Recent content by MPlb

Normally I use a Pace Sky digibox with a Sky freesat (blue card) to feed my Panasonic TV. However, the damn TV blew up recently. Whilst I'm waiting for the TV to be repaired I want to feed my Apple iMac with the signal from the satellite dish. I'm led to believe that most of the channels (BBC...

My Dad (who the card is registered with in the UK) received a letter from Sky on Tuesday saying that I'd receive all channels from the 4th to the 30th September. I figure it must be their way of trying to get me hooked and sign up to a subscription. Now, if only they'd let me pay-per-view for...

Is there a way using the 'Add Channels' option on my Sky Digibox that I can pick up the Irish TV channels. I am living in France (on the Swiss border near Geneva) with a 1 metre dish. Thanks

I turned on my Freesat this morning and discovered that I had access to almost all channels (including sports, movies etc) which I am normally told that I need to upgrade my subscription to view. I thought that it may have been an early morning thing but I can still watch everything this...

I have a Sky Digibox Digibox with a new Sky Freeview card. However, I don't receive channels E4, E4+1 etc. I was at my Dads place who uses a FTA box and he gets these channels. Should I be able to get these channels, the message on-screen seems to imply that I need to upgrade my subscription...

I have been using a Sky Freesat card over here in France for over a year now and it's been just fine. However, I was just flicking through the channels and landed on Channel 5 where a dreadful Steven Segal film was just starting. I decided to see how laughable it was but after less than a...

I am currently using one of the new Sky Freeview cards in a Sky Digibox in France. The card is registered at my parents house in the UK. I am keen to watch the Ashes cricket matches in the next few months. How easy to Sky make it to upgrade my Freeview card to get the Sports packages and then...

Hi I've got a new Sky Freesat in a Pace Digibox and am quite happily using it down on the French/Swiss border. What would I need to do if I wanted to subscribe to a non-Sky channel such as Film Four or perhaps the TopupTV channels? Would this be possible from here in France? I have a UK bank...

After shelving the idea of using a DVB-s PCI card to pick up satellite channels on my PC I am in the process of working out what I need for 'normal' setup. My problem is that where I have to put the dish is around 25 metres from my TV. I really don't want to have to plumb in this amount of...

That's a shame, looks like I should wait for October and see if Sky release those Freesat cards.

Thanks RolfW, am Icorrect in thinking that BBC1, BBC2, C4 & C5 are not encrypted anymore on Astra 28.2E? I could certainly live without having ITV has from what I see it's a heap of rubbish now.

Hi I am living down in France and have just moved to a house that has a 90cms satellite dish already installed. I was considering getting a digibox and an activated freeview (Sky series 2) card from Ebay or some other source but then came across these DVB-S devices for the PC. For example the...