Can I use my digital freeview box abroad and receive English channals?
Brian Butterworth published on UK Free TV No. You cannot receive signals from UK Freeview transmitters abroad. You box will be able to receive local "DVB-T" transmittions, if there are any.
You can use satellite equipment pointing at the Astra 2D satellite from some European countries however to get around 100 UK free-to-air channels.
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Sunday, 3 July 2011
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alaattin9:48 PM
I live in turkey and i would like to buy a hd receiver with me to turkey.Would it work in Turkey?
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Marcus Panchaud11:06 PM
I have a holiday apartment in Mallorca and receive Freesat from Sky. I share a Sky satellite dish with 2 other residents.I subscribe to Sky in the UK and receive Sky plus HD and Sky multi-room. My receiver in Mallorca has recently packed-up and i was planning to buy another in the UK. Which do you recommend and will I be apply to use any of my Sky cards with it in Spain?
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Marcus
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Marcus Panchaud11:08 PM
I posted you an earlier comment but sent you the wrong e-mail address.
Apologies,
Marcus
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Marcus Panchaud11:09 PM
I have a holiday apartment in Mallorca and receive Freesat from Sky. I share a Sky satellite dish with 2 other residents.I subscribe to Sky in the UK and receive Sky plus HD and Sky multi-room. My receiver in Mallorca has recently packed-up and i was planning to buy another in the UK. Which do you recommend and will I be apply to use any of my Sky cards with it in Spain?
Thanks
Marcus
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Thursday, 14 July 2011
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Joe9:01 AM
Hi, I live in the UK, but very often I go home to Hungary. I'd like to watch free Hungarian digital channels (DVBT) at home in Hungary with freeview box bought in the UK. Will that work for me? Thanks Joe
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Sunday, 17 July 2011
Joe: A Freeview HD box will work, but not a standard one, as the transmissions in Hungry are MPEG-4.
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alaattin: From what I have seen, most TV reception in Turkey uses satellite.
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Marcus Panchaud: You can only use Sky cards in Sky boxes. You will need to get either a new or second-hand Sky box.
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Jill: France is digital only now, there are no analogue SECAM transmission any more.
I think you need to see Accueil - CanalSat about the French satellite TV service.
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Wednesday, 20 July 2011
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Gary1:36 PM
Hello,
I have a 1.2M dish and a sat box at my house in the Canary Islands, it was supplied by a local, 7 years ago and gets sky no problem. The problem is that they supplied the card and keep ripping me off for a 150 pounds at a time, Everytime i turn up at the house the sky is off, this forces me to call them, pay 150 and then my sky comes back on, i simply can not afford this and want to be in control of my TV.
I want to ask you the following,
1) Can i get a card in the uk and pare it to the box when i am in spain or does it have to be pared in the uk first ? or
2) I have a spare Tomson sky box at home in the uk, should i pare a card to this box and take them with me ?
3) I would like freesat if possible ? i have a huminax freesat box in the uk, can i take this with me and will it work ? will i get the BBC and ITV chanels ?
Could you please advise me of my best option ????
Thank you
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