Ok ok, i know im gonna get some mad replys to this one but id love an honest answer and some help....
Is it possible to recieve channels such as M6, Franch 1 thru 5 etc through SkyDigital?
If it's not, could someone please tell me the steps i would have to go through in order to recieve french, swiss and other european channels on my TV...
You can't get Those channels through your Sky Digital system. Pick up an Ad-Mag, look under satellite for an old anlogue satellite system with a 60CM dish. As far as I know thats what you need. Then, for about £40 you can get it installed, ask the installer to point your dish at 8 west. Or e-bay, for the same thing.
Ignore Digifiend's advice. It doesn't work with Sky Digital. You will need to get an analogue dish, which is what everyone used before Sky went digital.
Ignore Digifiend's advice. It doesn't work with Sky Digital. You will need to get an analogue dish, which is what everyone used before Sky went digital.
Surely an LNB is an LNB, just like a dipole is a dipole?
It is the set top box which is either an analog or digital receiver / decoder.
And in order to get TF1, FR2, FR3 in digital format, you have to subscribe to a pay package.
Apparently they are in the clear in analog, but for how much longer, is anybody's guess.
By contrast, the German public stations ARD, ZDF, Regional-3s are all in the clear on analog and digital, along with RTL and Sat-1.
IMHO French Television is rather poor when compared the the more interesting programs on the German networks, a bit like comparing ITV to BBC programming.
Perhaps you are asking this question because you just want to watch all the US imports on M6 (Buffy etc).
Surely an LNB is an LNB, just like a dipole is a dipole?
No, I'm pretty sure Cheese Head is right; AIUI there are digital LNBs for DSAT, Analogue LNBs for analogue and Universal LNBs which do both. My understanding is very sketchy so, anybody, feel free to correct me, but, as I said, I think Cheese Head is correct.
No, I'm pretty sure Cheese Head is right; AIUI there are digital LNBs for DSAT, Analogue LNBs for analogue and Universal LNBs which do both. My understanding is very sketchy so, anybody, feel free to correct me, but, as I said, I think Cheese Head is correct.
No, no, no, no, no. An LNB is just like any other receiving antenna in that there is no distinction between analogue and digital television at the receiving end.
In LNB terms there are 'Standard' LNB's (I don't think they are made any more now) which HAPPENED to be mainly used for analogue satellite, but are not limited to it (our house's Astra 1 dish has an old standard LNB on it - and I can use it to pick up some of the KU band digital channels on Astra 1 if I want to). These were suceeded by 'Enhanced' LNB's which have a greater frequency range (although there were devices constructed to expand the frequency range of standard LNB's) Again, these LNB's HAPPEN to be mainly used for analogue satellite, but are not limited to it.
Then there are the 'universal' LNB's. These are so called because they are not limited to a particular frequency band (KU band or C band, say) as other LNB's are, but can respond to a 22Khz tone which will switch them to a higher band. These HAPPEN to be used mainly for digital satellite in the UK, since SkyDigital on Astra 2 uses transponders in two bands.
ALL incoming satellite signals are analogue by definition, the distinction between 'analogue' and 'digital' transmission only happens at the receiving equipment itself.
I know that the LNB on Sky minidishes has 'Grundig Digital LNB' on it, but it's just a marketing gimmick; indeed if you remove the plastic cover to reveal the LNB inside you will then see 'Grunding Universal LNB'. There is nothing which specifically makes a minidish a 'digital' dish - indeed I currently have plans to remove the aforementioned 60cm dish with a standard LNB (which is rusting out like crazy now - but then it is 13 years old) and replace it with a spare Sky minidish that I have around - and that will work fine for Astra 1 analogue reception.
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