Supermarket-chain Offer?

derby7

A certain supermarket-chain is having an offer this Thursday, satellite receivers, etc. They have an 80cm dish with dual LNB, Q. can i hook up my current Sky box & their box to get satellite? & what does their box give me? ie. would an old Sky box (with an old card) give me more FTA/V ? Note: the whole FTA / FTV (different sat receivers) set-up confuses me.....

swoofer

there's a few posts below yours that explains quite a lot. the box u are on about is ok but why apy that much when you could have 2 sky boxes on one dish, use a quad lnb and u could have 4 boxes or a sky + and 2 boxes.

Even I get confused with all this FTV/FTA s.......

Basically to get a few extra uk channels u need a FREESAT card, this will also give u a nice version of the Sky EPG, ie Electronic program guide and the demo channel.

FTA = FREE TO AIR means u need no card to receive these channels.

And yes u can hook ur box to this new receiver but u will need 2 runs of cable from the dish. Also it may not have an RF out.

This box will only give u FTA channnels and probably not a very good EPG.

Hope this helps, but ask away if not, say what u are trying to achieve as well.

gbmitiei

120_Minutes

I have the reciever in question since the last time lidl sold them, and they're pretty good for the money. you'll get everything you get with a normal sky box with the card removed, and you can compile a favourites list on the (decent enough) EPG, along with a channel surf (current/last channel viewed) and multiscreen (whats on a few channels) I had it hooked up to my sky dish and dual lnb with no problems. splash out on a decent dish and motor and the you can set up a budget motorised setup with little problems.

BowWow

derby7 wrote:

A certain supermarket-chain is having an offer this Thursday, satellite receivers, etc.

Which supermarket - I've searched and cant find details?

watty

Maybe in UK Aldi/Lidl, which won't apply here.

120_Minutes

No, its lidl, i saw the leaflet in there last week. the €99 dish/box combos are back, or you can buy a 60 or 80 cm dish or a box seperate if you wish (box is €69)

onsale from Nov 4th if memory serves.

cauliflower69

Decent little systems but tbh if it was me I'd buy a second hand sky box and dual lnb.

derby7

Thanks for the info, i think my Q was mis-leading, ie. can i connect up an old Sky box with an old card to one of the LNB's on this new dish, & THEIR sat receiver to the other LNB on the dish. AND would i be getting the same channels with both configs? (everything bar Sky Sports, Movie channels, PPV etc). For example would i get the Music channels, info channels (Nat Geographic etc) ?

watty

Nat Geo needs a subscription.

What "other LNB" on the dish?

derby7

if my memory serves me right, it has a dual o/p on the Satellite, i'm a novice here but i'm presuming 2 sat boxes can be connected up to the system...

watty

The Satellite is 22,500 miles up in the sky.

Do you mean the Dish/LNB has dual outputs? If so then you can connect two receivers, one or both can be Sky Digital. Two cables from dish.

Alternatively iif the LNB is only ONE o/p
"Daisy chaining" receivers on the "loop out" on a receiver often doesn't work with Sky, and in any case one receiver has to be off.

derby7

Spot On ! My engerlish was letting me down. Yes, dual o/p's on the sat dish arm, is this known as dual LNB? Anyway, can u tell me if i have an old Sky box with an old Sky card, ie. a card that was replaced by a newer one/upgraded one from Sky, will this give me FTA or FTV, or will it give me nothing at all?

byte

The older type cards that were replaced with the "yellow house" cards are useless and will receive nothing.

watty

The Sky box will work without the card, giving the free channels unless it is really old analogue box!