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| Thread ID: 135003 | 2013-09-12 12:58:00 | freeview dish alternatives? | pct (16854) | PC World Chat |
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| 1353462 | 2013-10-27 06:45:00 | Hahahaha www.trademe.co.nz Hows about this? All ok? |
pct (16854) | ||
| 1353463 | 2013-10-27 06:46:00 | This www.harveynorman.co.nz I have one myself, works good. |
Driftwood (5551) | ||
| 1353464 | 2013-10-27 07:23:00 | Nope. Not even a little bit. It would be cheaper, and just as ineffective, to use a length of garden hose and a funnel. :( What diameter would you suggest? Does the colour matter?:D PJ |
Poppa John (284) | ||
| 1353465 | 2013-10-27 09:43:00 | What diameter would you suggest? Does the colour matter?:D PJ When it comes to colour, diameter is irrelevant. Depth is all important. Money is important too, so you can get rich deep colours and see the ads as their creator intended.:banana:clap:banana |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1353466 | 2013-10-29 02:26:00 | Depth is important True, to a limited extent, but as the Bishop said to the Actress: Bugger the length, feel the width............ Cheers Billy 8-{) :devil |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 1353467 | 2013-10-29 02:54:00 | thanks guys is there a freeview receiver that you can record tv on and watch later? or is that only possible with sky? Thx Yep. TiVo. |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 1353468 | 2013-10-29 03:21:00 | TiVo is great but again it's only UHF and won't work on satellite. | dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1353469 | 2013-10-30 17:04:00 | There are a great many channels that are NOT advertised or well-known, which you can get for free. News, movies, music, nickelodeon, most in English, many are in English audio with foreign language subtitles across the bottom. Because it is completely free, nobody will tell you. Nobody has anything to financially gain by advertising something that is for free. You can certainly bet that the pay tv and regular media are not going to give free advertising to their competitors, it's only natural. There are a lot of satellites that you can see from where you are. You can see some here www.satbeams.com the long string at the top that looks like /// / /// // /// // /// ///// /// // // // ///// /// // / represent satellites. When you click on one, it shows one of the 'footprints' where it sends it's signal. You can't see ALL satellites where you are, you use the play / fast forward buttons at the sides of the /////// to move along. Go to 106 degrees East for example. Click on the / for Asiasat 3S. It shows a map with a splodge over australia. above the map there are 4 small pictures representing the different 'footprints' click on the second one called 'C' The new map shows that New Zealand can recieve channels on the C beam from Asiasat 3S. when you click on your own location on the map, after zooming in, it says you need a 3m dish. Forget it, they are expensive. You needs a small dish. Pity though, Asiasat 3s is a good one, with these channels www.lyngsat.com There is a legend at the bottom. 'clear' means it is free, free to air, free as in free beer. Palapa D (www.lyngsat.com) is a nice one at 113.0°E on the 'Asia' beam it has nice channels you can get in NZ. On the page with the //// you click on 113 in the row of //// first, then on the little thumbnail called asia and it tells you that you need a dish about 2 meters or so, which is still too big. But on lyngsat, to see the channels you could get, you look at the second last coloum across the page. It says Beam. in that colum, where it has something yellow and says Asia, then you can get it free. Global TV has heaps of blockbuster movies in English, I like that channel. Lotus TV has many more englsih movies, because tehy go on all day long, but I think that is on asiasat 3s. Something you can easy get is the optus satellites around 152°E, 156°E, and 160°E. They are intended for you and bring just stuff from NZ back to NZ. Unfortunantly that means crap news that is censored for your coutry by your country. Not as interesting. But most people won't notice. Good news is you can probably pick it up on your mom's Wok from the kitchen. 152°E you only need a 50cm dish on the north island or 60cm on the south. You can put that indoors pointing though an open window. A slightly larger dish can pick it up from indoors, through the glass. Google ' satellite dish through window ' or indoors or whatever. Lots of examples. Oh, and have a google for ' satellite dish made from cardboard ' foil , plastic , whatever. Have they made one out of pressed flowers yet ? well you be the first young man, So on sat beams you can go across the list of //// sats looking for ones that transmit to your location and also work out the dish size that you need. then goto the index page on lyngsat here (www.lyngsat.com) and goto the satellite's page and see what they have to show you. A satellite reciever box secondhand can be had for less than $60, I've had them for $30, but it's like a maybe to get a decent one for that, but $100 is more than enough for new. The big dishes cost like, $200 or less. You can't use them where you are. Small ones are less than $100. |
TropoScatter (17158) | ||
| 1353470 | 2013-10-30 20:09:00 | Your local Council may have put a size limit on the size of Sat Disk you can stick on your roof & on your property/lawn.. It'll pay to check. Yep, local govt have got their fingers into sat dish installs now. |
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