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Re: FTA satellite system
Des Gibbons wrote:
> From: Andy Laurence [mailto:andy@xxxxxxx]
>>> What you need is a standard sky digibox, and a FTV viewing
card to
>>> get the basic channels such as bbc1,2,ITV, C4, C5 etc.
>>
>> I thought you couldn't get FTV cards anymore?
>>
>> <confused>
>
> You can't get them officialy, but you can get them, see earlier in the
> thread.
I must have missed that bit.
>>> With the cheapie box (someone elsewhere mentioned the dish
size was
>>> on the small side) you would not be able to pick up ITV, c4,
c5
>>> ever.
>>
>> Surely I could get a larger dish though - bound to be cheaper
>> than buying a
>> whole new box with dish.
>
> You can get a bigger dish, but that is not related to the ability to
> pick up the channels listed, re-reading the sentence, it would look
> like my ramblings would easily confuse, please ignore the bit in the
> brackets, and re-read the sentence. The size of the dish is not
> relevant to the ability to pick up those channels, I can't think why
> I typed it in that sentence, sorry.
OK, so it just plain isn't capable of decoding the signal. Looks like I
need a normal $ky box then.
Cheers,
Andy
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