freesat box and dish

big-all · Post by **big-all** » Fri Jan 08, 2010 1:38 am

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

Sparky James · Post by **Sparky James** » Fri Jan 08, 2010 5:58 am

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.

Enjoy

dave.m · Post by **dave.m** » Fri Jan 08, 2010 9:16 am

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/

dave

big-all · Post by **big-all** » Fri Jan 08, 2010 11:56 am

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

dave.m · Post by **dave.m** » Fri Jan 08, 2010 12:19 pm

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.

dave

big-all · Post by **big-all** » Fri Jan 08, 2010 1:39 pm

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

dave.m · Post by **dave.m** » Fri Jan 08, 2010 2:02 pm

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.

dave

big-all · Post by **big-all** » Sat Jan 09, 2010 1:40 am

cheers dave missed your reply earlier

that bloke on diy has a bit off a bee in his bonnet about cookies lol

dave.m · Post by **dave.m** » Sat Jan 09, 2010 12:48 pm

big-all wrote: 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

big-all · Post by **big-all** » Sat Jan 09, 2010 2:58 pm

he may be an expert but he is placing fear where mild caution is required

MFCGMFC · Post by **MFCGMFC** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 9:12 pm

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

big-all · Post by **big-all** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 1:33 am

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

dave.m · Post by **dave.m** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 1:46 am

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:

Web Server's Default Page

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.

big-all · Post by **big-all** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 8:09 pm

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:

Web Server's Default Page

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.

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 · Post by **dave.m** » Tue Feb 09, 2010 8:56 pm

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!