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Small Satellite Receiver Recommendations

  • 22-09-2014 11:16am
    #1
    kmurph
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 586 ✭✭✭


    Hi

    My parents are looking to mount a 19'' tv to their kitchen wall, but would prefer not to use a full size satellite receiver. They're currently using my old Sky+ box for the fta channels which is all they need (tv has a saorview tuner built in so ok for the Irish stations). Don't really have anywhere in the area that they want to mount the tv that I could hide the receiver away.

    Been looking at this particular Amiko model (http://www.tvtrade.ie/amiko-micro-hd.html) as an option for mounting to the back of the tv. Anyone any opinions of it or any other recommendations for a small receiver? Doesn't need to be anything remotely fancy, the simpler the better.


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  • #2
    The Cush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,852 ✭✭✭✭The Cush


    I installed one of these for my sister last year behind a bedroom TV - Ferguson Ariva 102 Mini HD Digital Satellite Receiver


  • #3
    Thurston?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,278 ✭✭✭Thurston?


    kmurph wrote: »
    My parents are looking to mount a 19'' tv to their kitchen wall, but would prefer not to use a full size satellite receiver. They're currently using my old Sky+ box for the fta channels which is all they need (tv has a saorview tuner built in so ok for the Irish stations). Don't really have anywhere in the area that they want to mount the tv that I could hide the receiver away.

    Just to mention a possible alternative, don't forget the RF2 output of the Sky box: if you plug the Saorview aerial into the Sky box RF-in, the RF2 will carry the Saorview signal, along with an analogue version of the channel currently selected on the Sky box. This means 1 coaxial cable from Sky box to TV can provide all the channels but, the TV must have an analogue tuner to view the satellite channels. (I know some 19" sets sold by Argos couldn't tune analogue channels.) Only expense involved might be for a 'magic eye' remote control sender unit, if the Sky box is hidden away. (Don't put it in the attic.)

    It's an arrangement that might suit, depending on room layout, where the cables are & where they will be routed to the wall mounting etc. The RF analogue feed from the Sky box should be acceptable on a 19" set.


  • #4
    Technofobe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 474 ✭✭Technofobe


    kmurph wrote: »
    Hi

    My parents are looking to mount a 19'' tv to their kitchen wall, but would prefer not to use a full size satellite receiver. They're currently using my old Sky+ box for the fta channels which is all they need (tv has a saorview tuner built in so ok for the Irish stations). Don't really have anywhere in the area that they want to mount the tv that I could hide the receiver away.

    Been looking at this particular Amiko model (http://www.tvtrade.ie/amiko-micro-hd.html) as an option for mounting to the back of the tv. Anyone any opinions of it or any other recommendations for a small receiver? Doesn't need to be anything remotely fancy, the simpler the better.
    Was looking at a relatives amiko mini combi at the weekend
    Very small and compact would easily go behind the tv and comes supplied with a IR eye
    http://www.satworld.ie/amiko-mini-combo-dvb-t2.html
    If you go with just the amiko micro I dont think it has a terrestial tuner which means you will need to use 2 remotes one for the amiko and the tv remote for the saorview


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