO it is expensive for what it does and needs an external hardisk for recording. Nevertheless, it is a viable option and may suit some people.

Finne1993

Hammer of Thor wrote: »

Not meaning to throw this thread off on a tangent, and I'm not interested in purchasing the setup myself, but out of interest how does Freeview rate against FTA/Freesat? I've seen other threads discussing good spots for receiving transmission from Wales etc, but are the channel lineup, picture/sound quality, equipment/aerial price etc. any good???

Depending on your location you will be able to pick up some of the Freeview channels, mainly border areas and in the South East, there are stickies and threads about these in the terrestrial section and it would probably do no harm for you to have a read through them. Reception is hit and miss in a lot of these areas though and if its your BBC's, ITV's etc you're after Freesat is probably your best bet, its a simple set up and less complicated and expensive than most aerial installs as a very good aerial, diplexer, masthead amp, power supply, brackets etc are required where its just a dish and satellite receiver required for Freesat.

Only advantage Freeview would have over Freesat/FTA is that it carries a few channels not available on it such as Dave, Virgin1, Yesterday, Sky Sports News. At the same time there are fair few channels not on Freeview which are available on Freesat, too many to mention but probably not as high profile as the ones above.

Its a personal choice really but until the digital switchover is complete I'd be recommending Freesat to most as the price is probably better, reception is constant and picture quality excellent on most channels.

alexmaxoks

recycler1 wrote: »

To get back to the original question: Freesat or FTA.

..it is expensive for what it does ....

here you're right. it is about 220-240€

coddle

I'm very sorry in advance if this is posted somewhere before, but I've trawled through the threads and not being in any way technically minded I'm getting confused

We have Sky multiroom at the moment and my brother uses an aerial transmitter for his bedroom as there is no tv connection there. However we can't use wireless internet when it's on and he has to watch whatever tv programme is on downstairs and can't change the channel, so I was thinking of getting him a FreeSat box for Christmas.

My questions is, is it just a case of buying one of these freesat boxes and plug in & play or do we need cabling/hooking up to the Sky dish outside? (it's right outside his bedroom window if thats any use????)
Will he be able to change channels/hook up a DVD player to it etc?

Sorry for my simpleness...as I said I'm just not this way inclined

stepster

coddle wrote: »

We have Sky multiroom at the moment and my brother uses an aerial transmitter for his bedroom as there is no tv connection there. However we can't use wireless internet when it's on and he has to watch whatever tv programme is on downstairs and can't change the channel, so I was thinking of getting him a FreeSat box for Christmas.

I had this problem before. What is happening is that the 2 wireless signals are interfering with each other. There should be a switch on the aerial transmitter that you can use to transmit on a different channel. If there's not, you should be able to enter your wireless router settings and change the channel on that.

coddle

Thanks for that stepster - I'll try that for the time being

Would still appreciate a few pointers on the Freesat box though if anyone can help?

icdg

Dragoo and SDI both banned for one month promoting commercial activities.

donieosull

Sorry, does any1 know of any reliable installers in Kerry? and whats the best 1 to get down here?

Tony

Try HRI services

donieosull wrote: »

Sorry, does any1 know of any reliable installers in Kerry? and whats the best 1 to get down here?

Tester46

Anyone recommend a good installer near Bandon or Clonakilty in Cork? I am looking to get freesat and a roof aerial for RTE, TG4 etc, installed.

Roughly (very roughly) what kind of prices should I be looking for for that i.e. for the freesat and for the roof aerial.

Thanks

Tony

From the supplier sticky but not sure Clonakilty is covered

~ Signal Solutions ~

Name: Signal Solutions
Location: Carrigaline, Cork
Telephone: 021 437 2211 / 087 2883798

E-mail: via website
WWW: www.signalsolutions.tv

Tester46 wrote: »

Anyone recommend a good installer near Bandon or Clonakilty in Cork? I am looking to get freesat and a roof aerial for RTE, TG4 etc, installed.

Roughly (very roughly) what kind of prices should I be looking for for that i.e. for the freesat and for the roof aerial.

Thanks

Capt'n Midnight

Free Sat or Free to Air?

Option C is a DIY install of a second hand Sky digibox - there was one on adverts.ie for €15 without remote
this will give you the program guide etc

Wizard007

It is an option but abselute persecution to browse. A person could always use the favourites tab to store what they watch but it's just not the biz at all.

Capt'n Midnight

Wizard007 wrote: »

It is an option but abselute persecution to browse. A person could always use the favourites tab to store what they watch but it's just not the biz at all.

Amen.


I have even considered getting something like LIRC to keep track of recent channels so I could use it for now/next , maybe a touch screen with favorites ??


But it is still an option especially if you can scrounge one from someone that has upgraded to HD or somesuch

wexfordwinnie

I hope someone here can help me out. I am hopeless with installing tv channels etc so I got someone to install my Skyline Free to Air 28207R.
The store I bought it from for 70e told me I could get up to 400 channels.
Only thing is loads have not come through which I believed I could get no prob. I have channel4+1 but not channel 4 and i can't get channel 5, bbc3 etc or film 4 or any of the sky ent channels like dave, yesterday etc.
I knew the RTEs would not be an option but that a very large no of sky channels would be included but when I click them on it just says no signal.
There is no manual with the box and I am at a loss as to what I can do to Also there are loads of signals beside the channels like a blue dollar sign which I assume means it's not free but there are plenty without this which are not through either...

St Senan

You will receive up to 350 free channels most of which is crap their is about 70 to 80 decant channels available. You should have got an instruction manual from the shop where you bought it also the installer/guy who set it up should have scanned the box for free channels only.

wexfordwinnie

Defo don't even have more than 10 decent channels and some of them have been installed 6 or 7 times.Is there a way to install channel by channel or to scan like with a normal tv as the whole thing including the remote is so badly laid out. Am I entitled to channels such as living or comedy central etc...

TheDriver

look up www.freesat.co.uk and thats the majority of useful free channels (You won't get the fancy EPG etc but channel list will be same) plus lots more rubbish ones out there too.

St Senan

wexfordwinnie wrote: »

Defo don't even have more than 10 decent channels and some of them have been installed 6 or 7 times.Is there a way to install channel by channel or to scan like with a normal tv as the whole thing including the remote is so badly laid out. Am I entitled to channels such as living or comedy central etc...

You wont get any of the living channels or comedy central.
also the box needs to be retuned. Delete all the channnels that you have retune for free to air and then move all the channels you want to the front of the list and then delete all the crap.