tv satellite
 

: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

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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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Re: tv satellite
 

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

Re: tv satellite
 

Yes, that sounds like the procedure on my box. Have fun!

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Remember though for each new sat you need to repoint the dish...

Chris can your freesat box do any DiseqC switching/controlling?

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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

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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:

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.. and in English, for those of us who don't speak nerd? :p:

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Dat bit can do dis bit and goes on dis other bit then it work good

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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.

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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My sats does full DiseqC and USALS, nice little system though a bit outdated, must grab a HD linux based box