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big-all
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 Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 1:38 am Post subject: freesat box and dish |
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planning to surprise my son who has a 43" hd tv and want to buy hd freesat with dish and box any suggestions at a reasonable price hopeing for around £150 plus cableand fittings 
am i dreaming or is it a reasonable expectation
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Sparky James
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| Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 5:58 am Post subject: |
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We have a Humax Foxsat HD and a Bush HD freesat boxes both work very well. I think you should be able to get the system for £150 easily and the dish is not hard to set up.
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| Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 9:16 am Post subject: |
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Don't forget that to record any programs you will have to have the PVR version of the box, and at least a two port LNB at the dish so that they can watch one program and record another.
http://www.joinfreesat.co.uk/
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| Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 11:56 am Post subject: |
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planning a 4 port for the dish for later when i eventualy i buy a tv that dos'nt run on steam and where the different colours are on the glass rather than on the plastic
only kidding lol although non off the tellies are flat screen 
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| Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 12:19 pm Post subject: |
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Very ironic.
Our freesat has been playing up for about three weeks now. Somedays we just got a green screen and other days got the 'Bad or No Signal' message.
As we got ours cheaply with the disabled persons switchover assistance, I phoned them up and they got the installers to ring for an appointment.
Fitter came today and the dish was slightly out of line but not enough to cause the problems we were having, so he realigned it and then discovered that the Humax PVR had gone sick/duff/goosed or whatever other techie term he used.
Swopped it for a Goodman 320GB which is about £65 deared. Set it all up and explained to the Manager how she should use the remote control. He was very apologetic about the problem and all we did was sign for his job sheet, no charge.
Pleased with the service.
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| Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 1:39 pm Post subject: |
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your lucky they could get though
how many off the 300 or so chanels are usefull and not on freeveiw!!!!!
would ten be to much to hope for 
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| Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 2:02 pm Post subject: |
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It is not so much any extra channels but that to have a HD TV and not use the HD facility because, for the moment freeview don't transmit in HD, is a waste of the TV.
Even when Freeview do start to transmit HD you will need a different settop box.
So at least with Freesat there is BBC HD every evening and ITV do transmit some progs in HD . They will be setting up their own HD channel like BBC very shortly. And with 320GB of harddrive to record and a USB port there is plenty of room for all the programs that the Manager misses.
The TV that we have has builtin Freeview but cannot get HD so we went for the sat dish.
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| Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 1:40 am Post subject: |
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cheers dave missed your reply earlier
that bloke on diy has a bit off a bee in his bonnet about cookies lol
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| Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 12:48 pm Post subject: |
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that bloke on diy has a bit off a bee in his bonnet about cookies lol |
With a username like Mickeymouse it is more like a bee in his big ears.
He is an expert so who am I to disagree with him? But I do
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| Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2010 2:58 pm Post subject: |
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he may be an expert but he is placing fear where mild caution is required
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| Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 9:12 pm Post subject: |
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i just put an 80cm dish up on my house and pick up loadsa channels
i bought all my gear from wizard satellite.co.uk
they have a huge range of products to choose from mate |
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big-all
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| MFCGMFC wrote: |
i just put an 80cm dish up on my house and pick up loadsa channels
i bought all my gear from wizard satellite.co.uk
they have a huge range of products to choose from mate |
thaks for that MFCGMFC looks realy handy cheers
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| Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 1:46 am Post subject: |
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BA,
Did you get onto the Wizard site?
When I Googled it or put wizardsatallite.co.uk in the address bar, I got
http://www.wizardsatellite.co.uk/
Which is a defunct site:
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This page is generated by Parallels Plesk Panel, the leading hosting automation software. You see this page because there is no Web site at this address. |
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| Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 8:09 pm Post subject: |
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| dave.m wrote: |
BA,
Did you get onto the Wizard site?
When I Googled it or put wizardsatallite.co.uk in the address bar, I got
http://www.wizardsatellite.co.uk/
Which is a defunct site:
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i got a fully fuctioning site when i looked
any way didnt get freesat in the end he used the money towards a ps3[again ]
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dave.m
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| Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 8:56 pm Post subject: |
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Just tried the link again and it worked.
No idea what was going on but it went to a site trying to sell web site addresses. Not a virus on my computer, just aglitch on the web.
dave
Don't spend all your time on the PS3 will you!
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