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Free to air box-UPC connection

  • 10-04-2013 01:47PM
    #1
    Seedy Arling
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,002 ✭✭✭


    I've moved into an apartment and there is a connection for UPC (cable) in the sitting room. I don't want to pay subscription for TV. No other connection for TV.

    What are my options for setting up some form of free to air? Do you have to set up the dish to get it? As far as i know the property management company has banned dishes on the front of properties.


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  • #2
    Mountjoy Mugger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,487 ✭✭✭Mountjoy Mugger


    Free to air with an aerial/terrestrial or satellite. Lots of discussion in the relevant forums. If your Management company have barred satellite dishes, you might be in a spot of bother if you want UK TV. Some management companies have agreed to install communal dishes on the side of complexes. Your best bet is to approach them. If you're a tenant, you'll need to get your Landlord to do this.

    Trying to use the UPC connection without paying could be classified as theft.


  • #3
    Seedy Arling
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,002 ✭✭✭Seedy Arling


    Mountjoy Mugger wrote: »
    Free to air with an aerial/terrestrial or satellite. Lots of discussion in the relevant forums. If your Management company have barred satellite dishes, you might be in a spot of bother if you want UK TV.

    Trying to use the UPC connection without paying could be classified as theft.
    Cheers, i'm not trying to get UPC at all, that's the thing, i just want to get reception for a free to air box with out having to erect a satellite out the front the apartment! :D


  • #4
    The Cush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,493 ✭✭✭✭The Cush


    Seedy Arling wrote: »
    i just want to get reception for a free to air box with out having to erect a satellite out the front the apartment! :D

    FTA satellite channels will require a satellite dish, no way around this.
    FTA terrestrial channels i.e. Saorview, will require an aerial. An outdoor aerial is recommended but sometime an indoor might work.


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