All posts by Briantist
Below are all of Briantist's postings, with the most recent are at the bottom of the page.
Maureen: You can use any TV set you like, but you will still need a satellite dish and a Freesat box.
You can get TV sets with Freesat built in, but of course, you will still need the dish.
Dish installation, although straightforward, does require some expertise to get the alignment correct.
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Robert: You do not need to remove the Sky box if you don't wish to do so, it will provide fSfS ("Freesat from Sky") channels.
You can easily swap a Sky box for a Freesat HD box, if you have HD Ready TV set.
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clemenzina: Yes, all Freesat+ boxes allow you to watch one thing whilst you record another two.
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Josh: DVB-S2 isn't used on Astra 2D for technical reasons (it doesn't seem to support it).
It only effects the bitrate provided by the multiplex.
It does not effect the bitrates used for each HD channel, only the total bandwidth available.
All Freesat receivers are DVB-S2 compatible.
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Josh: FIVE have signed an exclusive deal with Sky until 2012. Unless Richard Desmond, who is hardly a Rupert Murdoch fan, decides otherwise.
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Josh: No, as I said, Astra 2D doesn't seem to support DVB-S2.
Let me explain more clearly. DVB-S2 is standard used to provide the MULTIPLEX. It provides 30% more bits on the same transponder as DVB-S.
It doesn't effect in any way shape or form the stuff, any of it, carried by the multiplex, other than by making 30% more bits aviliable.
So, Channel 4 HD does not broadcast *IN* DVB-S2, it is CARRIED using a transponder in DVB-S2 mode.
If the channel moves to Astra 2D, then it will be carried on a DVB-S transponder (as are BBC and ITV HD channels).
It won't change one bit of the part of the multiplex that is the channel.
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Just like if you have a 10Mbs cable connection, and you up that to 20Mbs service, it doesn't change the contents of your emails.
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Mike Dimmick: My reasoning is simple - no one, not the BBC, ITV or Sky have ever used DVB-S2 on Astra 2D.
Given the 30% extra capacity gained from doing so leads me to the conclusion that there is a technical reason for it not happening.
Your points are all perfectly correct, I shall see if I can find out a definitive "why" (or, if you are correct "when") from my contacts.
There are clearly two transponders, 50 (BBC HD, BBC One HD) and 56 (ITV1 HD Granada, STV HD), that only have HD services on them and would clearly benefit from DVB-S2.
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Wednesday 2 February 2011 2:14PM
Roland Sausage: You can use one (or two) of the spare LNB outputs from the dish to provide a link to a Freesat, Freesat+ or Freesat+HD box in another room.
You must not attempt to "split" the existing cables.
See Whole house digital TV | ukfree.tv - independent free digital TV advice for more.