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RE: FTA satellite system


  • Subject: RE: FTA satellite system
  • From: "Sean" <group@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 21:48:20 +0100

The advert also states
Available entertainment channels: BBC Three, BBC Four, Sky News, CNN,
QVC, MTV, Golf TV, CBeebies, Classic FM, Virgin Radio and many more

I Didn't think you got cbeebies on other birds.

Sean

-----Original Message-----
From: Quinten Uijldert [mailto:yahoogroups@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 22 April 2004 21:09
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] FTA satellite system

> Thought this might be of interest to the guys asking about FTA cards a
while
> ago....
>
[snip]
>
> That being said, I don't suppose there's any reason you couldn't use
it in
a
> "permanent" installation in place of any other Sky receiver.
- the
point
> being that since is is meant as a FTA receiver, it doesn't need a FTA
card
> to operate, (indeed, AFAICT, it doesn't even have a slot for one)...

Please note that this receiver is unable to receive *any* Sky channels
and
is only usable to receive FTA channels which are transmitted uncoded
(like a
lot of German, Italian, French, etc on Astra 1/Hotbird/etc).

Q.




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