Recommendations for an FTA Sat system (Dublin)

Hi guys, in light of recent developments, Im looking at going the FTA route as opposed to cable. Can anyone give me any recs for a good system?

Also, I see there is a decent channel line up, but are there options to lets say "expand" the channels you can get through fta. There are linux based recievers, am I right in thinking that one of these combined with the right cam will allow the reception of subscription channels?

Any advice/input is appreciated guys
(long term cabler = sat noob)

 

any free to air reciever will do(i have technomate which is very good)for the free channels on the sky satelite,you cant buy anything to view sky without paying for it(no hack).you could either get an lnb and a hotbird satelite bracket and fit it to your dish,you would need to turn the dish toward hotbird(this means then you would have all the free channels on sky,and also on hotbird,and if you purchase a cam like a dragon cam or magic cam you could view some scrambled channels)or get a dual lnb to give you eurobird and hotbird(eurobird is the name for sky satelite)in dublin you would need an 80cm dish(a sky dish is about 60cm,just to give you an idea of dish size needed)some cams come patched(with a program to unlock certain movie and sport channels)if buy a cam and want such programs you need to look on the downloads sections of forums like this,you can also put the patch in to the box(you need a pc and what ever leads to load these programs)hope this helped,good luck mate.

 

hi piopat if i have a dish connected to astra 28e receiving fta channels can i connect that to a digivox t while connected to mmds ch***s or is that a really stupid question very new to this only set up digivox today

 

NO mmds does not use a satellite dish

 

you could use them side by side,but digvox tx is for cable.and the only way to get sky on a dish is to pay.

 

I got a 2nd hand sky 60Cm dish, resprayed it with black matt paint, so it looked brand new,


Got up my ladder and installed it on the rear wall of my house, ran the RG6 cable into my house.


Got a Humax HD freesat box for 100E, Got to watch the 6 nations in HD, aswell as champions league and uefa cup.

 

Maybe you could give this crowd a try.
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hi guys must have worded that wrong i have mmds set up on digivox t i also have a dish and receiver from lidl €80 which i have pointed to astra 28e and am gettin all fta channels what i am wondering is there a box to run both through or do they have to be all seperate

 

they have to work seterate as they are cable and satelite ,but if yoy by a splitter you can have both,or scart one to your tv and one to your video/dvd recorderor buy an auto switching scart box(in argos or maplins etc)that will change between your devices automaticaly.and you can also plug in your cable lead in to your tv/video/dvd recorder to give you rte1/2/tv3/tg4 free,(if you live in ireland,on chorusor ntl)good luck mate.

 

The first box with 2 tuners was the dreambox 7025.
Nowadays technomat 6900 combo plus, Clarktech 5000 combo plus or MVision 200 are not too expensive and have sat tuner and dvb-t tuner on board.

 

If you are after a sat and cable machine in one box google "openbox"

ki

 

Why cable? Dowsie own a digivox-t and want satellite and dvb-t via one box.

 

thanks for the info guys as mgb17 pointed out not on cable on mmds but thanks for tryin probably my fault not really the right thread to be putting it in bloody newbies lol