Dish size/performance?

[nyorks]

Can anyone offer advice on the following:
I have a basic Sky Mini Dish with a single cable outlet, which has fed a basic Panasonic Sky set top box for the past 5 years. Now, having purchased a Humax Foxsat HDR and Sony Bravia KDL52W5500 LCD I need at least two cables from the dish, or three if I run the Sky set top box on a separate TV in another room. So following the expense of this new high quality HD equipment I wonder if it is cost effective to upgrade the Mini Dish to next larger size with a 3/4 way cable outlet or DIY the Mini Dish with a new centre collector with 3/4 way cable outlet, will I see any appreciable difference in the quality of reception? Also can you recommend any supplier offering good prices on equipment and what specification cable I should use? Thanks for any help offered.

 

[Lazarus]

No need to change the Dish if you get stable reception on your Sky Box.

Just fit a Quad Output LNB: Easily and cheaply obtainable from a wide variety of source, including Forum Sponsors, eBay, ............

 

[nyorks]

Thanks Tivu, I'll try the inexpensive solution first then and see how it goes, thank you for responding.

 

[montgolfiere]

the dish may well need fine tuning after fitting the quad, as the extra weight etc. might distort it just a little
the Skyman