Newbie Questions - VERY - MVision HD200

[Savantoz]

Hia All,

I am VERY new to sats outside of Sky, but finally fed up with Sky/Murdoch etc.

I am very familiar with computers, make pc games for a living, so am familiar with pc patches etc etc, however am not familiar at all with the world of satallite and am finding information very hard to find for total newbies.

I have a 50' Samsung HD TV and the MVision HD200 reciever, using a sky dish. At mo I have all UK free channels (I think) some non uk and no Irish channles, HD is via Terrestrial ariel here in RoI at lest unencrypted.

So some questions (and yes I have used the search function)

1) What exactly to patches for the sat reciever do? What changes will they make to the reciever?

1) What other channels can I get by patching or adding hardware?

3) I have been told that its possible to link the box via broadband, or is that another box entirely?

Basically what can I do with the box, what other channels can I get etc?

Any help very much appreciated,

Cheers - Shaun

 

[Analoguesat]

So some questions (and yes I have used the search function)

1) What exactly to patches for the sat reciever do? What changes will they make to the reciever?

These days probably not much

2) What other channels can I get by patching or adding hardware?

Possibly DigiTV 1W if you put some additional equipment up

3) I have been told that its possible to link the box via broadband, or is that another box entirely?


Does it have an ethernet port?

 

[Robbo]

Patching your receiver connected to a dish on 28E would have no benefit at all.

Almost all other providers on other satellites are either now immune to patches or soon will be.