New Installation - Queries re: Saorview / Saorsat / Freeview

Roosterreid

Hi,

I have recently moved to Kildare into my g/f's house.

We now have Sky+ HD installed in the sitting room with the Satellite dish to the rear of the house.

I am keen to have a tv installed in the kitchen and one of the other rooms in the house. For the kitchen (and other room) tv's, I would like to have the Saorview channels (RTE etc) and the Uk Freeview channels (BBC, UTV, Film4 etc). Can anyone help me with this and advise what I need?

We do not have a tv aerial on the house... just the satellite dish that feeds the Sky.

I assume that I need a new aerial and two boxes?

Any links / advice or help greatly appreciated.

Woodie40

Roosterreid wrote: »

Hi,

I have recently moved to Kildare into my g/f's house.

We now have Sky+ HD installed in the sitting room with the Satellite dish to the rear of the house.

I am keen to have a tv installed in the kitchen and one of the other rooms in the house. For the kitchen (and other room) tv's, I would like to have the Saorview channels (RTE etc) and the Uk Freeview channels (BBC, UTV, Film4 etc). Can anyone help me with this and advise what I need?

We do not have a tv aerial on the house... just the satellite dish that feeds the Sky.

I assume that I need a new aerial and two boxes?

Any links / advice or help greatly appreciated.

You could go for SKY multi Room or

You will need an aerial for Saorview, you may be able to pick up Freeview but no guarantee. I live near the border and Freeview sometimes doesn't work.
I would use the aerial for Saorview and put an lnb on the satelite dish which will allow you to run another one or more cables for the satelite channels either FTA Box or Freesat Box. TV Trade is a good site and there very professional to deal with.

swoofer

Its quite possible the sky dish has a quad lnb ie 4 outputs so just run cables. Ask the neighbours if they get freeview and look at rooftops ie at aerial types. If you buy 2 new tv's with saorview tuners then you could get freeview as well, save on boxes. SAORSAT is a waste of time, no tv3 or utv. and satellite at 9east so tricky to install.

The Cush

Roosterreid wrote: »

Any links / advice or help greatly appreciated.

http://www.saorview.ie/get-saorview/make-the-switch/

Gonzo

can Saorsat pick up the free to air German and Swiss channels listed below since they are on same orbital positon?

http://www.lyngsat.com/Eutelsat-9A-and-Ka-Sat-9A.html

The Cush

Gonzo wrote: »

can Saorsat pick up the free to air German and Swiss channels listed below since they are on same orbital positon?

Not with the Saorsat LNB.

Zilog

Regarding the cabling, you can run the terrestrial aerial signal over the same cable as your satellite using these:
Satellite combiners
Note that each satellite receiver "box" will have one or two satellite feeds. You need to piggyback on one satellite feed to each room.

A neater way to do it is with a multiswitch, but that may be further than you wish to go!