Options for getting Sky in second room

[james]

You need to distinguish between 'free-to-air' and 'freesat' -- if you go the freesat route you get a 7-day EPG. Personaly I have a Humax recorder [freesat] and its great ,,,

BTW -- As far as I know you can't get true-freesat [with the EPG] on a computer with a satellite card ..

[Diapason]

Can I use the spare LNB connections from the Sky dish for Freesat then? I won't be going the computer route here no matter what.

[james]

I assume you can .. we have a freesat setup with receivers in three rooms .. one has a recorder and two feeds so it can 'watch-one /record-one'

We never had sky but I assume all the satellite feeds are the same [provided you are pointing at the same satellite -- which you are with sky and freesat] and that sky gives you a standard satellite dish ..

Maybe someone else could comment on this ?

I would recommend Humax as a recorder [or even just as a reciever] .. you get the stations listed with reasonable numbers so 101 is bbc-1, 102 is bbc-2 etc ... 200 starts the news channels ... 300 the film channels ..

james

[james]

A good site to look at ..

http://www.astra2d.com/

which will give you a list of freesat stations ..

http://www.astra2d.com/channels.html

james

[Diapason]

Thanks James.

[Fran]

Sorry - James is correct, freesat refers to a scheme in the UK, and refers to specific set top boxes, kinda like an almost free sky box. However, what I have here is a free to air box.

Fran

[Diapason]

Had a look at some TVs today. Good lord they've really come down in price!

[DaveF]

Had a look at some TVs today. Good lord they've really come down in price!

so whats it to be? 65inch minimum???

[Diapason]

so whats it to be? 65inch minimum???

I had thought maybe 32 or 37, but looking around Curr's, Hazel was heard to say "we wouldn't want to go below 40 anyway". I've trained her well. In fact, she was so taken with a 3D LED TV that I may have to rein *her* in at this rate!

[tony]

Agree with James the humax is really great. You can record TV and watch at the same time and the functionality of the remote and menus are excellent. Great thing about freesat is once you have paid for the gear thats it no more monthly bills but for sky freaks it just wont do.