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| Thread ID: 90047 | 2008-05-21 06:00:00 | Freeview questions | Greg (193) | PC World Chat |
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| 671225 | 2008-05-21 06:00:00 | I'm thinking of ditching Sky, but this Freeview stuff is really foreign to me. Can users of this service give me a rundown? From what I've read on the site I understand that all I need to do is buy receiver, plug it in, and I should be good to go using the existing Sky dish. Is it really that simple? And what are the pros and cons of the service? Thanks! |
Greg (193) | ||
| 671226 | 2008-05-21 06:15:00 | Somebody has said on the forum that if you ditch Sky they well come and take the Sky dish as well as the decoder. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 671227 | 2008-05-21 06:26:00 | Can users of this service give me a rundown? From what I've read on the site I understand that all I need to do is buy receiver, plug it in, and I should be good to go using the existing Sky dish. Is it really that simple? And what are the pros and cons of the service? We did not go the Satellite way for Freeview we went to the HD version of Freeview via a UHF aerial. But to what I have read on forums around the place on Freeview, all you need to do is buy receiver, plug it in and you’re all done. All thought you may need to get someone in to reline your Sky Dish, but once you get a receiver & plug in, then you can see what sort of picture you get & if you need to reline your Sky Dish. And what are the pros and cons of the service? The only con of using a Satellite is that you won’t be able to get the High Definition TV; you will need a UHF aerial for that. A pros to this is depending on what sort of TV signal you get at the moment (that is if you have a normal aerial to get TVNZ (One and Two)/ TV3 / C4 & not using Sky to get those channels) Is that you may get an even better TV picture. Hope this helps :) |
stu161204 (123) | ||
| 671228 | 2008-05-21 06:34:00 | Thanks. I don't have a regular aerial and I'm only going to be in this house for a few more months I don't want to waste money on installing one. | Greg (193) | ||
| 671229 | 2008-05-21 07:01:00 | I have satellite for SWMBO and her news using the Sky plug No. 2 ( I paid to have 2 rooms wired for Sky decoder in each a long time ago) I have Sky decoder in lounge using Sky plug No.1 and a Terrestrial Freeview decoder using the UHF coaxial plug. Sky won't remove the dish if you cancel. If you move on, it would cost them much more than the installation fee to put a new one up. Satellite picture is excellent, far superior to Sky picture. DTT picture is even better, and with HDMI cable to LCD, the Hi Def stuff is pretty good to watch. The buzz on the news today is about TVNZ wanting a piece of the action for the sport saying people shouldn't have to pay for it. Don't know if I agree with that. The money that Sky pay for the rights, pays for the sport in many ways. If, in these days of professional sport, we have to pay for it, fair enough. What I object to is paying for all the crap and recycled stuff I don't watch on Sky. I am not a movie fan either. I would be happy to pay anyone for a pay per view for sports programs. Decide what I want. Not pay for multi-crap channels. I am seriously considering dumping sky, after being a subscriber since it's inception with UHF all those years ago. It is now bad value for money. Ken :2cents: |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 671230 | 2008-05-21 08:25:00 | Somebody has said on the forum that if you ditch Sky they well come and take the Sky dish as well as the decoder. :) while technically its theres according to the contract you sign, its been proven that it belongs to home owner as its now part of the house. generally sky leaves it there to save on reinstalling a new dish later on should you reconnect. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 671231 | 2008-05-21 08:28:00 | And was it down in Nelson that they decided to get them back? | the_bogan (9949) | ||
| 671232 | 2008-05-21 08:47:00 | while technically its theres according to the contract you sign, its been proven that it belongs to home owner as its now part of the house.That seems right. When we purchased the house the dish was already installed and we made no contract with Sky at the time. | Greg (193) | ||
| 671233 | 2008-05-21 10:10:00 | I installed a Freeview satellite dish last year. Tuning the dish was really critical, especially the azimuth. A few mm either way and the signal was crap, but when it came in, the signal was crystal clear. Even better than Telstra Clear cable TV. We tried using our Freeview set top box on the neighbour's Sky dish, but there was no signal at all, so I assume the Sky dish needs to be re-aligned. Neighbours didn't want to do this and screw up their Sky reception (there was rugby on that night). |
TideMan (4279) | ||
| 671234 | 2008-05-21 12:07:00 | I installed a Freeview satellite dish last year . Tuning the dish was really critical, especially the azimuth . A few mm either way and the signal was crap, but when it came in, the signal was crystal clear . you need to remember that with digital you get great picture from crap signal . the differnce between good signal and bad signal is how often you get rain fade . more signal you have the less likly you get rain fade . hope you mounted the dish well, i've seen a fair few damaged houses from poor sat installs . |
tweak'e (69) | ||
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