RE: OT Sky and Irish HA suppliers

["michael.furlong" <michael.furlong@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks Jonathan and all the others who replied, just a quick note to
tell
you the results of my deliberations and what I have found out about
running
sky/tivo in Ireland....

Apparently Tivo support the standard Irish Sky line up in its guide data
so
one of my issues is completely resolved. Also there is a number for a
uunet
(I think) POP in Dublin which will allow me to download guide data, it
isnt
a freephone number but at least I wont be paying call charges to the
UK.

So I will be going for an Irish Sky system as I don't currently have any
Sky
equipment.

I did find out that you can buy a UK sky box which is completely free
of
contract and does not need to be connected to a phone line. This is
officially OK by Sky although they don't really promote it. So assuming
you
have a UK address you can use you could have either  a UK Sky
Subscription
or a BBC FTA card and use your box anywhere you can pick up a signal.

Jonathan I haven't found any HA suppliers in Ireland although I did see
a
number of home networking companies and lighting control companies at a
builders show at the RDS. I am relying on stuff I already have and
items
brought from the UK.

Thanks again  to all who responded.

Regards
Mick

  -----Original Message-----
  From: Jonathan Pipe [mailto:pipej@xxxxxxx]
  Sent: 09 December 2002 08:55
  To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
  Subject: RE: [ukha_d] OT Sky


  Hi Michael,
  We moved to Co. Mayo in September. We are still using our UK
digibox
  with a larger dish. The only drawbacks are not being able to order
pay
  per view films and not having the Irish TV channels.  Meridian
News does
  not really make much sense out in the West of Ireland, but I suppose
it
  would keep your Tivo and Sky channels compatible.

  You can manually add other channels to the digibox. There is a list
of
  all channels at http://www.lyngsat.com/dig/skyuk.shtml
  Have you found any HA suppliers out here?
  Jonathan Pipe

  -----Original Message-----
  From: michael.furlong [mailto:michael.furlong@xxxxxxx]
  Sent: 09 December 2002 02:52
  To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
  Subject: [ukha_d] OT Sky

  having just moved from the UK to Ireland (South) I am now
considering my
  TV
  options.



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