Recent content by marble

Here is a picture which is looking back at the house from the 28.2 line (roughly). It looks like the Sky installer didn't have much choice of location for the dish, but I still have the problem that it breaks the rules of a conservation area (nothing breaking the roof slope). Adding in the rule...

Thanks ... I'll take some photos tomorrow. I've done a couple of screenshots of the dishpointer - one showing the old location, and one the new. Unfortuantely, the new location is directly above where the cable needs to get to. The old location was nicely tucked away ... the house is on a hill...

I reckon it's quite a run ... I think the dish needs to go round the other side of the house (there was a dish there before, but I'm not 100% about signal quality in that location). If it has to run round the house (assuming that's possible) then it's probably 20-25m. If there was a place near...

I had Sky installed at my home in a conservation area. Unfortuantely the installer told the missus that the old dish (in a subtle place) was too far away and installed a new one which is visible for miles around. I could do with a quote/reinstall to a more suitable location. Chippenham...

Very few Sky boxes come with s-video ... I think only certain Grundig ones and Sky+ ones (if there isn't an s-video connector on the box, I'm 99% sure you won't get one through scart). If s-video isn't an option, I think all Sky boxes come with RGB out and a £35 box from Maplin will give you an...

Yup, there are various ways you can do it depending on price/picture quality you want. A VIVO card will give you full uncompressed video - if you want to record at full resolution you will need about 26MB/s of disk space. Of course, you can compress on the fly to divx/mpeg depending on your...