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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
Fame is when your old car is plastered all over the internet
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