Hotbird

jhegarty

Is it possible to get anything from the hotbird sat with a sky minidish ?

chern0byl

jhegarty wrote:

Is it possible to get anything from the hotbird sat with a sky minidish ?

Absolutely, but dont let me extend your hopes to thinking the same applies to your trusty digibox. Technically speaking, the Digibox will work with Hotbird but only for a very few channels, which are generally not worth the effort tuning in.

What grabs your interest on Hotbird? You tell me more...being a former sat geek, im sure i can help.

Tony

chern0byl wrote:

Absolutely, but dont let me extend your hopes to thinking the same applies to your trusty digibox. Technically speaking, the Digibox will work with Hotbird but only for a very few channels, which are generally not worth the effort tuning in.

What grabs your interest on Hotbird? You tell me more...being a former sat geek, im sure i can help.

welcome back

chern0byl

Shur someone stick on the kettle

byte

Yeah, welcome back, long time since you were in this neck of the woods.

Sure, drop into #icdg (PLUG!)

Before the Thread is totally hijacked, yes a mindish will pick up Hotbird, but it may lose a few transponders in bad weather.

For a list of free channels go to digitalsat.co.uk it has lists of FTA channels on different birds. Or of course, lyngsat.com

okcomputer

i want to access hotbird as fashion tv was removed from the SKY EPG on friday (formerly on astra 2) and now is only available on hotbird

(HotBird-6
13 deg East
10.992 Mhz).


- i don;t want to lose any of my SKY channels though , can it be done on the existing dish? I don;t mind buying a seperate set top box

Tony

you will need a separate dish and receiver for this

okcomputer wrote:

i want to access hotbird as fashion tv was removed from the SKY EPG on friday (formerly on astra 2) and now is only available on hotbird

(HotBird-6
13 deg East
10.992 Mhz).


- i don;t want to lose any of my SKY channels though , can it be done on the existing dish? I don;t mind buying a seperate set top box

Mossy Monk

okcomputer wrote:

i want to access hotbird as fashion tv was removed from the SKY EPG on friday (formerly on astra 2) and now is only available on hotbird

(HotBird-6
13 deg East
10.992 Mhz).


- i don;t want to lose any of my SKY channels though , can it be done on the existing dish? I don;t mind buying a seperate set top box

only on Hotbird, i remember when that channel was everywhere!!!!!!!

is it pay tv or still FTA, i remember seeing a promo saying it was going subscription only

jhegarty

chern0byl wrote:

Absolutely, but dont let me extend your hopes to thinking the same applies to your trusty digibox. Technically speaking, the Digibox will work with Hotbird but only for a very few channels, which are generally not worth the effort tuning in.

What grabs your interest on Hotbird? You tell me more...being a former sat geek, im sure i can help.

thanks,

I was looking for Bloomberg TV Deutschland, the girlfriend works for a germany company ... wants to keep up with the news.... its on Astra 1F, Astra 1G and Hot Bird 6

don't mind getting a seperate dish / box , but the mini skydish isn't been used at the moment , so better if i can use that ...

chern0byl

Ah yeah, that really shouldnt pose any problems. If you follow this link & find your way down to the Bloomberg TV section (its towards the bottom).....

What you wanna look @ is the "beam" section. If you click on that link, you will see that the channel is given a very wide coverage "band" or beam in Europe. Bloomberg is a very popular german channel so its probably on quite a few satellites.

I would give a guess that it is also located on Astra 19.2 and if it is, i would advise you to turn your dish in that direction as Astra 19.2 generally offer better coverage to ireland...but i could be corrected on this....either way you wont have any real problems getting what you want.

jhegarty

chern0byl wrote:

Ah yeah, that really shouldnt pose any problems. If you follow this link & find your way down to the Bloomberg TV section (its towards the bottom).....

What you wanna look @ is the "beam" section. If you click on that link, you will see that the channel is given a very wide coverage "band" or beam in Europe. Bloomberg is a very popular german channel so its probably on quite a few satellites.

I would give a guess that it is also located on Astra 19.2 and if it is, i would advise you to turn your dish in that direction as Astra 19.2 generally offer better coverage to ireland...but i could be corrected on this....either way you wont have any real problems getting what you want.

will the sky dogey box work , or will I need another decorder ?

Mossy Monk

sky box should be fine for it

Tony

jhegarty wrote:

will the sky dogey box work , or will I need another decorder ?

another free to air receiver is needed

Zaphod

As Bloomberg on both Hotbird and Astra has a SR of 27500 and 22000 respectively, the digibox is capable of viewing them. In terms of convenience, however, I presume you still have a Sky subscription and want to watch the channels on Astra 2D 28E? If so, then you'll have to decide how you want to switch between 28E for Sky and 13E/19E for Bloomberg.

1. The cheapest + simplest way is simply to have 2 cable runs going to the 2 dishes and to swap them around at the back of the receiver. Alt. you can use a simple manual switch. But this is not very convienent unless you need the exercise
http://www.satelliteonline.co.uk/ab_switch_manual.htm

2. A neater solution would be to use a switch controlled by the remote:
http://www.satcure.co.uk/tech/cs012.htm

Note that for 1 and 2 you will only be able to watch/record either Sky or Bloomberg at any one time.

3. Buying an FTA receiver is the most expensive route, but offers the greatest flexibilty - you can watch/record simultaneously. It also allows you greater choice in terms of what other FTA channels you can receive.

jhegarty

thanks for everyones help ;-)

Tony

a cheap FTA receiver will allow you a lot more choice, i have not seen bloomberg dislayed successfully on a digibox but that may be just my unlucky experience

spongebob

And it displays properly on a cheapie €99 Palcom DSL4 FTA receiver from Hotbird so it duz . Most German channels seem to be on Astra 1 and not Hotbird . Again the FTA receiver will pick them up fine if the dish is poointed at the sat that is .

M

chern0byl

Muck wrote:

And it displays properly on a cheapie €99 Palcom DSL4 FTA receiver from Hotbird so it duz .

Have not used Palcom hardware in over a year. Are they still offering huge bang for your buck?

//Side Note: Actually never bought the Digenius in the end because it didnt do NTSC but a Palcom original could[didnt know that at the time] lil sat geek discussion here

Found Palcom to be a very reliable box, very quick with channel hoping and pretty much full with features...a great buy back then and im sure today.

Tomk1

Note: fashion tv on Hotbird is not FTA,

Also now that fashion tv is gone will some other FTA channel take its place

okcomputer

Tomk1 wrote:

Note: fashion tv on Hotbird is not FTA,

Also now that fashion tv is gone will some other FTA channel take its place

are you sure? so how do you view it exactly because it is on hotbird

okcomputer

I found this table on their website , ironically they have the domain www.ftv.com

http://www.ftv.com/companyinfo/receive_satellites_info.asp

looks like its in the clear on hotbird, phew. hope this info is not our of date cause they have also listed eurobird in the clear

okcomputer

so as a follow up question what is the cheapest dish + receiver you know of that can view hotbird? i know lidl usually do good deals but they are not selling any satelitte systems right now...anyone know any other good deals?

this post talks about a digital system for €199 in the irish Life mall:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=203632

byte

http://www.lyngsat.com/hotbird.html

This site is updated regularly and Fashion TV is still FTA.