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    New Receiver but no knowledge

    Thanks for your help and useful info everyone. I have now found the BBC channels after enabling the network search. I am a little puzzled however as to why, on auto search, if I select only "eurobird" as the satellite to scan, I get good signal strength showing on some transponders but the scan...
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    New Receiver but no knowledge

    I'm new to satellite and have just bought a Samsung DSB9401F FTA receiver and 80cm dish which I have pointed at 28.2° and believe I have a good signal. The instructions with the receiver are less than useful and don't tell me what a SID, PID VPID or any other setting is. I have done the auto...
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    TCM is no longer FTA

    Yes, its official. I have an email from TCM which says that you have to have the Family Package fromm Sky to get TCM now. I have just bought an FTA receiver and am now very disappointed with the range of channels available (apart from the BBC of course). TCM was one of the best.
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