Nebulous
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- Jun 8, 2008
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- 62
- My Satellite Setup
- Lidl dish + set-top box + Compro S350 pci card.
- My Location
- Scotland
Hi folks
another newbie here. i've never really been into the latest technology and have never had Sky. Just after Christmas I bought a satellite dish and Silvercrest box from Lidl for £20. I managed to set it up on Astra and get about 350 channels of mostly rubbish - which I thought was a spectacular deal - Film 4 was particularly worthwhile. No channel 5 though, which I cannot get with my loft aerial.
I still had an old square TV but a month or so ago I took a mad turn in John Lewis and bought a Sony 40" TV and Bluray player. Now I'm hungry for more, but don't know where to go next - I would particularly like HD broadcasts.
So in order of picture quality from poorest to best I have:-
4 analogue channels
about 350 SD channels on a Lidl box.
19 freeview channels - including 2 radio ones.
Options would be -
1. buy an external aerial for more freeview
2. buy an HD box - Freesat or generic receiver?
3. If 2. follow this with a motorised dish (would that suggest a standard HD receiver rather than a specific Freesat one?)
Incidentally on having a quick look at HD boxes the highest output I have seen on most of them seems to be 1080i. Do boxes/transmissions come in 1080p?
Sorry for such a long initial post - but please let me have your thoughts, suggestions for where I go from here.
another newbie here. i've never really been into the latest technology and have never had Sky. Just after Christmas I bought a satellite dish and Silvercrest box from Lidl for £20. I managed to set it up on Astra and get about 350 channels of mostly rubbish - which I thought was a spectacular deal - Film 4 was particularly worthwhile. No channel 5 though, which I cannot get with my loft aerial.
I still had an old square TV but a month or so ago I took a mad turn in John Lewis and bought a Sony 40" TV and Bluray player. Now I'm hungry for more, but don't know where to go next - I would particularly like HD broadcasts.
So in order of picture quality from poorest to best I have:-
4 analogue channels
about 350 SD channels on a Lidl box.
19 freeview channels - including 2 radio ones.
Options would be -
1. buy an external aerial for more freeview
2. buy an HD box - Freesat or generic receiver?
3. If 2. follow this with a motorised dish (would that suggest a standard HD receiver rather than a specific Freesat one?)
Incidentally on having a quick look at HD boxes the highest output I have seen on most of them seems to be 1080i. Do boxes/transmissions come in 1080p?
Sorry for such a long initial post - but please let me have your thoughts, suggestions for where I go from here.