tjjohn1001
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- My Satellite Setup
- Sky dish in northern France, non-Sky digital receiver model Visionic Slim 3
- My Location
- France (Brittany)
Hi all,
If anyone can help, I would be very grateful. I live in Brittany and brought my Sky digibox and dish over from the UK when I moved. Installed it myself and it worked fine, until the Digibox died. No problem, I thought, I just want the basic free channels because French TV isn't as good. So I bought a generic, off the shelf digital receiver, brand name Visionic Slim 3. It tunes in Eurobird 28-5, Astra 19.2, and Astra 2a.
I don't know if it's the tuner or just my ignorance of how these systems work, but when I try to view CNN for example, it will say "No Signal", then the signal indicator will jump to 80 percent for a second, then back to zero, and if I keep trying, it will eventually lock in at a decent strength and quality. Some channels it will tune in instantly, from the same satellite, but other channels it will behave like the CNN example above. Is it a duff receiver? Or something else?
The other thing is, is there a "best" single satellite to tune in to? With 3 satellites to tune into, there is a lot of repetition of channels, so I get around 1000 channels and many of them are duplicates and just plain junk. Maybe there is even a fourth one I don't know about, which might be the best one to tune in to. What a disorganised mess of channels. They spent tens of millions of pounds getting these things into orbit, and their output is really quite confusing and unmethodical to the untrained eye. I suppose the Sky digibox cut a lot of the junk out, but this generic tuner takes in all the garbage, and it's a nightmare to sort through with 3 satellites.
If there is a thread which deals with just such issues please let me know, as my search produced no results. Otherwise, any advice would be most welcome.
Many thanks,
Tim
If anyone can help, I would be very grateful. I live in Brittany and brought my Sky digibox and dish over from the UK when I moved. Installed it myself and it worked fine, until the Digibox died. No problem, I thought, I just want the basic free channels because French TV isn't as good. So I bought a generic, off the shelf digital receiver, brand name Visionic Slim 3. It tunes in Eurobird 28-5, Astra 19.2, and Astra 2a.
I don't know if it's the tuner or just my ignorance of how these systems work, but when I try to view CNN for example, it will say "No Signal", then the signal indicator will jump to 80 percent for a second, then back to zero, and if I keep trying, it will eventually lock in at a decent strength and quality. Some channels it will tune in instantly, from the same satellite, but other channels it will behave like the CNN example above. Is it a duff receiver? Or something else?
The other thing is, is there a "best" single satellite to tune in to? With 3 satellites to tune into, there is a lot of repetition of channels, so I get around 1000 channels and many of them are duplicates and just plain junk. Maybe there is even a fourth one I don't know about, which might be the best one to tune in to. What a disorganised mess of channels. They spent tens of millions of pounds getting these things into orbit, and their output is really quite confusing and unmethodical to the untrained eye. I suppose the Sky digibox cut a lot of the junk out, but this generic tuner takes in all the garbage, and it's a nightmare to sort through with 3 satellites.
If there is a thread which deals with just such issues please let me know, as my search produced no results. Otherwise, any advice would be most welcome.
Many thanks,
Tim