Freeview plus Sky

[garyasta]

I have just installed a 75cm Freeview dish and connected it to the STB but haven't been able to orientate the dish correctly (no Satfinder!).

I have a 10.750Ghz LNBF for the STB.

I have set in motion an installation of Prime FTA via Sky and am hoping that the Sky installer will be able to use the existing dish (and possibly the same LNBF) to receive the Prime channel. Is this a possibility?

Cheers
Gary

[herbie_g]

I have just installed a 75cm Freeview dish and connected it to the STB but haven't been able to orientate the dish correctly (no Satfinder!).

I have a 10.750Ghz LNBF for the STB.

I have set in motion an installation of Prime FTA via Sky and am hoping that the Sky installer will be able to use the existing dish (and possibly the same LNBF) to receive the Prime channel. Is this a possibility?

Cheers
Gary

No, he'll install a new dish, cable run & decoder for Prime only. The upside to this is that once he's gone you'll just need to disconnect the incoming LNB feeder from the Sky decoder, and re-route it through a splitter back into the Sky decoder. The other output of the splitter could then be feed into your Freeview decoder.

That way you'll have Prime (via SKY) and Freeview running off the same Sky dish that Sky installed.

Your own 75cm dish + LNB could then be used for another satellite, ie: D2.

Herb.:okkiale:

[wiredr]

hi gary, i have two dishes one sky and one freeview , when sky came to install my prime only decoder they used the old sky dish and single lnb, although they were supposed to upgrade the single lnb to a dual lnb which they didnt do at my request. i run the sky coax into my free-view stb and use the pass through to feed sky, works well. the prime only option will only work for prime all the other channels are blocked, you cant even get ppv programs. the other down side to the sky option for prime is there is no optical or coax audio output so the audio has to be two channel .this isnt a problem for me as i feed the sky s video output to a philips hd recoder which has coax audio out and hdmi.
pete.

[herbie_g]

hi gary, i have two dishes one sky and one freeview , when sky came to install my prime only decoder they used the old sky dish and single lnb, although they were supposed to upgrade the single lnb to a dual lnb which they didnt do at my request. i run the sky coax into my free-view stb and use the pass through to feed sky, works well. the prime only option will only work for prime all the other channels are blocked, you cant even get ppv programs. the other down side to the sky option for prime is there is no optical or coax audio output so the audio has to be two channel .this isnt a problem for me as i feed the sky s video output to a philips hd recoder which has coax audio out and hdmi.
pete.

I reckon most punters just want a good quality pic and sound. Most won't be concerned much about HD (or HDMI/Scart, etc..)

The Sky boxes don't give any option as far as audio output go anyway, unless one wants to buy into the notoriously expensive MySky or HD options from Sky.

So, with these things in mind, the sky dish feeding both a Freeview + Prime only Sky package would be the most economical and effective way to go.

Anything else, for most, would be for purists & geeks.

Cheers,
Herb.

[garyasta]

Hi Guys

Thanks for the advice. I guess I'll have to wait and see if I can talk the installer into using the new dish for Prime as well, or ask him (her) to tune in the dish to Freeview after installing the Prime dish. It doesn't seem to be any point in setting up for D2 reception (and another STB).

Cheers
Gary

[wiredr]

hi gary,
you wont need to ask the sky tech to do anything, after he/she has gone just connect your stb up as i suggested before and you will be away. you didnt say whether the stb came pre tuned, if not you will need to scan for the freeview channels,