Spanish satellite Tv (not Sky)

Mark McG

A friend of mine is interested in trying to get a dish and decoder installed that would allow him access to FTA Spanish channels and even subscribe (through family in Spain) to a Spanish provider (someone like Sky in UK/Irl).

Anyone know what options he has, or who could help him?

Tony, he lives in Cork. Is this something you could help with, or would be interested in doing? My commission is very reasonable

Thanks,
Mark.

Greenman

I don't know about setting up it in Eire but look at this link so you see what is possible to get on this satellite.I can see it here in Belgium on a 1 metre dish and its got lots and of lots of channels, very much like a Spanish $ky.
Anyway here's the link http://www.lyngsat.com/hispa.shtml click on the DIG icon and you'll see more channels.
Regards JD!!!!! Belgium!!!!!

watty

I get Hispasat at 30W on my 1m dish. That's where almost all the Spanish stuff is.

Very little decent FTA stuff. You need a subscription.

They are supposed to be changing to a Spanish Beam. Unless it spills north to Cork, you could loose everything.

I suspect even on a Spanish beam that a 1.2m Dish in Cork would work. (Gibralter though they need a 2.4m dish to get the ITV on Sky reliably as it is on British Isles beam. A 1.2 Dish gets most the rest of the Sky channels in Gibralter).

You can get 2 or 3 FTA Spanish on Hotbird 13E with a 80cm dish.

Tony

Hi, if he's subscribing using spanish address they normally provide a discounted receiver so all you need then is the dish and install, probably a lot chaeper than going down the cam/receiver route. Did I just talk my way out of a sale?:D

Tony

Originally posted by Mark McG
A friend of mine is interested in trying to get a dish and decoder installed that would allow him access to FTA Spanish channels and even subscribe (through family in Spain) to a Spanish provider (someone like Sky in UK/Irl).

Anyone know what options he has, or who could help him?

Tony, he lives in Cork. Is this something you could help with, or would be interested in doing? My commission is very reasonable
Thanks,
Mark.

sayireland

Check out www.via.tv for Via Digital.
The initial cost is 30 Euros, the box is rented at 6 Euros a month and includes about 10 local channels and subs start at about 9, depending on what you want.

I've got 3 three sports channels Eurosport, Teledeporte and Futbol Total (Premier- Sat 2 games live multi-screen, Sunday 2 live games plus Monday match when they are on, Bundesliga, Dutch, French, Porteguese, Argentian as well as Uefa, had Celtic- Celta Vigo tonight and Champions League (non Spanish games from the groups that they are involved in) as well as PPV Spanish League. 15 Euros a month.

Canal Satellite Digital
www.cplus.es
90 Euros initial payment and basic package 22 Euros. BOx also rented at about 6 Euros a month.

HOWEVER, the two are due to merge soon, things still waiting government OK and not expected to be ready to launch to the public til next autumn. I'm sure though there will be good deals for ex-subscribers to both bouquets.

I don't know of anyone who 'sells' any of these packages abroad like those at www.solsat.com for 'Brits etc' abroad. (Anyway bloody cheek, charging 54 Euros for the Family pack). Best bet would be to go through family or find a penfriend and then after it is installed, bring it to Ireland. There is no telephone connection obligation. CDS is on Astra 19 so signal shouldn't be a problem. Hispasat is another story.


BTW, ITV or more to the point UTV/Channel Islands ITV comes in to Gibraltar with a 1.2 dish. The other ITV's are a bit trickier but I can get them sometimes with a 1.35 in mid Spain and I think that with the right LNB skew ('not locked' on signal meter but picking up the signal by changing default transponder to 11.720H) it might even be possible a lot more regularly and in all but bad weather.

watty

Yes... re Astra.

My theory is that in long term the Spanish won't be on wide beam on Astra but on a Spanish beam on Astra and/or Hispasat. This has been somewaht delayed (probabily) by Astra 1K failure.

My thought was that whatever Gibs or Spanish using for British Isles 2D beam, would be *similar* to what Cork might need for Spanish beam.

A 1.2m would seem to be minimum. Some can get ALL the channels in Gibraltar with 1.2. But across the street even a 1.8 might not be reliable.

For example I can get the Central Europe beam on Eurobird (Stanice0) but even on my 1m dish it has a tendancy to "freeze" in rain.

In Cyprus to get Sky they think a 3m dish is nice..... and 4m good if you can afford it. (I'd get divorced if I brought that size dish home).

sayireland

Nobody knows for sure which satellite the fused company will use not even those working for the companies. The government are overseeing the fusion so they will probably be keen to see Hispasat being used.

However CSD recently moved from the low band to the high band and were preparing to take space on Astra 1K. Both companies seem to be working away separately, CSD as above and Via with second generation SkyPlus type receiver, keyboard and lots of publicity.

CSD have about 1.2 million subs and Via about 850,000 so my guess is that whatever happens it will take time to change the dishes and they will probably broadcast simultaneously on Astra and Hispasat for a while and I really can't imagine there will be a big push for the new company til next September before the new football season.

My advice would be to subscribe if you can. The 30 Euros registration fee for Via for example is not that much.

and yes 2D is a little frustrating but I ain't beaten with it yet. I think I'm just looking in the wrong place.


BTW FORZA ATLETI(CO)
'the real (don't believe the hype) Madrid team'

sayireland

Yes I see what you mean as regards the Spain beam. I've just looked at the footprints on the Hispasat site.

As I was saying though the footprints on the site are not always right. If www.astra.lu was anything to go by 2D wouldn't even come into Spain so oit's best to go by what you can see on the ground.