Recent content by urbangecko

Hello again Been doing some searching on the site (and some you give links to). Lots of interesting reading but sadly, lots of it also does not make sense. Reading many members posts, it seems like I'm not the only one wanting to try and have a go but lacking the basics. Are there any guides...

of course why not? :-laugh :-bighappy

arghhhhhh! what am I to do?

yes i think that is what we want now - more channels... so patching would indeed be in lieu of buying a viewing card. The man who can do it tells me we would have hundreds of channels on hotbird and so, all i'd have to do is realign the dish towards hotbird. He will do it for me and give me...

Hi Rolfw - I fear I would not know how to do this - I remember when I installed my wi-fi box and in the end, I did manage but it took hours (many of them very frustrating) instead of the "few minutes plug & go online" advertised. what cable? where to get it? how to install the software? i...

Ok - here is an update in case there are other people interested in French channels in Norfolk - Looking at buying French a viewing card, I enquired about what type of CAM I needed. I was given a phone number for a local man who can patch my receiver for £50 though I was told they do not...

Thank you very much - it has been nice learning from you and congratulations on keeping the discussion jargon free! It's been a big help.

sorry - me again! :-bash how do I know what is a "later model" please? I've looked on ebay and there are so many models. I understand from searching the forum again that I need a receiver that can also provide 22Khz as well and that Sky boxes are a no-no! Any recommendations for receiver...

so actually, I did not need a digital receiver at all at this stage then? I mean, not until they shut down the analogue?

thank you so much

mmm... that's what I fear since they are also going digital in France anyway. Perhaps if I find a receiver cheap enough I will try for the moment. Else, I will have to start looking at buying a card.

ok - many many thanks to the 2 of you for your time and kind jargon-free replies - just one last thing: there is nothing to know about when a buying an analogue receiver? I mean, any type will do the job, right? thank you again

No I'm afraid I have not gone motorised - I kind of wish though - It would be a bit too much you are right so I might try the analogue receiver but... and I can imagine you all :-rofl2 out there but after looking at the manual, is "loop through" the same as "loop out" because it seems that's all...

Thank you Matt - Do you mean if I choose Hotbird 13.0E in the satellite set-up of my receiver it might find TF1 and M6? I will try that... but I don't get the hacking (I understand the principle but how would I get my machine to do that?)

Hello FRENCH FTA TV CHANNELS On Saturday, a professional came to install a Technomate TM-1600 2CI with a 60 cm dish pointing towards Atlantic Bird. I only have France 2, France 3, France 4, Arte, France 5 and LCP. He told me that I cannot have TF1 or M6 without buying a card. I saw one...