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spare sky+ hd box

  • 06-01-2018 9:46pm
    #1
    bungaro79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,214 ✭✭✭


    hi all
    we've recently moved house and i found an old sky + hd box we used to have. we now have a sky q box (which is currently not working due to storm elanor) which we use in the front room. so we have another tv which i'd like to get up and running and just tune into the saroview channels. can i use the sky box for this or is it just a case of hooking the tv up to a saorview ariel? really useless at this technical stuff so would appreciate any advice!
    thanks


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


    Yeah, you need an aerial for Saorview (type depending on your location), a Sky box is no use.

    I assume the TV is a relatively recent model?


  • #3
    bungaro79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,214 ✭✭✭bungaro79


    hi thurston
    yeah its a pretty new samsung tv, and it has saorview as i was just about to buy a tv with freeview thinking it was the same thing. is the sky box of any use to me at all so??


  • #4
    Thurston?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,278 ✭✭✭Thurston?


    Freeview is the UK equivalent of Saorview, their terrestrial broadcast platform, although in this country the name is often used as a catch-all for free UK TV in general, say for TVs with built-in satellite tuners. (Which your Samsung might have.)

    The Sky box will still get the free satellite channels, once you get the storm damage sorted, although an out of sub. Sky box mightn't exactly provide the best user experience.


  • #5
    byte
    Moderators, Regional North West Moderators Posts: 19,159 Mod ✭✭✭✭byte
    byte


    You'd need to have the hybrid LNB fitted to the dish for the SkyHD box to connect to it. If it wasn't requested at install, you may need to change it.


  • #6
    bungaro79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,214 ✭✭✭bungaro79


    so had the sky box fixed today and unfortunately we're getting no channels through the old sky box so going to try and install a saorview aerial myself. is it hard to set up?! there are lots of aerials online so not sure which to get? and it is just a case of hanging it up in the attic and pointing it in the correct direction and then tuning in the stations??


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  • #7
    bungaro79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,214 ✭✭✭bungaro79


    And is it just a case then of locating the wires up in the attic which run down to the TV points in the rooms??


  • #8
    Thurston?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,278 ✭✭✭Thurston?


    I assume that pic. was taken after you'd given up on the Sky box, & disconnected the box from the dish, & that's a HDMI cable from box to TV? (And what's that on top of the Sky box?)


  • #9
    bungaro79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,214 ✭✭✭bungaro79


    Hi Thurston,
    No that was as it was last night! The aerial cable was going into the TV, I had the sky box hooked up through WiFi so I used the different source when trying to search for channels


  • #10
    hufpc8w3adnk65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,158 ✭✭✭✭hufpc8w3adnk65


    bungaro79 wrote: »
    Hi Thurston,
    No that was as it was last night! The aerial cable was going into the TV, I had the sky box hooked up through WiFi so I used the different source when trying to search for channels

    What have you connected the coax too? What aerial dish?


  • #11
    Thurston?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,278 ✭✭✭Thurston?


    bungaro79 wrote: »
    No that was as it was last night! The aerial cable was going into the TV, I had the sky box hooked up through WiFi so I used the different source when trying to search for channels

    The Sky box will need to be connected to the dish if it's to find any actual channels.

    WRT attic aerials, there's a current thread here.


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  • #12
    bungaro79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,214 ✭✭✭bungaro79


    Thurston? wrote: »
    The Sky box will need to be connected to the dish if it's to find any actual channels.

    WRT attic aerials, there's a current thread here.

    thanks again thurston, that thread is exactly what i was looking for


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