All posts by Les Nicol
Below are all of Les Nicol's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Scareoldlady - You can get help with this one through Digital Switchover. If you have contact with relatives or any of the elderly suppert agencies eg:- Help the Aged, Age Concern, or Social Services they should be able to assist here. You also may qualify for the provision of new equipment under the assistance provided by the Switchover Scheme. As regards your concerns over strangers coming into your home - and I fully understand this, as a pensioner myself -if you were unable to have a relative or friend, with you were someone to call on you, then I am sure one of the Elderly support agencies would ensure you had a support worker on hand to assist you in this respect. Hope this has been helpfull to you.
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Keith - I concur with JB38 in his posting. I think you would be better in contacting a Local installer and going with a "Freesat" receiver, rather than than the contracted in SKY installers who for the most part work to a prscribed installation policy.
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Gary - Check the Scart plug, as if it is not connected correctly one or more of the pins that carry audio may not be making a proper connection.
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David Noakes - If you could post again advising what permutation you have of the SKY receivers ie:- Are these HD recordable with SKY plus, or a mix say one SKY plus and the rest standard non recordable? This information would help in advising you further. "Freeview" is the service provided by a terrestrial aerial, rather than a dish. "Freesat" receivers would connect to your existing satellite dish.
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Les - This is very much a budget receiver/system from B&Q, Homebase etc. It's badly designed with inaccuracies in the dish assembly compoments, which can lead to setup and configuration issues if its a DIY install.
That I can remember the receiver itself has no SCART output - rather a composite video L.R. and audio outputs only, (with a SCART adapter for TV if needed). So no automatic switching of TV when the receiver is switched on.
Sorry to be so negative here, but I think you will have some difficulty in getting a satisfactory result with your system, unless you can draw on some others who have managed to overcome product design issues.
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Nick - This is because there is a Satellite contractual arrangement currently in place with SKY.!!!
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Jim - I think jb38 has picked your post up incorrectly as your receiver is a "Freesat" satellite box, rather than a "Freeview" receiver where it takes the digital transmission from a transmitter. Too much "POP" I thing after that England win!!
However he is correct in that the post code will determine whether the channel list, channel guide gives you eg:- ITV Granada HD in the Border ITV region - Dumfries and Galloway area of West Scotland or if you are from Ayrshire upwards STV.
To get ITV HD if your in an STV area you will need to put in either a Dumfries & Galloway post code or one from an English ITV region.
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P>S> Living in the South West of Scotland, I can get STV HD (basically the same program line up as ITV HD), but the parameters for this have to be added manually, o my Humax PVR receiver.
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Seems to me William,from what you describe that the better option (and the most cost effectve) irrespective of the onboard "Freeview" tuners in the bedroom sets,would have been to have purchased two "Freesat" SD satellte receivers and then connected these to the TV's in the bedrooms concerned. As for the for the "Freeview" transmitter issue in your area I cannot comment, but perhaps another poster to here may be able to give a definitive.
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Wednesday 30 May 2012 9:50AM
Clive - If there are identified problems with "Freeview" you can continue to use your SKY receiver on a non subscription basis (assuming it's out of the initial contract period)and feed the bedroom TV via the RF out port. Or alternatively take another feed from the dish - (there should be a spare port on the LNB to connect to) and get yourself an SD "Freesat" receiver for the bedroom TV. These are relatively in-expensive from Argos, Curry's, Comet etc. They are straight forward to connect, see on this site "Upgrading from SKY to Freesat"