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My System: Am looking forward to buying satellite receiver, I currently have sky mini dish. Which receiver would enable me to accomplish these: Watch Discovery and all news channels Kids channel XXX rated channels and Sports | Hi Good people, Am looking forward to buying satellite receiver that I can use with my current sky mini dish. Which receiver would you recommend that would enable me watch these channels; 1. News (Sky News, CNN, Bloomberg, CNBC, Fox News etc) 2. Discovery & National Geography channels 3. Kids channel ( Nick Jr, Cartoonito, Pop, Tiny Pop, etc) 4. XXX rated channels 5. Sports channel I am willing to spend up to £100.00 All ideas welcome Thanks | ||
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My System: Sky UK. FTA analogue & digital satellite from 5 fixed dishes (5E/7E/9E/13E/16E /19E/23E/28E) Pace MSS100, Echostar IP3000VA, Technomate TM-1000D, Dreambox 7020S ![]() The last noble sat warrior to fly the olden flag of Analogue | A sky digibox & subscription would be the best bet for the UK pay channels Several of those channels are fta though so any digital receiver will work for you.
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My System: Satellite Dish 1.6m Hotbird 13E, DreamBox 7000S with Gemini 4.5.0; Dish 1.2m Amos 4W, Nokia 9600S; Nokia 9800S; Hauppauge Nexus-S PCI Card ![]() He battled for 3 days against the Tux and won! Hurray!! |
You can consider a second hand receiver as people discover soon enough the limitations of what they bought and they upgrade to a receiver with more functions. | |||
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My System: TM6800HD+TD110+StabHH90 motor,TM1000D+Orbital 1m Multifeed 16E,23E,28E.DigitAlB movies. A Bigsat BS-S77CX and a Sky Dodgibox. | You don't need to spend any money to buy a receiver for Sky pay channels. If you subscribe to Sky and meet their terms and conditions you will get one for free.
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