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:confused: hi,
i have a tv with freeview/freesat which i have turned in to.
i have allso turned into freesat europe, can i allso turn into the hotbrid satellite?
thanks tex
My Freesat set-top box has options to add non-Freesat channels (that is, satellite channels that are free to air but are not marketed under the Freesat brand). I assume a TV with integrated Freesat would also have similar options. Exactly how you do that will be detailed in the TV manufacturer's instruction booklet.
What model is the TV?
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hi,
my tv is a 50in panasonic.
just now had a look at the operating insructions it just say go to set up select a satellite & set search mode like free channels and start auto setup.
anyway thanks for your replay.
tex
Yes, that sounds like the procedure on my box. Have fun!
Remember though for each new sat you need to repoint the dish...
Chris can your freesat box do any DiseqC switching/controlling?
It's a cheap-as-chips Goodmans SD box, and it's down at the holiday flat so I can't check. But I doubt it can do anything very clever. :D
Oh, OK.. I only asked as I didn;t even know that the freesat boxes would allow channel scanning, if you coupled that with an ability to at very least DiseqC switching it would make a good multiheaded unit controller ;)
:tu:
.. and in English, for those of us who don't speak nerd? :p:
Dat bit can do dis bit and goes on dis other bit then it work good
Turkey Machine
10-03-2010, 14:43
Freesat boxes as a general rule of thumb aren't DiSEqC. Free-to-air satellite boxes usually are, I picked one up for about £25 that's DiSEqC 1.2.
DiSEqC: Digital Satellite Equipment Control. Framework that controls motorised dishes to point in the right place when you select a channel.
I was thinking more about a simple DiseqC switch so a multi head could be used for more than one position instead of going to whole hog with the motor..
My sats does full DiseqC and USALS, nice little system though a bit outdated, must grab a HD linux based box
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