SAORSAT MULTI ROOM

malene

Was looking at this and looks great,

http://www.tvtrade.ie/saorview-combo.html

but there are 6 rooms I want to feed to, each room able to watch whatever channel they want. I have an old sky dish and cables, so might get all replaced. Will 6 boxes run off an old sky satellite, or even a new one? (And, if there are cheaper boxes just as good, would like to know as well, thanks).

p.s read this at the bottom, can I still get teletext on it?

Disadvantages of the Triax TSC114 Saorview Combo Receiver

• While it is an Approved Saorview Combo, it is a generic Free to Air tuner on the UK end of things, which means that the EPG on the UK stations will not have a 7 Day Programme Guide
• It is more expensive than either a generic combo receiver with or without Mheg5 (the technology that allows Digital Teletext to be viewed)

Peter Rhea

Sky dishes are no use for Saorsat (RTE & TG4 only, from Ka-sat @9 degrees east).

Anyway, your query seems to relate to a combo box, where the Irish channels are taken care of by Saorview terrestrial, delivered via a UHF aerial.

You can get up to 8 satellite feeds for UK channels from the satellites @28 degrees east with a Sky dish + octo lnb.

zg3409

OK As said you want Saorview not Saorsat. Saaorview needs a TV aerial, while the UK stations use a dish. You can get a dish with 8 connections for 8 receivers on it.

You can get a TV aerial and split it 6 ways for 6 TVs.

So each TV will have one connection from the dish and on from the aerial. This will then allow all stations to be viewed on a "combo" which is combined UK and Irish systems.

Some combo's don't have Irish teletext and 7 day TV guide. Nearly EVERY combo does not have 7 day guide on the UK channels.

If teletext is important go for as Saorview approved combo (there are two) and you can be sure of the Irish stations working 100% with all features. Some non approved combos have "MHEG5" which might give you most of what you are looking for.

For 7 day guide on the UK channels it's best to go with 2 boxes per TV, one for the IRsh channels (saorview approved) and one for the UK channels (FreeSAT approved) . Only freesat approved will give 7 day UK guide (and old Sky boxes and the Walker 95 Sat)

Please ask any other questions.

malene

Ok thanks everyone.

STB

zg3409 wrote: »

Some combo's don't have Irish teletext and 7 day TV guide. Nearly EVERY combo does not have 7 day guide on the UK channels.

All combos do 7 day epg on Saorview.

Some combo boxes have 7 day epg on UK channels (Technomate).

Ronnie Raygun

Peter Rhea wrote: »

Anyway, your query seems to relate to a combo box, where the Irish channels are taken care of by Saorview terrestrial, delivered via a UHF aerial.

An exception to this could be someone in the north with no Saorview terrestrial coverage. They could use Freeview + Saorsat, if they so desired (no HD UK channels, though).