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Re: [LUG] OT Free-sat
On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 08:32 +0100, george wrote:
I've been reviewing my TV aerial requirements to get the best digital
reception and I noticed the blurb on free-sat TV.
We too have very poor reception of digital TV and (more importantly for me) even worse for radio on the Freeview channels (which have a superior bit rate to digital radio, almost twice as much I think, and as an avid Radio 3 user who STILL heres above 20kHz at 53 years old, find compression horrid with classical and acoustic music).
We do, however, have a Sky dish attached to the side of the house by the previous owners, obviously trained at the Sky satellite wherever that is (apart from somewhere south and a bit to the east given its position on the side of the house). It's had to be mounted below the roof line.
Does this freesat - which I'd never heard about - use Sky dishes, i.e. are satellite dishes "generic", thus saving us the cost of buying a dish? We've still got the old sky receiver as well, tho' never used it.
How would the system work with a Topfield hard disk recorder, does the box put out a signal carrying all stations that the Topfield could be tuned to, or are we scuppered with the box being the point at which viewing channels are chosen for sending to the viewing device?
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