Anaolgue TV switchoff

[laserblazer]

It was our Open Day today and I've just got home after 13 hours solid! While the wife was getting tea, I tried retuning again and lo and behold, we have all the channels back again. So the Fire Brigade can stand down, I won't be on the roof.

[plexer]

If you want a dish get one of these:

 

Latest MK4 Sky Satellite Mini Dish & Quad LNB , DIY KIT | eBay

 

Ben

[Michael]

You can have up to Octo LNBs (8 connections) on a Sky dish. Keeping 8 cables tidy can be a bit tricky

 

Either 8 rooms for your mansion or 4 rooms with Sky +

[Oaktech]

I did my own initial sky installation, and when the sky engineer came to do the 'free' hookup of my multi room subscription (for the lodger) he told me to apply for a job! I chose the biggest digi dish i could lay my hands on (area 2 for the north of scotland and west wales) and a high gain quad LNB and so far, in 6 years i can count the number of weather related drop outs on 1 hand.

[localzuk]

I would recommend everyone to get a dish. A 43cm Sky dish is easily big enough. Then plug a Sky box or Freesat box on the end and that's it.

 

The UK has something like 99.8% coverage with a dish and it's a known fact Freeview can only handle 4/5 HD channels. I wouldn't waste your money on a Freeview HD box. A Freesat HD box is much better. Dishes are also a lot more future proof and give a much better picture too.

 

Edit: Also just to clarify, dish setups or cable are unaffected by the switch over. It's only Freeview (aerial setups) which are affected.

 

Remember that we do have a lot of properties in the UK where dishes aren't an option due to planning, heritage status (ie. listed buildings), rented properties etc...

 

So, sat dishes are a good thing but they aren't going to work for everyone.

[SteveBentley]

To be fair doing a better job than some of Sky's so-called engineers (I believe the proper pronunciation is "cowboys") isn't that difficult.

[K.C.Leblanc]

Remember that we do have a lot of properties in the UK where dishes aren't an option due to planning, heritage status (ie. listed buildings), rented properties etc...

 

So, sat dishes are a good thing but they aren't going to work for everyone.

 

In most cases as long as the dish isn't attached to the building it's fine. Lots of houses round have them on poles or attached to garden walls.

[Michael]

Remember that we do have a lot of properties in the UK where dishes aren't an option due to planning, heritage status (ie. listed buildings), rented properties etc...

 

So, sat dishes are a good thing but they aren't going to work for everyone.

 

Depends how you look at it really. You may not be able to mount the dish on your house, but legally you can mount it on a pole in the garden. This is how they do it for very large dishes 1m+ in size

[AngryTechnician]

One of the houses next to the school had the Sky installer clamp theirs to the metal fence along the boundary.

 

OUR metal fence...

[laserblazer]

It's no good, I'm going to have to sort the aerial. I can't get this new channel at all.

 

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