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| Thread ID: 62405 | 2005-10-06 09:31:00 | How to connect a SKY TV decoder? | Greg (193) | PC World Chat |
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| 393917 | 2005-10-06 09:31:00 | Last time I checked I wasn't born Einstein, but I would have to be to work out how to connect and make work this Sky TV thing. I mean - there are literally three TV type plugs, and I think 8 other cables. What goes where? There's even one cable that needs to go into a phone socket! Huh? Why? *grief* I just tried Sky NZ's website but woooah, would you believe they have NO setup help. It's no damn wonder they get such bad press! I need TV of some sort, so please help. Thanks! |
Greg (193) | ||
| 393918 | 2005-10-06 10:25:00 | The F connector (from the dish) will only fit in one socket. Thats easy. Forget the phone socket. Unless you want to pay per view. There is Antenna in (but you havent got an external aerial if I remember) so ignore it. There is RF out, that uses a lead to go to the Antenna input on your TV (or VCR then via that to TV) Same sort of lead that is used between a video recorder and a TV. That should get it going, with Sky signal on UHF (probably channel 38?) There are probably SCART socket(s) and/or RCA AV outputs. If there are RCA AV (Red=Stereo R Audio, White=Stereo L Audio, Yellow=Video) then they can go to your TV AV inputs matching colours, then watch sky on AV TV setting not UHF (better quality). It all depends on the make.model of decoder and there are several in use. |
godfather (25) | ||
| 393919 | 2005-10-06 20:16:00 | Huge thanks again GF. I was really frustrated! Cheers. |
Greg (193) | ||
| 393920 | 2005-10-06 21:54:00 | Spot on GF. I now have my connections sorted so that I can use Sky in two locations. There is a dish at each place and a set of cables. Just have to remember to take the decoder with me. I'm using a TVLine through Telecom for $69.50/month including phone line. Gives all the basic channels with a quality signal. No Sport or Movies but I don't care. | Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 393921 | 2005-10-07 06:48:00 | Happy Birthday for this year godfather, you do wonderful things. :) | mark c (247) | ||
| 393922 | 2005-10-07 07:30:00 | we "borrowed" a dish off a mates house who was moving, so we now have a dish at home and at the bach, they are a piece of piss to set up (the dish) | Tux (606) | ||
| 393923 | 2005-10-07 08:04:00 | i have one at our other house on our other farm, its pitty i cant use it for anything since i dont have sky..... | Prescott (11) | ||
| 393924 | 2005-10-07 08:55:00 | Hi guys.... Great topic, I'll aska question puzzling me for sometime... According to a friend who's a Sky TV sales rep, I can sign up for Sky, use it for like a year (since the contract obliges you to), and after that, disconnect, but you still get to view the free channels? Basically, we get crap reception, and it's really not doing our new LCD TV justice.. So, if we sign up for one of those promotions, pay for the period (1 yr), and disconnect one year, we an still get clear reception after that? Will the set top box be taken away? If so, does it mean we still can use the dish to get a signal? The signal still comes from the satelite then, just that it's not encrypted??? |
jesseycy (1046) | ||
| 393925 | 2005-10-07 09:12:00 | In my exp dude watch out for Sky's sales policies. They are hard-sell crap supply. A gormless coot in Dargaville was cooking his butt hassling friends of mine to go onto Sky and he was ultimately offensive when they showed reluctance to subscribe. "Stay in the 18C then", was his end post. Fork Sky. (At least until they clean up their act)They just recycle e"thing every week anyway. |
mark c (247) | ||
| 393926 | 2005-10-07 09:25:00 | Hi guys.... Great topic, I'll aska question puzzling me for sometime... According to a friend who's a Sky TV sales rep, I can sign up for Sky, use it for like a year (since the contract obliges you to), and after that, disconnect, but you still get to view the free channels? Basically, we get crap reception, and it's really not doing our new LCD TV justice.. So, if we sign up for one of those promotions, pay for the period (1 yr), and disconnect one year, we an still get clear reception after that? Will the set top box be taken away? If so, does it mean we still can use the dish to get a signal? The signal still comes from the satelite then, just that it's not encrypted??? U pay a rental to keep the box live, $20 roughly, and u get the free channnels and the sky promo channel ad nauseum. |
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