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How do you get DSat?

  • 14-03-2003 5:01pm
    #1
    Elmo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,641 ✭✭✭✭


    How do you get DSat, and what is available on it. Do I need to get sky.


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  • #2
    Lennoxschips
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,772 ✭✭✭Lennoxschips


    What do you mean by DSat? Which channels/languages do you want to get?

    And no, Sky is not the only way to get satellite television.


  • #3
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    If you want any of the folowing on Satellite you need a Sky Subscription:
    * Any Irish TV at all
    * Currently BBC1 and BBC2 but all BBC will be free after May.
    * UK Flextech/BBC TV: Gold, Drama, Style, Horizons, History
    * MTV/VH1 UK/Ireland
    * Living, Granada Plus etc
    * Sky 1, Sky Mix
    * Sky Sports any flavor
    * Sky Movies
    * The 4 or 5 Disney inc Disney's Fox Kids
    * Nickelodeon channels
    * Discovery channels, Animal Planet etc
    * Nat Geo, Adventure one.

    The box is yours you can cancel after a year and have free channels. Cheapest is a "full package" and about 40 Euro for the 400 Euro worth of Box and install. Reduce to a lower pack after 1 month.


    If you can live without the above and don't want a subscription there are on the "Sky" platform:
    60 free Radio on Sky
    Various free music channels
    TCM movies
    Boomerang Cartoons
    Sky News, CNN, ITV News, Euronews etc.
    Extreme Sports
    About 38 shopping channels.
    etc

    Other free channels are on other Satellites.

    www.satellite.ie or What Satellite Magasine or Martin Pickerings Excellet UK site www.satcure.co.uk give lots of info.

    Or my own site about 2years out of date
    http://homepage.eircom.net/~watty/satellite/satellite.htm

    But still usefull


  • #4
    watty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,417 ✭✭✭✭watty


    so there are about 4 really usefull satellites with free channels and 20 or so total you can get here in Ireland.

    Adding all languages ther might be over 400 free TV and over 300 Free Radio on just Astra 19E, Hotbirds 13E and Eurobird /Astra2 at 28.2E (The source for Sky).

    YOu can subscribe to other Pay Providers:
    BBCPrime about 100 Euro a Year, Viacess viewing card on Hotbirds 13E

    ABSat Package, like Sky but smaller and very french. With a porn channel thrown in. About 1/2 the price of Sky.

    Canal+ (But more expensive and may be harder to get). Popular with Pubs for Football.

    A Sky digibox will only work with Sky Cards. A Free UK FT V card (need UK address) gives youu All BBC, All ITVs except ITV2, C4 and "FivE" from end of MAy you dodn't need card for all the BBCs.

    A box with Embedded viacess only works with viacess cards, no other.

    A box with a CI is a PC Card/PCMCIA style connector slot for a "CAM". The CAM is for a particular encryption though some may work with more than one kind of card. It is a plug in module the Pay viewing card goes into. Some services only need the once of purchase of a CAM, and no actual card.

    A non-Sky box that takes pay TV cards via a "CAM"can in theory use any viewing card, except a Sky card.

    Types of CAM/Encryption for Pay cards or FTV cards:
    Videoguard: Only builtin on a Sky Digibox. Not available on anything else.
    None of the following work in Digibox:
    Iredeto
    Conax
    Betacrypt
    Viaccces

    "Feeds" between broadcasters on Satellite can be "clear" or maybe Powervu. You can't get a Powervue card at all.

    There are of course Pirate Cards. These often become useless. Rules of forum and good sense forbid futher discussion, except to say that one competitor to Sky/NDS alleged that a Sky company paid a Lab to hack their encryption and post Pirate Hack on Internet. This system was used for OnDigital cards as well as Satellite and piracy was at 30%.

    PC Satellite Receivers exist about the same price as a mid range receiver with a CAM. They can record the MPEG data of Video or Audio direct to Disk, giving playback identical to original or even you can "save" the file as SVCD or DVD for a DVD player (See www.vcdhelp.com )

    The better PC receivers are a complete Digital Receiver that only uses the PC as a user interface and Power Supply (300 Euro), they have option for CAM and can drive TV and HiFi or Home Cinema directly without PC support. The cheap 100 Euro cards use a high power PC to do the MPEG2 decoder etc, so usually do not drive a TV and HiFi directly.
    Both kinds work with Satellite Data transmissions too.

    They require a PCI slot. (External units have none of the advantages of either a set-top receiver or a PCI card and are a waste on money)


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