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| Thread ID: 84602 | 2007-11-11 22:43:00 | Sky Installation | Pourhommenz (104) | PC World Chat |
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| 610595 | 2007-11-11 22:43:00 | Hey all - Just wondering about Sky Installation and all the stuff surrounding it. We live in a house that has three levels and each level is its own flat. We are at the bottom and the people above us have sky. Do we have to another dish installed or are we able to get a splitter box installed and use their dish with our reciever box? Also - if we get sky installed with our own dish - again can we get a spliter box installed for that signal and run both Sky and FreeView off that one dish? Because what I am thinking is that if we get sky installted (our work actually pays for the sky installation) and use it for a little bit, we could cancell the sky and then just use FreeView. Thanks James |
Pourhommenz (104) | ||
| 610596 | 2007-11-11 22:47:00 | Well, if all u want is Freeview, there's no point in getting Sky. I would get your own dish. What receiver have u got ? A freeview one or a Sky receiver? If Sky, it may work with Freeview, but then if u want Sky, obviously you need the card / subscription to see Sky. You do know, there's only a few channels on Freeview dont you?? Not as many as Sky. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 610597 | 2007-11-11 22:55:00 | Phone Sky and ask if they can split your neighbours Dish or install a new one. Freeview is barely worthwhile yet. You get TV1, TV2, TV3, C4, Maori, Parliament, TV6, TV6 Sports Extra off Optus D1 Satellite. The first 4 of these you get as a digital Sky Subscriber, they are fed through Sky. Unless you have an exceptionally good TV you are not going to notice any difference between Analogue and Freeview anyway. If you want more such as overseas channels then you need additional LNB's to point at different Satellites. Also if you want more than Freeview then you will require a larger dish than the Sky one. Wait until about this time next year. By then we should have DVB-T and a heap more channels and also better hardware and probably TV's available with built in digital decoders like they already have in the UK and some other countries. |
Bantu (52) | ||
| 610598 | 2007-11-11 23:15:00 | Well I've just bought a Samsung 46" full 1080p HD LCD, so am looking for really good quality here, hense why I'm asking about Sky and FreeView | Pourhommenz (104) | ||
| 610599 | 2007-11-12 00:18:00 | Well the Sky signal is not very good. It is streamed at quite a low bitrate so if you watch it on a big HD TV like yours you really notice the pixelation. Freeview is better and next year when they bring out the DVB-T signal it will be in HD as well. I think the Olympics are going to be the first program they transmit in HD. |
CYaBro (73) | ||
| 610600 | 2007-11-12 00:19:00 | If you use your neighbours dish for sky then you are going to get very annoyed when you settle down to watch sport and then they decide to watch a movie channel. You are better off getting a dish for your self and freeview with bugger all channels if that's the way you want to go and pay $700 for the install + decoder which you get to keep. Or get sky installed for $99 tell them you don't want in about a weeks time and wham you now have your own dish for freeview,Then all you need to do is go to Dick smith buy a freeview decoder for around $250 that way the whole set up will have only cost you $350. Thats what i would do if i wanted the dish, But wait there's more you are better off not buying a dish or decoder just yet because in march next year freeview and tv3 are going to go to High definition broadcasting through terrestrial meaning you tv aerial as long as its a uhf one and you will get a better recetion that way,Also the decoders they have currently on freeview are not made for HD tv yet there are new HD decoders coming out next year for Terrestrial HD Tv so save you $$$$ and wait till then. |
Hitech (9024) | ||
| 610601 | 2007-11-12 01:35:00 | Oh ok ... I think I get it ... | Pourhommenz (104) | ||
| 610602 | 2007-11-12 06:24:00 | Digital terrestrial transmission are already testing in CHCH and Wellington. | apsattv (7406) | ||
| 610603 | 2007-11-12 06:39:00 | How do you know that and who is doing it. | Hitech (9024) | ||
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