Satellite on PC

Wigster

Hi there,

Some of you out there have said that one can pick up satellite channels using a WinTV Nexus-s. Whatsize dish would one need and can one pick up all free to air BBC/ITV channels. Also, is it costly to recieve Canal + from Scandanavia (those that show the premership on Saturdays)


Thanks

Lennoxschips

You can't pick up the Free to View BBC/ITV/C4/C5 channels on a PC Satellite card because Sky only licenses the mediaguard card and encryption technology to digiboxes. The only way to pick up Sky is through a digibox.

As far as I know however you can buy compatible CAM's (card readers) that plug into your PC satellite card so that you can subscribe to other services such as Canal+. You can't do this for Sky, because of the reasons I mentioned already.

Greenman

I think you mean the Videoguard Card encryption technology.
BTW any news on RTE radio 1 not in stereo on the EPG??.
Regards JD!!! Belgium

Lennoxschips

Still no reply from RTE. (Surprise surprise)

I've memorised how to access it via the other channels without turning on the telly though. I have to press services, press 6, press down four times and then hit select!

Tony

Sorry for off topic but did I fit a dish for your PC Lennox? If so could you mail me please.

tony@satellite.ie

Lennoxschips

I don't think so, I've never ordered anything from your shop and don't even have a satellite decoder in my PC.

watty

You do get ALL the Sky FREE TO AIR on the PC (or other non-Sky box). But NOT the FREE TO VIEW.
Also having RTE 1 Radio stereo is only one of my 99 favorites or 350 odd Digital Radio. (About 60 radion on Sky).
Boomerang, TCM, CNN, Travel, Simply Nostalgia/Einstein/Nature bits between the adds, Motors TV, Extreme Sports, Reality TV, Sky News, All the Shopping and religious channels, Fashion, GameNetwork, PCNE Chinese, b4U Music, Chart TV Music, Chart Shop music, Channel Health. Some other ethnic channels. BBC Parliament and S4C2~Digidol. Oh and TWO hidden ITV-2 test feeds that work if you enter the PIDs manually (They don't appear on a Scan).

You can use a single minidish for Sky, or 3 to 4 LNBs on a 90cm Dish and a at the dish "Global" 4-way diseq switch with single coax back to PC.

I'm using the older Hauppauge DVBs PCI which is essentially the same as Nexus-s. I'm using latest www.technotrend.de English Software for DVBs PCI Premium product (They make Nexus etc) on XP on a 233MHz PC with 160M RAM. TV out to TV system is better than Digibox and Hard Disk recording perfect. On PC Screen is also perfect (better than any analog WinTV card).

You can get a CI board for CAM. Or a scary russian program for watching TV that doesn't bother with real cams or viewing cards. I suspect its use in EU is illegal (it won't give you Sky encrypted TV).

For Scandinavia in Ireland I would recommend a 1.2m dish. I have used a 1m Dish for Thor and only really 3 channels without subscription BBC World TV (better signal on Hotbird). Gospel Channel Europe in english with what mighht be Icelandic subtitles and CCTV9, the Chinese English service. Sweden TV4 is in PAL analog not Digital. Most of the D2MAC have closed and are now in full Digital encrypted.

Hispasat (30W) lots of FTA spanish.
Telstar 12 (15W) has my 1m dish since last week end. It has intermittant upC sports feeds and MSNBC feeds in clear as well as a bunch of wierd channels (Philipines/English, Slavic and arabic).
Biggest selection of "usefull" FTA is HotBird 13E Digital and Astra 19E Digital.
I have a 90cm dish with 3 LNBs (Astra 19, Hotbird 13 and Sky 28.2) for the PC. Also a 1m manual steered on home made polar mount

(Maybe Tony give me a price for a motor mount ? Or I use old Wiper motor cost €5)

Many sport, Popvideo, and English News (Fox, CNBC, Damlier/Chrysler, SkyNews, BBC World TV, DW-TV, CNN etc).
HCN: Old B&W movies often english for Germany
CineBox: New & modern movies mostly Letterbox WS rather than animorphic. Mostly french dubbed, some English with french subtitles. I suspect this is test / free preview as it is new and on other satellites all the Cinexxxx channels are encrypted.

With PC card you can use free Casablanca "Downloads" on Astra or Low cost MPEG4 subscriptions (no CAM or card needed, they use MAC address of your satellite card to verifiy susbscription) TV or downloads on Eutelsat 7E or Eurostar 11W.

I missed free period on MPEG4 as I didn't realise what it was!

Tony

Originally posted by Lennoxschips
I don't think so, I've never ordered anything from your shop and don't even have a satellite decoder in my PC.

Sorry got you mixed up with someone else.