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This could be complicated...(satellite and Freeview equipment)

  • 11-01-2010 4:03pm
    #1
    r3nu4l
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,399 ✭✭✭✭


    Okay, firstly, I live in the UK, please bear that in mind when answering.

    Three years ago I moved into a house and discovered that my rooftop aerial was a Freeview arieal. Happy days.

    So now I receive almost all freeview channels and I know how to go about getting the ones I'm missing, should I so choose.

    However, about 2 months ago, I noticed (for the first time :o) that we also have a satellite dish...

    I know it's not a sky dish but it's near enough the same size and it has that 'mesh' effect (lots of tiny holes in the dish itself).

    So I don't know what make it is, nor do I know anything else about it.

    I also have a six year old sky box that I brought over from Ireland.

    Lets' recap:
    Have Freeview aerial
    Have a satellite dish
    Have an old Sky box

    So...deep breath.

    1) I would like to plug the cable from the aerial coming from the roof AND the cable from the satellite dish into one single box that then plugs into my TV.

    Is this possible??

    2) Do you think the old sky box will be able to pick up FTA stations?

    Thanks for the advice and please remember, I'm absolutely clueless when it comes to connecting satellite equipment, I don't watch a lot of TV but if the options are available to me, I'd like to be able to take advantage of them.


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  • #2
    zagmund
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,501 ✭✭✭zagmund


    1) No. not with the equipment you've got there. The box you're thinking of is called your telly :p. You can plug the cable from the ariel in to it and get the freeview stuff and you can plug the scart cable from your old Sky box into it and get the free from the satellite stuff. You'll probably have to use the 'source' button on your telly to switch between inputs but that's not so hard.

    You could go out and buy yourself an entirely new box and throw your Sky yoke (with it's crappy EPG among other things) in the bin. If you do this then you can buy a 'combo' box which you can plug the ariel and the satellite cable into and then run one cable to your TV as per original request. I have an MVision HD200 Combo which does all this. It's good, but not great.

    2) Depends - there's a lot of mis-understanding about free to air, free to view, freeview, freesat, etc . . . if you're one of the people like me that are happy with 375 channels instead of 375,000 possible ones then yes your Sky box will be able to tune in loads of stuff like the BBCs, C4, etc . . . if, however you need that 376th channel that is only available via one mechanism and not the other then you may be out of luck.

    Hang on a sec - you already get Freeview, right . . . so, exactly what channels are you missing ?

    z


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