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help! (free or cheap) holiday home tv required...

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  • 13-07-2008 10:03pm
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    yak
    Registered Users Posts: 270 ✭✭


    Hi Lads,

    I hope someone can help me out! I missed Galway's win in the football today because I cant watch TV3 when I'm in holiday home - I need to sort it out!!

    I have a 'normal' analogue tv aerial at the moment which gives me RTE1 and NET2, and also a FTA satellite dish (Lidl's finest) that I still have to set up but from my understanding it won't solve my problems anyway... I think it just lets me watch BBC and the like, is that correct?

    In my main house I currently have sky digital but am swapping to NTL in the next few weeks, would my sky dish and box be any good in my holiday home? - I will be canceling the sky subscription when NTL finally get their asses in gear and sort me out, so i dont know if the dish would be any good with an 'expired' card?

    I've heard about an NTL smart card - does anyone know what it is? or how easy/good/cheap is its service?

    I think that's about it, but as I'm sure you can see I'm very much a novice in this regard and would appreciate any hints/tips that ye can give me...

    thanks all,

    yak.


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    icjzfmq7ewon1t
    Closed Accounts Posts: 336 ✭✭icjzfmq7ewon1t


    yak wrote: »
    Hi Lads,

    I hope someone can help me out! I missed Galway's win in the football today because I cant watch TV3 when I'm in holiday home - I need to sort it out!!

    I have a 'normal' analogue tv aerial at the moment which gives me RTE1 and NET2, and also a FTA satellite dish (Lidl's finest) that I still have to set up but from my understanding it won't solve my problems anyway... I think it just lets me watch BBC and the like, is that correct?

    In my main house I currently have sky digital but am swapping to NTL in the next few weeks, would my sky dish and box be any good in my holiday home? - I will be canceling the sky subscription when NTL finally get their asses in gear and sort me out, so i dont know if the dish would be any good with an 'expired' card?

    I've heard about an NTL smart card - does anyone know what it is? or how easy/good/cheap is its service?

    I think that's about it, but as I'm sure you can see I'm very much a novice in this regard and would appreciate any hints/tips that ye can give me...

    thanks all,

    yak.

    You wont be able to watch TV 3 on a sky box without a subscription I'm afraid. I have the same problem myself as TV 3 isn't on my local transponder either.


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    patoinsf
    Registered Users Posts: 81 ✭✭patoinsf


    There is a place on the Tuam road across from the abc bookstore that sells analogue signal amplifiers they come in two parts one goes on the Ariel and the other plugs in to the wall socket beside the TV I have a holiday place in Connemara and I just point toward Clare island the amp allows me to watch bbc 1 +2, utv, tv3, and tg4, If you can set up a sat dish setting this up should be a piece of cake for you


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